mwigdahl

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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
Your main point is valid, but I'd argue it's less the power of the President and more the two-party system and the weakness of Congress that is the root of many American governance problems. Executive power has grown in the vacuu
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
I, personally, have never been asked for an asshole scan, but I'm interested in providing one if you can point me to a company that's offering.
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
I liked Zvi Mowshowitz' summary of this: If someone tells you what's wrong, listen to them. If they tell you how to fix it, ignore them.
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
Neal Stephenson's work is outstanding in my opinion, although some find it polarizing. My favorite of his is _Anathem_, followed closely by _Seveneves_. Iain Banks's science fiction novels (mostly set in the Culture, but he does
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
And you should be able to. But people who don't want that or don't have the means to afford it can have the benefits of automobile transport without the capital expense.
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
Agreed. And I think he was wrong. Literacy allows individual humans to be exposed to and understand far more of the world's culture and knowledge than the conveyance of knowledge through recitation of epic poems would ever have allow
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
That depends a bit on token efficiency. From their "Agentic coding performance by effort level" graph, it looks like they get similar outcome for 4.7 medium at half the token usage as 4.6 at high. Granted that is, as you say, a
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
The real question is whether we're worse off or better off overall than we were in Socrates' Athens.
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
Ironically, AI facilitates self-driving cars, which promise to _reduce_ the need for private automobile ownership.
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
Agreed, call it future shock or the Singularity or just overall outrage fatigue, people just aren't reacting to these kinds of things at a level commensurate with their risk or danger.
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
He mentioned this in his original comment: "CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW=400000"
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
Only weapons-grade milk.
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
Given how far ahead OpenAI was in mindshare, monthly users, and revenue over Anthropic when Claude Code came out, I think we can conclude there's at least some substance behind claims of Claude Code's better product quality.
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
I prefer using it via the terminal. Might be anchoring bias, but I have had issues with slash commands not registering and hooks not working in the plugin.
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by mwigdahl 6mo ago
While we're at it, let's get rid of the ADA. Those disabled people expecting the world to cater to their needs specifically are so abusive to those of us with perfectly functional bodies and flexible minds.
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
Can you comment on whether you wrote the article yourself or used an LLM for it? To me it reads human (in a maybe slightly overly-punchy, LinkedIn-esque way), but a lot of folks are keying on the choppiness and exclusion chains and conclud
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
It's not just you. I feel the same thing, and I saw it in practice helping my son study for a chemistry test just last night. He had worked through a bunch of problems by following the steps in his notes and got the right answers, bu
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
The problem is it won't get as far as trial, if the old company gets wind of it early enough (and they often do). The old company will reach out to the new company and politely inform them they believe they have grounds for a noncompe
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
Based on what? This reads as pretty standard science journalism to me. She uses em-dashes, but so do I. It's a real punctuation mark with legit uses, and certainly not a 100% LLM marker.
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
I took that phrase differently. The story makes the point that the AIs fail when metrics of quality can't be expressed in words. The use of a bare "adequate" reinforces the opacity of the coffee's quality. Certainly i
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
"The process is the punishment"
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
I hope you mean "flow state" and not actually "fugue state".
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
Interesting that the model knows that maintenance employees at Google are contractors...
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
I think this research really suffers by not acknowledging that there are different types and scopes of corruption, and these different types impact societies in considerably different ways. The "four types of corruption" breakdown
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
If a field drug test can confuse an irritable bowel syndrome drug for fentanyl or cocaine, it is not reliable enough to be used for law enforcement purposes. The same applies to facial recognition tech. We need real information on the fal
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
I don't know if it's LLM-generated or not, but I'm guessing you're right. It sure as hell matches the horrible choppy LinkedIn blogspam pattern, though, and that was enough to bounce me right there.
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
I think it's simpler than that. I believe (as some others do) that DOGE was a useful piece of theater to distract the media while the Administration got down to business implementing a huge number of executive orders to roll back soci
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by mwigdahl 7mo ago
What term would you use for that "opposite"?
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How does the economy compare with the structures in EVE Online?
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by mwigdahl 8mo ago
After struggling with this problem for a while, we started using Qustodio. It's not perfect by any means, but it's the most broadly effective and usable tool for parental control I've found. Loads better than the confusing

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