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You prompted it to fix it. Now try prompting it to get it wrong.
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Humans only reply very occasionally (except smoldesu in Apple threads) and often have unique experiences, whereas AI will always answer any question you give it (even if it has absolutely no idea it’ll make up some bs) and it tends to “play
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They are largely cultural and corruption problems. And the biggest parts of the corruption problem is inherent to this conversation - wealthy people have massive advantages at maintaining and increasing wealth whereas the poor have almost
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The answer is it’s very bad at large amounts of code. It has no skill at reasoning across a large amount of files where say you’d need to make many small changes in a handful of places and know that those changes all work together. These mo
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I feel very much at odds with this - it’s not going beyond a couple commands, this is exactly what I’d expect a language model to be able to do today based on the past three years progression. It’s not actually executing anything ofc, it’s
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But the truth is if you went and asked these worshippers about this specific case, or other cases I’m sure you consider egregious, a majority would say yea this is bad. If you really think that a significant chunk of Americans actually beli
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It’s more than that. I’d argue there are “IQs” for culture (what’s the best outcome in a meta sense), power (what words/actions lead to maintaining dominance), social (how does everyone likely feel and react to what I say, related to p
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For years YouTubes top hero banner purposely loaded quite a bit later than the rest of the page. I never noticed it, until I moved to Spain for a while. Our place had slow internet, and I watched my roommates hit the ad multiple times a day
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How does that square with the readme? > For development, DuckDB requires CMake, Python3 and a C++11 compliant compiler. I guess they mean libraries? But specifying for compilation implies to me they wrote their own compiler or something
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What was FTXs market cap a month ago?
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Sam Bankman-Fried was using exotic stimulants known for inducing gambling
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Completely untrue, they do this stuff all the time. Usually they just interview people in the industry and quote them, or temper with words like alleged. But it’s common.
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Getting very muscular will earn you all sorts of judgements, that’s humanity. It certainly will reduce attraction from women most stages of life as it’s a stronger indicator of insecurity and low self confidence more than it’s an indicator
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The non-strawman of my comment is that skepticism of things COVID-related is a huge surface area with many topics that were banned but reasonable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33594175
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Fwiw I am naturally strong, I’ve always been muscular even when not working out much. Some people are like that, there’s genes that code for it.
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I’ve gone through years of working out daily to years of basically only walking and not exercising much. The honest truth is if I’m truly coding a lot, working out is a strict downgrade in my long term output holding for all other variables
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I guess my point is browser all do easily provide (some with extensions) exactly this already - a mode where it's just HTML with some standard readable CSS already. You can also do default user stylesheets. This is a positive point for
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just hit reader mode
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IPG and ADL both pushing hard to pull advertisements. https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/158860354056966... Not to mention there’s countless cases of this happening over the last decade, across payment p
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You said that’s not what happened in reply to me, and I cited that it did happen. I’m just backing up my own assertions, nothing to do with you. And they certainly banned plenty of conservatives for their views. It was just first framed as
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They should be damaging each other more if anything, I see 0 problem with that. Apple launching a search engine would be the best possible thing for the world any of these companies could do, given how terrible Google has become. And Google
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It is what happened: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat... And they had everything to do with politics. It’s interesting to see people cheer when things go their sides way and then d
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> With one flip of a switch, Apple wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars. The entire business of a company. This is monopoly. You can easily re-frame this as: with the flip of a switch Apple single handedly stopped anti-consumer prac
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Or you can author styles in JS and have them compiled to CSS. Then it's actually less brittle (fully typed), no fuoc, jank or deadlocks. https://vanilla-extract.style https://tamagui.dev
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Subset. Hey man, I don't think you've spent enough time learning about technology nor humanity to argue any of this. Your own fault for a bad conversation.
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He’s an artist, he’s supposed to be messy. But you also clearly have no idea who he is and what’s he’s stood for - the guy is single-handedly responsible for turning the tide on Gangster rap. Here’s one way to put it: No other man alive tod
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So did Michael Jackson, and he talked about it. What does it matter if some other person did or didn’t talk about their issues - it’s irrelevant. Do you know what he meant by death con 3? Because he explains it himself in the video and it’s
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This is gross slander. This is a black man who is a unicorn in two industries. One of the most successful black people of all time. Who is fighting to establish black ownership in those industries. Here’s his latest full interview where he
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It’s orders of magnitude higher and further depending on how you estimate unreported even more so. For many cohorts it’s higher than rate of any permanent side effect from Covid itself. Myocarditis is typically permanent. So you’re wrong, a
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Page 9 of this study: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/myocarditis-risk-significant... Men under 40 have significantly higher risk of myocarditis from the mRNA vaccines than from Covid itself.
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