mcv

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by mcv 8d ago
Sounds like solid advice. Those typical Claude turns of phrase are really grating on me. And I now see them everywhere. Many YouTube channels that are presented by a real human, still sound fake because their script is blatantly written by
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by mcv 9d ago
Mountain states? Can't they use hydro power?
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by mcv 9d ago
It's still a complex and more abstract function than map or filter. Those do a single thing that's easy to grasp. reduce/fold can be easily abused to duplicate the effect of most other collection functions, at the cost of mak
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by mcv 9d ago
I would expect it's not caused by genes themselves, but by control DNA. That's where a lot of the subtle structural stuff happens. But that's also hard to test for. It's like how you can't test how tall someone is g
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by mcv 10d ago
Fair point. What we really need of course is more renewables, and that is happening, but not fast enough, so we still need oil. And I'd rather get our oil in a way that doesn't fuel the Russian war machine, even if it does cost a
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by mcv 10d ago
How much oil is Europe still importing from Russia? I'd rather have Canadian.
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by mcv 10d ago
Turkey has been a candidate member since forever, but instead of addressing the many problems they need to fix before entry, they're making it worse.
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by mcv 10d ago
The US was greenfield 2 centuries ago. It currently has a lot more technical (political?) debt than the EU. Some reforms are long overdue.
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by mcv 10d ago
And that hurts the free market. A free market should be transparent, have low barriers to entry, and not be dominated by monopolies or cartels. There's nothing free about American capitalism.
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by mcv 10d ago
I'd like to take a closer look at what exactly Canada is exporting to the US, and what exactly the EU is importing from elsewhere, to see if there's a match. I'd rather buy from Canada than from Russia. Or China. Or the US.
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by mcv 10d ago
Exactly. The EU has plenty of faults, but I don't see anything better. Improving on the EU is better than abandoning it.
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by mcv 12d ago
It's fine if it talks a lot to itself, I just don't want to read two pages of text for every question.
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by mcv 12d ago
Really? I still find it too sycophantic at times.
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by mcv 12d ago
This seems to be mostly about the way Claude talks, which is indeed very annoying. My experience was improved a lot by the 'i-have-adhd' plugin that was posted about here recently. That cuts a lot of the unnecessary verbosity.
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by mcv 14d ago
This is absolutely an issue, and I've run into it several times myself, because I am doing Real Difficult Stuff that I don't think anyone has ever done quite like this before. But I'm leaning heavily on Claude for it. Mostly
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by mcv 14d ago
Same here. Mind you, I share the many concerns about AI. I agree the industry has gone nuts. I warn everybody that "use more AI" is terrible advice and a terrible strategy. And why are the people saying that AGI could kill us all,
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by mcv 14d ago
How would it make them worse off? If everybody agrees that AI is a threat to humanity, but also a possible edge over rivals, then the threat should be enough reason to get everybody to agree. There are international agreements on tons of th
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by mcv 14d ago
By international agreement, obviously. There are tons of international agreements to regulate all sorts of things. It's generally a pretty good way to prevent a race to the bottom. Or in this case, a potential race to the end of the wo
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by mcv 14d ago
How u reliable personalised search results are depends on who controls the personalization and for what purpose. I would love a search that lets me ban results from certain sites. I don't like search that's showing skewed results
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by mcv 15d ago
The manure already needs to be dealt with anyway. Does it really matter whether we're transporting oil or manure? Surplus manure is also causing environmental problems. Why are we using fertiliser if there's too much manure?
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by mcv 15d ago
And high prices may also encourage alternatives. Energy can be replaced by renewables. There are alternatives for various uses of plastics. And I thought manure was a pretty good fertiliser. Not everything needs to be replaced, but it would
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by mcv 15d ago
I would prefer to stop the demand rather than the supply. The high prices encourage production elsewhere.
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by mcv 15d ago
If all of that is possible, why not just provide a reliable basic income? Why does it need to feel like a politician is bribing you for your vote?
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by mcv 16d ago
Some people simply need to be banned from driving. Anyone intentionally trying to hit someone in traffic definitely qualifies.
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by mcv 17d ago
Sounds useful. I'm often struggling with how extremely verbose Claude is. Shorter is better. Cut the unnecessary prose and the Claudian turns of phrase. But this seems to focus very much on telling the user what to do, whereas usually
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by mcv 17d ago
This is true, but is it unique to copyright? Don't large companies benefit asymmetrically from most things?
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by mcv 18d ago
To me it explained its inability to follow my preferred coding style by blaming its training data.
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by mcv 18d ago
Superficially subservient but with a subtle air of smug superiority? (Or was that just Stephen Fry's interpretation?)
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by mcv 18d ago
I think it's more a mix of click bait and getting paid by the word.
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by mcv 18d ago
We do consider the oldest person alive and the oldest recorded person ever, to be records of a sort. So if that counts, why wouldn't a personal best count? I certainly celebrate mine every time.

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