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by dofm 3mo ago
Also there are emotions for which society has not developed words because it has a social tendency to deny them. OCD, ADHD and Tourettes, for example are driven by deep, complex, strange destructive emotional needs that are wordless and und
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by dofm 3mo ago
Is this why Cursor is running a “Make me a Mac OS in the browser” ad? What an alarmingly pathetic place we have reached.
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by dofm 3mo ago
Dating is different. It's IMO fully inappropriate to draw that comparison. Professionals act professionally. Ghosting is profoundly unprofessional. It is their job to manage the process with full information. End of story. > If you
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by dofm 3mo ago
This is to some extent a generational thing, but yes. It’s rude. If you’re not ready to politely reject numerous candidates, don’t interview them. If you get a shitty rejection letter, you should see it as a lucky escape. A rejection burns
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by dofm 3mo ago
> I actually have a worse impression of her now You’re not exactly making the best impression here. This is such a bizarre thread. You have nit-picked someone’s choice of words into an extraordinary series of implicit slights against som
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by dofm 3mo ago
Between 2017 and 2021 she also had two children, cervical cancer, a radical hysterectomy, lymphoedema and reconstructive surgery for that. She is a properly impressive person who warrants no shade, but it never surprises me to see it.
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by dofm 3mo ago
It's not my sort of show but I'd put my money on Julie Hesmondhalgh or (wildcard bet) Amol Rajan.
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by dofm 3mo ago
She was a professor in the mathematics of cities (applied spatial mathematics) before that — in her early thirties. She is an expert in applied mathematics (president of the applicable UK institute, actually) and this is absolutely of a pie
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by dofm 3mo ago
The XS model is genuinely confounding. So far I do not know what to make of it. Maybe the chat template is broken, maybe not. But I can't get it to think/reason, or at least sometimes it seems to decide not to even when asked. And
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by dofm 3mo ago
She really is an extraordinary communicator. She has an actor's control of her countenance, which allows her control over that mischievous, slightly conspiratorial tone she uses when she wants you to know something really fun, or be ex
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by dofm 3mo ago
Dobro as in squareneck/lap? I (the user who prompted the creation of this thread, apparently) play a weissenborn (copy). Gigged it once but it is quite fussy about temperature changes, which can make it a bit tricky in a British music
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by dofm 3mo ago
Some time ago I looked at running this on a very small cloud VM to act as a proxy for pi-based devices: https://github.com/fatedier/frp
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by dofm 3mo ago
I would not say I am depressed. Despairing at what the world is, sometimes (with much more detachment than before). Not at what I have become; that just is what it is. I am burned out rather than sad. I can’t get across that I will struggle
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by dofm 3mo ago
I am not a doom scroller. Like I say, I try to regulate my news intake to things that are valuable and I have for years. I use social media only for creative-interest-based groups — I have no "friend feed" at all and I haven'
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by dofm 3mo ago
> Don't forget that whatever you can design to 3d print you can order from China made of aluminium! Yeah — I still haven't tried this but it is on the cards, and I have a rather lower-stakes (simpler) idea to try it out with.
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by dofm 3mo ago
> Within a year, my hyper-focus abilities I remember having as a teen starting flowing back. Mine are gone for good. But I no longer want to be able to hyperfocus, because it is invariably a sign I am losing control. For me, hyperfocus
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by dofm 3mo ago
I don't think that is what is happening. Instead a bunch of tech companies are gathering to try to stop OpenAI and Anthropic fear-bouncing the White House and the Republican Congress into giving them regulatory capture and repeating th
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by dofm 3mo ago
And people think there won't be enough demand for AI companies to IPO. All they have to do is start an LLM-driven bun fight.
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by dofm 3mo ago
It is but some people cope better than others, right? Even now, some people thrive on social media and make the best of it. One prosaic explanation is that in many people there is a predisposition to a mixture of hyperfocus and being distra
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by dofm 3mo ago
ADHD is something you can rapidly develop an inability to manage at that age, though — after trauma or burnout. Or maybe following RTO after a couple of years of a more peaceful WFH environment. You can get through school without failing, y
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by dofm 3mo ago
Luckily so far only one index changed its rules to cover SpaceX and what the AI IPOs would need. I don't know how specifically significant SpaceX being lower than at launch is, because actually most IPOs underperform the market and the
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by dofm 3mo ago
Is it your contention, then, that the 2008 crash had minimal real world impacts?
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by dofm 3mo ago
One of Meta's SPVs building a data centre for them, Meta own only 20% of it; 80% is owned by other investors. That's the issue here; the market thinks that only these handful of money-go-round FAANGs/Mag7 companies, are expos
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by dofm 3mo ago
I hope you are blogging about learning the painting restoration thing; the things beginners learn through practice are every bit as valuable as the things experts know. My weird hobby as I mentioned is that I am designing cheap "art&qu
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by dofm 3mo ago
You could say this but the previous administration was not talking about taking a 10% share in both companies; this one is (thanks to Sam Altman's very personal lobbying of the president)
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by dofm 3mo ago
Do you think the businessmen who sat on the dais at Trump's inauguration plan to just fail without getting him to put his small thumbs on the scales?
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by dofm 3mo ago
> And? Its not my debt. For the moment. There are several ways that ordinary investors and even simple pension holders could end up stuck with the downside of this. The debt risk hidden in CDOs wasn't your debt either but if you had
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by dofm 3mo ago
Interesting. So you think it’s somewhat emergent, in that sense, rather than a sort of designed tone of voice/writing style specified by supervised fine tuning (or the system prompt)?
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by dofm 3mo ago
I am in no way absolving the people who set up the AI-powered tool that apparently acted without their oversight. But they set it up, they let it choose, and they didn’t countermand it. So the AI did, effectively, make the decision. And the
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by dofm 3mo ago
I do think this explains much of it. But it doesn’t explain why Claude often writes in the clipped tone of that gnomic in-house tech evangelist who was inexplicably hired because he impressed the CEO. (I may be projecting real life experien

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