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by jychang 5mo ago
Yes, I see them all the time when I drink lots of alcohol [1]. This is a common issue with humans called "hallucination" which proves that humans are unreliable. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_pink_e
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by jychang 5mo ago
Yes, I agree. If you tell humans "do not think of pink elephants", they are more likely to think about pink elephants. Therefore, you must not use humans for any important work.
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by jychang 5mo ago
That's an extremely high bar. To use something off the top of my head: a 19th century scientist discovered Algebraic topology, does that make Algebraic topology easy? It's pretty clear for me to argue that those things are NOT int
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by jychang 5mo ago
None of those things are easily recognized though. They're not universals. A term like "cognitive biases" generally require a college level education. If you go to a tribe in the middle of the rainforest, would they be able
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by jychang 5mo ago
> We’re really not that vulnerable to such things as a species, because we as individuals all have our own minds and our own sets of biases that cancel out and get lost in the noise. [Citation Needed] Just because if you have a species-w
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by jychang 6mo ago
I just did the work of the software team for them: I got Samba 4 working on Apple Time Capsules: https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB If you have a legacy Time Capsule you'd rather not e-waste, you can try th
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by jychang 6mo ago
For those that are interested: I've managed to build Samba 4 and get it running on a Apple Time Capsule https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB
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by jychang 6mo ago
I've already built it: https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB This runs Samba 4 on the Apple Time Capsule.
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by jychang 6mo ago
I've added support for Samba 4 (running SMB3) to the Time Capsule so it can work with modern macOS: https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB
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by jychang 6mo ago
Yeah, I 100% agree with the caution in this comment. I see the merit in such a proposal. It's the linguistic equivalent to boiling the food you consume, instead of eating it raw with all the associated bad stuff. The problem is, as you
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by jychang 6mo ago
Are humans supposed to enjoy the "flavor" of diarrhea, as the result of giving every village idiot a microphone so they can spew shit from their mouths? Sure, you might say this sort of thing is boiling flavor out of your food, bu
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by jychang 6mo ago
Actually, yeah, unironically that's a great idea. Think about actual human psychology for a minute- modern humans are nothing like people from 500 or 1000 years ago. Before instant communication around the globe, behavior was not anony
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by jychang 6mo ago
There's no structural difference in the brain between those who can read/write vs those who can't. It's not a distinction. Would you consider Socrates not intelligent since he was illiterate and had contempt for the writ
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by jychang 6mo ago
There's humans that have memory issues, or full blown Anterograde amnesia.
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by jychang 6mo ago
Technically yes, gpt-5.4-mini is available on the free plan
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by jychang 6mo ago
That's not open source. That's like decompiling closed source software years after support ended, in order to make a patch.
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by jychang 6mo ago
The iPhone SE (2020) cpu is like twice as fast as the iPhone 8 cpu, lol.
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by jychang 6mo ago
Yeah, the threat model is nonexistent. Most people use a dozen or so well known providers, who have no incentives to so obviously cheat.
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by jychang 6mo ago
It's old, Kimi's been doing this for months now. https://github.com/MoonshotAI/K2-Vendor-Verifier https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-Vendor-Verifier Note, this is before K2.5 and K2.6 ev
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by jychang 6mo ago
If you think about it, git is really just a big undo/redo button and a big "merge 2 branches" button, plus some more fancy stuff on top of those primitives.
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by jychang 6mo ago
Did you read the article? > Basically, in the megamerge workflow you are rarely working directly off the tips of your branches. Instead, you create an octopus merge commit (hereafter referred to as “the megamerge”) as the child of every
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by jychang 6mo ago
When you put it that way, the answer is obvious: Assume VCs are brainless profit maximizers who don't understand ethics. How do you get them to say "I'm gonna stop you right there"? Answer: Make it unprofitable to collec
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by jychang 6mo ago
This is completely unacceptable from Apple. You CANNOT remove a key from the keyboard that's being used as a password.
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by jychang 6mo ago
OH it's that guy. His double pendulum video was orgasmic. Edit: Oh wait, no, I was thinking of the Drew's Campfire double pendulum video. That video was extra interesting because the creator is not a typical content producer. He j
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by jychang 6mo ago
It’s almost like you’re intentionally trying to be wrong. You don't seem to understand how analogies work. I’m not talking about strip mining vs tunnel mining, I was comparing scale of human powered mining to mining with nitroglycer
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by jychang 6mo ago
It's the autism. And I say that endearingly. I'm an engineer who probably likes trains way too much. I intentionally pointed out the STEM-esque responses of pedantic correction as a symptom of a disciplinary blind spot: technicall
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by jychang 6mo ago
The statement IS true anyways, the problem is that you failed to distinguish between an example and a universal claim. You want to argue on logic? I'm an engineer, I can argue on precision too: The (true!) statement is "However, t
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by jychang 6mo ago
Irrelevant. Here's Bret Devereaux (an actual historian) explaining this distinction and precisely why those are irrelevant in the context of the Industrial Revolution: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collec
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by jychang 6mo ago
It's sort of the exception that proves the rule. This is where STEM people are weak- a lack of knowledge on history. In another forum, someone would have chipped in that England's virgin forests were fully deforested by 1150. And
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by jychang 6mo ago
Also, Gemini 2.5 Pro launched a week before Llama 4. It was Gemini 2.5 Pro that redeemed Google in the eyes of most people as a valid competitor to OpenAI instead of as a joke, so Meta dropping the ball with Llama 4 was extra bad.

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