daveguy

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by daveguy 4mo ago
But also, preferential treatment for underserved communities is legal and does not mean anyone is being discriminated against. I.e., "reverse discrimination" is bullshit. Sorry.
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by daveguy 4mo ago
Little Johnny isn't a protected class and never will be. Little Johnny has had 250+ years of preferential treatment behind him. Boohoo Little Johnny.
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by daveguy 4mo ago
Why wouldn't there be a period when more diverse groups are accepted at a higher than societally present amount until representation is more balanced? Because little Johnny feels entitled to get preferetial treatment when the system wo
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by daveguy 4mo ago
DEI was only ever meant to reflect the diversity of society in our institutions (which historically have been and continue to be homogeneous compared to society). Of course there are better and worse ways to create the outcome of increased
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Cool. Why don't you build that?
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Also accurate. There is an election coming up. First Tuesday in November. Has been since 1845. After a certain number of votes, it's difficult to deny otherwise. It doesn't have to be for or against anyone. Just needs to be a vote
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Accurate observation.
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Dumpty's loyalty is with whoever will give him the most money and power as a person. Always has been.
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Well, probably not the current generation of driverless cars. Those would be a nightmare. Contrary to what some want to believe self driving cars do random shit all the time. But in the future, if there is a coordination standard among driv
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by daveguy 5mo ago
I'm not seeing "Always free" on that page browsing from mobile. Also, it breaks my back button. Yeah... I'm going to need to switch.
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Pretty sure the references you are referring to are about losing coding skills, which is a very different set of skills than language skills. The kagi link (1) a sibling comment left was an example of an AI that can improve writing while
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Your example on the statement was about the companies. What Google said has nothing to do with the companies. They're clearly trying to paper over the manipulation. I was giving you that credit for the one thing they're slightly g
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by daveguy 5mo ago
You argue that ads can be helpful... by saying all the ways ads are helpful to the business. That's not what Google means. It's a way to make ads not sound like an obnoxious shitshow by pretending they are helpful for the consume
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by daveguy 5mo ago
PSA: kagi is a great search that still actually searches, allows you to customize results, and only uses ai when you ask for it. Only catch is that it's a pay service. Definitely worth it IMO. You can still get info directly from sourc
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by daveguy 5mo ago
I'd be willing to bet it was their consumer complaint system that informed the FTC. They have a interagency agreement for crossreferral. Hopefully they didn't have to cut that back with the 90% doge cut. But don't worry, we w
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Re: pool, definitely the one pushing needs to be the dominant hand. It has the most degrees of freedom, and more motion. The one in front has a whole table for stability. But that's just like my opinion, man.
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by daveguy 5mo ago
I'm old enough to remember when we had a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to push back against this kind of anti-consumer crap. It got doge'd by Dumpty/Musk.
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Yeah, "not being pressured to use them" conveniently sidesteps the fact they are RLHF trained to be as engaging (aka addictive) as possible.
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Agreed. The most effective efforts aren't going to come from indie developers. They aren't software issues, more regulatory. Busting up big tech into "baby bells" is the number one thing that needs to be done. But now th
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Yeah, maybe they should listen for once. Every indie developer should be working to get people off the big tech slop treadmill.
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by daveguy 5mo ago
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/qwen36-27b/ Maybe this is an example of training overfit. But it won't be too long before local models chew through the "famously hard tasks". Except
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Blockchain is completely unnecessary (as it always is; I thought people stopped trying to ram that garbage into everything years ago). I was answering this question from GP: > Unfortunately it appears openssh doesn't even have an op
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Exact same kinds of projects with the exact same development environment, models, etc . Either he's never worked with a development team or he doesn't consider things outside his own perspective. shrug
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Because log processing is handled in the kernel/root/system? Is this a trick question? See also: rsyslogd
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by daveguy 5mo ago
> The gambling trope is so tired... >>> That sounds like a process problem. LLMs, like any tool, work better if you don't use them in the naive "do this" way... The "you're holding it wrong" trope i
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by daveguy 5mo ago
You're the one who said Russia. Could be a dunce, but just as easily an llm farm of the GOPs. We all know they aren't exactly ethical. But also, they have clearly made dunces out of a lot of people.
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by daveguy 5mo ago
In a world of carousels, banners, and chatbots. Be a McMaster-Carr. Wait. That requires having a desirable and non-manipulative product or service? Hmmm... Lots of business in for a rough time.
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by daveguy 5mo ago
Yes, eventually we will all be able to enjoy our delicious algorithm, attention, and data sandwiches on our lunch breaks.
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by daveguy 5mo ago
You'd think the knowledge that they're creating technology to purposely addict children for their attention and data would contribute more to making them miserable.
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by daveguy 5mo ago
This sounds like wishful thinking to me. The tasks are designed to be reversible. Whether it stochastic parrots in the forward direction or reverse direction is irrelevant. Especially considering these are inference engines. Every pass is

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