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by munk-a 7mo ago
This right here is the big value I see in LLMs as well. I specifically suffer from analysis paralysis when starting something big and just getting skeletonized cheap code out quick as a template then refining it is much more to my strength
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I would be too - if we didn't have prior evidence of massive insider trading on prediction markets.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Do you mean to say my current AI workflow doesn't involve secret agents running around Bond-style sabotaging those that'd impede my efforts to build a super secret RSS forwarder that pig-lantinifies the text before sending it to m
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Some good news though, with the war in Iran the spiking oil price means that Albertan executives can ramp up operations and stay quite profitable! Push the price to 200/barrel and we'll just strip mine the entire province after a
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by munk-a 7mo ago
What an amazing deal. We get nothing and the contractors we negotiated with get money for it! Truly, the deals this administration crafts are nonpareil!
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by munk-a 7mo ago
It's awesome the US hasn't destabilized one of those neighbors and alienated the other one by declaring it the prospective 51st state. Soft power really is America's super power.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Won't someone think of the ~children~ birds?!
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Nah, the maximally sarcastic advice for tax avoidance is "become president" then you can just refuse to prosecute yourself for tax evasion and sue yourself for a ridiculous sum of money when someone leaks your tax avoidance.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
RRSP first time home buyer credits can get a bit complicated though. Also, a fun fact - dual US-Canadian citizens can't (effectively) use TFSAs because the US considers appreciation in a TFSA to be taxable income.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
A GPL license helps but if support for a dependency is pulled you'll likely end up needing to divert more resources to maintain it anyways. There really isn't any guarantee against this cost - you either pay someone else to maint
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I think the good news here is that since OpenAI is a zombie company at this point this particular acquisition shouldn't be too concerning - and from what I've seen Anthropic has been building out in a direction of increased specia
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by munk-a 7mo ago
That would be a maximally economically efficient approach to producing knit clothes - but hand knit clothing still does have a significant market. This year I sought out a cobbler to get a new pair of shoes because my feet are a bit weird
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Would it make us uncomfortable to reword the above example to > AI coding is gambling on slot machines, managing developers is gambling on the stock market. Because I feel like that is a much more apt analogy.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I had access to it on a long-haul AirFrance flight. While I avoid doom-scrolling in my daily life because there's better stuff to do... on a long haul flight it's a surprisingly good way to pass time intermittently. I still just
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Professionally I'm a data architect. Modeling data in a way that is functional, performant and forward facing is not an easy problem so it's perfectly fine to struggle with it. We do our best job with what we've got within
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Most people who are knitting do it purely for the experience of knitting. If you need clothes it's far more affordable to buy the cheap manufactured stuff. Some people certainly enjoy the creativity of expression and wish they could
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by munk-a 7mo ago
> Well for one, programming actually sucks. Punching cards sucks. Copywriting sucks. There's a significant difference between past software advancements and this one. When we previously reduced the manual work when developing softw
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by munk-a 7mo ago
As someone who believes strongly in type based programming and the importance of good data structure choice I'm not seeing how Rule 5 follows Rule 1. I think it's important to reinforce how impactful good data structure choice is
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Nothing is inherently illegal. Laws are created in response to an undesireable outcome - murder wasn't illegal until it was made illegal.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
"What do we do about it?" Shut down the behavior with regulations or shut down the companies. Meta and TikTok have no natural right to exist if they are a net negative to society.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Isn't the quarterly report one of the specific things that AI was sold as making much easier to compile and distribute? I have a strong concern about this happening under the current admin.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Who said we'd assume China will defend Canadian interests? The current strategy is focused on growing much closer to the EU while becoming a trade bridge for Atlantic/Pacific relations. Canada has a lot of clout on the internati
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I'll just dodge 1 for the moment since we're discussing an article about those threats. For the second point - I'm not saying that death threats should invalidate privacy concerns I just wanted to stress that the little peop
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Just as a note - I feel like there's a lack of understanding of how difficult it is to get a billion dollars. It isn't something you can just trip into and I think the concentration of that much wealth really goes against somethi
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by munk-a 7mo ago
The items you've listed are all quite safe and palatable in their harm when contrasted with the benefits they bring. I'm not seeing the same picture when looking at polymarket - I don't see the great gain we're accompli
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Before they built the platform this danger did not exist. There is no law of nature that says massive social media platforms that are too large to moderate effectively need to exist. If they have built a thing they can't maintain that
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Nah - that customer base would much rather a mean-nothing name like "Salesforce". The real evil people don't revel so much in their evilness they're much more in the "ends justify the means" camp where they ca
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Hence the Carney strategy up here in Canada. We can realize in hindsight that we were far too dependent on a single ally. We're diversifying - and even if America wants to become reliable again we've learned and will (hopefully)
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by munk-a 7mo ago
> (why do all billionaires seem devoid of ethics?) Because no ethical person would accumulate a billion dollars. An ethical person would share the wealth they're creating with those around them instead of hording that wealth. What
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I think it's important to look at the context of the discussion around this comment. Someone has received credible death threats - clearly the current situation is one where the little people are already suffering.

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