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by notpachet 1y ago
This made me laugh. Take my upvote.
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by notpachet 1y ago
Also: a little more widely known, but the Black Company series by Glen Cook.
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by notpachet 1y ago
The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein. It's become my go-to recommendation for anyone I know that likes to read. Most people I've recommended it to have ended up buying all four books.
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by notpachet 1y ago
> They keep trying to make it work until they hit a wall -- and then they just keep banging their head against it. This is because LLMs trend towards the centre of the human cognitive bell curve in most things, and a LOT of humans use th
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by notpachet 1y ago
> It's amazing how fast the code goes when you know exactly what you want. To quote Russ Ackoff[1]: > Improving a system requires knowing what you could do if you could do whatever you wanted to. Because if you don't know wh
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by notpachet 1y ago
> AI doesn't use any more water or energy than any other tool. An hour of Netflix uses same energy as more than 100 GPT questions. A single 10 hour flight (per person*) emits as much as around 100k GPT prompts. It is strange that on
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by notpachet 1y ago
Dealing with a 15-year old legacy codebase with strong types: awful but manageable. Without: not a chance.
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by notpachet 1y ago
Interesting. I missed this. Thanks.
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by notpachet 1y ago
Time is money, friend.
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by notpachet 1y ago
I have friends who've been deported without criminal records. They didn't get paid anything. I don't know what you're talking about. I'll repeat what I said: > If you think the current administration is giving ca
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by notpachet 1y ago
I didn't say "advance my political views", I said make a positive impact. Help people in your community. Give your extra time and resources to aid others who need it. Not rocket science.
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by notpachet 1y ago
> So what's everyone think is a good place for their money to be? Reinvested into the fabric of your local community.
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by notpachet 1y ago
> In other words, for me personally, it's not sure that following politics has very much real utility value. This sort of privilege must be nice. Until it runs out. > otherwise I have effectively zero say in how these things turn
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by notpachet 1y ago
> 2. getting those who've wished to settle and work jobs to leave voluntarily by buying them plane tickets and not barring their reentry in the future If you think the current administration is giving cash stipends to anyone it&#x27
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by notpachet 1y ago
> Those with means (and I would be one) send their kids to private schools for a variety of reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma
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by notpachet 1y ago
> you can flip it around and say that it's impressive that we have it as good as we do despite having to co-exist with stupidity and greed I have a feeling that line of thinking is going to be of diminishing consolation as the world
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by notpachet 2y ago
I don't know but we're in a thread about Cursor... I don't think anyone is writing significantly better code using Cursor.
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by notpachet 2y ago
Doesn't that just scream "bad design" at you? Shouldn't we be aiming for agents that require less GPU? And agents that are good enough that we don't have to shop around for "competing prices" on answers?
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by notpachet 2y ago
My family already does this.
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by notpachet 2y ago
Take my upvote you greedy bastard.
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by notpachet 2y ago
Some of us are still shipping Redux apps with React as the V and life is good.
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by notpachet 2y ago
> this could be the moment that Google realises it needs to stick to what it knows best - Search You misspelled "ads"
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by notpachet 2y ago
It's HN so you can't be entirely sure.
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by notpachet 2y ago
Aren't we already doing that?
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by notpachet 2y ago
> In a capitalist system, with enough bad decisions, your company might go bankrupt. Or your company might lobby against regulations that safeguard public health. Your company might make carcinogenic products and pressure government grou
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by notpachet 3y ago
> some people seem to have wildly different thresholds for the propositional coherence they can spot This sums up the last decade remarkably well.
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by notpachet 3y ago
They attach diodes to your head and monitor the alphawaves.
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by notpachet 3y ago
Just be careful not to do any inadvertent organizational damage from up there.
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by notpachet 3y ago
Exactly. It's that damned JS "class" keyword! ...right?
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by notpachet 3y ago
That's all very well and good from a theoretical, scientific perspective. But we're hooking these things up to real-world applications that often call for deterministic, structural understanding of their inner workings for safety

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