cratermoon

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by cratermoon 11d ago
It was listed at $25 million, later cut to $20 million. Ok, I understand paying a bit of a premium for an iconic property, but... "Even with the price cut, the eight-figure home is about $18 million higher than the median for its surro
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by cratermoon 17d ago
I got the details about classes of shares and preferential stuff technically wrong, it’s true. I still got the gist of the arrangement correct: VCs and founders get the pizza, everyone else gets the crusts
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by cratermoon 17d ago
No, we're arguing over whether or not openai stole the other researcher's work. The evidence is pretty damning. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-car...
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by cratermoon 22d ago
Bold of you to think undocumented workers making subsistence wages under a brutal system have access to annual physicals, much less the sort of continuously documented medical history needed to spot and address abnormalities before they bec
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by cratermoon 23d ago
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.
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by cratermoon 23d ago
Startups define different classes of stock. The class A shareholders are the founders and investors. Everyone else gets class B shares. The A class shares don't get diluted, and they are inherently worth more anyway.
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by cratermoon 24d ago
Hey it's sunrpc
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by cratermoon 27d ago
Kevlin Henney
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There's no such thing as Just a Tool(deadsimpletech.com)
2 points by cratermoon 27d ago|0 comments
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by cratermoon 27d ago
I see the author has used the "it's just a tool" argument for "responsible LLM usage. When you have an LLM ready-to-hand, what's possible and desirable is determined by the capabilities of the LLM. https:/&#x2
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by cratermoon 28d ago
> AI is already better than most developers By what measure? How do you even compare developer skill?
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by cratermoon 28d ago
“The long term sustainability of the commons depends on an AI ecosystem that produces shared benefits” Do any of the big players in the AI business even have this on their radar? Other than vague “we’ll eventually get AGI and it will cure c
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
"assisted by Grammarly" Yeah, it doesn’t take AI to recognize throngs like passive voice, excessive wordiness, cliché phrases, and run-on sentences. But the writer was free to reject those suggestions.
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
Putting a gigantic thumb on the Free Market™ scale.
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
It's going to get nearly impossible to avoid the taint of some AI, at least for a while. The article first mentions Grammarly, a tool that up until was a normal English language grammar and style checker, widely used and appreciated by
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
I'm sure the BNPL platforms are ensuring the information about who is borrowing money to buy what is kept private and not shared with every data broker on the planet. /s
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
Also called the AI bobsled https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-...
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
What about golf courses?
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
In part, yes.
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
The average programmer is an illusion. Most programmers working in software, and I’m including not just the tech industry specifically, but all companies that employ or contact for programming are not very good. The relatively few who are o
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
Payday loan places already do this. It's pure exploitation of the poor.
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
And if you lowercase everything, you're e e cummings.
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
I realize that short attention spans are pervasive now, but the link to the explanation is only eight paragraphs in https://declaude.org/watermarking/
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
He's complaining that a coin-flipping synthetic text extruder is using an unfair coin. The text generated by an LLM is already adulterated. His objections are so much titling at windmills.
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
"others were concerned that the watermarks would expose their previously-hidden AI usage and some expressed concerns about human-created works being edited by AI having the watermarks added." Yes, that's the point of watermar
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Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response(arstechnica.com)
7 points by cratermoon 1mo ago|0 comments
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
But also this: the White House said in a statement. “It will also reactivate portions of the maritime industrial base that are easier to scale.” Sounds remarkably similar to the justifications for re-activating coal-fired power plants.
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by cratermoon 1mo ago
Did the company that makes steam catapult technology grease the orange palms?
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
“Progressives have been howling about tech company surveillance for over a decade, but they all still have The iPhone in their pockets” https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
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by cratermoon 2mo ago
Barred owls are invasive.

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