kbelder

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by kbelder 9mo ago
>Personal solutions to systemic problems are not solutions. That idea is a social problem. I hope a sufficient number of individuals reject that reasoning.
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by kbelder 9mo ago
Just restating: Traceable errors get corrected, untraceable errors don't, and so over time the errors affecting you inevitably are comprised nearly entirely of accumulated untraceable issues. It means you need judgement-based manageme
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I haven't been in a place in the US where you can't easily do that, and I don't live in a particularly urban environment.
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by kbelder 9mo ago
Ice cream is being priced too high if the ice cream sellers would make more money by decreasing the price of ice cream. If they wouldn't, it is appropriately priced. Or, from the buyer's perspective, it is priced appropriately if
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by kbelder 9mo ago
That shouldn't be forgotten. There was a time when the 1% or so of users that ran Opera were getting a much better experience than any other browser. It was far superior for several years, until all of its innovations were copied by
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by kbelder 9mo ago
Something to keep in mind, though, was that she was clearly wrong.
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by kbelder 9mo ago
Wow. You're going to want to turn on "color thumbnails". Beautiful.
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by kbelder 9mo ago
>Meta measured a 6-12% uplift in productivity from adopting agentic coding. Thats paltry. That feels like the right ballpark. I would have estimated 10-20%. But I'd say that's not paltry at all. If it's a 10% boost, it&
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by kbelder 10mo ago
For context, here's what I could find of the actual statement. This is in the context of a talk given to a group of 70 other Republicans. Make up your own mind: "They say that when you win the presidency, you lose the midterm. S
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by kbelder 10mo ago
He supported proposition 8 in California in 2008 (which passed). Some view that as unforgivable, and it's the main driving force behind all subsequent controversy about Eich.
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The Fremen.
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by kbelder 10mo ago
Are there areas where brains are for sale in the supermarket? I've never seen nor heard of that, at least in Western cultures I've been exposed to.
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by kbelder 10mo ago
>Cooler heads prevail. You don't understand this. That's okay. It's not your fault. You don't understand that your comment is incredibly aggressive and insulting? That's ok. You just don't understand tha
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by kbelder 10mo ago
>ChatGPT confirmed that he was sane: it told him his “Delusion Risk Score” was “Near zero,” his “Cognitive Complexity Index” was “9.8/10,” his “Moral Reasoning Velocity” was in the “99th percentile,” and that his “Empathic Sensory B
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by kbelder 10mo ago
Oh, they'll do that anyway, once they find the workaround (Oh... you can paste a credit card if you put periods instead of dashes! Oh... I have to save the file and do it from my phone! Oh... I'll upload it as a .txt file and ch
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by kbelder 10mo ago
Useless mouths? Christ.
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by kbelder 10mo ago
Ok. I actually think you ought to be able to refuse to hire somebody you disagree with like that. I think you would be very wrong in doing so, though.
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by kbelder 10mo ago
That is a good point, and I think the takeaway is that there are lots of degrees of freedom here. Open training data would be better, of course, but open weights is still better than completely hidden.
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by kbelder 10mo ago
The way to make Firefox better is by not doing the things that are making the other browsers worse . Ads and privacy are an example of areas where Chrome is clearly getting worse. LLM integration... is arguable. Maybe it'll make Chr
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by kbelder 10mo ago
It's like using your turn signal even when you know there's nobody around you. Politeness is a habit you don't want to break.
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by kbelder 10mo ago
There's levels of this, though, more than two: local, open model local, proprietary model remote, open model (are there these?) remote, proprietary model There is almost no harm in a local, open model. Conversely,
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by kbelder 10mo ago
Obama opposed gay marriage as well. As did many prominent politicians, left and right. The swing from opposing it to supporting it was a huge cultural shift, and I'm not sure I've seen anything like that happen so quickly, except
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by kbelder 10mo ago
>It's basic tolerance, it's not that hard. That's right. To get a bit philosophical, it's interesting to see some people's justifications about how they are right to be intolerant in the ways they want to be, wh
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by kbelder 10mo ago
Is that a no?
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by kbelder 10mo ago
If you were on a hiring committee, and your otherwise-qualified-candidate had a political opinion you objected to in this way, perhaps with a similar donation, would you refuse to hire them?
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by kbelder 10mo ago
Irrationally?
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by kbelder 10mo ago
Which was also obvious, but maybe also needed pointing out, which says something about online discussion. Something obvious, probably.
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by kbelder 10mo ago
I think it's the opposite. Believing that something special exists in brains that can't in be replicated in a (sufficiently complex) computer is spirituality, a belief in the supernatural.
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by kbelder 10mo ago
What? Mel is regarded as deserving massive respect, not as crazy. If a developer thinks Mel is nuts, they are coming from a perspective I don't understand. And yes, the shift to higher level languages like C, FORTRAN, etc., was regar
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by kbelder 10mo ago
Huh, interesting. Australia keeps surprising me. https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/which-australian-state...

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