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by boc 3mo ago
> Anthropic's fear-mongering I mean it's fear-mongering until it isn't. I think people have become a bit too comfortable with dismissing the dangers of misaligned AI as simply "marketing hype".
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by boc 3mo ago
And they had 101 people die of heat-related issues last month. [1] 3,832 Spaniards died in 2025 alone from heat. In 2022, 4,789 died, the all-time high. The entire United States had 2,325 heat-related deaths in 2023, which is the all-time h
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by boc 3mo ago
Are you going to also scold Americans for using heat in the winter? Our continent has more extreme weather than Europe... we've adapted accordingly because we value human lives. Have you?
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by boc 4mo ago
OTOH, using the best is a competitive advantage when time = money. It's like giving your engineers a slow laptop because it's cheaper. It may be cheaper but not worth the cost.
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by boc 4mo ago
Yeah same here, Fable on "high" is producing substantially better results than Open 4.8 on xhigh for me and my actual real-world evals today. It "feels" smarter and doesn't use nearly as many tokens running in circl
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by boc 4mo ago
Yeah idk what people are talking about- it's not marketing. This thing is substantially better than opus 4.8/gpt5.5 from what I'm seeing today.
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by boc 4mo ago
American society has higher wages than almost any other developed nation [1], so it's objectively incorrect to say the US doesn't have good wages. It chooses to make you pay for private childcare and healthcare, both of which are
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by boc 4mo ago
Just dropping-in to say that I love this idea. Sadly not a full-stack engineer but will follow your progress!
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by boc 4mo ago
The amount of actual, hard cash revenue these companies are making is a different ballgame from the dot-com bubble.
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by boc 4mo ago
I see this take, but it's actually helpful to talk to an LLM in human terms; after all, it's how they are trained. If you keep talking to it like it's a rock, it'll run your queries through a different posture and you mi
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by boc 5mo ago
"It's the thought that counts"
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by boc 5mo ago
It's pretty easy to de-orbit satellites or space-based stations. An SM-3 could smoke the ISS pretty easily, and they cost like 10M and we have thousands around the oceans.
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by boc 5mo ago
Because it's like 1000x more efficient to move stuff on water vs land, so industrial cities clustered around ports and rivers since it's way easier to move stuff around.
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by boc 5mo ago
They sell "real" apple juice in the US. It's just called apple cider and you can find it at any supermarket. "Apple cider is raw, unfiltered, and often unpasteurized apple juice, resulting in a cloudy, dark appearance an
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by boc 5mo ago
The GX and LX models specifically! Built off the LC platform.
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by boc 5mo ago
Iranians are not Arabs and thousands of them got gunned down earlier this year protesting the regime. "America bad" doesn't change the fact that the Iranian people deserve a better future.
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by boc 5mo ago
One reason I love my mid-00s Lexus SUV. All the luxury features you want, but clean instrument cluster with no driving assistance tech to break or get in the way. Great visual clarity on the road, 300K miles on original drivetrain without i
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by boc 5mo ago
Highway driving is a bit different from complex city conditions. Just look at the difference between the telsa robotaxi performance vs Waymo. Only one of them is truly FSD.
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by boc 5mo ago
I'm reading the same thread as you and seeing the same complaints, yes. Personally, I'm willing to giving the benefit of the doubt to a company that has demonstrated they will stand up for human rights principles at the expense of
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by boc 5mo ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah
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by boc 5mo ago
Iranian drones have done nothing to prevent the US and Israel dropping gravity bombs en-mass over their capital right now. JDAMs and unguided munitions are still far cheaper for the explosion size than any drone today. That's not the s
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by boc 5mo ago
It simply snows a lot more in Tahoe from a SWE standpoint. Utah gets similar "inches" of snow, but fractions of the moisture, which if you've ever built a snowman you know the difference between the heavy thick stuff and the
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by boc 5mo ago
I'd love for you to come along with me on a ski mountaineering trip to the eastern Sierra. It's a mountain range larger than Switzerland with basically one interstate highway to access and no roads that cross through in the winter
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by boc 5mo ago
Seems to be back now (claude code at least)
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by boc 5mo ago
Very fair points! I think I'll re-assess how I'm handling my setup. Unfortunately I don't have a dedicated devOps team, but still want to do my best to prevent those types of outcomes.
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by boc 5mo ago
I've determined that my ultimate dream car would be something like a Rivian but with Waymo tech, so I can drive it manually when I want/need (snowstorms, off-road), but I can also let it drive me across the country at night while
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by boc 5mo ago
That's because market street is closed to cars now. It's essentially a pedestrian corridor with the trolley/busses.
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by boc 5mo ago
Far, far bigger than any other US city. Why? IMO with AI it's basically an arms-race mentality and a lot of the startups/labs here are grinding 24/7 to snap up the industries before legacy businesses realize what's happe
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by boc 5mo ago
As someone who lives and works in SF, I think it depends quite a bit on your social scene and neighborhood. Where I'm at it's constantly alive with people in the parks, out for running/biking groups, going to farmer's ma
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by boc 5mo ago
Anybody who has tried to rent an apartment in SF in the past 6 months knows that the city is rebounding fast - avg rents are skyrocketing again and there are lines out the door for 1/2bds. People are locked-in to their covid specials t

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