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by beej71 5mo ago
It would be an enlightening experiment. "Wait 2 hours or pay $5000 to be seen now."
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by beej71 5mo ago
I had a 10 minute visit with an ENT in the US and they billed over $850. My insurance paid $650. I paid the rest. So it certainly didn't cost me $1000, but the numbers are impressive.
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by beej71 5mo ago
Wait, did IBM license DOS to Microsoft? I thought IBM was looking for an operating system for the PC and approached Kildall about CP/M. That deal fell through, so they approached Microsoft. Gates didn't have anything, so he licens
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by beej71 5mo ago
OS/2 and DR-DOS are a couple examples. But what really gets me is the whole Xenix thing. CP/M was great on Z80 systems. But a 386 was capable of so much more.
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by beej71 5mo ago
I keep thinking of the infinitely scroll GenAI app that might replace social media...
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by beej71 5mo ago
Like the OP, I lived well within my means my whole life, so I'm doing OK overall. Not enough to retire today, but enough to work for less than my capitalistic potential, and I'm happy to trade 3 months off during the summer for no
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by beej71 5mo ago
It was a bunch of factors, some forced. I had a company I'd co-founded with a friend of mine, and Google would feed us work (in advertising, of course). It was getting old, and then Google terminated the program we were working under.
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by beej71 5mo ago
I just acted as an amateur editor for my friend's new novel. It took a long time to get through with hundreds or thousands of minor corrections and notes. I'm certain I outperformed an LLM for a lot of that in terms of quality.
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by beej71 5mo ago
> refreshing to read a scan of a letter typed from a typewrite But it's not responsive! Hadn't he heard of mobile-first? ;)
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by beej71 5mo ago
I got into teaching several years ago, leaving industry behind. It's great! I had gotten a little bit tired of programming other people's stuff. It wasn't the programming itself that was dull, but I found most products that p
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by beej71 5mo ago
> They seem to have a personal vendetta against Microsoft Probably because they were forced to use MS-DOS when so many better options were killed off by Microsoft's monopolistic and anti-consumer underhanded business tactics... I mi
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by beej71 5mo ago
When I think about a PGP-style web of trust that shows that you're human, this is the showstopper I come up against. Provably human people can just parrot the bots. Do we eventually get to the point that we only really trust F2F? It&#x
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by beej71 5mo ago
Without debating your point, I don't think it contradicts the GP's.
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by beej71 5mo ago
> Blue-collar ones will also follow once robotics is solved. If the white collar jobs go, you don't need robots to kill the blue collar jobs. The supply of blue collar workers will skyrocket and wages will go effectively to zero. An
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by beej71 5mo ago
I definitely don't have time for AI-generated crap. I've got to get back to asking Claude to write code for me. ;)
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by beej71 5mo ago
If we train AI on human works and humans only do what the AI says, we're at a maximum.
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by beej71 5mo ago
:-D
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by beej71 5mo ago
It seems like throughout human history, every piece of technology has had a complete chain of human knowledge for how it worked. No one person knows how to build an EV starting from dirt, but someone knows each step in isolation. With LLMs,
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by beej71 5mo ago
As someone who never uses AI to write anything and whose writing shows up as 30-40% AI, I have a very low level of respect for these detectors, as well.
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by beej71 5mo ago
If I take my 100%-handwritten prose and hand it to a detector, it tells me it's 30% AI. Those detectors are crap and they're training people to also be crap at it. I'm not changing how I write just to sound "less AI&quot
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by beej71 5mo ago
> Only collective action has the potential to do that at this stage. Nothing resolves the shit storm, but it is absolutely possible to not be in it. Don't need collective action for that.
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by beej71 5mo ago
We just dropped three points to 81% on the Freedom House freedom index, so it's certainly not that.
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by beej71 5mo ago
Nvidia making out selling shovels, that's for sure.
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by beej71 5mo ago
That wasn't my read, though. I think if they don't want to go with the vibe-coded version then they have to go with the last release before that. And presumably that last release won't be updated (except with the vibe-coded v
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by beej71 5mo ago
Exactly that. And really, it's still not going to be enough.
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by beej71 5mo ago
Given our population problems, I can't think of a single rational reason why we'd want to stop this from happening.
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by beej71 5mo ago
Same, except not at a graduation speech. He was just all over the place, but I loved every second of it. :) As a nerd of the 80s, I'd take that over the sterile CEO BS any day.
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by beej71 5mo ago
But now we're going to have to draw a line at some scale, and that's going to get quite tricky.
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by beej71 5mo ago
Ah, well that was my first guess as to how they'd make money. [Product placement in The Truman Show clip]
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by beej71 5mo ago
Meth is here to stay, too, and--damn--is it great for productivity.

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