Zigurd

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by Zigurd 5mo ago
I use coding agents every day for non-trivial projects. But I can definitely say that a prompt of the form "Write a program that does X" will earn you a git rollback of a mess, unless what you want has been done a bazillion times
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Agriculture, industry, even more oil and gas, a pretty big economy and population, a better climate than most of Russia. And a place at the center of Europe instead of the periphery. Without Ukraine, and probably soon without Transnistria,
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Uranium and plutonium bombs can tolerate a lot of neglect if conservatively engineered. Even a dud H bomb would make quite a mess and kill a lot of people if exploded over a city.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Maybe. Probably late. Transparently lacking credibility. But he'll make a loud noise about it.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Yet another way in which the US has bungled an overseas conflict. The best time to have strongly supported Ukraine was in the past couple of years leading up to this outcome. Now, if Trump somehow can stop gazing lovingly into Putin's
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
It's worse than having to pick one position or the other: both are hypocritical, and both are deceptive hype mongering. Layoffs credited, or blamed depend depending on your point of view, on AI are mostly a product of herd mentality. A
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
The dot com bubble?
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
That's minimizing the extent to which Trump is vastly stupider, and has no bench depth behind him to make up for it.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
It's an interesting case of whether it's possible to infer the condition of wading and avoid having to install a sensor specific to a one in a million trips circumstance. The inference would come from standing water slowing down t
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
The sovereignty part of that may have more to do with access to users' data and interactions by law-enforcement and intelligence surveillance.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
We need to finish Reconstruction. That sounds idealistic, even pie in the sky unrealistic. But we could certainly measure progress in that direction: US incarceration rates are insanely high, and the prison industrial complex is modern slav
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Some of "we" were whipped into a frenzy of resentment against science, culture, and awareness of our mixed bag of history. That's how those decisions were enabled.
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by Zigurd 5mo ago
Elon has predicted 537% of things that actually happened.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Can they all lose?
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
The first thing that came to mind is "What about all that gobbledygook in your Google-dee-book?"
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
What extortable content should schools be creating? And if they are it's crazy that they are trusting it to school SaaS.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
There shouldn't have been a need to give into hackers, even highly successful hackers. If they're not doing air-gapped backups weekly, that's malpractice and hints at a substandard architecture and/or operations. On a sh
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
This is another way Starmer and Labour have snatched ignominious defeat to a gang of rich weirdos and New Age charlatans, from the jaws of victory. Amazing.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Perhaps there's no difference in the distinction, but Tim Apple is likely using his lame duck status as cover for an expedient visit, in contrast with the enthusiastic salutes some people have given.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Markets and pricing is supposed to be predictive yet we are headed towards a reality, if you want to call it that, where you have a failed AI project, a failed social network, and a ginormous rocket that hasn't yet orbited the earth on
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
It is nuanced. Insurers can be problematic. Tort law has strange incentive structures in the way it's implemented in various places. But, broadly speaking, the price of insurance is an informative signal.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
I have to agree it almost never happens. It needs to be normalized among the public and institutionalized in governments.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
This is fixable. Many jurisdictions have a provision for outside prosecutors appointed by courts.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Colorado has no qualified immunity for cops. Are they short of cops?
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Their actual material conduct was coordinating with other dirty cops which is how their phone got seized and entered into evidence. Are you saying people need to put up with racist POS cops?
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Engaging in a cover-up is in fact a crime. Recently a Massachusetts trooper who engaged in railroading a fabricated suspect was exposed for sending extreme racist, sexist, antisemitic texts to fellow troopers. But the names of those trooper
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
When is the last time, other than one of those coding on a whiteboard interviews, where you coded your own implementation of an important algorithm? AI has created more situations where an algorithmic twist or a really clever implementation
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Starship has never met claimed specs and capabilities. It is so far behind schedule that it won't meet specs in time to remain relevant. Which is a generous way of saying it never will.
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Meh. It's more like how else are you gonna set 10X the money on fire that Zuckerberg did with the metaverse?
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by Zigurd 6mo ago
Well smarty-pants have you got any better ideas for selling the worst IPO the 21st-century?

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