padolsey

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by padolsey 3mo ago
Chalkboard, pencil and paper are also technology. Ban them. Instead rely purely on the vocal chords to tell stories of old.
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by padolsey 4mo ago
Tbf this is what 'defence in depth' is and it kinda works.. until it doesn't.
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by padolsey 4mo ago
The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you've a billion dollars in series A.
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by padolsey 4mo ago
>Where cash is stigmatized? I haven't seen such a place except PRC. I don't know about stigma, per se, but there are a few places where businesses have a pretty explicit legal right to refuse cash, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, US.
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by padolsey 4mo ago
>covering such lovely topics as the hardest day of my life, my biggest life challenges, and other similar “trauma-baiting” questions. And this was for a mental health startup!? Please name-and-shame them. Awful.
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by padolsey 4mo ago
Does anyone know how this even happens inside the walls of google? Is it an automated process? How is such a (presumably) high revenue account just magically blocked without human intervention? I'm quite perplexed.
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by padolsey 4mo ago
Nah the bounce is gorgeous
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by padolsey 5mo ago
My understanding was that strokes caused brain cell death, and that there was no coming back from that, but my neurologists would speak of 'bruised' brain cells, and that after weeks or months or even years you can see recovered f
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by padolsey 6mo ago
For a 'happy map' there is a bizarrely puritanical deficit of orgasms. EDIT: oh wait I found one about backrubbing. That's nice I guess.
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by padolsey 6mo ago
This is fun. I'd like to see the same idea but oriented for richer tokens instead of simpler tokens. If you want to spend less tokens, then spend the 'good' ones. So, instead of saying 'make good' you could say &#x2
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by padolsey 6mo ago
Knowing the nature of a test ahead of time, building out your capabilities and tooling before entering the exam hall when your peers don't have that advantage, makes you a cheater.
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by padolsey 6mo ago
If true, this is essentially what Dspy does https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy (it was made back in 2023)
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by padolsey 6mo ago
Precisely. I dare say software developers bemoaning this new world don't realise that they - too - are supplanters of a prior world. A sweet irony.
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by padolsey 6mo ago
Does it have to be mutually exclusive? On-the-fly software does not destroy software. Gatekeeping software creation does not mean shoving the existing creators out, it just means creating a larger space that others can occupy, like when &#x
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by padolsey 6mo ago
There is indeed a painful dissonance here. I like this new world, but feel sorrow for the loss of something. I try to remember how empowering AI is. It is already allowing millions of people to finally use the devices they've been si
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by padolsey 6mo ago
Can anyone familiar with the technology help disillusion naive people like me as to why on earth palantir needs to exist? It feels like a big pile of nothing. But tbf that's how I feel about Salesforce and Jira too. Big fat database sc
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by padolsey 7mo ago
Yep :/ There are just no good heuristics left for quality clothing. It's horrible. One thing I do genuinely have good experience with is Japanese denim. But that's about it.
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by padolsey 7mo ago
My approach is that, "you may as well" hammer Claude and get it to brute-force-investigate your codebase; worst case, you learn nothing and get a bunch of false-positive nonsense. Best case, you get new visibility into issues. Of
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by padolsey 7mo ago
> I work in software and for single line I write I read hundredths of them. I'm not sure whether this should humble or confuse me. I am definitely WAY heavier on the write-side of this equation. I love programming. And writing. I lo
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by padolsey 7mo ago
Not a group per se but I maintain an index of 'good' people in tech here, and their contraries - https://goodindex.org
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by padolsey 7mo ago
Before you fully delete your account, don't forget to first save your chats! Go to https://chatgpt.com/#settings/DataControls and click Export under "Export Data".
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by padolsey 8mo ago
The AI industry, and SV tech generally, has a pattern of recruiting talent by flattering people's self-image as builders and discoverers, which makes it psychologically very difficult for those people to reckon honestly with downstream
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by padolsey 8mo ago
> Because no one believes these laws or bills or acts or whatever will be enforced. Time will tell. Texas' sat on its biometric data act quite quietly then hammered meta with a $1.4B settlement 20 years after the bill's enactme
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by padolsey 8mo ago
I'm surprised to see so little coverage of AI legislation news here tbh. Maybe there's an apathy and exhaustion to it. But if you're developing AI stuff, you need to keep on top of this. This is a pretty pivotal moment. NY ha
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by padolsey 8mo ago
Agree! And this is why it is a bad idea IMHO for agents to sit at the abstraction layer of browser or below (OS). Even at the browser-addon level it's dangerous. It runs with the user’s authority across contexts and erodes zero-trust b
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by padolsey 8mo ago
Yeh I don't think there's much value in a credo if it celebrates Altman. He's a terrible idol to have. He compared Trump to Hitler in 2016, then donated $1M to his inauguration and tweeted about being in an "NPC trap&quo
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by padolsey 8mo ago
The incumbants Goodreads and their owner Amazon have indeed done such a poor job at this. Seven years ago I tried creating a basic graph using collaborative-filtering (effectively using our actual reading patterns as the embeddings space in
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Blob Opera, Community Edition(opera.addy.ie)
29 points by padolsey 9mo ago|4 comments
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by padolsey 10mo ago
I think it's become a bit of a cliche/clique'y thing amongst a certain population. I don't know its origins (tumblr emo crowd??) but I first encountered it in Silicon Valley. The Collison brothers used to love doing it,
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by padolsey 10mo ago
I agree that there will be no single call or inference that presents malice. But I feel like they could still share general patterns of orchestration (latencies, concurrencies, general cadences and parallelization of attacks, prompts used t

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