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by arjie 2mo ago
This entire genre of pundit is just a person who has figured out that you can sell copium to the masses. Once upon a time this was a decentralized "this is how Ron Paul can win" thing on Reddit, but it was inevitable that slowly i
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Where are you guys in SF? Would love to come see it. Mostly interested in seeing the speed of action (what multiple is the video replay at, etc.) and looking at center-of-mass etc. issues. I have a pretty straightforward use-case in a home.
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by arjie 2mo ago
Name changes happen all the time and I would expect Google to match what the government sources use locally. The fact that the government is capricious is no reason for me to desire Google to become an alternative naming center.
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by arjie 2mo ago
Just in case you're not familiar with it, the reason there's a regulation against it is that a group of kids with the belief you're espousing lobbied for that regulation. They formed the Committee to End Pay Toilets in Americ
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by arjie 2mo ago
I thought this sort of thing was what CEPTIA successfully campaigned against? Also, what is the public commons that's being eroded in this scenario? Public toilets are few and far between but also kind of don't seem like a commons
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by arjie 2mo ago
He's pretty close to that particular police chief of staff or whatever he was. So this is probably just one of those things where if you have connections, then sometimes you take someone on vacation or fly them private and it turns out
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by arjie 2mo ago
30 years later, and he's still got appeals to go? Fascinating. Not familiar with these processes, but when he's finally away to prison how old will he be? He's in his sixties now.
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by arjie 2mo ago
Really enjoyable read. I escaped a career in Mathematics by being sufficiently bad at it that I only have a Masters. Fortunately, I escaped to a field immune to AI: CS and then a software engineering career. Well, not really, but I did get
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by arjie 2mo ago
Captchas are handed to me to solve. Because the operations are in the background I usually make the agent be a little more human with typing and navigating. The slowness isn't a concern for backgrounded jobs. It is imperfect, of course
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by arjie 2mo ago
It was first, but it's like Langchain built tools first. Nowadays, everyone's got a better assistant. Grok's looks like the most exciting, though I just have a custom built one. Has a headed browser when it wants and everythi
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by arjie 2mo ago
Excellent setup and I think your write up would be pretty good.
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by arjie 2mo ago
Hey, how did you iterate on it? Quite interested in your process here considering you say it’s vibe coded. The iteration loop is crucial for that.
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by arjie 2mo ago
Great work, mate. Workbench looks spectacular. I happened to find a cheap relatively-stable one for my 3d printer but I really should have tried to assemble something like the one you have. In the end it worked out because the measurements
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by arjie 2mo ago
This is Derek Sivers of CD Baby, right? I think he is unusually high-agency in a way I could not imagine myself being. Definitely not one of those people who I look at and say "I could have done that. Why didn't I?" For insta
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by arjie 2mo ago
The failure to unite northern America has really been to our collective benefit. This permits the Western Anglo-Euro Alliance a massive advantage in the nested Matryoshka doll of coordination structures - allowing each level of governance t
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by arjie 2mo ago
One of the things I do when I want a transcription is say something like "Transcribe this PDF into text for me please". ChatGPT once again is able to do this for me flawlessly since the text layer is entirely preserved in the PDF.
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by arjie 2mo ago
Obviously. It was so easy it took me seconds to verify before posting. But that's fine. It's Sunday morning and I will give you an alternative version that is immune to prompt-ineptness. Cunningham's Law shall not be denied t
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by arjie 2mo ago
It’s clearly a presentation. If you want a different representation, point an LLM at it and ask it to transcribe and rewrite in the form you prefer. I just tried with ChatGPT and it works fine. Retrieve the PDF link (ChatGPT will generate a
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by arjie 2mo ago
Surprised by this. I only ever use podman (which by default, runs rootless) these days and haven’t felt the need for docker. Feels like reading about a CVE in Compiz.
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by arjie 2mo ago
There’s always been a school of thought that is in this direction. In the pre AI world people discussed whether to squash commits or to not and I was on the squash side because I think that the development artifact should be optimized for r
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by arjie 2mo ago
In the sense that direction and magnitude are two things of separate importance to most, and any system must account for both. An opinion you express only when asked is far less important than an opinion you express unasked. It’s the latter
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by arjie 2mo ago
I don’t think the UK was ever in Schengen (at least as far as my visa was concerned). That is one bright spot here. Traveling to the UK is much easier than travel to Europe for much of the world. The UK allows for paying for QoS so you can
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by arjie 2mo ago
Britons may choose to change their minds but this is not a single party decision. The EU will likely not readmit them on the same terms and the UK is not nearly as powerful or relevant to European interests as it once was. As a safe far awa
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by arjie 2mo ago
If you had an agent in the legislature wouldn’t you prefer exactly one of this form? My ideal representative is able to command support from diverse interests and subtly damages those opposed to me while subtly advantaging the principles I
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Fascinating. TIL. One wonders what we common folk would think of such activities. Would we treat Benjamin Franklin as some kind of modern Thiel-adjacent debauch who thinks himself far too smart? Or would canceling old Benjy actually have cr
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by arjie 2mo ago
Fun post. Enjoyed it. Haha it’s just that the things these devices enable for us are so valuable. But life is full of suboptimal things just because that’s how it is. Some other constraint causes it. I was at Oren’s Hummus years ago with a
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by arjie 2mo ago
That does indeed make it seem like Executive Directors of environmental NGOs are responsible for this.
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Ah, but that’s not the choice. The choice is whether there exist probability p, life L, and material possession m such that the possession is worth more than p times L. The conclusion that there is no such triad seems clearly absurd since w
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by arjie 2mo ago
3d modeling to an STL a part compatible to a visible cable raceway still fails even if I let Claude Fable use me as a robot that measures with calipers.
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by arjie 2mo ago
Certainly, but if everyone can vibe code their printer drivers then we have free software in the sense of free speech and so users would be developers and the entire need is met. That is wonderful, not awful. If it had happened early enough

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