hunterpayne

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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
The process started in the first decade of the 20th century. It was largely finished by the 1980s. As for increases in irrigation, that's a few different things, but the largest part is substance farmers finally getting some infrastr
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
We also use far less farmland than we did in the past, mostly due to the "green revolution" in the 1970s.
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
The author didn't write the quote.
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
"LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly." This person doesn't understand how to make efficient code. I can write code in almost any language (with
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
I hate to break it to you. But it took war'ing state-like actors less than a week to start using LLMs for propaganda purposes. There are pictures that most of what some people think/thought were real that never happened. Pictur
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
Many people do the same...
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
Oh the irony.
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
Its a messy situation. Qatar hosted HAMAS's bot farms and leadership until 2024 (or 2025, I don't remember) when Israel destroyed it with literal bombs dropped by a F-35I. That happened quite near to both a Qatari military base
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
Napoleon...the answer to this is Napoleon. Also, the odd vs even number thing comes from him too. Pretty weird that the page doesn't mention him at all.
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
She is an out of touch nepo baby. Her policies haven't exactly been big successes. Jobs are leaving and the specific stated reasons usually have to do with her. Because of her tax increases and the Laffer curve, tax receipts are fal
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
The fact that its been verified by multiple sources, including the mayor herself.
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
Think about it from the POV of psychology and it will make more sense. She thinks she deserves more status than she has. Other people have more status than her. She doesn't like this, so she smears their reputation to reduce that ga
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
The historian in the article I don't think has a billion dollars either. She still seems pretty inclined to that type of thinking. Lots of cherry-picking and very little data. I think its a lack of consequences for bad decisions and
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
I think that's true for one specific kind of wealthy person. Specifically those born into it. Its absolutely not true for the self-made. I do have a solution to this. If you haven't paid your own bills with money you earned (no
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
I'm going to assume you mean stole... Correct...and that is why the type of analysis in this interview is useless. The word cherry-picked was invented for this type of thinking. And its really similar to a lot of those executive talk
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
For reference, Walter Lippmann is the guy from the NYT who covered up the Holodomor in Ukraine (1930s) in the west as well as Stalin's gulags and purges. I wouldn't call him the voice of the proletariat in any way. He was the vo
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
The job requires 10 years of those technologies ;)
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
So basically any LLM codebase of sufficient size is immediately legacy.
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
Tell that to someone from Oklahoma and be prepared to run. Also, AC is cheap and available everywhere. PS We had bad ice storms where I live (certainly far worse than MS) 2 winters ago. I wouldn't call it a natural disaster. PPS Reme
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
The brittleness and difficult of writing the code. The extra complexity. The cost of bugs. And ease of creating performance degradations. If you are even asking that question, you probably don't have the experience to even have an
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
Oh, and post-war British music wouldn't exist without Mississippi. Pink Floyd is literally named after 2 musicians from Mississippi. The Beatles musical style started out by copying music from Mississippi. And the list goes on from
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
Mississippi has far better food and better weather so I don't think life is better in the UK. Also, I have no idea where you got the life expectancy number from, but its not current. I suspect its just a bit old. Its currently like
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
Everytime we increase taxes past the optimum point of the Laffer curve, the government takes in less total tax. If you aren't past the optimum point, it won't. And your claims about loss of collected taxes haven't really ev
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
All ML classifiers (and algorithms) have a non-zero false positive rate. Having an error rate is baked into every ML classifier and algorithm. And its always non-zero in practice. In fact, hitting every test in some sort of test suite is
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
The scientists who worked for the cigarette companies couldn't find a link to cancer. Economists who work in academia can't find working economic policies for the same reason. Private sector economists on the other hand...actual
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
This is the difference. This guy took an existing source base, had Claude find specific bugs, then had Claude fix a specific bug which was then reviewed by a person. We also don't know if these changes introduce new problems yet. Yo
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
This is the case when you have your own datacenter. This isn't as big a problem in the cloud. There are ways to write licenses that prevent cloud providers from stealing while allowing customers to use the software and being required
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
Its 300x faster for certain tests. I could pretty easily craft tests that do this on two different systems. The author mentioned this when they talked about being able to fit an entire ResultSet into memory. That's the real trick wi
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by hunterpayne 2mo ago
No. This is system code. You let an LLM loose on it, it probably fixed 20 bugs and introduces 200 more plus 5 different performance regressions. In all fairness, your average app programmer would have the same problems. That's why

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