dboreham

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by dboreham 1mo ago
Isn't that how we're inside one.
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by dboreham 1mo ago
Vampire Squid. But this is only in one country. Go other places (e.g. New Zealand) and reality is different. There every single transaction has the credit card fee added explicitly.
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by dboreham 1mo ago
True. I live in a no-sales-tax state but we have just as much tipping as everywhere else.
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by dboreham 1mo ago
The way I look at this is that I get to pay for socialism in the USA. We'll never get it via the government, but at least I can improve some low paid workers' lives a bit.
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by dboreham 1mo ago
I live in the US but have traveled to France for my entire life and speak French reasonably well. My take on this is: service is just fine in France. The difference is that nobody is "servile" in France. Also there are protocol di
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by dboreham 1mo ago
It means nothing. Whoever writes this has no idea about American restaurant protocol. The "tip for good service" thing comes from the UK (perhaps elsewhere in Europe too, not sure since I don't know those cultures well). Ther
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by dboreham 1mo ago
Level of service doesn't depend on the tip in the USA. Tip size may depend a little bit on level of service, but not the other way around. Basically the tip is how the customer pays the server and table clearers etc, because the restau
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by dboreham 1mo ago
I see this thread as progress because now there's three people saying this (seemed like it was just me for a year or two).
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by dboreham 1mo ago
Assuming you are referring to using an LLM to generate crontab entries, is that a bad move? Seems like it removes the need for layers of UI that most of the time is never used. Same goes for regexes. Actually same for SQL. No need for layer
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by dboreham 1mo ago
Since this seems to be a thread for people to criticize Anthropic let me add my $0.02 that I'm a very happy customer and see none of the various terrible things everyone is complaining about. Except Fable refused to give me some flags
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Aren't these CLI tools? How do they get to pick the font?
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by dboreham 2mo ago
This is basic psychology: being rich for no apparent reason causes cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is annoying/painful. So rather than change beliefs to see one's self as very lucky, in most cases the brain re-works rea
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by dboreham 2mo ago
The "make more money" rationale is way too logical vs how this guy's brain operates. It's better understood as being like Pro Wrestling. Except the "ring" is the world economy.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
I don't think this is new. The idea always was that proto-humans had to live in an environment rich with energy dense food (fruit) prior to growing a brain large enough to figure out how to make barbeque. Otherwise you never get to the
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by dboreham 2mo ago
I think this viewpoint fails to understand what "intelligence" is. The idea must be that intelligence is some special thing that only humans have. So when machines couldn't do jack s... we said "it's the Turing test
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by dboreham 2mo ago
The press release was poorly edited. While everyone inside the semiconductor industry knows that Micron is based in Boise, the general public doesn't. The press release should have said so rather than leaving it to the reader to interp
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by dboreham 2mo ago
This argument is unfortunately flawed. If the customers had been handed the software on day 1, by day 100 it would be full of security bugs, would need to be re-written for the new version of Node.js (the old one having been deprecated and
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by dboreham 2mo ago
This is ridiculous neither Netscape nor Yahoo made much money (source: I worked at Netscape). Anthropic is one of the largest fastest growing businesses of all time.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
The charge me exactly the same: $100.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
No. Here's a data point: I tried it for a few days. While it worked fine I didn't see any benefit to switching since it costs the same ($100) and I've spent a year getting up to speed on Claude usage and quirks.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Meanwhile my $100/mo subscription allows me to spank Claude all day doing the work of 4 coders and never hit any limits.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
This is indeed how it works.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Hmm. I've skimmed the article. It looks to be another ORM/FRM type thing. There are many issues with such things, but for me the most troubling is this: in most systems (obviously...it depends) you don't want to wind the data
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Finally we know how they assign people to either that A Ark or the B Ark.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Illiterate isn't the same as having no language, just (sic) saying.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
No fair! You got a runner.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
For a reasonably common class of deployment and organization (E.g. an online service where the cost of a short outage is significant) it becomes a pain point. For instance if there's a sudden security flap and you need to re-spin your
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by dboreham 2mo ago
The decentralized part (git itself) kept working.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
This part brought back memories from an even older time: "Worst, it required two more programs: Flex and Bison." In the early 80s I had the idea to port a C compiler to a new machine (I forget if this was K&R or pcc, but those
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by dboreham 2mo ago
People of color?

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