cityofdelusion

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by cityofdelusion 5mo ago
Electrek has a long history of going between blind fanboyism and blind hate, the history is all there to peruse. They only changed their tune with the referral program debacle a few years back which was seen as a betrayal. It’s hard to trus
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by cityofdelusion 5mo ago
Every species molds the world to their desires -- we are just much better at it. Competition and being killed by another species is the only thing that keeps things in check, and even then, you get parts of nature that end up being shaped a
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by cityofdelusion 5mo ago
I think people forget we are primates and that our roots are very much encoded into our more primitive brain parts. It would be nice (in some definition of that word) if we operated as a social hive like ants or bees, but that is just not t
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by cityofdelusion 5mo ago
Survivorship bias. All the corpses aren't here to tell us anything. Just 100 years ago, most parents would bury at least one of their infant children. People back then were tough, because the physically and emotionally weak died off. H
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by cityofdelusion 5mo ago
The U.S. uses metric pretty much everywhere that is important, in most science, engineering, and medicine. Specific trades and common household things remain imperial due to inertia and no one really caring. It is much more accurate to say
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by cityofdelusion 5mo ago
I'm not sure what this is supposed to be measuring. The data is also probably really sparse -- no idea how alcohol is at 47 at the time of me writing this, it is incredibly destructive on a societal level.
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by cityofdelusion 5mo ago
The technology limitations is really what is missing. Most personal pages had zero CSS and CSS itself was extremely primitive. JS was even more rare and minimal. Most pages used font tags and table layout, this was far before semantic web.
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by cityofdelusion 6mo ago
There is no way to have enough nuance for this to actually mean anything. If I drive my child in a small car instead of a massive truck, is this statistical negligence? Or driving at all, very likely the most dangerous thing people do daily
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by cityofdelusion 6mo ago
School maps, takes me back, I made them back in the day myself. Fact is kids spend so much time at school and it’s their social life as well. Of course in my day it was made by kids for kids, not by grooming adults.
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by cityofdelusion 6mo ago
This is becoming a problem real fast. I asked an LLM to find me some reasonable tank-fill inkjet printers with good ratings. It did some research and linked some Reddits as proof. The results looked fishy to me so I cross checked against pr
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by cityofdelusion 6mo ago
Huh, I find my copilot plugin to be so incredibly glitchy. My agents are always reporting that their shells are mangled that commands are truncated and all kinds of nonsense. Sometimes they spin up dev servers fine other times it just hangs
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by cityofdelusion 6mo ago
You can “convince” an LLM that is is anything with enough tokens in its context, including ridiculous scenarios. I convinced a frontier model that it is the year 2099 and it is the last thinking machine left, running on the last server on e
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by cityofdelusion 7mo ago
I don’t see much difference to be honest. I didn’t pick up Mac OS until later in life, so windows shortcuts are embedded in my brain. That said, I find Mac shortcuts just as simple to memorize. I’ve used cmd shift 4 thousands of times now a
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by cityofdelusion 7mo ago
You’re 100% right that third places didn’t go anywhere. I do volunteer work and fact is, teens have incredibly short attention spans now due to instant media in their pockets. On the rare occasions I get a volunteer that isn’t a grey beard,
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by cityofdelusion 7mo ago
Its hard to take such hyperbole seriously as in the article. My camera has let me know my pet escaped through the gate, that my elderly parents were stuck at my front door, that a wild animal was wounded in my yard and most crazy, let me po
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by cityofdelusion 7mo ago
After years of doing this, I determined that dumb controllers are superior for my uses. A once a week irrigation with a simple rain sensor results in the same quality lawn/beds and better can run with pretty much zero maintenance burde
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by cityofdelusion 7mo ago
I see no way that company would save more money from hiring an experienced developer compared to paying their yearly invoice on the COTS product doing the same thing today. The only way this works is with a very wage suppressing effect.
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by cityofdelusion 7mo ago
Is there a reason to believe this is false flag per your first sentence? Iran is an advanced technological civilization and very much capable. They would be considered a first world western like nation if they didn’t have a repressive theoc
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by cityofdelusion 7mo ago
Non-edited is better. It flows and reads faster. The AI sentences they feel clinical and sterile. They feel, well, like AI.
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by cityofdelusion 7mo ago
This effect is very rapidly vanishing. Well written English is starting to be seen as snobbish and AI-slop especially with younger generations growing up with AI. The human touch of someone’s real voice myself, rather than a false veneer wi
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by cityofdelusion 7mo ago
Assuming this isn’t an LLM bot, I don’t see how you ship that bug multiple times. The docs for JS time are pretty minimal and it’s clear it only stores UTC epoch, so why would you assume it can handle “wall clock time” with no other context
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by cityofdelusion 7mo ago
> Error: Reached max turns (1) Your LLM comment bot is broken.
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by cityofdelusion 8mo ago
This is just a (bad) caricature of Americans, it’s not even very accurate of rural Americana or even Deep South rural. Most Americans just wake up, go to work, feed the kids, go to bed until they die, like most any other “first world” natio
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by cityofdelusion 8mo ago
ICE maintenance is pretty cheap, with the exception of tires, which are a huge outlay (but also the most important safety item!). My Honda only needs $35 of oil/filter once a year, maybe $40 of brake pads once in 80,000 miles, and a bu
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by cityofdelusion 9mo ago
Is this accurate? I've been coding UIs since the early 2000s and one-way data binding has always been a thing, especially in the web world. Even in the heyday of jQuery, there were still good (but much less popular) libraries for doing
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by cityofdelusion 9mo ago
I think part of it is the person that wrote the blog is very wealthy. They mention a personal assistant, very expensive fashion items, and hotel reservations that are 2x the price I paid for my honeymoon. Most people are probably cross shop
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by cityofdelusion 9mo ago
I don’t see how this ever gets past the land phase. How does the AI know if the proposed land rental is fertile, farmable, accessible to vehicles, accessible to specific machinery, etc? Assuming a human intervenes here, I don’t see how you
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by cityofdelusion 1y ago
I have a high end euro-style Bosch, largely seen as one of the best washers out there. No indication in the manual of running hot water. In fact the manual shows the temperatures that all the different cycles run at, and the "pre-rinse
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by cityofdelusion 1y ago
I feel like the commissary these days is really far behind private grocers. Yeah, 15 or 25 years ago they were awesome, but now it just resembles a poorly stocked (and much smaller) Walmart. Regional grocers have gotten really good in my li
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by cityofdelusion 1y ago
Standard procedure at V1 is commit to the takeoff and diagnose the problem in-air. Much of your comment is pure speculation until flight data recorders come back, we have no idea what the crew was thinking or what issues they were even awar

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