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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
or something way worse shows up.
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
>the only real form of addiction gonna need a citation on that one, dawg
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
The problem isn't retirement per se, it is that people don't have things to occupy themselves with. They retire and they vegetate. I worked with a lady that was in her 70s who was deathly afraid of retiring because she didn&#x27
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
the current AI summer has been great for us dorks that prefer TUI/console interfaces. I hope it all sticks around with the inevitable cool-down in LLM hype.
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
I dunno if he's got a cognitive bias but he's certainly been a great example of how being a genius in one field does not make you qualified to even comment in other unrelated fields. And that's been going on for close to 2 d
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
if internet comments are any kind of indication (which they very well may not be) I've seen lots of people complaining about win11 but remaining because they can't give up playing their favorite online hero shooter. That's a
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
"good" is not important for software anymore, at least in the regular consumer market. Companies have discovered that people will just continue to accept subpar, unfinished and sometimes even partially-functioning software.
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
I can't speak to years past but HN is an off-shoot of a VC firm so it's not too surprising that the culture here is based in the California Ideology milieu.
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
It's a well(ish) known org with well known product, and they seem to have been vulnerable. If they had attacked a deli in Newark, would we be having this conversation?
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
I think the saying is "so open-minded your brain fell out"
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
That a sports league was empowered by the courts to do this in first place is buck wild to me. I live in America, so it's not like I'm unaccustomed to the government giving preferential treatment to corporations but I cannot fath
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
if someone is trying to use LLM tools in a project that explicitly forbids the use of LLM tools, they are not innocent. if someone is blinding slurping up content to feed to LLMs, without checking to see if a particular source is OK with th
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
That some trees in a mudslide veer to the left does not mean that your house isn't going to be plowed down the hillside. The momentum of the mass-entity that is Google simply cannot be overridden by some outliers trying to change direc
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
False confidence in what?
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
It's a micro-implant pump connected to your brain to deliver adderall directly to your hypothalamus. EZPZ
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
You lose little by assuming malicious intent when it comes to billion-dollar tech companies and your money. They can prove otherwise by remedying the situation.
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
it's been my experience that when most people say "Lisp does this that or the other", what they usually mean is "Common Lisp does this that or the other". Often there's an implicit "with SLIME" in th
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
All due respect, that's the biggest crock I've ever heard in my life.
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
it pushes the idea that these programs are super amazing and powerful to people who are non-technical. It also allows them to control the narrative of how exactly AI is dangerous to society. Rather than worry about the energy consumption o
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by b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
Maybe Altman specifically is only paying lip service to this stuff, but when a company like Anthropic is like "BRO MYTHOS IS TOO DANGEROUS BRO WE CANT EVEN RELEASE IT BRO JUST TRUST US BRO", my bullshit detector is beeping too lou
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
The FTC has the authority to prevent mergers and acquisitions. Now, I am not saying that previous administrations always did their due diligence in this department because they demonstrably have not. But one would assume that an alleged p
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
I was thinking about this the other day, using LLM text to thwart stylometric analysis. At some point, I'd read about using machine translations to do the same thing (translating a text to, for example. Chinese then back to English). T
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Nobody is going to be worried about how you never litter if you're constantly kicking puppies and biting babies on the nose.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
I really hate this when it's something negative that humans also do. It's like, yeah, people do do that, but why are we automating {negativeTrait}?
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
that's still one woman per pregnancy, it's not 14k women collaborating on a single pregnancy.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
At least here in America, we've been offshoring coding since at least the late 90s. Often, that code isn't so great (this is not an indictment of foreign workers in general but these off-shore operations are not always on the up-a
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
>Sodium Carbonate (baking soda) I assume you meant Bicarbonate? Washing soda is pretty heavy duty and I've always used 1/4 tsp bicarb/lb of dry beans for dealing with old beans that won't soften the old fashioned way
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
One of those is a function of government and the other two are enriched by the product being purchased rather than being a ploy to gather user PII to be sold to the highest bidder. And neither of those 3 knows much about me other than I dri
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
>...the quantity is too much... Leftovers for a later meal. Unless there is something about work involved and not having a place to put the leftovers in the fridge.

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