insane_dreamer

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by insane_dreamer 15d ago
OpenAI's ethical and reputational own-goal aside, my big takeaway is that it seems that: if I'm using Codex to develop some new algorithm (in any space), OpenAI appears to be training its model on my code sessions anyone using tha
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by insane_dreamer 21d ago
yet Republicans think corruption is _down_ since 2024 :smacks-head:
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by insane_dreamer 21d ago
awesome stuff. I have a Wahoo bike comp but would love to use an OSS alternative the dealbreaker for me is whether it could eventually work with the Garmin Vario radar (which the Wahoo supports with a nice visualization) -- that is _literal
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by insane_dreamer 22d ago
is bob helping with ur writing too? ;p
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by insane_dreamer 22d ago
depending on what the skill does, it can be a whole collection of python/other code files, resource files (i.e., js libs, css/html templates) and markdown files with orchestration instructions
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by insane_dreamer 22d ago
I oppose AI data centers the way they are being rolled out (which is not the same as I'm against data centers as a concept). Just like I'm anti "AI as it is being pushed", not against AI as a technology. I'm not a m
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by insane_dreamer 22d ago
> The SV LLM crowd know a lot about LLM psychology but seemingly very little about human psychology I doubt that it's ignorance on their part. I think their target audience with those comments is the US government, basically setting
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by insane_dreamer 22d ago
> In the United States at least there's been plenty of polling on why people oppose data centers. Consistently, it's water usage and water contamination fears, where I am the water is a part of it, but a big issue is electricit
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by insane_dreamer 22d ago
didn't Americans specifically vote for the promise of lower gas prices?
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by insane_dreamer 22d ago
Not clear to me: is the product _actually_ 21.6% more expensive when searched for with AI, or is AI just incorrectly showing a more expensive price? In other words, are prices dynamically modified depending on whether the original query is
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by insane_dreamer 22d ago
For all the boneheaded/bad decisions that Mao Zedong made, simplifying the Chinese script turned out to be an excellent one, greatly increasing literacy and having a good side effect of making Chinese writing much accessible and legibl
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by insane_dreamer 22d ago
yeah, and you don't have to go back that far last night my wife and I were watching the first episode of a TV show Deadwood (set in the Dakotas in late 1800s), and my wife commented "I could never have lived then; I would have jus
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by insane_dreamer 22d ago
but Trump tried to overturn an election, not only got zero jail time but got re-elected and SCOTUS issued him a "do whatever you want while president" card, and so now what would have been a "huge corruption scandal" in
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by insane_dreamer 23d ago
Use ballot boxes -- those don't go through the USPS Requires a bit more work for people but at least where I live there are many places you can drop off your ballot, including most public libraries.
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by insane_dreamer 23d ago
I disagree. A lot of thinking went into this. It's not a dumb idea -- it's a very smart (in a very anti-democracy) way to try to subvert the midterms
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by insane_dreamer 23d ago
it's not a "bad idea", it's intentionally disruptive -- that's the point of it not surprised that Trump Admin is trying to do this; it's a page out of their play dirty, break the law now and sort it out later o
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by insane_dreamer 23d ago
American society has become paranoid, and as a parent I find this extremely disheartening. It was refreshing when a family from Europe moved in down the street and their kids would come over by themselves and knock on the door to see if our
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by insane_dreamer 23d ago
This is America
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by insane_dreamer 23d ago
yeah, it's just that the current administration has a level of "banana republic" style corruption and corporate-dealing/bribing that makes Clinton look like Mother Teresa
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by insane_dreamer 23d ago
All true, but at least in France those in power who commit serious corruption might go to actual jail; there's no way a US current or former president would face what Sarkozy did
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by insane_dreamer 23d ago
the archives are free (their issues are un-paywalled ~2 weeks after publishing)
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by insane_dreamer 23d ago
whoosh! > whereas Venezuela has experienced severe political authoritarianism and a deep, multi-year economic collapse, and a massive humanitarian exodus of millions of citizens none of which has been resolved by the US violently removin
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by insane_dreamer 23d ago
large corporations spin off divisions into separate companies all the time
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by insane_dreamer 23d ago
why stop at Venezuela? Chile has valuable mineral deposits, and crave the freedom that only the mad king can give. Extend the empire to Tierra del Fuego I say!
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by insane_dreamer 24d ago
the orange man is so unstable that the specific risk is a known unknown
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by insane_dreamer 24d ago
so they can say moving out of "North America" instead of "US" and avoid the ire of a certain mad king
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by insane_dreamer 24d ago
I hope you're right! But that would be a significant break with the "kiss the ring and enjoy the protection" attitude that every other major tech company has taken
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by insane_dreamer 24d ago
I appreciate the intent but I think they have to break that rate down further for it to mean anything to readers. - employed full-time but earning < living wage - employed part-time and earning < living wage - not employed b
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by insane_dreamer 24d ago
Not about Zitron specifically -- I don't read his study, but I don't know that making some statements in interviews or blog posts is the same as making a "prediction" (into which one would put much more though) also stat
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by insane_dreamer 24d ago
> now said CEOs can still see an end result that mimics the thing they don't understand—and are able to self-delude themselves into thinking it's replicable at scale, or that it's even producing the same quality as the pro

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