adamtaylor_13

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by adamtaylor_13 22d ago
Re-read what I said, specifically, I'm addressing the reflexive hand-wave of fascism as an all-too-common way to suppress thoughts we find distasteful rather than actually engaging. That's what wartywhoa did to a commenter who was
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by adamtaylor_13 22d ago
> I'd not even bother to reply Yes, you've shown yourself quite ambivalent to any notion of truth. You'd just as soon call someone Hitler and be on with it rather than try to understand another human's perspective. Pa
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by adamtaylor_13 22d ago
wartywhoa expresses an opinion that I find intellectually lazy and spiritually prideful. Refusing to engage with an idea because it was dimly echoed in a statement made by an evil man is just intellectually lazy. It's a spectacular bit
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by adamtaylor_13 22d ago
I can't help but notice that for certain people with a particular anger against society, everything they disagree with is fascist in nature. If Mao had said it, it would've been "absolutely communist", if Washington ha
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by adamtaylor_13 22d ago
Dude said "Adapt" and you really pulled out Hitler. Oi. Discussion on this site gets more difficult each day. Instead of pointing out where you disagreed you just pulled out the most egregious appeal to authority and said, "o
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by adamtaylor_13 22d ago
I must again point out that we're not even certain yet that we're "losing" any programming capability, and we're not certain the tradeoff isn't worth it. All of these arguments presuppose we're losing some
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by adamtaylor_13 23d ago
I'd levy the same critique at other foldable phones. I don't know a single person, personally, that owns one. Compared to the hundreds of people I know with an iPhone it's crazy to me that the market is supposedly big enough
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by adamtaylor_13 23d ago
I thought this was a joke at first. I do not understand the demand for such a device at all. It's not pretty, it doesn't look very functional. The selling point is "a bigger screen", but never once in my life have I look
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by adamtaylor_13 24d ago
> They are as clean as they can be Indeed, which is to say not clean at all. "Only slightly dirty" and " much dirtier than mine " are fine judgements to console yourself of your involvement, but if you intend to indic
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by adamtaylor_13 24d ago
The word "complicit" is sneaking in a lot of philosophical baggage into your statement. Surely you cannot mean that being witness to a murder (while failing to prevent it) and committing the murder are the same sin? Or that they s
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by adamtaylor_13 24d ago
What part of providing half of the internet's infrastructure is supposed to be the "orphan killing" part?
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by adamtaylor_13 25d ago
Ahh yes. The old "because they were within 10 feet of evil, they are evil." He didn't single-handedly stop Google, so he's guilty of perpetrating the evil himself, right? Go on, next you'll tell me about how your ha
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by adamtaylor_13 25d ago
If the people who cry about the rich spent 15% of their time minding their own business and focusing on their own success, they'd actually be successful. Somehow those who cry nonstop about the rich are even more insufferable than the
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by adamtaylor_13 25d ago
Who cares? They got lucky or worked hard or whatever. Congrats to them. Their success does not make your life worse.
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by adamtaylor_13 26d ago
Agreed. There is essentially nothing that could convince me to buy a Chevy over a Toyota or Honda. CarPlay be damned: I can install one after market. There is not a single vehicle produced by Ford, GMC, or Chevy that I'm interested in
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by adamtaylor_13 27d ago
> Requiring everyone to be an expert on everything is a form of punishment to all. You are correct and yet it's a straw man. At no point did the author advocate for everyone knowing everything. He IS advocating that everyone know s
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by adamtaylor_13 27d ago
I just can't agree with this. Social media has a noticeable, damaging effect on those who consume it constantly. If you haven't had the distinct displeasure of being around an iPad kid, I envy you. There's anecdote that align
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
The anecdata I'm seeing is that people whose identity was "I am a good coder" are experiencing an (understandable) disorientation and even identity loss. That appears to be the crux of it. There are still fun problems to be t
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
The principle of KISS keeps coming to mind when I consider local computing. I'm looking forward to the day we can just run Opus-level models at 100 tok/sec on consumer hardware. But currently it's really hard to beat anything
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
If they're not scannable, there's a good chance they're too dense and should be rewritten.
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
I think I'm beginning to see why Mr. Khan was let go. That's a mind-numbing lack of care put forth there.
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
Genuinely not trying to be pedantic but deterministic workflows are not what agents do. Indeed they're not capable of them. You want workflows where the human gates are properly placed, not a "software factory" that you never
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
I hear this repeated a lot, but I'm skeptical they're that smart. Hanlon's razor would say it's just the system doing what the system does. I do not believe Zuck, Musk, or any of the other boogeyman in Silicon Valley are
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
You're being down-voted (and so shall I) but I think you're right. Despite all the animosity towards him, Musk is doing things that are economically meaningful for our nation. We'll need a few more of "him" to dig u
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
I'll keep banging the drum: the foregone conclusion is that 90% of the "engineering" out there is necessary and that by "losing" these skills, Bad Things will happen. What if there's always been two general buc
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
You should spend less time seething over stuff you disagree with, and more time enjoying beautiful things in life... Like Omakase.
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
The foregone conclusion is that journalism is somehow helpful or valuable to me. I have never read a piece of journalism or "news" and thought to myself, "Wow, how useful! I'm so glad I consumed that." And I sat her
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
I think you might be taking that number a bit too literally. What I mean is, it works enough that no one is complaining. But, all software has bugs. Some are logic/syntax bugs, and some are intent . "It should do this, but actu
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
Being generous in my assumptions, you may have missed that my intent by "recent sprawl" indicates, "things are getting worse, at a rapid rate". At no point did I mean malware didn't exist 15 years ago. It is getting
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by adamtaylor_13 1mo ago
Real question here, as I'm struggling with this and I'm not finding a lot of evidence to support my inclination (that you are correct). Why would this person be more skilled? And more importantly, what does it mean to be "ski

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