hephaes7us

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by hephaes7us 7mo ago
You could reduce your labor costs and reduce the aggravation you are causing teammates if you changed your attitude. It's possible to drive results and create a culture of accountability without dragging people into the room with you j
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by hephaes7us 7mo ago
I'm making a "Podcast Search Engine", partially as an excuse to play with Elixir and Phoenix/LiveView. It's basically just a frontend to a semantic search system, and is a tangent while I explore "knowledgebase
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by hephaes7us 7mo ago
Domain privacy isn't for degenerates.
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by hephaes7us 7mo ago
It's getting less silly every month! So many people in that boat only use the web browser anyway. With a well-supported hardware configuration and a working web browser, even a non-techie may have a more stable experience than they wo
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by hephaes7us 7mo ago
This is just one way information goes from being private to being public. It is sensible that people who provide intelligence to the market be compensated, whether they're better at inferring/predicting or whether they just know
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by hephaes7us 7mo ago
A currency peg is a double-edged sword in and of itself, to say nothing of the risk brought into the equation by having to trust a stablecoin issuer.
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by hephaes7us 8mo ago
FUTO keyboard is trying to do this. I think they have some kind of distillation of Whisper running on-device.
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
Sounds like we might have a new way to fund reporting!
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
You can have it write code that you review (with whatever level of caution you wish) and then run that on real data/infrastructure. You get a lot of leverage that way, but it's still better than letting AI use your keys and act wi
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
Agreed - I run an entire second dev environment for LLMs. Claude code runs in a container, and I just connect that container to the right network. It's nice to be able to keep mid-task state in that environment without stepping on my o
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
Why do you even necessarily think that wouldn't happen? As I understand it, we'd essentially be relying on something like an mp3 compression algorithm to fail to capture a particular, subtle transient -- the lossy nature itself is
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
I'm not certain what you're advocating for here? If you are interested in the public good, I think it is pretty clear that we should ban roulette overnight since it has a negative expected value for everyone but the casino. On th
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
It's not that I believe it, it's that that would be the only legitimate justification, and I'm don't suggesting even _that_ doesn't hold water.
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
Ok, to be fair, they _can_ probably handle my problems better than I can. But, presumably for liability and out of a genuine attempt to get me the best care possible, they _prefer_ to send me off to a specialist. Either way I'm not bei
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
In other areas of life, people self-select at their own risk. You can diagnose medical issues yourself, buy power tools you don't know how to use safely, and invest in assets that you don't understand. All other things being equa
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
The evil is enshrining other people's choices into law, unnecessarily. There was never going to be anything preventing non-technical folks from buying iPhones. They can and should have what they like. Why should there be a law that fo
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
If the GP can handle my problem, I probably didn't need to go to the doctor anyway. A lot of care is done by specialists, and it can _easily_ take weeks or months to get an appointment with one. This is strongly dependent on one&#x27
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
Personally, no. If I'm responsible for something, nobody's getting that access. If someone's hired me for something and that's the environment they provide, it is what it is. They distribute trust however they feel. I&
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
Hard disagree. I may trust the people on my team to a make PRs that are worth reviewing, but I don't give them a shell on my machine. They shouldn't need that to collaborate with me anyway! Also, I "trust Claude code"
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by hephaes7us 9mo ago
That may have more to do with the type of economic activity occurring in the country than wealth, necessarily.
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by hephaes7us 10mo ago
There absolutely is, but of course it's nonzero cost to capture.
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by hephaes7us 10mo ago
Bot activity could push up engagement metrics on these platforms, so (in some sense) those companies aren't necessarily incentivized to stop this.
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by hephaes7us 10mo ago
If a kid uses a pseudonymous account and fraudulently bypasses an age verification system, I have a hard time believing that the company would be fined $50M. I would guess that this massive fine is more for situations like if a company can
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by hephaes7us 10mo ago
Teens will learn to bypass all this within the week. Then, whatever the new way of doing social media will be, it could easily reach consensus within the year.
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by hephaes7us 10mo ago
Realistically, at a certain point the training would likely involve interaction with reality (by sensors and actuators), rather than relying on secondhand knowledge available in textual form.
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by hephaes7us 10mo ago
It's pretty easy to imagine a world in which, for example, UBI is available, but it's contingent on sterilization. Aside from being more compassionate than the Terminator movies, it might simply be the cheapest way to handle human
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by hephaes7us 10mo ago
Personally, I can pay for media, so I believe it's ethical that I do. If someone in my position chooses not to pay, there's a pretty solid argument that the media company is out money they could have had otherwise. However, not e
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by hephaes7us 10mo ago
Sweets have a cost, and constitute a straightforward loss to someone if stolen. Digital copies of a file are clearly different. There's plenty of valid arguments against piracy, but equating it to zero-sum material theft is not one of
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by hephaes7us 10mo ago
I'd rather not even have to sift through all the stuff on Netflix to get to the stuff from HBO. And I definitely don't want to pay double for one big catalog.
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by hephaes7us 10mo ago
The government has so much money, what need does Oracle have of anybody else's? Furthermore, what money the government doesn't itself have, it can pressure others into spending, on occasion. e.g. that Bytedance/Oracle deal

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