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by davidclark 1y ago
We’re now finding that sounding helpful and constructive does not equal being helpful and constructive. I wonder what an updated comic would say.
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by davidclark 1y ago
> The overall average ability of people being able to get from Point A to Point B safely and reliably, especially in areas they are unfamiliar with, has certainly increased dramatically. Is there evidence for this?
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by davidclark 1y ago
Last time this happened to someone I know, I pointed out they seemed to be picking the first choice every time. They said, “Certainly! You’re right I’ve been picking the first choice every time due to biased thinking. I should’ve picked the
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by davidclark 1y ago
The same legal rule applies to both for determining whether something is a derivative work. No one is stopping you from using similar proportions or colors as Miyazaki to draw a character. You are also allowed to draw your own interpretati
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by davidclark 2y ago
Is this a thing? Why would it be? Look at my username - how many people with that name exist in the world? Only one of us can have a blue check on Twitter? Which one?
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by davidclark 2y ago
How would it be trivial? Can you describe in a more specific way? The data I can find says it was last updated 9:02 PM Jan. 5, 2025 (presumably America/Chicago from my browser). That’s a >2 day window as of writing this comment. Not
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by davidclark 2y ago
Have you written a computer programming language? Calling every single one “verbose and stupid” seems like a Chesterton’s Fence issue.
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by davidclark 2y ago
You’re making fun, but I’d send my kid to this school.
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by davidclark 2y ago
Absolutely prefer nothing here.
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by davidclark 2y ago
I know it’s just a spicy take on a forum, but this sounds like a terrible public policy.
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by davidclark 2y ago
I’d like the same article topic but from the person who did Day 1 pt1 in 4s and pt2 in 5s (9s total time).
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by davidclark 2y ago
Is this article AI-generated? This website appears to do a lot of “diving in”.
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by davidclark 2y ago
This is a really nitpicky thread when in my top comment I allowed for the possibility of private sources: > If it truly cannot be linked because it is private, more context is still needed to understand what this data means.
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by davidclark 2y ago
“based on communications with Moody’s analysts” “based on internal data from Moody’s” “data from Moody’s” with no qualifier indicates the reader should be able to reasonably find the information themselves (which they can’t in this case)
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by davidclark 2y ago
Do you think the reporter at FT accessed this information on a paper report which was mailed to them? If not, then it is on the internet somewhere. Whether it is on the “public” or “free” internet is different. If it is not freely available
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by davidclark 2y ago
Yep! And, since I provided the basis for my commentary, you don’t have to trust my interpretation. My focus was critiquing their phrasing, which turns that 25% into 38%. Like I said, I’m not actually an expert on this to know if the trend i
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by davidclark 2y ago
Moody’s report could be aggregating the Fed data, but we’ll never know without a real citation.
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by davidclark 2y ago
> Credit card delinquency rates, which are seen as a precursor to write-offs, peaked in July, according to data from Moody’s, but have only fallen slightly and remain nearly a percentage point higher than they were on average in the year
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by davidclark 2y ago
Someone being deceived is a victim, yes.
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by davidclark 2y ago
> If some ChatGPT text can trick you then your process is broken anyway This is pretty unfair and seems like victim-blaming when we have companies spending billions of dollars to create these programs with the specific intent of trying t
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by davidclark 2y ago
Might just be me, but I also read in a condescending tone to these types of responses akin to “let me google that for you”
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by davidclark 2y ago
Seems like you’re trying to make a counterpoint that’s just reductio ad absurdum
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by davidclark 2y ago
> As a dev, I shouldn't have to care about responsive designs or tech stacks or accessibility or versions of node libraries, all to provide a website. This sounds like, “As a carpenter, I shouldn’t have to care about types of wood,
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by davidclark 2y ago
Wordle was famously made and run by one person. How many are needed to keep it running now?
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by davidclark 2y ago
> We also found good levels of accuracy: the generated documents were 70% accurate, and the generated code was at 60%. How is accuracy measured here? Is a document a single file? Is the LLM generating code and some separate kind of “docu
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by davidclark 2y ago
> Ask a question in a more natural, conversational way I think this might actually be my main pain point with LLMs. Personally, I don’t want this. I understand it might be helpful for other people. But, I prefer highly specific, advanced
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by davidclark 2y ago
This counterpoint feels like it needs just as much scrutiny as the position it’s refuting. Isn’t “but everyone else has one” the appeal kids make to their parents about most everything? (I know I was guilty of that as a kid myself) Why is t
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by davidclark 2y ago
If I tab complete my function and variable symbols, does my lsp write 80%+ of my lines of code?
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by davidclark 2y ago
This is so cool! Flame graphs are super helpful for analyzing bottlenecks. The eflambe library for elixir has let us catch some tricky issues. https://github.com/Stratus3D/eflambe/blob/master/README.adoc
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by davidclark 2y ago
Skeptical in what way - that people believe these things or that these things are folk economics?

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