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by dpark 10mo ago
That’s because Gruber shut down the effort to standardize markdown. He declined to participate and then demanded that “Standard Markdown” be shut down when it went public. This is what yielded CommonMark. https://blog.codinghorro
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by dpark 10mo ago
> Sure it gets you somewhere but you learned nothing in the way and now depend on the LLM to maintain it forever given you don't want to learn the skill. The kind of person who would vibe code a bunch of stuff and push it with zero
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by dpark 10mo ago
> So I answered him in his LinkedIn thread and asked where the 10x speed up was. What followed was complete denial. It had just been a hick up. Or he could have done other things in parallel while waiting 30 seconds for the AI to answer.
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by dpark 10mo ago
When people say efficient here, they mean cost efficient, extracting as much work per dollar from Anthropic as possible. This is the opposite of Anthropic’s view of efficiency, which would be providing the minimal amount of service for th
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by dpark 10mo ago
> You don't "get full" and "get hungry again" by switching UIs. You can consume the same amount whether you switch or you don't switch. This is actually a compelling argument for Claude Code getting the disc
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by dpark 10mo ago
This is exactly what I’m talking about. You cited a study that does not support the claim that red meat is unhealthy. > After correction for measurement error, higher all-cause mortality remained significant only for processed meat This
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by dpark 10mo ago
I believe that they try to, but I have serious doubts about how effective it is. Dietary science is littered with examples of incorrect guidance driven by data we misinterpreted. Remember when a generation of people were told to eat low fat
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by dpark 10mo ago
> I have made twice baked potatoes before and eaten an easy 2000 calories of them along side thanksgiving dinner. Try plain boiled potatoes. I bet you feel like stopping long before 2000 Calories. Tasty things are tasty and often easy to
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by dpark 10mo ago
There’s a substantial body of evidence that consuming the average American diet while also being mostly sedentary is terrible for you. I’m unclear how much of the data gathered about red meat specifically can be meaningfully decoupled from
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by dpark 10mo ago
Is there a guide for doing that successfully somewhere? I would love to play with this on a large codebase. I would also love to not reinvent the wheel on getting Claude working effectively on a large code base. I don’t even know where to s
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by dpark 10mo ago
> My neighbors know me as the "ex-consultant" … How does one have "no identity related to their job"? The obvious answer is to have some other identifier that supersedes the job. Do you have some other interest or hob
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by dpark 10mo ago
> Better to talk about actual interests. For many people, what they do for work is by far their biggest interest. Many people have few to zero hobbies. They fill their days with work and then distraction.
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by dpark 10mo ago
I dunno. I see them all the time here (Seattle). Wikipedia estimates 267 million sold as of 2023.
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by dpark 10mo ago
> What happened with cigarettes? We established a comprehensive set of data that established correlation with a huge number of illnesses including lung cancer, to the point that nearly all qualified medical professionals agreed the relat
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by dpark 10mo ago
This is still a bad faith argument. No one wants suicides increasing as a result of AI chatbot usage. So what is the point of your question? You are trying to drain nuance from the conversation to turn it into a black and white statement. I
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by dpark 10mo ago
> the fact that a significant segment of their user base is convinced these things are conscious & capable of sentience. Is this a fact? There’s a lot of hype about “AI psychosis” and similar but I haven’t seen any meaningful evidenc
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by dpark 10mo ago
Are you really trying to parlay the common refrain around correlation and causation not being the same into a statement that no correlation is the same as correlation? GP asserted that there is no correlation between ChatGPT usage and suici
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by dpark 10mo ago
This is a doubly dishonest question. It’s dishonest firstly for intending to invoke moral outrage rather than actual discussion. This is like someone chiming into a conversation about swimming pool safety by saying “How many children drowni
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by dpark 10mo ago
> personally I prefer new balance Great marketing got you. https://thefreetoaster.substack.com/p/how-new-balances-cmo-t...
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by dpark 10mo ago
> His claims to control the country and its resources would be inadmissible as charges, because they have not happened. I fail to see the relevance of this tangent. You haven’t even specified what the hypothetical inadmissible charges wo
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by dpark 10mo ago
> It has to be taken and held by a standing army This is just making stuff up. None of the definitions offered up here posit this requirement aside from the one apparently in your head. The United States sent ground troops into another c
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by dpark 10mo ago
We have the president of the United States, who ordered the assault, saying openly that “we are going to run the country” and you ask what the object of conquest was?
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by dpark 10mo ago
You chose a definition that is not concise and then selectively misread it. I don’t know how to politely say that your misreading is why I needed so many words.
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by dpark 10mo ago
Okay but you chose to point to the Mirriam-Webster definition that doesn’t say anything about a standing army or holding territory. "the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder." We sent in an army for conquest but now you
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by dpark 10mo ago
> Is Maduro and his wife "plunder?" That would stretch this meaning, I think. Sure. But “We are going to run the country” sounds an awful lot like “conquest”.
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by dpark 10mo ago
I’m not arguing against the Wikipedia definition because it does not disagree with mine. It says “usually in large numbers”, aka not necessarily large numbers. It says goals are complex but “normally involves militarily occupying”, aka not
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by dpark 10mo ago
That definition includes what happened here. Drop all the optional conditions (“usually large numbers”, “possibly being supported”) and the core statement becomes: “an invasion typically refers to a military offensive in which a polity send
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by dpark 10mo ago
“We are going to run the country” - Trump Clearly the US administration believes they have taken control.
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by dpark 10mo ago
Ah, the time-honored tradition on the Internet of making up one’s own definition and confidently asserting that everyone who disagrees is wrong. Of course everyone knows it’s trivial for police to apprehend home invaders because invasion im
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by dpark 10mo ago
I believe your understanding here is incorrect. It doesn’t make sense that Google would claim to measure usage while actually measuring access. I can’t find anything that supports your assertion.

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