insane_dreamer

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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
what does that have to do with it? the GOP is _still_ proclaiming itself to be the party of fiscal responsibility
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> The other Claudism that drives me crazy is when it writes comments and commit messages that track how you arrived at an decision instead of what it is. yes, this is part of what I'm continuously removing from its comments; I'
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
that is not my experience at all; I never write the way Claude does or use its vocabulary. I also find myself regularly editing its code comments, which do not match my expectations of succinct, clear, not over explained, etc. I ask it to r
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> features that numpy can't really do like native GPU execution we use numpy + jax for that; works well
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I was worried about Komoot when they purchased it but so far no issues -- has even improved somewhat (was already quite good). But what happened with Harvest may be an omen.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> The majority of businesses still use buy-once invoicing software. are you sure about that? Most small biz I know use Quickbooks for that, and it's a subscription service.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
brought to you by the "party of fiscal responsibility"
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
that works for musicians who can continue to get paid for live performances; harder for writers
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
try lazygit
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
if we were seeing a big increase in building new golf courses in those areas, we'd have the same protests same if increasing alfalfa farming was increasing significantly it's harder to stop something that already exists (shutting
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
Biden had rebates for EVs which Trump killed so that EV sales would go down and gas sales would go up that's a pretty stark difference
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
people wanted cheap gas and voted for a party that pretty much got rid of the EPA (and they still didn't get cheap gas) if they had voted differently we'd see more positive action
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> I do not believe for one instance that people are coming from a legitimate concern around planet-burning and reaching their conclusions about AI vs. reasoning backwards from wanting reasons to be anti-AI. You're certainly wrong in
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
there would be 100x that many spam apps if it wasn't gated by a fee, esp nowadays
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I've been teaching my 9 year old to code using Ruby, the best language to start with IMO: Clear, expressive English, object oriented is intuitive, and we're using Ruby2D to make simple terminal-based games. I prefer it to graphica
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
cancelled our Prime membership a year ago (after nearly 10 years) and went from buying most non-food things on Amazon to occasionally buying small random items. We broke our addiction to 1 or 2-day shipping, and we're just fine.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
yes, but at least you know what Grokipedia is, just like you know what you're going to get if you read Truth Social, or the Jacobin. but because the content is assimilated by GPT/Claude/Gemini and then mixed in with everythin
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
what's different is that the misinformation is designed to be ingested by LLMs to influence _their_ outputs, which are then presented to users as "knowledge" without necessarily attribution of sources. This is worse that the
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
except that it's easy to label anyone who resists the Israeli occupation as a "militant" or "combatant", which is exactly what Israel does
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
the only fiscal policy today's Trump-led GOP has is blatant "grab as much as you can" corruption nothing is being done in the national interest (not saying every GOP congressman is personally like this, but they're activ
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I'm honestly tired of these comments as they fail to understand what is happening today is not the same as what happened 50 years ago. For the past few decades people have been told over and over: no more factory? no problem! that was
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
struck a nerve with the HN crowd I see :)
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> how 95% of the people that left Twitter eventually returned and this assertion is based on ... ?
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
Not at all hard to believe young people hate billionaires who are actively trying to destroy their (young people's) futures for their (B's) own personal benefit. And anyone who still says "oh, they'll find new jobs, Indu
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> Problems heard and addressed. LOL
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
from the article: > Several people died recently in early-stage gene therapy trials in China.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> You're not allowed to live there officially why not?
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> he deserved being the product of an international pile-on ... for brazenly lying about his own life and accomplishments for a long time so what? did he defraud anyone? rob them of their savings? get elected as a public official based o
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
forgot the, "my original claim was overstated"
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I get these kind of superfluous sentences all the time; drives me nuts.

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