abustamam

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by abustamam 4mo ago
Learning doesn't happen in a vacuum. Even pre-LLM days where I'd scour stack overflow for the solution to one problem, I'd inadvertently learn other random stuff while looking.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Easy to say, but every bank I've had the (dis)pleasure of doing business with only ever issued a Visa or Mastercard so it's not really feasible to just "stop using them"
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Because they think people are okay with it, or at the very least, don't care, or don't care to know. Which, judging by how much people are using Fable, appears to be true.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
You mean your terms don't just say "these terms may change at any time and your continued use of this site implies acceptance??" /s
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I think it's kind of counterproductive to call out "this comment sounds like AI." If you're right and it is AI, the comment only points out what many of us can already see. If you're wrong and it isn't AI, then
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I'm not super convinced that we can call something like that as "shit happens." in the US "shit" like this happens where cops wrongly raid someone's house and someone often dies because of of this. Though, I th
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by abustamam 4mo ago
> Suppose it actually had ten thousand members. Then they would be ordinary people. I thought that's how it originally was supposed to be. You were supposed to be represented by a peer, not by a career politician. And then of course
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by abustamam 4mo ago
When reading a review, it should always be assumed that it is based off of one "visit". A negative review will probably never have more than a few visits and if they do they'd normally say "I used to come here a lot but
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I work on a toy project that has exactly one user (me). On its face it's fairly simple. It's a portal to my media server because I didn't like how Plex worked with regards to searching and filtering. I can look for movies or
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Apparently I'm late to the party too! What is this from?
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Words matter. You can't use words and then complain when people call you out on your usage of words.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I'm not quite sure how I'm deflecting? I originally thought we were discussing OP wanting to use Siri to turn off a light in a bedroom. Somehow you started using this simple desire to as a way to tell the OP how to parent better,
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by abustamam 4mo ago
There's a difference between a simple disagreement and a judgment on a person's use of technology based on a rather mundane task. > That's even weirder though, because you're taking what should be a moment of connecti
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I'm not sure what is being discussed? OP is a bad parent for wanting to turn off exactly one light in his child's bedroom? If so, yes, there is plenty of reason to shut down this discussion.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I use a pushbullet channel for HN500. I get a notification whenever an HN submission hits 500 up votes. It's not common, but every so often one of these submissions will be flagged by the time I get around to clicking the notification.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Ask Alex Jones before he got sued for being wrong, or just any politician in general.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Take the nap anyway, just say it took all afternoon :)
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by abustamam 4mo ago
> I advocate that every law should have an annual review to catalog every case where it has been applied. I like this idea but frankly I don't trust our lawmakers to do a fair assessment of this. Maybe there's an independent, n
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by abustamam 4mo ago
This is spot on. My wife will walk to the ends of the earth to find a crosswalk because she doesn't want to jaywalk. I use my eyes to see if there are any cars and will cross when I deem it safe. That said, I'm not going to preten
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by abustamam 4mo ago
We buy technology for the convenience it gets us. When we can't rely on technology doing what it promised for us then we complain because we spent money on something that doesn't work as advertised. Even worse when it did work bef
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I can no longer control my lights with Gemini assistant. It'll tell me "I can't do that" or "here's how to turn your lights on" or, in at least one instant, play Ellie Golding's Lights at 2x speed. So
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I always say that coding agents amplify existing practices. If an engineer decides to just throw code at the problem and iterate from there without an LLM, then they'll do something similar with an LLM, just at scale. If their tendancy
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I stopped doing that long before LLMs were commonplace because I couldn't see a point in it. Like, the entire concept of spelling and grammar is arbitrary anyway. Proper English and spelling of the 20th century is not the same proper E
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Yeah I'm constantly shocked at how simultaneously smart and dumb Opus can be. It can tell me a LOT about my codebase but it will miss very critical clarifications that I begin with. And when I call it out it obviously remembered it, it
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by abustamam 4mo ago
A properly diversified portfolio should have bonds even with a lower risk profile. Some even include real estate now, since REITs are so popular. Target date funds do this automatically, and rebalance, cheaply. Mutual funds aren't bad
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Anecdotally, I know more people who have clawed out of poverty with hard work/education than I know people who got lucky with an investment. And I know plenty of non-poor people who got lucky with investments via IPO or crypto. > at
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Seems like my tax dollars do plenty of that without my explicit consent. No need to invest in that more.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
That's true, but what are the alternatives? Personally I do have alternative investments (crypto, random held stocks) but it's because it's fun money - if it goes to zero, I'm not going to lose the house. If it's th
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Stocks and money should be boring for most people. I'm not a financial adviser and this isn't financial advice but I believe no one with a net worth less than $2m should ever buy an individual stock. Invest in a target date reti
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Yeah if people wanted to change their risk profile they would, they wouldn't want their low risk investments to suddenly be high risk. That would suck and mean disaster if that person is heavily allocated to low risk near retirement ti

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