kaashif

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by kaashif 3mo ago
No, they are talking about refactoring, not adding new functionality to code. So it would be something like: Rewrite this Python code to use match/case instead of if/elif/else chains, write a script using the ast module to re
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by kaashif 3mo ago
It does mean that the milk industry is a low value add commodity business where suppliers compete primarily on price and only survive due to protectionism and subsidies. Food is important for national security so we should subsidize it, but
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by kaashif 4mo ago
You do realize that the person you're replying to is not making a value judgement and probably agrees with you. If you have two groups of people, one with a low but nonzero signal that they can do something, the other with no signals,
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by kaashif 4mo ago
Some earnest, light feedback: to my ears, "kick butt" sounds about the same as one of those euphemistic substitutions for swears like "gosh we darn well try our darndest". It's just very funny to lead with that is a
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by kaashif 4mo ago
That's not the problem governments are solving. They're solving the problem of convincing the public it's a good idea to end the anonymity of internet use.
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by kaashif 4mo ago
Not necessarily true, more rehearsal isn't the key to fluent oratory. Many people can speak off the cuff fluently and confidently, avoiding "like", "um", and other filler words. And even if you're not speaking
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by kaashif 4mo ago
That's the reality China already lives in. Their weapon against US companies is commoditizing them, eliminating their moats and their profits by going open weights. Same thing Meta was doing before they fell behind.
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by kaashif 4mo ago
It would be extremely funny if putting things in space is cheaper and faster than dealing with zoning and local politics. It implies that China, which can cut through much red tape and has great (and improving) utilities and infrastructure,
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by kaashif 4mo ago
Doing that kind of thing over Zoom just always felt fake and not fun to me. Maybe some people are wired differently where that works, and I'm stuck having to meet people in person to connect with them for real. Which could be a disadva
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by kaashif 4mo ago
> The number of times I was asked to lunch with "the guy in accounts or the women in the sales team" The fact that you read a comment saying that people have lunch with each other and respond saying you've never been aske
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by kaashif 5mo ago
So maybe we do have it, and it is underwhelming? Or it's not underwhelming and we just got used to it. Using that as an argument to say we don't have AGI doesn't really make sense. Regardless of whether we do or don't ha
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by kaashif 5mo ago
Time isn't the constraint here, but ability. Someone complaining about how hard Rust is to write is probably not capable of reviewing Rust code very well. The usual reaction or opinion from e.g. good C++ programmers switching to Rust i
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by kaashif 5mo ago
Indeed. And someone accused me of being hostile and thought my initial comment was me making a mean joke: > This reads like someone with ADHD took Adderall and accidentally focused hard for a day on the wrong thing. It has happened to me
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by kaashif 5mo ago
Actually, if you do something bad enough, your citizenship can be removed. This is true in the US, UK, India, and maybe others. The exact procedures and criteria vary.
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by kaashif 5mo ago
It's not astonishingly rare. The comment you're replying to contains examples, here are some more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
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by kaashif 5mo ago
I think going down side quests is good, that's how I learnt lots of what I know. But if my goal was to run daily and my first step was to make an open source step tracker with a raspberry pi dock...
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by kaashif 5mo ago
There isn't any joke in my comment. Apologies for the confusion.
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by kaashif 5mo ago
Well if it's strangely hostile I'm sorry but "I need to focus on writing so I spent a few days stripping down a Linux distro" seems pretty disconnected. I mean it's a fun project! But it really reminds me of somethi
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by kaashif 5mo ago
This reads like someone with ADHD took Adderall and accidentally focused hard for a day on the wrong thing. It has happened to me. I guess if this writerdeck works persistently for many projects then fine. But if every 2 projects the writer
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by kaashif 5mo ago
Indeed. At least an LLM would've read the article and realized that.
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by kaashif 5mo ago
#6 in usage by tokens. It obviously has some use case. My experience is that Gemini is much more token efficient than other models. Measuring tokens is like measuring distance travelled by measuring fuel consumption. I mostly use Codex thou
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by kaashif 5mo ago
Also, if you are doing something other than maximising returns then you'll be outcompeted and irrelevant in the long run unless you attract many billions in inflows, or the government tips the scales in your favour e.g. ESG.
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by kaashif 5mo ago
There isn't anything functionally special about the human brain - why is there some reason to expect the human brain is capable of innovation but no program, even one far more powerful than the brain, is not? You admit this possibility
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by kaashif 5mo ago
Have you considered that utilitarians actually exist? If 20% more medical knowledge would save more lives long term, there are actually people, probably some browsing this website right now, maybe the person you're responding to, that
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by kaashif 5mo ago
Children have better neuroplasticity but worse persistence than adults. As an adult I just practiced writing with my left hand loads for basically no reason, it's not that useful, but I still did it for some reason. Now I can write ill
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by kaashif 5mo ago
Trading firms are surely not hiring for the broad founder-like skill set Anthropic is. Trading firms want narrow extreme technical brilliance.
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by kaashif 5mo ago
I've also seen this. But I'll extend it to saying that giving Claude to a bad programmer gives bad results. And seeing how people use it: good programmers review output and iterate to get better output. But bad programmers simply
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by kaashif 5mo ago
Why does whether we're in a simulation or not matter for whether anything is explorable? You can explore how the simulation works, there's just some other layer you can't explore. Or maybe you can somehow. When you look at th
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by kaashif 5mo ago
As a leader, I can just tell people literally that: if you can't go away and work independently on a problem, it puts a ceiling on how well you're going to do. Then I ask people what they've tried before asking me. Just being
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by kaashif 5mo ago
It appears that you are saying that because someone is an Afrikaner, they must be a member of the apartheid regime or a proponent thereof. If you are not saying this, then it's unclear how this is related to your previous comment. You

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