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by mcv 7mo ago
I completely agree. The only services for which I will verify my age (and the entire rest of my ID) are bank accounts and other services involving a real legal requirement for real ID. The notion that you should upload a passport to random
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by mcv 7mo ago
Sounds like a much better use of LLMs: use them to replace jobs that should never have existed in the first place. Use them to replace parasitic systems. Even so, you should never trust their calculations. Don't have it file your taxes
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by mcv 8mo ago
I've noticed that running models locally is not necessarily easy. I'm currently trying to use Stable Diffusion with Flux2 klein 4b fp4 (because I have a normal GPU and not a specialised setup), and I can't get it to produce a
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by mcv 8mo ago
Exactly. I'd love to believe that at Anthropic, idealism trumps money. But Google was once idealistic too. OpenAI was too. It's really hard to resist the pull of money. Especially if you're a for-profit corporation, but OpenA
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by mcv 8mo ago
> The announcement is surprising, because Anthropic has described itself as the AI company with a “soul.” I can't help but think about how Google once had "Don't be evil" as their motto. But the thing with for-profit
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by mcv 8mo ago
Nothing about this addresses NJB's argument that self-driving cars take up more space than regular cars, because there will now be cars with 0 people in them. Ultimately the thing you want to transport is not cars, it's people. Wa
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by mcv 8mo ago
Self-driving cars still take up space on the road. Even more than human-driven cars, because now there will also be cars transporting 0 people. It's going to make congestion worse. Public transit is the solution to congestion. Well, on
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by mcv 8mo ago
We're talking about the US here; they're very good at ignoring solutions to solved problems. See city planning, traffic design, healthcare, zoning, etc. If it's not invented in the US, it can't possibly work there, they
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by mcv 8mo ago
It's not feasible to have a bus stop right in front of every house. It's unavoidable that most people are going to have to walk a bit. How far is reasonable, is a matter of trade-offs. It also depends on how fine grained the netwo
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by mcv 8mo ago
Some areas around Amsterdam have a two-tier bus system, with regular buses with regularly spaced stops, and a network of fast long-distance buses with far less stops and dedicated lanes over their entire trip. They have proven to be incredi
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by mcv 8mo ago
I would have hoped that Wargames was in their training set.
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by mcv 8mo ago
Religion has been far more politicised in the US than elsewhere. And not exactly in a direction that makes sense to me (a European protestant).
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by mcv 8mo ago
What counts as "long-lived"? Our shortest lived branches are quick fixes because something got merged into main that doesn't work properly. I'd like main to always be ready for production, but that seems an elusive goal
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by mcv 8mo ago
This is great. My workflow is also heading in that direction, so this is a great roadmap. I've already learned that just naively telling Claude what to do and letting it work, is a recipe for disaster and wasted time. I'm not this
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by mcv 8mo ago
Will it also bypass content bans in the US? Or should Europe create its own freedom.eu for that? I'm sure I don't have to point out the irony of the current censorship-happy government in the US pretending to be a champion of free
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by mcv 8mo ago
I think people getting arrested for social media posts is specifically a UK thing. That and Russia are the only European countries where I've heard of that happening. In most European countries, you'd have to go pretty far to get
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by mcv 8mo ago
Yet the US has far worse attacks on free speech. And plenty of European countries also canonised it into law.
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by mcv 8mo ago
Exactly. It's meme stock. There's no rational explanation for this ridiculous valuation. Tesla has been overvalued for a long time, and not by a bit either; they're worth more than the next several car makers put together, ye
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by mcv 8mo ago
I would hope that the person who reviews their training on gitflow, knows something about gitflow. And if you know something about gitflow, it's not that strange to expect to recognise the most iconic gitflow diagram. But even if you d
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by mcv 8mo ago
The VP blames a vendor of course, but didn't Microsoft recently announce they were going to vibe code everything? Because this image looks like it comes from the kind of company that thinks it can vibe code everything.
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by mcv 8mo ago
It used to be that they were gone for a month. Now they're gone for a day. Possibly less.
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by mcv 8mo ago
I miss the deep dives. I make time for them again. A month or two ago, I was working on a really complex problem where I relied way too much on AI, and that reliance kept my thinking about the problem relatively shallow, which meant that wh
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by mcv 8mo ago
This is exactly why I'm not that worried. I've noticed that AI is great at the parts of software engineering that I'm bad at, like implementing a new unfamiliar library, deploy pipelines, infra configuration, knowing specific
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by mcv 8mo ago
> You may not like it, but the USA is still a nation of laws. I would love it if the US was a country of laws, but the rule of law has been quite thoroughly killed by the Trump administration. It wasn't very effective even before Tr
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by mcv 8mo ago
This narrative has been debunked many times already. Legal residents, even citizens, have been arrested, deported, or shot. And people get denied entry based on social media posts. Your comment is way off base and severely detached from rea
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by mcv 8mo ago
I'm not necessarily opposed to age restrictions, but letting each website figure out its own age verification system is a terrible idea. Uploading your ID to lots of websites opens you up to identity theft. Any government that demands
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by mcv 8mo ago
I don't have much experience with Guthub Actions, but I'll say this does sound worse than Azure DevOps, which I did not imagine was possible. I've never liked any CI system, but ADO must be one of the lower circles of hell.
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by mcv 8mo ago
I never mastered the most common single loop method; it never made sense to me to have an asymmetrical way to tie a symmetrical knot, so I used the bunny ears with two loops, until I learned about the Ian knot with zero loops, and it's
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by mcv 9mo ago
I thought it sounded familiar. Still a good read.
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by mcv 9mo ago
...generate piles of low quality content for almost free. AI is fascinating technology with undoubtedly fantastic applications in the future, but LLMs mostly seem to be doing two things: provide a small speedup for high quality work, and pr

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