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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
> and cooking with an oven is more of a special occasion thing than the default cooking method that it was before. That really only makes sense if for households with a toaster oven, single adults, childless couples, and retired people.
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
> On the flip side, when I’m not familiar enough with the technology to be on top of the architecture, I tend to not catch bad decisions that the LLM makes. This leads to the LLM building more and more on top of those bad decisions, even
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Alaska sues GoFundMe, others over unauthorized charity pages(alaskasnewssource.com)
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
"Secret Mall Apartment" is a documentary on Netflix that includes a lot of the videos that Townsend took during the whole project. (There's a few stills in the article.) It's quite interesting to watch, because Townsend
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
The BBC used a kinescope much longer than the US. (A kinescope recorded TV to film.) The US pushed a lot harder than Europe for videotape because kinescopes dropped frames off of American 60i frame rates, but worked really well for European
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
You're asking the wrong questions. The bigger issue is that the US system of voting is set up so that: 1: Most elections predictably go to one party or another. 2: Most representatives are chosen by small minorities who vote in primari
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
I love this! I ran a dial-up BBS in the 1990s and still have a soft spot for ANSI. It was like looking at LiteBrite for computer nerds. Thanks a million!
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
In 2020 I applied for a "too good to be true" high paying job. Throughout the process I kept doing exercises and never interacted with a real person. Once the exercises got hard, I stopped trying. I didn't believe it was a
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
The great thing about sales tax is that everyone can bypass it. You don't need to be the kind of person who can hire a tax expert to coach you; all you need to do is drive over the state line!
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> I'd MUCH rather see a holistic embrace and integration of these tools into our ecosystems. Telling people "no AI!" (even if very well defined on what that means) is toothless against people with little regard for making
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
A year after my mom died, my dad went on a cruise and met his girlfriend. They are inseparable now. My dad is elderly.
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
Once I graduated from school, I found it hard to make friends. My mid-20s were very lonely when I moved for work. A few things I did: I periodically had roommates. This wasn't the same experience as a college roommate, but at the time
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
One thing I've discovered with an LLM is that I can ask it to search through my codebase and explain things to me. It saves a lot of time when I need to understand concepts that would otherwise require a few hours of reading and diggin
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
> That's the reason why we created programming languages. No, we created programming languages because when computers were invented: 1: They (computers) were incapable of understanding natural language. 2: Programming languages are
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by gwbas1c 7mo ago
Short answer: Skip to 22:45 Long answer: Just jump around. Once you get to the last 1/3rd of the video, there's a lot of close ups of the part of the laserdisc that recorded the credit sequence. The on-screen (laserdisc) text is c
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
There were telnet BBSes on the internet in the 1990s. I even used some in 2005. Haven't gone looking, but I'm sure if you look, you'll find one. (But it might be better to use ssh today.)
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
Anyone else having trouble getting this to work? I tried building myself, and the build ended with a certificate error. (I get it, distributing software always hits unexpected snags.) Then I installed from zip and when I use preview (in the
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
That's not helpful, because: 1: LLMs can write awful tests 2: LLMs can write very useful code, especially when they are working in well-understood areas. Which comes down to understanding that the LLM is a tool, and it's the job
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
The bigger issue is that that kind of statement is highly manipulative, and indicates someone who is playing politics instead of focusing on results. The better response is to call the bluff, something along the lines of: "Running an
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
Honestly, if this didn't become so snarky half-way though, it would be a good standard response. Especially the FAQ. It doesn't need to be so snarky.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> I exhausted my ability to do this (without AI). It was a codebase I don't know, in a language I don't know, solving a problem that I have a very limited viewpoint of. And that's the critical point! I think it's fine
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> If a member of my team actually proposed building a bespoke system for something that can be straightforwardly done in a spreadsheet, we'd be having some conversations about ongoing maintenance costs of software All interviews ar
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
Probably that you didn't want the job? At least from the point of view of the interviewer, this was the point where they should give you a polite "hey, play along" nudge.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
One of the things I miss about Objective C is just how easy it is to call into a C API, or otherwise include a C function if that's the easiest way to call into a C API. I shipped a cross-platform C# project, and once I realized I coul
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> I was under the impression that The Hobbit was the first book in this saga? Yes: But the Hobbit is much shorter and is a much easier read. It also was edited after LOTR was published to fix some minor plot holes. WRT the movies: Peter
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
The Artemis mission is manned. I assume the Starships are unmanned. The risk profile is very different.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
The people let go can form their own companies. I don't believe anyone has a guarantee to have a high paying white collar job until they choose to retire. Five months severance is quite generous; during that time "their job is to
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
I watched Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips do something similar with some kind of "I don't know what" controller, it was some kind of input in his microphone stand. As he moved it around, the sound and projection changed. I re
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
That's fine. It's different when it's telling people how to vote. Some people buy lottery tickets specifically because of who they benefit, which is very different than going to Vegas or certain forms of investment. (IE, uned
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
From the horse's mouth: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/charities-churches-and-politics > In 1954, Congress approved an amendment by Sen. Lyndon Johnson to prohibit 501(c)(3) organizations, which includes charitie

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