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by bagacrap 1y ago
I recently switched from vim (16 years) to vscode and perceived my productivity to be about the same after one week. No objective measurements here; it might have even increased. But either way, "a month to regain a fraction of product
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by bagacrap 1y ago
But the way we measure money is by what it can buy (the basket of goods). Surely we'll still need food and clothing even after AGI, so can still measure wealth by number of burritos (1 burrito = $12 in 2025 USD)
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Define free?
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by bagacrap 1y ago
The idea is that the insurer doesn't even know the customer is on glp1, and I guess doesn't require a full physical often enough to reprice frequently.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I know a couple who self identify as foodies and they started taking it for weight loss. They now complain that date night is no fun because they don't enjoy the food. They have not yet dropped the meds but I can see it happening soon.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/west-virginia-insura... I think the short answer is that these drugs are only cost effective when applied to people actually experiencing costly diseases, rather than simply
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Probably wants to share state though (cookie jar, history, password manager, etc) The bottom line is that Google invests more in Chrome than Mozilla can afford to invest in Ff, so the latter will likely never catch up in features or perform
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I feel like it would be more worrisome if partying had doubled in the last XX years.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
The problem is, those exploits were already found. You have to find them before anyone else.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Pretty naive
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by bagacrap 1y ago
That is not at all what the comment you responded to said. Rather, if you are of the mindset that you want to work the bare minimum to get by in life, then what constitutes the bare minimum is probably more when you're in an office. To
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by bagacrap 1y ago
OpenAI keeps positioning itself as a scrappy little innovator, and anything that makes it harder for them to become the next trillion dollar company is anti-competitive. But the amount of funding they've received in proportion to their
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Investors as a whole began scrutinizing earnings and stock prices of FAANGs and other high growth companies much more closely starting in 2022. While this may amount to an accounting change if you can float the bill for a few years, it shou
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Wouldn't every theory/model of the universe leave room for follow up questions? Why is it problematic if it doesn't answer literally every conceivable quandary?
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Rather than getting away with it, people gain power through bullshit. Sam seems to model himself after Elon, the most effective bs artist out there (even if you or I don't fall for it, humanity collectively has decided to hand him th
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by bagacrap 1y ago
Engineers' work is also externally verifiable, e.g. by unit tests for software, but I'm assuming by other sorts of automated protocols for civil engineering. I would hope a bridge is not built without triple checking the various o
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by bagacrap 1y ago
No, the other 30% was "down cycled". 0% were recycled into something that had as much value as the original material.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
If that were possible we'd have already pointed LLMs at the Linux bug tracker (for example) and fixed all the open issues.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I think you're missing the point. You should be providing the ideas in any piece of text you write. The boring prose style is not the major objection being expressed here.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
But if you haven't personally verified the summary is accurate then you should not share it. And if you have verified it, you don't need to disclose.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
It proves that Instagram is a /competitor/ and that Facebook (camera) lost the competition prior to the buyout.
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by bagacrap 1y ago
I didn't mean to imply that all inference is local. A dynamic combination of server and local inference is called "hybrid".
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by bagacrap 1y ago
You could also look at it from the perspective that they pay you fairly, and then profit from the leverage of the apparatus they place around you. IOW you have more impact working for them than you would have on your own. (Obviously that is
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by bagacrap 2y ago
An AI powered autocompletion engine is an AI tool. I think few developers would complain about saving a few keystrokes.
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by bagacrap 2y ago
Wrong, Android and Chrome infer locally
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by bagacrap 2y ago
How do you expect influencers to exist if they can't take money from advertisers?
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by bagacrap 2y ago
There also weren't good or services for sale for most of humanity's existence
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by bagacrap 2y ago
Useful search unlocked the web. I will take that over LLMs in their present state.
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by bagacrap 2y ago
Rather than getting into the nitty gritty details of monetization, when we ask ourselves if OpenAi can nail product like Facebook did (I guess) to become the next tech giant, I think we have to ask whether it's even possible when the t
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by bagacrap 2y ago
Who do you think built that system

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