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by floren 5mo ago
> Certainly the current population level isn't needed to support the current number of billionaires. Isn't there about 1000 right now? I probably eat more than 2 or 3 of them. That's a good attitude, if we all set out to e
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Brilliant Labs brooks no dissent as the Halo SNAFU continues(jfloren.net)
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by floren 5mo ago
There is the very similar Ultrix version: http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/decwindows-ultrix4.5...
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by floren 5mo ago
> No one should be able to use a hot glue gun or X-Acto in your facility without first paying you and consistently physically showing up to hear you tell them how, when, why, and for how long they're allowed to use it. This is why I
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by floren 5mo ago
The article stank of slop from the first paragraph. You are not distributing high-quality information here.
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by floren 5mo ago
Still waiting for the output of that agent
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by floren 6mo ago
I'm very much a we-live-in-a-society, follow the rules kind of guy, but if I checked a bag and only have my backpack in the cabin, you bet your ass I'm going to try and find a place for it in the overhead instead of cluttering up
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by floren 6mo ago
The very first chapter was actually excellent in setting my relationship to the book going forward, because stuff like this twanged against my brain and made me think, "Oh, she just really wanted to be powerful and influential and chas
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by floren 6mo ago
> According to a press release, users will be required to undergo World’s verification method, which requires having their eyeballs scanned at a physical location with a proprietary device to prove they are human. See, it feels like ther
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by floren 6mo ago
I pay a guy $20 a day to walk to the local post office and text me a picture of the key, which I then use to spin up my thousand new bots for the day.
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by floren 6mo ago
> You can run a business off inertia/nostalgia for quite a long time. They only reintroduced print editions in 2024 after an 11 year break. Those 65,000 print subscribers are all people who decided they wanted to start paying mone
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by floren 6mo ago
Agreed, and I feel like it was pretty rare to distinguish junior devs before LLMs, we just used to talk about devs and senior devs. Then we needed a way to make sure it's understood that WE understand how dumb an LLM can be, so &quot
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by floren 6mo ago
But then you're constantly either breaking in a new pair, or dealing with a pair that's falling apart, and you're lucky to get 1 month of good comfortable wear out of those cheap shoes. And you have to go buy them every three
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by floren 6mo ago
Sidebar, am I alone in absolutely hating "smol"?
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by floren 6mo ago
Ah, Baden-Powell's Principle proves itself true yet again: How can you tell if somebody was an Eagle Scout? Don't worry, he'll tell you immediately.
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by floren 6mo ago
Just post the prompt next time.
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by floren 6mo ago
I strongly suspect that "Do not send me marketing emails" at checkout time ACTUALLY means "Wait 6 months before sending me marketing emails, when I might plausibly forget that I checked this box", because I always do my
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by floren 6mo ago
I documented the 13+ emails I received over the course of trying to buy a wallet: https://jfloren.net/b/2022/12/12/0 Everybody just assumes they're the only thing hitting your inbox, like I don&#x27
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by floren 6mo ago
Six months bro, we're still so early
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by floren 6mo ago
> The moment you lose sight of the habit and instead pay homage to paper and pens, its a fetish instead of a practical discipline. "Practice the hard thing until you are good at it" isn't as fun of a topic as "what ca
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by floren 7mo ago
For those cheap chopsticks, I've found the best way to break them is to grasp them at the very tips, then move your two hands away from each other briskly without twisting, just straight apart. I haven't had many break badly since
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by floren 7mo ago
Both and also AI became the sexy thing before they really got anywhere with metaverse shit
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by floren 7mo ago
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge Player Piano by Vonnegut Dune
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by floren 7mo ago
But the reason for the ruling is that if your teen runs a red, YOU get points on your license.
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by floren 7mo ago
Well, there's a reminder to donate to the EFF again!
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by floren 7mo ago
You're right, you posted a lot about LLM style but only pasted LLM output twice. I apologize for misrepresenting your posting in that fashion. I do think you would do well to revisit the thread you linked at https://news.yco
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by floren 7mo ago
No, I'm quite sure that's why it's better.
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by floren 7mo ago
They're saying LLMs do better when outputting English than other languages, an assertion I'm not really able to test but have heard elsewhere.
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by floren 7mo ago
No, they're posting LLM output all over this story, not just this subthread, and it's pretty tiresome. edit: he only did it twice, I exaggerated and that's my bad.
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by floren 7mo ago
Forgot to mention in the OP but I also see a lot of resumes where the recent job conveniently involved EVERYTHING we ask for in the job posting, which I assume is another LLMism

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