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by labrador 1y ago
Ex-Democrat here (I'm politically homeless as well): That's actually incorrect, billionaires are fine as long as they pay taxes like they used to, say in the Eisenhower era in the 50's when the top rate was something like 91%
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by labrador 1y ago
The mission of a professional programmer is to deliver code that works according to the design specs, handles edge cases, fails gracefully and doesn't contain performance bottlenecks. It could be software for a water plant, or software
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by labrador 1y ago
You don't say what LLM you are using. I'm using ChatGPT 4o. I'm getting great results, but I review the output with a skeptical eye similar to how I read Wikipedia articles. Like Wikipedia, GPT 4o is great for surfacing new t
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by labrador 1y ago
Being lazy is a clever form of productivity “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” ― Bill Gates
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by labrador 1y ago
You're view of it is correct for agents but for my purposes, which are mostly brainstorming, researching and asa thinking tool, I have GPT 4o memory systems turned on. This allows it to be more personable and allows crafting of answers
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by labrador 1y ago
That's good to know if I ever get an idea for a side project. Anything to relieve the tedius aspects of programming would be very welcome.
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by labrador 1y ago
Prompting is more art than engineering. But understanding the basics of LLMs, which are engineered systems, helps you get better results. I think of it like being a good interviewer: you’re not controlling the conversation, but you know how
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by labrador 1y ago
I'm a retired programmer. I can't imagine trusting code generated by probablities for anything mission critical. If it were close and just needed minor tweaks I could understand that. But I don't have experience with it. My c
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by labrador 1y ago
On the other hand, for my use case (I'm retired and enjoy chatting with it), having it remember items from past chats makes it feel much more personable. I actually prefer Claude, but it doesn't have memory, so I unsubscribed and
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by labrador 1y ago
I’m curious how this applies to systems like ChatGPT, which now have two kinds of memory: user-configurable memory (a list of facts or preferences) and an opaque chat history memory. If context is the core unit of interaction, it seems impo
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by labrador 1y ago
My Brave browser classifies this as a phishing site. Needless to say, I didn't proceed.
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by labrador 1y ago
It's like that Ricky Gervais joke: Guy walks to a public square, sees a message board and on it sees an ad for guitar lessons. Guy gets upset and angrily says "but I don't want guitar lessons!" Calls the number and compl
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Ford CEO Farley: Waymo's approach to self-driving makes more sense than Tesla's(fortune.com)
5 points by labrador 1y ago|0 comments
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Tesla fails to end Florida lawsuit over fatal Model S crash(reuters.com)
6 points by labrador 1y ago|1 comments
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by labrador 1y ago
If other countries follow this could snowball into something really bad for Tesla. Concievably even in the US since President Trump has not forgiven Elon Musk after their feud, so he might encourage something similar behind the scenes.
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by labrador 1y ago
By public shaming I mean going on social media to "cancel" him, with her friends piling on. I'm not worried about it anymore, since it appears to be something important to one slice of young Americans. It definitely was socia
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by labrador 1y ago
You've ignored all my arguments so at this point you're trolling
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by labrador 1y ago
You're assuming a cold approach from a stranger. They knew each other and were friendly. He asked, she declined. That should’ve been the end of it. But instead, she chose public shaming, which wasn’t about boundaries, it was about perf
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by labrador 1y ago
A lot of single women hoping to start families would be happy to have a tall, gainfully employed and hard working man take an interest in them. Your group has made rules that insure the fade out of the human race through depopulation, like
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by labrador 1y ago
It happens that groups invent their own rules, but I assure you, the rest of the world doesn't have a problem with a 39 year old man and a 22 year old woman. I don't know how the poeple in your bubble expect to have kids. I’m stru
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by labrador 1y ago
So if a 22 year old woman wanted to date a 39 year old man you would discourage it and call it socially unacceptable? What if she was really wanted to? Or have younger generations now infantalized young women and decided they can't mak
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by labrador 1y ago
That's a very Gen Z attitude that appears to be common. It's not shared among people of older generations. A 22 year old is an adult that can determine who she wants to date without a bunch of young femininst men rushing to defend
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by labrador 1y ago
It's in the spirit of "may the best AI win." I want an environment of multiple contenders involved in healthy competition. It feels to me like Musk is kneecapping his own AI before it has a chance to really develop in interes
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by labrador 1y ago
As a father of a son, this is heartbreaking. I understand the motivation behind #metoo as outrage against predatory men. Men and women alike feel this outrage. But it's gone too far. My 39 year old single son was publicly shamed by Gen
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by labrador 1y ago
The evidence is overwhelming that Jan 6th was right wing political violence, not just from newspaper reporters, but from hours of real time video, audio and citizen reporting depicting the events of that day. I won't be gas lighted int
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by labrador 1y ago
This is a bad PR move for Grok because most people don't want to use a right wing AI. Why should I? I have multiple better AIs to use. After he failed to tune it to promote the idea there was white genocide in S. Africa, he said someth
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Elon Musk calls Grok answer a 'major fail'(independent.co.uk)
5 points by labrador 1y ago|7 comments
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by labrador 1y ago
It the 70's it was AT&T (Ma Bell) against the rest of us
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by labrador 1y ago
When did our industry not behave this way? In the 80's IBM was the predator, in the 90's it was Microsoft. It's actually refreshing to have 4 or 5 major players vying for dominance. Last century, it was 1 major player against
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by labrador 1y ago
This topic has been of interest to me but I've approached it from different directions: Japanese Shintoism, the idea that objects can be numinous and panpsychism. I wonder if the "sadness" referenced in the paper's title

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