insane_dreamer

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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
you think the next CEO will be any different? the board wouldn't have elevated him to that position unless he was willing to kowtow to trump when needed
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
still shows Lake Ontario for me (in the US)
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
it's actually the same thing - T's EO only governs how the Fed Gov references Lake Ontario on its maps; it doesn't force private companies to use the name (it has no authority to do so)
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
did anyone read through them to determine whether they're slop? or is that just someone's opinion? regardless of whether they are or not, the speed at which they can be cranked out with the help of LLMs, means that the signal to n
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I disagree, and not because I think AI can write as good as a good writer does, but because in 90%+ of the cases, _companies won't care_. I did translation as a side job for about 20 years (helped me keep my language skills sharp, and
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> Claude can install packages from PYPI and NPM and clone repositories from GitHub. But that is about it: the allowlist of domains is very short. fyi Claude Desktop lets you add additional domains in Settings, which are then available to
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
not sure it always could. we had to continue using conda for binary packages like cudann, or anything where a wheel wasn't available (nvidia now has Jax-compatible wheels for cuda packages, but it didn't before)
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> much stronger than the local models you can run but depending on what you're doing, you may not need the "bleeding edge" performance
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
thankfully Apple Maps still has Lake Ontario
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> Facebook will ban access from non-approved OSes like Linux. excellent! won't have to worry about my kids wanting a FB account -- it just won't be accessible
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> It's the correct choice according to the fundamental principles of capitalism sure, it aligns with the principles of capitalism that doesn't make it the right choice
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
We've known what to do for a couple of decades now. But when the world's largest economy is run by a madman who just cares about lining his and his buddies pockets instead of the future of humanity, it's hard to make progress
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
But we can blame AI for making it much worse in 5 years instead of making it less bad as everyone agreed to ~10 years ago (until an idiot ascended the throne)
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> The direction that AI takes is not written into the technology itself. It depends on our choices, on the institutions that host and underpin that choosing, and on our ability to manage innovation responsibly to serve the common good. T
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I haven't used cursor, but tab completion in zed works great for me. I also use it with Claude code extensively.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I use zed
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> So the fixes are still fixes, maybe, the maintainer would need to review them to determine that, and that can be time-consuming especially because LLMs tend to provide walls of sometimes dense text since the human submitting the PR (if
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> Are you sure you're aiming your ire in the right direction in this case? yes
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
Ah, so only power generation facilities connected to the grid can pollute? fascinating.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I agree that ultimately they'll try to target Signal. Meredith (Whittaker) has a tough job on her hands. Much admiration.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
self-dealing corruption is so rampant in this administration that $900M going to some Trump buddy is just another day in America
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
sorry, I missed the news about the radical left violently trying to overturn election results by storming the Capitol, killing an officer, and threatening to kill members of the government; maybe you could link to it?
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> What both have in common is that they don't like change you know what change I'd like? abolish billionaires
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> I think a message like that around AI is awesome but no all we hear about is how AI will take your job. because it doesn't matter whether you can use code to fix your Reevo bike if you can't afford to buy a Reevo bike in the
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> One of the big stories of the last decade plus has of course been the story of rising inequality, and of working class Americans becoming economically and politically disempowered. What serves as a better totem to this sentiment better
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
absolutely, it's congress' fault too for not creating new election funding laws you're right that CU didn't directly open the floodgates, though it did immediately unlock the option for companies to spend from their gene
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
except that the _consequence_ of CU was basically unlimited spending on political campaigns by SuperPACs. the ACLU may have been right about the particulars they were arguing but they missed the bigger picture of how this would open the flo
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
the problem is that CU is a way for rich people to get around the limits on individual political contributions (which were designed to prevent the rich from having a lot more influence than regular citizens over the voting process)
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
maybe the downvotes should instead state their arguments as to why Citizens United is a good idea

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