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by baubino 10mo ago
I imagine that would raise the price of the plans significantly because, again, no one wants to take on more liability than they already have, and definitely won’t do so without additional compensation. At the very least, liability insuranc
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by baubino 10mo ago
In most places (in the US at least), all building plans over a certain size require a stamp from an architect or engineer. Builders get their plans stamped by an architect or engineer too. No builder will willingly take on liability that th
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by baubino 10mo ago
It really goes to show how much humans associate intelligence with language — that if it sounds intelligent, then it must be intelligent.
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by baubino 10mo ago
Continuous updates could be disastrous for how-to books or any kind of technical learning manual. It says one thing today, but something different when I look at it tomorrow? How is one supposed to follow the directions if they’re changing?
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by baubino 10mo ago
It’s a liability issue. The approval is granted to the architect or engineer who stamps/signs the building plans. The plan itself demonstrates that the structure meets all legal and safety requirements. If something goes wrong, whoever
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by baubino 10mo ago
I appreciate the ambition behind this and I think the concept of the project warrants discussion. The flaw here is one I see so often with AI projects, which is that there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the mode of knowledge that you s
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by baubino 10mo ago
Especially when no nation wants to touch this (e.g., Starmer being very quick to say that the UK wasn’t involved, etc.), it only reinforces that any power willing or able to make a bold move like this will likely not face much opposition (a
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by baubino 10mo ago
I’m not disputing the right of the U.S. to intervene. I’m saying that we should call this “intervention” what it is — an act of war. It doesn’t matter what the cause or impetus for the act is; we need to stop pretending that forceful, milit
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by baubino 10mo ago
> What about dictators? What about military coups and forcefully reversing them? Once upon a time, “forcefully” doing anything with any country for any reason was considered an act of war. I agree that bad people should be removed from p
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by baubino 10mo ago
The only news I see on flights is from Yahoo News: “FAA bans US commercial flights in Venezuela airspace over ‘ongoing military activity’ ahead of explosions in Caracas.” Redirecting flights in and around Venezuela could be causing delays e
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by baubino 10mo ago
The US has been in a lot of wars/conflicts (even if they were not officially declared) since WWII. Heads of state have not typically been captured. It’s not unprecedented but also not the norm.
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by baubino 10mo ago
> I can't think of one where we just straight up kidnap a foreign head of state and bring them to the US. I believe Noriega was captured when the US invaded Panama in 1989. But yeah, this is wild (though maybe not unprecedented).
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by baubino 10mo ago
> It is, definitely, very possible to build a rhizome of small indie sites, along the lines of Web 1.0. But they would also benefit from a thoughtful symbiosis with the "big bad" giants of the modern Web. That’s exactly what th
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by baubino 10mo ago
I too think it’s a beautiful website and really refreshing in its simplicity. Too often “good design” means “needlessly complex.” The design of the site also nicely fits the argument being made in the text.
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by baubino 10mo ago
LLMs will make mediocre and bad writers think they are good writers. It will also make consumers of said mediocre and bad writing think they are consuming worthwhile stuff. Not only will writing get worse but expectations for it will sink a
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by baubino 10mo ago
I recently won a mid-level contract. The client told me that a key distinguishing factor during the first round of eliminations was that my proposal seemed to be the only one that was uniquely written. All the others were based on feeding t
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by baubino 10mo ago
Did not disappoint. It’s exactly what I thought it was going to be.
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by baubino 10mo ago
> Police suspect the gang may have remained inside the building for several days, using the long holiday weekend to break into the deposit boxes undetected. Do German banks not have alarms? Another quote from the article says that witnes
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by baubino 10mo ago
It works in the US too. Workplace organizing is at its highest rate in decades right now. I’m not saying it’s easy but it will only continue to be a rule if it is never challenged.
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by baubino 10mo ago
My version of this took place in 2003 when I bought shares of a new company that rented out DVDs through the mail. I had been a customer for a few years and thought it was a pretty neat concept. Bought at around $20 per share, sold at aroun
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by baubino 10mo ago
This exactly. I bought an iPad in 2020, thinking it would be a second laptop to port around while my primary laptop stayed at home. Turns out that while the iPad can in theory do everything my laptop does, in practice certain tasks can be c
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by baubino 10mo ago
The problem is that LLM “summaries” do not cite sources. They furthermore don’t distinguish between making summaries and taking direct quotes; that “summary” is often directly lifting text that someone wrote. LLMs don’t cite in either case.
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by baubino 10mo ago
I clicked straight through without reading your directions and I liked figuring out the puzzle of the puzzle. I really appreciate a long puzzle. This is great! edit: Now I see that the bigger challenge is finding the small collections again
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by baubino 10mo ago
I disagree with her argument as well but it’s a huge leap from that to “I understand why the husband wanted a divorce.” That’s a pretty shitty thing to say (especially given the trauma of the divorce she writes about) and has nothing at al
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by baubino 10mo ago
This article confirms all the reasons I stay away from social media platforms. What happened in this situation is awful. It also makes clear that even where legal bounds may have been crossed, it doesn’t really matter because who has the ti
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by baubino 10mo ago
Someone created a tiktok account using my email address. Tiktok won’t let me delete the account without first verifying it with my phone number. I refuse to give tiktok my phone number because I don’t want my phone tied to social media. I d
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by baubino 10mo ago
This article is asking interesting questions but the proposed answers don’t seem to be based on either research or personal knowledge of the media that are being compared. I remember vividly the conversations about TV consumption that was h
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by baubino 10mo ago
On youtube, people are watching other people’s lives, often in place of living their own fully. I don’t think it’s a matter of big-budget movie vs youtube, but of fiction vs reality content. The general public isn’t interested in fictional
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by baubino 10mo ago
Serious question — If you’re not a good coder, then how do you know that it’s good code? I’m not a professional programmer (self-taught and hacking away for 30+ years) but I run a few small projects that people seem to find useful. I’ve nev
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by baubino 10mo ago
This post makes me feel really old. HN is very self-explanatory if you take it for what it is — a discussion forum. It’s a place where some people post ideas, questions, news, or projects and other people respond to them. That’s it. If you

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