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by bdamm 1y ago
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
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by bdamm 1y ago
I've been having a great time with Windsurf's "Planning" feature. Have a nice discussion with Cascade (Claude) all about what it is that neerds to happen - sometimes a very long conversation including test code. Then whe
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by bdamm 1y ago
It really is. I keep wondering when some tiny bit of humility will show up, but it is increasingly like asking Russians to have some humility. Not likely, and sometimes, not possible.
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by bdamm 1y ago
Perhaps different regions of the plant "sleep" at different times? The plant has no need for high response synchronized behavior at all.
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by bdamm 1y ago
I see iPhone pictures posted on walls all the time, because most people aren't pretentious. The iPhone photo of the golf players is better than the "photographer" shot in every way that actually matters; the guys are more com
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by bdamm 1y ago
Do you happen to know which missions those might be?
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by bdamm 1y ago
You cited fill time as a reason to keep your petrol car. Yet you claim you don't drive very much. I think we're not talking about cars any more. I think we're talking about a security blanket.
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by bdamm 1y ago
The markets for EVs and gas cars are fairly established, so your personal choice to keep fixing your car vs selling it to someone else who will fix it instead doesn't have a net change on the environment. Nor does your choice to buy a
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by bdamm 1y ago
This is all kind of too reductionist. The US DHS agents in the US make a choice not to fuss over the airplanes or even cruise ships sailing from US ports to Hawaii and back. They could, but they don't. They probably validate the ship o
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by bdamm 1y ago
Whatever it is is likely to be part of the endless arms race between customs agencies and smugglers, so I doubt you'll get the privilege of finding out.
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by bdamm 1y ago
It doesn't take much driving for a new EV to balance out the environmental cost of harvesting, shipping, pumping, and burning all that petrol. As I understand it, about 20k km or 15k miles, on average.
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by bdamm 1y ago
Consciousness is surely more than just cold calculating antipathy.
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by bdamm 1y ago
You can zap it in the microwave for 10-15 seconds, but I always feel terribly guilty for some inexplicable reason.
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by bdamm 1y ago
It reads like a coming-of-age story for a software developer, without the part that comes next; crushing humility as flaunted self-assumed ideals are obliterated by the need to deliver actual results that real people actually pay for.
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by bdamm 1y ago
I'm responsible for my work and I don't need to prove that to you or anyone else except the people who pay me for my work. The fact there is AI involved doesn't change the nature of the work. Engineers and coders are paid to
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by bdamm 1y ago
Thank you! Works great for me.
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by bdamm 1y ago
It's probably also got to do with some magic behind the curtains; Waymo hasn't expanded much beyond their initial regions, so they've been static for years in terms of region. They very well may have hand-crafted expected pat
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by bdamm 1y ago
I am absolutely responsible for my work. That's why I spend so much time reading the code that I and others on my team write, and it's why I spend so much time building enormous test systems, and pulling deeply on the work of othe
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by bdamm 1y ago
This is not the right way to look at it. You don't have to have the LLMs directly coding your work unsupervised to see the enormous power that is there. And besides, not all LLMs are the same when it comes to breaking existing function
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by bdamm 1y ago
Isn't that what Windsurf or Cursor are?
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by bdamm 1y ago
No offense intended, but this is written by a guy who has the spare time to write the blog. I can only assume his problem space is pretty narrow. I'm not sure what his workflow is like, but personally I am interacting with so many diff
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by bdamm 1y ago
That was fun.
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by bdamm 1y ago
Public transit is a joke in marginally services areas anyway. Wherever public transit is already working well it will likely continue to do well. Competition is good, and if your life depends on subsidized transit, well, yeah you might end
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by bdamm 1y ago
That would require a lot of energy to ensure the gasses escape Venus' gravitational pull, which would in turn effectively be a rocket. So then we'd be adjusting to ensure we don't mess with Venus' orbit too much.
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by bdamm 1y ago
It doesn't usually take a too much code - usually around 20,000 lines - where I personally am not able to think my way through debugging complex failures. Tombstoning code only gets you so far (and is a useful skill). Being able to ste
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by bdamm 1y ago
I'm sorry, but in an environment where sovreignty is increasingly the dominant election issue, fiber doesn't rate. And even if every house has fiber, there are still many cases for mobile and robust Internet that can't be cov
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by bdamm 1y ago
Which is great for you, but the vast majority of the world doesn't have such strong local organization consisting of members who can afford to pay for big ditch infrastructure.
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by bdamm 1y ago
Atoms having no subdivisible parts implies that there are parts at all. But it turns out all matter is just somewhat stable oscillations within an energy field and no real boundaries between one part and another, and certainly nothing resem
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by bdamm 1y ago
Personally no issue, but I cross almost every day so the agents know me.
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by bdamm 1y ago
The pre-washing is silly, but the post-washing is totally mental. Why on earth would you post-wash a dish? Your dishwasher must be very dirty. Clean the filter, and also, run a few cycles with a couple of bowls facing up in the bottom, then

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