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by dingnuts 1y ago
> Hey, these next six months are wild. Can we circle back in the middle of next year and try and get something going? This example message is like something I'd send a recruiter, not a friend. Circle back? Six months? WHO SAYS &quot
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by dingnuts 1y ago
outside of tech I'd agree, but the execs keep giving me big stock packages (I'm a mid-level at a company you have heard of) and the line going up has pretty immediately paid off for me. isn't that normal for engineers? the se
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by dingnuts 1y ago
it's not like gambling, it is gambling. you exchange dollars for chips (tokens -- some casinos even call the chips tokens) and insert it into the machine in exchange for the chance of a prize. if it doesn't work the first time you
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by dingnuts 1y ago
most serious companies provide an ergonomics assessment where a professional comes to your desk and adjusts everything to where you will have the right posture. If you work for a large company and they don't provide this, well, they do
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by dingnuts 1y ago
the article isn't about them. Montana by and large is a lot less dense than Asheville NC, which is a small city surrounded by normal towns. Asheville would only seem eccentric if normal is San Francisco.
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by dingnuts 1y ago
if the cost for preventative scans goes down, demand will rise. medical demand is incredibly constrained by price. people skip all kinds of tests they need because they can't afford it. the radiologists will have more work to do, not l
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by dingnuts 1y ago
the article is about a retired woman who lives twenty minutes from Asheville, NC. The terrain is rugged there, but it is not an "eccentric lifestyle" It is extremely typical, however, to see the most basic needs of Appalachian peo
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Except at some level you do obviously believe that using the app was worth $57, because you didn't end the story by saying you called a cab company and got a big discount by doing it the old fashioned way. OR could it be that the sched
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by dingnuts 1y ago
No. That's a funny example since broadcasters have to pay a fee to say "The Super Bowl" in the first place. If they don't, they have to use some euphemism like "the big game." The answer is definitely no. You c
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> after my first conversation, where I got it to tell me a fair bit about how Postgres works See, I always start with conversations about things I already know about, and they bullshit me enough that I'm wary of Gell-Mann Amnesia wh
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> In what country is there actually a "right to private, encrypted communication"? I recognize that this is not a popular opinion, but IMHO IT SHOULD BE covered by the "secure in their papers" section in the 4th Amend
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by dingnuts 1y ago
it's not a source at all, it's definitionally bullshit because the LLM has no concern for the truth. Never post LLM text. Anyone can get that for themselves. To do so is an insult to the comment section. I'm not here to read
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by dingnuts 1y ago
when in fact scientific research is in the interest of Defense, especially NOAA. I'm sure the Air Force will appreciate degraded forecast capability. doesn't even make sense within the normal Republican playbook
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by dingnuts 1y ago
and what do you do if you value privacy and don't want to share everything in your project with silicon valley, or you don't want to spend $8/hr to watch Claude do your hobby for you? I'm getting really tired of AI advoc
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by dingnuts 1y ago
if the language police want to tell Americans what they're allowed to call themselves and expect any actual adoption they had better come up with a better word than "USian". How do you even pronounce that? Oosh-an? But also s
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by dingnuts 1y ago
this guy probably thinks Green Day is emo lol
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by dingnuts 1y ago
It assumes a lot about future administrations too. When Obama was in office I complained a lot about the Executive branch consolidating power and using executive orders, and the Democrats were fine with it because he was a "good"
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> But what will happen when the new generations grow up in a world with technology that can generate in seconds or minutes something they enjoy and keep them entertained? This is why culture is important. Technology cannot in seconds gen
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by dingnuts 1y ago
zoom actually has a chat service that might be worse than teams, too
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Kagi Assistant can do this too but I find it's mostly useful because the traditional search function can find the pages the LLM loaded into its context before it started to output bullshit. It's nice when the LLM outputs bullshit,
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by dingnuts 1y ago
to me it sounds like an admission that AGI is bullshit! AGI would be so disruptive to the current economic regime that "winner takes all" barely covers it, I think. Admitting they will be in normal competition with other AI compan
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by dingnuts 1y ago
doesn't bode well for you either
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by dingnuts 1y ago
it's more like, I'm not going to spend money on a smart lock that reports my movements to a third party just so a burglar can chuck a landscaping stone through my window and unlock the door
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> it's amazing how quickly people go from “a couple times per year on special occasions” to having 20-30 exposures over a decade or two a couple times a year is 20 exposures over a decade. were you trying to demonstrate an escalatio
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by dingnuts 1y ago
>and have a real time web socketed sync layer that goes direct to the database you might be able to drop a web router but pretending this is "completely drop[ping] the backend" is silly. Something is going to have to manage con
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by dingnuts 1y ago
IDK, there are a lot of little chores that I find needing done that previously would have been ten minutes of research and cli fiddling that are a prompt and copy paste now. It doesn't feel that different but it is a little faster
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Is Tcl having a revival? Anybody know where Tclers hang out online?
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by dingnuts 1y ago
LLMs are better at languages that are forgiving, like those two, because if something is not exactly right the interpreter will often be able to just continue on
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by dingnuts 1y ago
You only need two Tcl statements, shown here on one line for the sake of this pissing contest: button .b -text "Do Nothing" -command {exit}; pack .b
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by dingnuts 1y ago
it's not even a new thing, certain companies were doing it before the pandemic. for a long time. I took my first offer at a remote company in 2012 -- I only met any of those people by chance, years later.

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