mylifeandtimes

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by mylifeandtimes 2mo ago
yes, and isn't it funny that foo=[baz, bar,] returns a nice list of two items, but if you edit this down and miss the comma, foo=bar, is not a scalar. returning a tuple. So the trailing comma thing is a thing.
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by mylifeandtimes 2mo ago
> only to discover a few days later that the code was failing because different people had different indentation settings in their IDEs, both regarding tabs versus spaces and the number of spaces. yeah, why Guido got away with the "
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by mylifeandtimes 2mo ago
From the article > We removed over 80% of Claude Code’s system prompt for models like Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5 with no measurable loss on our coding evaluations. And no report of how it impacted earlier models. Was it just BS all
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by mylifeandtimes 2mo ago
which is why I cried inside to myself when my manager posted Boris's "Steps of AI Adoption", which reduces "adoption" to how many agents you run at once, on a logarithmic scale (0, 1, 10, 100, 1000 agents at once).
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by mylifeandtimes 3mo ago
If I were a city government, I would just start charging Flock rent.
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by mylifeandtimes 3mo ago
In the US, something like 98% of eligible men enlisted in WWI. There was no draft. So yes, VERY high probability of service.
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by mylifeandtimes 4mo ago
Air conditioning only works for things inside of buildings. Not so good for the plants and animals our lives depend on. And it raises the heat outside of buildings. Not so good for people who have to be outside, think first responders etc.
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by mylifeandtimes 4mo ago
So let's assume you are right. Does that justify the price? Spacex price/sales: 100x-130x RTX Corporation's (formerly Raytheon Technologies) Price-to-Sales (P/S) ratio currently hovers around 2.74 to 2.76. Boeing price-t
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by mylifeandtimes 4mo ago
Yes, as you say the market is a local (both in space and time) and greedy optimizer. Long-term payoffs that increase the value of all participants in society, such as education, healthcare, infrastructure (roads including public transportat
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by mylifeandtimes 4mo ago
let's reverse the question. Where are markets expected to be optimal? > definition of 'perfect competition' perfect competition, in which there are large numbers of identical suppliers and demanders of the same product, bu
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by mylifeandtimes 4mo ago
well, one comes with a pretty strong safety cage, so there is that difference.
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by mylifeandtimes 4mo ago
> The moment I start talking to someone, automagically the NC is paused as well as any audio you were listening to. When I'm listening to music, the music helps form my sense of time. It is deeply jarring to have the music pause fo
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by mylifeandtimes 4mo ago
That's why I use M-x spook to generate all of my variable names
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by mylifeandtimes 4mo ago
and my mind went to the current US administration. Sigh. You made the better choice.
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by mylifeandtimes 4mo ago
maybe seeing if the case law it cited was real or imagined? Just one idea, IANAL
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by mylifeandtimes 4mo ago
EU law gives every citizen a right to a bank account. I wonder if EU law could give every citizen a right to a google or Apple account, including a forced recovery option if the account is 'deactivated'? If at some point such an a
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by mylifeandtimes 5mo ago
> This psychosis you keep referring to will only end up punishing the ones who subscribe to it wouldn't it? Since it's out of touch with reality. It might if the subscribers realize/admit that things are failing because th
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by mylifeandtimes 5mo ago
could you please tell me how it generates that certainty score?
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by mylifeandtimes 5mo ago
carry a family of 4 where? if you rely on that other location exisiting, you are not self-reliant. tow a trailer where? see above. Pick up a load of dirt or lumber-- how did those materials get to the pick-up point? And the road you are dri
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by mylifeandtimes 5mo ago
> Being a self-made billionaire means they created a billion dollars of value. two of the people on the list did it via online gambling. Which is by definition a zero-sum game. No value was created.
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by mylifeandtimes 5mo ago
two ways to take it: equity as written. Ownership. Thus fairness means all have a share in responsibility for success and rewards for that success. Yeah, I agree. Note that I include responsibility as the core part of ownership. I think our
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by mylifeandtimes 5mo ago
Hey, I hear you, but the age cutoff could also be on holding office. As someone just hitting the 60 yr old mark, and looking at my parents who are still pretty sharp in their late 80s, -- so definitely talking about myself and my capacity h
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by mylifeandtimes 5mo ago
> I don't think LLMs are that chaotic, you can replace words in an input at get a similar answer, and they are very good at dealing with typos. Compare "You are a helpful assistant. Your task is to <100 lines of task descri
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by mylifeandtimes 5mo ago
Evidence? Isn't the state the expression of the people's will? That's the theory of democracy, isn't it? Also, any evidence or reason to believe that an extraction-based capitalist model is more aligned with customer int
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by mylifeandtimes 5mo ago
would be great to have a 'learner' mode where I could take back a move after the computer jumps 5 of my pieces :) I'd also appreciate if illegal moves highlighed in a slightly less intense color, so we could see they were ill
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by mylifeandtimes 6mo ago
Really? Because if one accepts that computer languages are languages, then it seems that we could identify one or two that are highly specialized in logical conditions etc. Prolog springs to mind.
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by mylifeandtimes 7mo ago
Wait-- I think you are confusing "teachers" with "police officers".
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by mylifeandtimes 7mo ago
actually it is in Oregon. ] https://gcaptain.com/trumps-greenland-hospital-ship-arrives-...
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by mylifeandtimes 7mo ago
> The problem is our governments are doing absolutely nothing about it Huh. I thought they were actively accelerating the process. Hoping you are right and I am wrong.
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by mylifeandtimes 7mo ago
Sounds more like Bloody Stupid Jonssons Razor than Occams razor. The dumbest possible explanation is probably right.

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