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by disqard 1y ago
I kinda hear you -- there's definitely gradations at work here -- but the sentiment you've expressed is also fast losing veracity. For instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612448
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by disqard 1y ago
Maybe they'll sell that as a $400 upgrade, like that $1000 monitor stand...
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by disqard 1y ago
The entire industry is plagued by oversupply right now. These sorts of power plays are impossible in a resource-constrained setting. Meanwhile, spare a thought for the poor devils graduating from CS degree programs right now.
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by disqard 1y ago
A bit OT, but I'm wondering how any fresh grad is supposed to pass today's hiring bar. And, with the market flooded with experienced devs, why should any employer take a chance on a 100% green dev, when they can pick and choose fr
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by disqard 1y ago
I'm inclined to agree. He has moved from the Reality Distortion Field of Jobs to that of Altman.
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by disqard 1y ago
The mantis shrimp kills prey using cavitation. I'm not sure the shock wave from such an energetic implosion would be "fairly inconsequential".
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by disqard 1y ago
Back when he won his first term, the local college newspaper's post-election edition had this headline (and subhead): --- Hate Wins. The Only Way Is Forward. --- It was (and continues to be) a surprisingly pithy summary of the entire M
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by disqard 1y ago
When a cancer spreads throughout a body, many of the body's cells are drastically altered. Is it still the "same body"? Ship of Theseus, etc.
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by disqard 1y ago
I'm finding it to be a force-multiplier in my side-project work. It needs careful oversight, for if you're too generous with it, it'll happily add tons of code into your codebase that will make it horrendously difficult to un
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by disqard 1y ago
Interesting! The FCC part of their plan is "0% complete": * Narrow scope of Section 230. * Stop U.S. companies from "feeding, training, and improving" AI datasets belonging to Chinese companies. * Expedite work to suppor
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by disqard 1y ago
Right, it decouples your IDE choice from the "Code Assistant" choice, giving you massive flexibility.
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by disqard 1y ago
Signal-boosting this -- I use Claude Code too, and it's beautiful: all the benefits of typing long-form thoughts, ideas, strategy, combined with direct access (for the llm api) to the codebase (no uploading/downloading), and Anthr
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by disqard 1y ago
Not related directly to the partner program, but: "By default, Anthropic doesn’t train our generative models on your content. This commitment to privacy is core to how we build our products and services." IIUC, this is actually di
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by disqard 1y ago
Is this different from having an RCT, where the experimental group receives the vaccine, and the control receives... a placebo? I'm probably missing something here.
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by disqard 1y ago
The world's smartest and dare I say, wisest (for the tech space) people attacked this problem in the 90s: Jaron Lanier, Randy Pausch, etc. No one was able to come up with a mass-appeal killer app back then, and no has managed to do tha
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by disqard 1y ago
I fear you will be proved wrong. If history is any indication, then the blowback will be leveraged (successfully) to point fingers at other parties (doesn't matter who), and then the proposed remedy will be to double-down: "It did
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by disqard 1y ago
This has been a thing since (at least) 2019, as this article shows: https://redarrowlogistics.com/international/dodging-tariffs-... Excerpt: > Put simply, transshipping is when a country ships product through a thir
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by disqard 1y ago
Thank you for sharing that! TIL that the resulting defeat was soundly milked by Mussolini and friends to rise to power. If at first you don't succeed, blame the Voices of Reason (and demonize them), until you do succeed.
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by disqard 1y ago
So, a toddler is shaking a snowglobe. This entire section is full of people (not everyone, but several) analyzing it carefully, as if it were a scientist handling a moon rock inside the nitrogen environment of a glovebox. I can't see a
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by disqard 1y ago
It's gaslighting via ye olde "both sides" reasoning: "Oh, don't worry, all the politicians are corrupt liars, so the current administration is just like the preceding ones. Nothing to see here!" Thank you for c
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by disqard 1y ago
I typed in "RTX A2000" and got zero results. I guess this website is for folks who're trying to equip a data center in their backyard with H100s?
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by disqard 1y ago
Oh, is that what they want? I keep offering them Safeway Gift Cards, but they lose interest pretty fast...
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by disqard 1y ago
I understood that reference :) (Highly recommend Sarah Wynn Williams' book)
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by disqard 1y ago
Multiple people in this thread are painfully obviously trying to look the other way, marshaling all their logic for this purpose, yet you waltz in here and say the quiet part out loud. Tsk tsk!
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by disqard 1y ago
"Zuck it! We'll do it live!!"
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by disqard 1y ago
I've had the same mental model as you (shouting in a town square) and that's why Twitter always seemed weird to me. Lately, I've found that another mental model fits that sort of medium even better: Hot takes scrawled on the
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by disqard 1y ago
Right, and the things preventing restaurants from doing this: 1. At-scale boycott: would you eat at a McD's where the "Happy Meal" has fentanyl in it? But somehow, this doesn't work for "social" media -- we&#x2
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by disqard 1y ago
I'll gently push back on that, and counter that companies (esp. giant corporations) are in fact, akin to a "sentient amorphous entity that wants to maximize itself along various axes". Consider how big corps are able to get l
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by disqard 2y ago
Right, this same phenomenon is evident in all media -- once it starts to take hold, the only way to effectively critique it, is through the medium itself. Hence, the proverbial Letter to the Editor complaining about the newspaper's con
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by disqard 2y ago
(continuing in that vein, and taking the liberty of making a giant oversimplification): ...and TV brought us Ronald Reagan, and the Internet gave us Trump as POTUS.

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