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by bambax 7mo ago
A reporter for the Financial Times once asked Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster, what advice he would give to a young entrepreneur wanting to succeed. He joked: "Make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend
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by bambax 7mo ago
Yes, I agree. I think it's true there will be less demand for developers, and that the problem of mentoring and growing juniors into seniors is dire and complex. But I don't think the demand will ever be zero, or that laypersons w
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by bambax 7mo ago
I'd bet good money the whole reason for this essay is PG tried to buy a Patek and was told to fuck off. This is his way of getting back at them. The last paragraph goes so far as to predict/hope that the whole sector will at some
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by bambax 7mo ago
I don't think the comparison (that's often made) between AI and compilers is valid though. A compiler is deterministic. It's a function; it transforms input into output and validates it in the process. If the input is incorre
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by bambax 7mo ago
I agree wholeheartedly with all that is said in this article. When guided , AI amplifies the productivity of experts immensely. There are two problems left, though. One is, laypersons don't understand the difference between "guid
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by bambax 7mo ago
> The Wasteland is a way to link thousands of Gas Towns together (...) to build stuff really, really fast. So fast that your biggest problem will be ideas. This reads like a speech from Pete Hegseth. "Let's do war! Hard! Let&
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by bambax 7mo ago
It's possible that prices will go up (although the cost of pure inference tends to go down; the question is more how to amortize the cost of training new models). But this is absurd: > the cheapest usable tier of Claude Code is $10
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by bambax 8mo ago
Agreed. That could be pretty cool. Motorola devices are already solid and reasonnably priced; if they had a GrapheneOS line that would just be fantastic.
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by bambax 8mo ago
Aaaah thanks, I didn't know that and my question wasn't rhetorical. It's cool we have all those new users on HN who are helping us understand the world.
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by bambax 8mo ago
Why isn't Trump bombarding the Kremlin? Isn't Putin a much larger threat to world peace than any leader of Iran? Also, it's never "morally okay" to kill anyone, ever; the fact that the US still has the death penalty
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by bambax 8mo ago
> but we will shake our fist at them while they do it Not even that. They are not shaking anything except their booty.
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by bambax 8mo ago
Short term pain for long term more pain.
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by bambax 8mo ago
If what matters is the number of people killed, the next two should be Putin and Netanyahu. Yet I have a feeling that will not happen.
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by bambax 8mo ago
The murderers are the people committing murders. That the victim was himself a ruthless tyrant doesn't change the fact that this is intolerable. The US can't be the only one allowed to bend the rules. Don't come crying around
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by bambax 8mo ago
Not just Americans.
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by bambax 8mo ago
What happens when Iran responds by firing missiles on Israel or on a US ship and inflicts major casualties on either targets, though?
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by bambax 8mo ago
WW3 started with the invasion of Ukraine.
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by bambax 8mo ago
What's predictable is, if you don't have nuclear weapons, you get attacked. Ask Ukraine. If I were a small country (any country for that matter) the first order of business would be to build myself nuclear weapons now.
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by bambax 8mo ago
The turning point happened when Trump was reelected. One could argue the turning point happened Jan. 6 2020 and nobody truly cared. The consequence should have been for all insurrectionists and Trump himself to be tried for treason and be i
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by bambax 8mo ago
> We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands... WTF does that even mean, we "hope"???!? You know they won't, what's the
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by bambax 8mo ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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by bambax 8mo ago
> In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety Right. Pete "FAFO" Hegseth is a model of intelligence, moderation, and respect for due process. Nothing to see here.
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by bambax 8mo ago
> Are you reading things before agreeing with them? No, unlike yourself, I'm just a random brainless bot.
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by bambax 8mo ago
But how can they avoid it, why are they not asked?
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by bambax 8mo ago
> These latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security. Nicely put. In other words: Department of Morons.
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by bambax 8mo ago
This last development is much to the honor of Anthropic and Amodei and confirms what you're saying. What I don't get though is, why did the so-called "Department of War" target Anthropic specifically? What about the othe
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by bambax 8mo ago
Prettyness is important, but legibility is more important. I don't know why we're still obsessed with right justification? In 1450 it made a lot of sense to try to squeeze the most text on a page, but today it isn't? Justify
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by bambax 8mo ago
As is often the case.
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by bambax 8mo ago
I'm sure there are other tells, like delay between post and reply, or time of day, etc. Epidemiology of bots is just getting started but the tools have to have detectable patterns.
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by bambax 8mo ago
Also true! ;-)

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