kaashif

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by kaashif 9mo ago
There is a difference, lots of stuff starts with make_, so lots of possible completions.
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by kaashif 9mo ago
I think there is a subjective difference. When a human builds dogshit at least you know they put some effort and the hours in. When I'm reading piles of LLM slop, I know that just reading it is already more effort than it took to write
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by kaashif 10mo ago
I find value in going from the unstructured blob of notes into structured and coherent thoughts myself, rather than with an LLM. If I understand something well, I can write something coherent easily. What you describe feels to me along the
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by kaashif 10mo ago
Look I agree this whole thing is wrong, but to say this instance of regime change, unprovoked attack, war, whatever you call it is UNIQUELY unconstitutional is obviously wrong. Every US President since the end of WW2 has waged war without a
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by kaashif 10mo ago
> walala Is this like voila or something else?
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by kaashif 10mo ago
Is that true? What if Google just pays them $150m to disable ad blockers? Not sure if that's legal or whatever but killing ad blockers is probably worth it for Google.
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by kaashif 10mo ago
I suppose the idea is that even if tourism brings in billions of euros, makes up 15% of the economy, and provides 150k jobs in a country where youth unemployment is rampant and jobs are hard to come by... No, actually, I find it impossible
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by kaashif 10mo ago
The anthropic principle is named as such because it is "pertaining to human beings". This is like saying McDonald's is named after the McDonald's happy meal rather than the McDonald brothers.
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by kaashif 10mo ago
This is exactly the example I thought of and came here to post. The rule is obviously wrong. I think just having no cycles is good enough as a rule.
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by kaashif 10mo ago
I don't have my phone (a Pixel) because it frees me from shackles or anything like that. It's just a phone. I use the default everything. Works great. I imagine most people with iPhones are the same.
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by kaashif 10mo ago
Salaried employees are already paid for their labour, I'm not paid hour by hour. If I work one extra hour, was that unpaid and my employer stealing from me? If I work one hour less, is that me stealing from my employer? No on both coun
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by kaashif 10mo ago
That surely already is the case. I pay more for rent to live closer to work. People who live further away don't. If you want to get paid more, negotiate it. Seems like a non issue to me.
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by kaashif 11mo ago
Surely people who can't get a job aren't "junior engineers" - they're just graduates. Junior engineers, i.e. people who have already been hired, can indeed fight back by getting really good at their jobs. But you&#x
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by kaashif 11mo ago
Wouldn't it be easier to build multi storey datacenters than space datacenters?
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by kaashif 11mo ago
> The only one that might apply is cost: if it's cheaper to build data centers on Earth, then space doesn't make sense (and it won't happen). So the only problem left to be solved is that space datacenters would be million
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by kaashif 11mo ago
If standards aren't lowered and they're just failed out, that's fine eventually, but I would prefer it to be fine from day 1.
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by kaashif 11mo ago
The anthropic principle doesn't imply that our entire observable universe has to contain only matter. Why shouldn't we observe clouds of anti matter and matter annihilating millions or billions of light years away? Why does the an
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by kaashif 11mo ago
In that specific situation, no they weren't. The only legal action is to leave the country, so it's impossible to claim they're being compelled to do anything else.
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by kaashif 11mo ago
Why is that ghoulish? I disagree with the policy, but it's fundamentally different to force someone to leave and to force them to stay. People are being forced to leave.
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by kaashif 11mo ago
You're phrasing this a bit oddly. There isn't any immigration law saying he cannot leave the country. There is a law saying that if you leave the country you abandon your green card application. Combined with losing his visa and h
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by kaashif 11mo ago
This really taints the article for me. Maybe I should evaluate the article on its own merits or whatever, but to justify the Digg fiasco...
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by kaashif 11mo ago
It was close to dying, except for these two things that mean it definitely wasn't close to dying? "Having no popular alternative" is not something that was close to not happening.
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by kaashif 11mo ago
> Python only just barely survived the jump from 2 to 3. I really don't think this is true at all. Python 2 to 3 took a really long time, it was a real struggle, lots of people stayed on 2 for a really long time. But I really don&#x
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by kaashif 11mo ago
Why even mock anything in this example? You need to read the source code to work out what to mock, reaching deep inside the code to name some method to mock. But what if you just passed in the contents of the file or something? Edit: oh wai
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by kaashif 11mo ago
What about the positive externalities of sulfur dioxide emissions reducing temperatures? We need more container ships polluting or the post 2020 global warming rate could double! https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-0
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by kaashif 1y ago
As someone with very poor natural dream recall, I think you're right. One time I kept a dream journal and got really good at dream recall. It was just hours and hours of random junk every night. I threw away the journal and realized fo
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by kaashif 1y ago
You have to trust that whole system. Maybe you do, I don't know the details of how any of that works. When I vote in person, I know all the officials there from various parties are just like...looking at the box for the whole day to ma
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by kaashif 1y ago
That doesn't seem at all like the same thing as literally seeing the ballot enter the box in the presence of observers from all parties. There's so much more you have to trust.
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by kaashif 1y ago
I wish that's what people did, some codebases I've seen are messes of monad transformer stacks the likes of which you've never seen. I mean, what if you want to do IO and have mutable data structures inside a do block? I&#x27
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by kaashif 1y ago
If an LLM can get you 90% of the way there, you need fewer engineers. But the engineer you need probably needs to be a senior engineer who went through the pain of learning all of the details and can function without AI. If all juniors are

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