Towaway69

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Ask the Zuckbot? Meta Reportedly Building AI Clone of Mark Zuckerberg(uk.pcmag.com)
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
It’s also great for certain mental health issues: spending time naked with a mixed crowd (yes mixed female and male) can be eye opening. Saunas are a great leveller between humans all living the same experience yet feeling alone in doing so
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
Sounds a bit like using your dishwasher to cook your dinner - https://parallelplates.com/dishwashers-still-full-meals/ I won’t want to use my dishwasher as a sauna though /s
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
Was - there was a world championship The last time it was held, a Russian died and a Finn ended up in hospital with severe burns. The problem is that staying as long as possible in a sauna can be fatal.
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
A question I have for those doing Agentic coding - what is the development process used? How are agents organised? Top down with a "manager" agent telling "coding" agents what to do? I.e. mirroring the existing corporate
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
Why? I find Polymarket and these gambling sites just as bad. Is AI with it's fake porn is any better? And just yesterday, Meta and Google was found responsible for addiction[1]. How is this worse? I guess I forgot to say that a site li
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
Is there a site which implements the ideas behind the file Indecent Proposal[1]? It would be a site where folks could start auctions based on stuff they want from other folks. So Bob wants Janes jumper. He goes onto the site, creates an auc
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
> Where are you getting "supply kept artificially low" If a resource is controlled by a small group of coordinated folks (for example, large US controlled corporations who have/are these datacenters), the resource may be l
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
> the open source invisible hand makes everything completely free. In this case the limitation is the compute. Very few people have the compute required for AI/LLMs locally or for free (comparable to the performance of Claude). So y
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
> Oil is a finite resource that comes out of the ground Yes but the chips, hardware, copper cables, silicon and all the rest of the components that make up a server are finite. Unless these magically appear from outer space, we'll f
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
I agree, that is the great danger that CS students aren't even taught the fundamentals of "computer science" any longer. It would be the equivalent of physics students not learning Newtons laws or e-m-c-squared. Probably ther
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
> Perrow argues that multiple and unexpected failures are built into society's complex and tightly coupled systems, and that accidents are unavoidable and cannot be designed around.[1] This is definitely something that is happening
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
What the article doesn't touch on is the vendor lock-in that is currently underway. Many corps are now moving to an AI-based development process that is reliant on the big AI providers. Once the codebase has become fully agentic, i.e.,
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by Towaway69 7mo ago
At the same time, systems have become far more complex. Back when version control was crap, there weren't a thousand APIs to integrate and a million software package dependencies to manage. Sure everything seems to have gotten better a
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
True, it's not OCD but in combination with OCD you can get into strange thought loops.
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
Why? What happened to the magic bar? There are many things Apple changed their minds on. I won’t be surprised if there is a rollback in 27 (i’m hoping there will be - else going to buy a retro mac with a magic bar upon no tahoe runs).
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
There are people who have OCD and can’t help but seeing these things. It’s great for coding and seeing minor changes but its shit for real life - trust me. The number of times auto update of some app has caused the thought process “but that
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
Aren't there blockchain agents, surely there must be agents running in the blockchain as smart contracts?
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
I wonder in what timeframe the cosmic timeframe is recent. It's turtles all the way down .... ;)
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
I guess for the author its learning about how Linux can be ported to the browser. For us, it's more of a nice amusement. But then again, I've never understood why Buddhist monks create sand mandalas[1] and then let them be blown a
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
Germany has a great layer of "consultants" that fudge the books and make everything look profitable and rosy. It's the land of "Arbeitsgruppen" and "Berater" - folks that ensure things get buried and forgo
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
Not forgetting the VW "Abgasskandal"[1]. Fake it 'til you make it, I guess. Or in this case make it fake 'til you fail. [1]: (de) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abgasskandal (en) https://e
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
Totally the same experience. And then everyone is expected to work on weekends because that deadline that was missed four times before definitely needs to be done by this weekend. At least until it gets missed for the fifth time.
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
And then sometimes you have to question your principles and perhaps let them go. This can happen, for example, when children grow up and become adults. Their parents _should_ do a lot of letting go. Perhaps folks involved with electronic de
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
Morals are an invented cohesive for societal-sized groups of humans. As such, they can mean many things to many people or nothing to nobody. Morals only exist as long as there are people who believe them. Once you wipe out an entire country
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
What’s the last principled thing you did? Drive less to save the environment? Easy to point fingers, harder to practice what you preach. I know, this isn’t about you but then again it’s not about this one person who resigned either nor the
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
No I'm not saying that, that's your interpretation of what I am saying. What I'm saying is what I have written, no deeper meaning. What I said is that we vote for politicians whom we are told share our morals or we assume tha
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
Morals were invented to hold a larger group of humans together. Smaller groups can be held together by everyone knowing each other, larger groups required a more complex system of trust. Morals are the glue for nation states. Morals prevent
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
I was responding to a question on why have morals if they have no application. If don’t like this example, how about folks going to church on Sundays listening to the Christian morals on not killing each other and during the week, these sam
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by Towaway69 8mo ago
Morals are there so that folks go to church with their families on Sunday, have an affair with their sectaries during the week and drink too much with their mates on Friday night because they feel bad about their moral choices.

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