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by beej71 4mo ago
> Now I just point out behavior that I want to be different and the model figures it out. Often surprisingly quickly. This seems to have low-to-zero value in the medium- to long-term. Probably some 90% of the population has the ability t
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by beej71 4mo ago
I do understand, and that's not what happened in this case. I have top of the line gold coverage.
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by beej71 4mo ago
> It would be more charitable to substitute myself for him in that part to avoid causing distress. FWIW, I've been on the Internet for a long, long time. I took no offense. But I still think I'm better than AI at those things.
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by beej71 4mo ago
>> We should be better than genAI. > Why exactly? I think the top reason for most people is so that they're worth hiring. If you offer no more than an AI, what is your value? Is scotty79 human? Was this written by you? Or are
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by beej71 4mo ago
I guess it's a question of how many times you want to do that.
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by beej71 4mo ago
This was Providence in Oregon. I thought that's what it meant, too. But in this case there's a contracted "allowed amount" that is all the insurance will pay the doctor. If the doctor chooses to charge more, you get to p
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by beej71 4mo ago
I did not, but in my experience it's difficult to pry prices out of medical providers in advance.
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by beej71 4mo ago
I didn't assert the doctor was pocketing it all out that there weren't other expenses. But if it costs $850, I'd like insurance to pay $850.
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by beej71 4mo ago
One thing is that it costs money to fly people out and that's a big investment when the person might arrive and not know jack.
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by beej71 4mo ago
When I went to an in-network ENT (that I found on my insurer's website) they were billed $850 for my 10-minute exam. The insurance said they'd pay $550. So I got to pay the rest. And this is gold coverage with an already-met deduc
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by beej71 4mo ago
I've done a bit of porting BASIC code to other languages. My first step is to reverse engineer it to a spec, then I write a new version from that. I know some people start with a straight port with goto and everything, then try to fix
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by beej71 4mo ago
I love this question. For me, the answer is that I will always value human-generated content more highly because of the affinity I feel for the author, a fellow human. But I feel that affinity by default. If there's some convincing AI
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by beej71 4mo ago
We should be better than genAI. For me, with things like coding and writing, I think I'm better than it. For painting? It wins over me. But I'd never in a million years claim creation of a painting I prompted, even if I went and m
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by beej71 4mo ago
I do. I just keep reading the diffs on the PLGBUILDs.
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by beej71 4mo ago
Be careful. Speed of learning isn't necessarily the goal. Durability is another metric. I learn more quickly with LLMs, too, but it's certainly questionable if that learning is as durable or deep as learning through struggling wit
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by beej71 4mo ago
How many of you feel this, anecdotally? I had to come up with a class hierarchy for a roguelike game the other day. This should be something that's dead simple, off the top of my head, no problem. And suddenly I was stuck! It was like
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by beej71 4mo ago
Where is the demand coming from, is what I'm getting at. Because it's not from the population on this case, it would seem.
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by beej71 4mo ago
In this case it was to settle a bill. And I know I'm channeling a bit of Leonard McCoy here, but there's no fucking way I'm letting an AI take money out of my bank account. :)
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by beej71 4mo ago
The claim is that if you increase supply the price will drop. The counter-example is a case where supply was increased and the price doubled. The question is why did that happen? It very much looks like the "just build" model is i
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by beej71 4mo ago
I don't think it's that simple. In my town, we're building like mad (thousands of units) and it is possibly slightly impacting pricing in that the rise is not as meteoric as it was 7 years ago. But new buyers are still priced
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by beej71 4mo ago
I added keyoxide proofs everywhere. It's not really protection against victims using the wrong repo, but at least people who look can be certain that the person who controls my domain and website is the same person who controls that pa
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by beej71 4mo ago
This reminds me that I have to write my dentist. They replaced their beep answering machine with an AI chatbot, and the experience is horrible. I just want to say what I want, have it transcribed to text, and then have a human do something
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by beej71 4mo ago
We had one that mentioned "mineral inclusion".
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by beej71 4mo ago
It depends on the topic, of course. I have a self-help book for my computer science students that talks about the best way to get a computer science bachelor's it weighs in at 64 pages. It's too small to print, but it really doesn
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by beej71 4mo ago
The author even mentions this. Why watch a 20-minute video when you can just scrub to the 40 seconds you need? A lot of self-help books fall into this category. But if you go to a publisher and say that you're going to publish a 20-pag
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by beej71 4mo ago
The wrapper will give you a nice diff of what changed. You can do that by hand, too, though.
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by beej71 4mo ago
There are 15k orphaned packages on AUR. I just adopted 3 rarely-updated ones this morning (sorting by most popular) and got them built. If you're using an orphaned package, consider adopting it so the baddies can't.
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by beej71 4mo ago
This makes me want to adopt more packages. Lots of the orphans barely need updating.
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by beej71 4mo ago
I hear you, but consider xz. I'm a professional with decades of experience and I'd be lying if I said I'd have caught that. How long would an audit have taken, realistically? You're not wrong, but I don't think the
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by beej71 4mo ago
There's some big stuff in AUR like the binary VS Code and Chrome, fwiw.

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