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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
This usage is probably older than you're thinking: some 80s and 90s hip hop songs used "out of pocket" like that.
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
Lol. Granny paid for the tarrif then the refund was sold by an elite to an elite for 20 cents on the dollar. Everyone wins except granny. To be fair, I think some companies didn't raise prices because they thought they would be overtur
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
We have no idea if its a good solution or not. It depends upon, among other things: how long it takes to update it, the error rate, and how acceptable those errors are.
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
It's kinda like clearing the table by throwing everything in the trash.
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
Yeah because that works out really well in history!
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
We're just stuck in the non-diverged timeline that's fucked.
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
Which misses the point. If the point is to reduce the number of taxes, having the federal government collect 10 different types of taxes instead of state governments collecting 7 types of taxes won't change all the different taxes we
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
What if the AI produces writing that better accomplishes my goal than writing it myself? Why do you feel differently about these two acts? For what it's worth, the unifying idea behind both is basically a "hazing ritual", or
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
Uh, the government can pay the private company for the data so they can lock those people up.
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
The biggest assholes in your example are the people saying "Fuck Timothy". It's also not my fault those people are assholes. If they don't like my party that's fine. If they say i don't have music or whateve
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
Yeah, isn't facial recognition metadata about relationships between facial features? Nothing about that statement makes me more at ease.
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
> even if the risk is smaller with the computer. How do we even begin to establish that? This isn't a simple "more accidents" or "less accidents" question, its about the vague notion of "justice" which
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
Outside AI independently uncovering some energy breakthrough there is nothing it can do to help, only hurt. We already have a source of clean, cheap, unlimited energy, we aren't rolling it out the way we could and should because some
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
In my experience that's pretty rare. Most people pass around string phone numbers instead of a phonenumber class. Java makes it a pain though, so most code ends up primitive obsessed. Other languages make it easier, but unless the lang
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
In Southern California the "fast lane" is the medium speed lane, and the "slow lane" is the actual fast lane. It's where people tend to weave in and out of traffic at 15-25 mph speed differentials.
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
Reasonable scale means... what exactly? Here's my opinion: just use postgres. If you're experienced enough to not when I say that, go for it, the advice isn't for you. If you aren't, I'm probably saving you from y
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by bcrosby95 8mo ago
The high level idea is obvious but doing it is not easy. "Maybe agents should work in teams like humans with different roles and responsibilities and be optimized for those" isn't exactly mind bending. I experimented with i
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by bcrosby95 9mo ago
I think it's nearly impossible to "learn" to the same depth when someone else writes the code: it doesn't matter if its your teacher, friend, coworker, or AI writing the code. There absolutely is a difference between ha
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by bcrosby95 9mo ago
It already is different in the way teachers tend to care about. Kids learn the math that pocket calculators help you with before they have the capability and self-determination to find and use a pocket calculator. Pocket calculators aren&#
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by bcrosby95 9mo ago
Imagine a world where you can't complain if something is directionally correct in what you want done. Me: can you take out the trash? My kid: dumps trash on the front lawn. Me: people are speeding a lot, can we do something about it?
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by bcrosby95 9mo ago
Holy shit, imagine of the whole of federal congress could be controlled with gerrymandering rather than just the house: the house through districts, and the senate through districts for state representatives. The fireworks would be insane.
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by bcrosby95 9mo ago
> We have all of the tools to prevent these agentic security vulnerabilities, Do we really? My understanding is you can "parameterize" your agentic tools but ultimately it's all in the prompt as a giant blob and there is
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by bcrosby95 9mo ago
I would argue logic errors would decrease because you aren't spending as much time worrying about and fixing null ref and other errors.
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by bcrosby95 9mo ago
For the longest time MUDs were my standard "learn a new language" project. There's enough meat to expose strengths of the language but overall they're pretty simple.
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by bcrosby95 9mo ago
Yeah, I do a lot of hobby game making and the 80/20 rule definitely applies. Your game will be "done" in 20% of the time it takes to create a polished product ready for mass consumption. Stopping there is just fine if you&#x
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by bcrosby95 10mo ago
The service economy has a few problems. The first is that much of it is optional. Stuff like fast food. People can do without it much easier than doing without a washing machine. The second is, for many services, such as child care and el
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by bcrosby95 10mo ago
Like people putting ketchup on a steak, eating pizza with a fork, putting chili in a hand baked loaf of sourdough, using a garbage disposal as another trash can, or generally using the thing someone is knowledgeable about "wrong"
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by bcrosby95 10mo ago
Ada when? It even lets you separate implementation from specification.
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by bcrosby95 10mo ago
If you're hanging your features off a well trodden framework or engine this seems fine. If frameworks don't make sense for what you're doing though and you're now relying on your LLM to write the core design of your code
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by bcrosby95 10mo ago
Damn, I knew when I picked "not billionaire" I would regret it.

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