ergonaught

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by ergonaught 8mo ago
Most folks don't seem to think that far down the line, or they haven't caught on to the reality that the people who actually make decisions will make the obvious kind of decisions (ex: fire the humans, cut the pay, etc) that they
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by ergonaught 8mo ago
The lack of "projects" alone makes their chat interface really unpleasant compared to ChatGPT and Claude.
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by ergonaught 8mo ago
If you've got a solution to the problem of bad decisions made by people who shouldn't be empowered to make them in the first place, you'll solve more than Claude Code.
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by ergonaught 8mo ago
Some people want the thing done more than they want to do the thing. That gets to extremes of exploitative parasitic behavior, but it's true at much less obnoxious scales: ever used a programming language's standard library instea
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by ergonaught 9mo ago
Not even remotely outdated. This was a terrible name to select.
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by ergonaught 9mo ago
On my Windows machines, every time I have to click my Bluetooth icon, which is about a dozen times every day, the full second pause before it presents me with a menu makes me wish I didn't need Windows on two of my systems. It's m
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by ergonaught 9mo ago
It’s the default ChatGPT.
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ChatGPT Thinking Senility(chatgpt.com)
3 points by ergonaught 9mo ago|4 comments
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by ergonaught 9mo ago
Just an example of a broken behavior from ChatGPT Thinking that has wrecked some of my work for several hours. Their Support process says “no policy violation” and that’s that. Perhaps a demonstration will produce a different result.
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by ergonaught 10mo ago
> Self-hosting a database sounds terrifying. Is this actually the "common" view (in this context)? I've got decades with databases so I cannot even begin to fathom where such an attitude would develop, but, is it? Boggling
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by ergonaught 10mo ago
Coming here for insight does not in any way demonstrate that genuine insight is actually widely available here.
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by ergonaught 11mo ago
Yes yes, it's only a problem if it affects you. Utterly tedious.
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by ergonaught 11mo ago
That is not the "stupid" used in this context.
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by ergonaught 11mo ago
Okay, so, if you think people are only metaphorically referring to their "minds eye", then you probably have aphantasia. If the idea of people "counting sheep" to go to sleep confuses you, thinking that perhaps you could
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by ergonaught 1y ago
Steve died. He already covered this: https://youtu.be/K1WrHH-WtaA?si=tHrGBNmLlIfp4NSv
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by ergonaught 1y ago
The book has a lot of flaws. The trauma industry that's grown up around it and similar work has a lot of flaws. The post has a lot of flaws. They're all quite confident, though.
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by ergonaught 1y ago
TLDR: RMS remains correct and we continue losing.
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by ergonaught 1y ago
It's a fine post except for this: > Countless companies have cited how they improved their security or the amount of reported bugs or memory leaks by simply rewriting their C++ codebases in Rust. Now is that because of Rust? I’d arg
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by ergonaught 1y ago
The actual central point is that the brain requires conditioning via experience. That shouldn't be controversial, and I can't decide if the general replies here are an extended and ironic elaboration of his point or not. If you ne
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by ergonaught 1y ago
No idea whether this holds up, but the human body is all about conditioning and maximizing energy efficiency, so it should at least be unsurprising if true. My vehicle has a number of self-driving capabilities. When I used them, my brain ra
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by ergonaught 1y ago
This particular approach, intelligently applied, ultimately leads to a kind of freedom. Most of our preferences are simple conditioning, prejudices really, and only serve to constrain optionality. Excessive rigidity is an early death.
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by ergonaught 1y ago
Ancient history for me but once upon a time my company was developing a web application with C++ that used XSLT to render HTML (with our "API" exposing data via XML). It was fast even then, and gave us a great deal of flexibility.
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by ergonaught 1y ago
For the most part I've loved Go since just before 1.0 through today. Nits can surely be picked, but "it's still not good" is a strange take. I think there is little to no chance it can hold on to its central vision as th
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by ergonaught 1y ago
If true, there should be prison terms and the end of Tesla as an ongoing concern. There won't be, but there should be.
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by ergonaught 1y ago
They are, generally, propping up the regime. So long as the media continues to report this regime as a temporary and normal occurrence, regardless of whether a specific media outlet labels this as positive or negative, it supports the regim
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by ergonaught 1y ago
I have a shelf full of bottles of ink I wouldn't have bought if the site had existed (and/or I had known about it sooner, since that spans years). They've prevented many similar wasted purchases, and guided several delighted
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by ergonaught 1y ago
~22 years of daily Emacs on MacOS, and never encountered (or never noticed) it, either. Perhaps a build issue. I think my Linux builds may run slightly better, and Windows slightly worse, but I haven't had a problem on Mac in decades.
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by ergonaught 1y ago
All societies are consensus realities wholly dependent upon participation. The system was fine but no one has yet constructed a system that can withstand weaponized mass stupidity. Even the ones created to combat corruption fail to account
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by ergonaught 1y ago
Do you have any grasp of how much stuff your brain ingested to enable you to post this? No, clearly.
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by ergonaught 1y ago
Author makes a number of valid and valuable points, but desperately needed to edit this down for poignancy out of respect for everyone's time (including their own), taking their own advice ("clearly articulate what you're say

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