dingnuts

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by dingnuts 1y ago
I'm a lowly high school diploma holder. I thought the point of getting a PhD meant you had done something novel (your thesis). Is that wrong?
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by dingnuts 1y ago
you'd be able to give them a novel problem and have them generalize from known concepts to solve it. here's an example: 1 write a specification for a language in natural language 2 write an example program can you feed 1 into a mo
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Why should I, as a reader, spend the time to read a meaningless story that no person could be arsed to write, when I could spend a lifetime reading and never get through only the best works humanity has actually created? There is no shortag
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> the entire appeal of Claude Code is that it does everything itself, like figuring out what files to read/change how is this appealing? I think I must be getting old because the idea of letting a language model run wild and run com
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Too expensive for me to use for fun. Cheap enough to put me out of a job. Great. Love it. So excited. Doesn't make me want to go full Into The Wild at all.
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by dingnuts 1y ago
>He comes from a music production background, so his focus is more practical and results-oriented It's his art and his livelihood too, so it's also personal. These people want to steal his art and create a world full of soulles
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by dingnuts 1y ago
was thinking about this while reading another story about AI code review. Having an LLM write the code for me? Blecch, it doesn't do it right. Have an LLM make suggestions about my code? That's fine. If some of them are asinine I
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by dingnuts 1y ago
>stop sending American citizens the person who was sent, and who should not have been sent, was a Salvadoran citizen and a legal resident alien of the US. Please refrain from hyperbole in these times. If/when US citizens start getti
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by dingnuts 1y ago
it's the whole point of the tariffs. China does an end run around all of our laws, consumer safety, human rights, workers conditions, intellectual property, all that, and in doing so they cut costs and beat domestic companies at the ma
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by dingnuts 1y ago
sorry u hate a whole generation
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> Helping them requires creating vast numbers of better paying jobs with better working condition in their country, which require redirecting vast amounts of money to those countries This was the logic under Deng, and the reason China is
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by dingnuts 2y ago
No, the issue is not that Trump doesn't have the appropriate understanding. The issue is that they are illegal tariffs. The President does not have the power to create tariffs. Congress does! The reason the President doesn't have
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by dingnuts 2y ago
you're conflating income with wealth. as programmers many of us have good salaries, but if those went away we'd have to dig ditches like everyone else. miss me with the .1% salary stuff -- income is not wealth.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I'm not afraid of losing my job as an engineer. I can babysit an agent to build software and my expertise will still matter. I'm upset because that's not fun. I chose this career because programming is fun for me. I put up wi
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Something about the design causes cliques to form, both within and between instances, expressed with mutual blocking and bans based on association. It's actually extremely antisocial! It's why I left, all the instances were tribes
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by dingnuts 2y ago
yes, I wasted hours of my life using it until one day I landed on some site called Reddit Kagi has brought it back (kind of): https://kagi.com/smallweb has a random button (Next Post in the top left corner)
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by dingnuts 2y ago
patents and copyrights allow ownership of ideas and of the specific expression of ideas
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I don't understand the appeal. I like writing, especially on my blog. It's fun! Why would I want a computer to do it for me? So it can express itself and I don't get to? What's next, it rides my bicycle for me? Plays my
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I remember reading Unqualified Reservations ten years ago and thinking "this guy is a fucking nut!" and now his (Curtis Yarvin's) monarchist ideology seems to have walked right into the white house Trump 2 isn't Trump 1.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> With LLMs instantly see "how it's done" for my exact problem case which makes me learn way faster. No, you see a plausible set of tokens that appear similar to how it's done, and as a beginner, you're not able
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by dingnuts 2y ago
we still have freedom of speech for now at least, actual citizens do, anyway
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by dingnuts 2y ago
yeah, if you're salaried big corps expect to own you. you generally sign away all your creative rights to side projects when you take the offer, and you usually agree not to take other jobs, too.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> That's more or less accepted today. Bullshit! You cannot do second order reasoning with a set of facts or concepts that you have to look up first. Google Search made intuition and deep understanding and encyclopedic knowledge MORE
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I'm so glad I learned to program so I could either be called a basement dweller or a tech bro
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Humanoid robots on the market for the price of a small car? That's complete science fiction. There have been demos of such robots but only demos.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if this hasn't been obvious for a decade you need a more varied news diet.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I'm sure the government, led by Elon Musk, has no conflict of interest with Tesla, run by Elon Musk, that would EVER give Tesla an unfair advantage against its competitors through regularly capture or something similar.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
"crippleds"? Jesus Christ I know the zeitgeist is a cultural backlash against political correctness but goddamn we're getting a little cavalier using 1930s-esque language about non minority groups here aren't we? You cou
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by dingnuts 2y ago
not every line of reasoning is intended to be followed to its fullest extent. one can advocate for regulation without advocating for prohibition without contradiction.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
The problem with battery packs is that batteries age. It's not like returning a propane tank and getting a full one. If you just bought your car and you go to refuel and they swap your once used battery pack with one that's seen t

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