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by gwerbin 4mo ago
I don't think that's what these small models are for. They are for things like text summarization and generating a title for your AI session. Maybe Haiku occupies a weird zone where it's overpowered for those tasks but underp
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
It's not that Harris was "a woman". It's that she was -- or so the propaganda line went -- a treasonous saboteur who would continue the woke left-liberal-socialist agenda, which is a path to certain destruction, and alon
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
This is not a "why".
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
Pretty sure the Bolsheviks developed their bloodthirsty authoritarian tendencies well before the revolution was even won.
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
Surely redistributing food (still effectively central planning) produced by a large number of peasant farmers is exactly equivalent to redistributive taxes on a very small number of very wealthy people who have captured the productivity gai
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
Is there a mitigation for Mac? Can you do the same with eg Lima or is this just a Docker thing?
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
Doesn't the UK (or at least England) also have some kind of network of public pathways, many of which are on private property? Are there similar conflicts in that system, or does it work differently somehow?
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by gwerbin 4mo ago
What do you mean by this? Making the site friendly to AI agents is one of the goals of this project, so why are you surprised that it follows its own recommended practices? That doesn't mean it's an AI slop project.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
That was kind of my point. They actively voted for a lot of bad stuff, but it was framed in a very different way. They voted for things like ending the tyranny of woke liberalism, and believe that end is so essential to achieve that it just
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
It's the same old "vote with your dollar/feet" solecism, applied to politics.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
I think most Americans, if polled, would prefer to be the global hub of scientific research, instead of an isolated silo of research that only follows a politically approved agenda.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
More of the same at this point. If you are politically connected, or stay in an narrow lane of approved work, you get your grant. But if you stray from the politically approved path, or appear disloyal to our First Citizen and the Party, th
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
It's a weird way to arrive at an important idea in economics: simply maximizing productivity is not good for society if the surplus of that productivity is entirely captured by a small group of people.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
Voting with your money on its own rarely accomplishes much unless it is an overwhelming majority vote. There are also a huge number of things that simply cannot be managed properly, to the overall benefit of society, by demand-side market
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
It's not meaningless feel-good legislation, it's actively harmful by disincentivizing a bad thing, in favor of an even worse thing. See also car fuel economy standards that push car makers into killing the wagon market segment i
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
If it's not LLM-generated, it's really hard to read. The writing style is "obnoxious Linkedin post".
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
Probably. It does seem to have a built-in tool for exploring its own docs, and it has a special mode for working in a .claude/ directory. It's probably intended that users do this.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
Likewise I got dinged for denying a random stash-rebase-pop operation. I have no idea what the repo state is like right now. That could be a wild mess of a waste of time. It says I'm doing a refactor , so OK I guess rebase on main i
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
OCaml is a better candidate than most. It already has a macro system (PPX), and the core language has a lot in common with Scheme.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
I'd love that. The janky OCaml syntax is my least favorite part of the language.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
Remember Beanie Babies?
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
As someone who loves helping people to learn things for themselves... you have to identify these "help vampires" and just stop helping them. I had a coworker who would ask me the same questions over and over and over, despite me t
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
I can't tell if you're trolling or not, but this is a ridiculous thing either wya. I've used Python as my main language for ~10 years in various professional roles (DS, DE, SWE) and I so rarely need the exact construction `su
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
You might be interested in the Gauche implementation of Scheme which overall has a Python-like extended standard library, notably including a lot of functions that are generic over sequences and collections which historically in Scheme (and
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
Funny I had the opposite experience. The Claude models seemed equivalent to GPT-5.4/5 in a generic harness like Copilot CLI or Opencode or Pi, but Claude Code the app/harness is so much better than all the others that I switched a
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
I don't think either your assertions (1) and (2) have been particularly consistent throughout US history. Leave aside the difficulty of defining what "successful" means, or should mean. Just look at the (first) Gilded Age. It
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
I don't think it's true that they want little innovation. This is a political move. It's a setup for an environment where only politically approved research can happen. So the innovation machine eventually restarts, but wit
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
To be fair, this has been a long time coming, and a lot of forces have been committed over decades to finally make this kind of thing possible. You're just seeing the next phase of the plan unfolding.
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
Prediction markets were a lot more useful and benign when it was nerds staking small amounts of money for fun. I still think they're fun but it's clear that the prediction market platform companies aren't interested in stayin
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by gwerbin 5mo ago
In classic US fashion it's illegal in certain specific contexts but not others.

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