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541.
by apothegm 1y ago
“Retaliation” is not the word I would use. Retaliation is the wrong reason for any decision in domestic politics. The right’s narrative of retaliation for imagined wrongs is a big part of the reason we’re in this position in the first place
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by apothegm 1y ago
> a mid-size 500k LOC codebase, with today’s LLMs and compute, would take days to build and cost thousands As opposed to the teams that build working 500 KLOC codebases in hours for hundreds of dollars?
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by apothegm 1y ago
We can decriminalize being a sex worker without decriminalizing johns, pumping, or brothels. Rather like some places have decriminalized the possession of small amounts of drugs, but not the sale. That makes it safer for women and girls w
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by apothegm 1y ago
And if it depends on web search, I can’t fathom how it determines which sources are reliable and which are BS.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Not everything important from a page is conveyed in a summary. People who read fiction don’t want summaries. LLMs hallucinate. Libraries do more than house books. Librarians do FAR more than shelve books.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Did anyone expect anything less from them?
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by apothegm 1y ago
Oh, yeah, hallucinations about where we should drop bombs. No big deal.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Dude never matured past the age of 13. It’s evident in almost everything he does.
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by apothegm 1y ago
I assume this is for people who don’t want their sites crawled and ingested for AI training. With the goal of making it cost-prohibitive to do so. Of course, one side effect will be crippling search engines as well. Maybe less important for
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by apothegm 1y ago
Causation or correlation? For instance, perhaps a poor diet encourages the presence of certain oral bacteria over others, and also is causative for pancreatic cancer without the bacteria having any causative effect on the cancer. (I do beli
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by apothegm 1y ago
Which can be said of about 95% of this administration’s actions.
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by apothegm 1y ago
How much harder it is to sell than to build. That a perfectly good lifestyle business can be thoroughly wrecked by a single round of VC funding.
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by apothegm 1y ago
You could do the Atlassian marketplace model, where plugin authors can charge as little or as much as they wish, and the amount is added to the user’s subscription.
554.
by apothegm 1y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by apothegm 1y ago
1. What’s vaguely appropriate. You’re probably not going to write C++ for browser frontend, and JavaScript is probably not a great choice for embedded. But there are a zillion equally valid options for web backends, for instance. 2. Ecosyst
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by apothegm 1y ago
There are more people in the social media generation than earlier generations who are comfortable doing this. Still a relatively small percent. Don’t draw conclusions about the entire professional world based on the dynamics of a single tea
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by apothegm 1y ago
I’ve had to lay people off to extend runway. I’ve also been laid off to extend runway. It SUCKS. It sucks to have to do, and it sucks even more when it happens to you. But sometimes you have to do it so the rest of the company can stay empl
558.
by apothegm 1y ago
The past 5 years or so they’ve looked more like a pump-and-dump scheme masquerading as a car manufacturer, so that seems on brand.
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by apothegm 1y ago
$5k/wk is $20k/mo or $240k/yr. Before taxes. Not extreme relative to tech salaries. Heck knows enough people in tech manage to spend almost their entire salaries. Most people succumb to lifestyle creep, and if he’s in a major
560.
by apothegm 1y ago
This is the Y chromosome. On average men start families later than women do.
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by apothegm 1y ago
For the same reason shovels were a better business than mining for gold. The foundational model providers are hemorrhaging VC cash, with no certain path to profitability. And for such a profitable business as Nvidia, the opportunity cost is
562.
by apothegm 1y ago
I’d guess they’re either significantly more expensive, significantly more power-hungry, or both.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Article could really do with some updates. Most of the charts are a decade old, and there’s barely any info past 2012.
564.
by apothegm 1y ago
Neither. At least on desktop, the answer is Firefox.
565.
by apothegm 1y ago
This. So much this. But also 2x even without fluff — unless the content is technical enough and unfamiliar enough that I need to slow down to absorb it. Or the person talks like the micromachines man.
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by apothegm 1y ago
That sounds useful. What’s the plugin?
567.
by apothegm 1y ago
Remember that it’s a stochastic parrot. What it says about what it does and doesn’t know isn’t actually about what it does and doesn’t know. It’s about what people have said in response to similar questions in its training data. You could p
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by apothegm 1y ago
True. Though if you’re paying for sit-down service anyway, the marginal cost of ingredients is relatively low, especially in places with pricey real estate or where tipped wage is higher than the federal minimum. Might as well pay a few ext
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by apothegm 1y ago
How much does a sports franchise cost? A newly constructed high-rise? A private island? A contract for a ~~private army~~ security force? A bribe?
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by apothegm 1y ago
I agree that warm ice cream defeats the point of ice cream. So if you have a good solution to the second law of thermodynamics, have at it.

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