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by andriesm 1y ago
And this is why these very serious words have lost their power. Racist, Sexist, Fascist.... When half the country is deemed to support "literal" Himler, or when Elon Musk, or Jews with family impacted by the Holocaust, are called
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by andriesm 1y ago
Yes many of us are surprised at negativity at Grok. Grok is a top contender for me. I also use 5 LLMs in parallel everyday, but my default stack is Grok, DeepSeek, Gemini 2.5 pro, ChatGPT, Claude - same as OP but I most often switch out Per
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by andriesm 1y ago
Great way to create future technologist or someone who will seamless use powertools to amplify whatever else they choose to do in life. Still this is the crux of the linux experience and why I still don't main it - having to read logs
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by andriesm 1y ago
Classic! So true!
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by andriesm 1y ago
One reason to buy a 10 year bond over a 3 month bond paying the same interest rate - if you are worried that future interest rates could be lower on average than current rates. With 3 month bonds you need to replace then every 3 months, and
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by andriesm 1y ago
What makes investors patient when no profits for years, is when they see growth, entrenched commanding lead and network effects, large user base etc. As long as investors can imagine a good likelihood of eventual profitability, then growth
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by andriesm 1y ago
Immigrants or illegals?
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by andriesm 1y ago
I love this comment. I've also been in similar conundrums with products vs my values, but I have made a rule to limit how much I'm willing to deprive myself in service of values.
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by andriesm 1y ago
Very expensive beer! That six pack cost them a lot of market share. But I think the wishy washy interview with the marketing person in charge of that decision did not exactly help, with the typical beer chugging target demo.
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by andriesm 1y ago
Elon desperately convincing everyone he is not a Nazi, is like being asked to answer the question "Why do you beat your wife every day? " And then you trying to explain that "no it's not every day, in fact it is never.&q
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by andriesm 1y ago
The reason people think Musk has gone mask-off for flipping politically left-right is because my strong suspicions are that really he is pretty centrist with some situational nuance around it. He has some lefty care morality positions, like
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by andriesm 1y ago
I've always been perplexed when I see 100s-1000+ people work on software product development and very little happen with the product for YEARS while there are tons of obvious (to me) improvements possible. Only tiny bug fixes released
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by andriesm 1y ago
In contrast I like the fact that there is often an indication of what is not substantiated by strong/provable/scientific evidence and what is not. In fact I quite love both these subjective experience reporting and the more scepti
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by andriesm 1y ago
Do we know? Is this answerable in advance? Probably not.
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by andriesm 1y ago
The reason why companies cut jobs while increasing prices for the same or worse products...... is.... wait for it..... money printing. NOT some new found level of corporate greed, companies have ALWAYS been greedy. It's not a change in
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by andriesm 1y ago
Why is there no finder specific setting that if it receives focus and has no window open it automatically creates the default one? The current behavior is such a terrible user experience. I don't know how a company as big as apple can
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by andriesm 1y ago
"... of Silicon Valley billionaires whose creativity consists mostly of appropriating other people’s" Are certain university departments stacked with people who think this way? Have they spent any time anywhere near any super succ
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by andriesm 1y ago
Not the original commentor, but outrage aside, what choices are there? Sometimes a problem isn't solved despite a solution existing. But in this case it's not clear to me that any real "solution" exists? For Palestine: E
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by andriesm 1y ago
A solution does exist? - micro democracy, delegate more decision making authority to the smallest geographic unit possible. Then people are voting for someone from their neighborhood.
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by andriesm 1y ago
If you believe in it, then pay. Just leave the rest alone that want no part of it.
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by andriesm 1y ago
I agree, this obsession with filling the entire surface area with touch-sensitive display, and the quest for zero edge bevel width, is the bane of usability, often the soft fleshy part of your hand holding on the edge folds over and margina
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by andriesm 1y ago
My problem is I get high resolution (1080p) even if I want 240p! I might be traveling and be on very expensive 3g data, and want to listen to a video and not care about the display but low quality setting means little when you are a premium
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by andriesm 1y ago
Many like to say that LLM's cannot do ANY reasoning or "theory building". However, is it really true that LLM's cannot reason AT ALL or cannot do theory construction AT ALL? Maybe they are just pretty bad at it. Say 2 o
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by andriesm 2y ago
I've abandoned paid services and cancelled subscriptions (or left them 1 star reviews if they're apps) after they repeatedly log me out for no good reason (like an app update that cannot be bothered to preserve and migratie state
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by andriesm 2y ago
I dunno, when I listen to interviews with Marc Andreessen he sounds insanely smart.
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by andriesm 2y ago
This has always been my own mantra too, but then I never represented an enterprise buyer so maybe it is effective to screen out buyera like me, but I can imagine even as an "large enterprise level buyer" I would not want to deal w
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by andriesm 2y ago
Was it really intended as a Nahtzee salute?
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by andriesm 2y ago
20 years go while programming java, I was struck by how simple and universally useful it is, to have any method that throws exceptions to be forced to declare them in the method signature, and all callers are then forced to either pass on t
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by andriesm 2y ago
It is possible to be unhappy with the end result of Ukraine or Trump's views of Ukraine without psyching ourselves up that these two dudes are literally H*tler.
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by andriesm 2y ago
Thank you this got me thinking. The issue isn't (just) whether the rich are paying a high enough rate, it is that a lot of people currently complaining still won't be happy even if we increase it by a lot. I can only speculate, bu

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