patrickmay

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Trump directs federal agencies to cease use of Anthropic(reuters.com)
11 points by patrickmay 7mo ago|2 comments
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
A good start would be requiring police officers to carry individual liability insurance so that municipalities aren't paying for these lawsuits. If someone can't get insurance, they can no longer be a cop.
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by patrickmay 7mo ago
I suspect you're getting downvoted because the phrasing of your question implies that you don't consider this type of surveillance to be a problem.
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by patrickmay 8mo ago
So we know the minotaur probably didn't speak English.
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by patrickmay 8mo ago
Many (most?) issues don't fit on a single dimension. Using your example, people hold positions that include "Absolutely!", "Yes, but also the rights of the mother.", "Yes, but I won't impose my beliefs on
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by patrickmay 8mo ago
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
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by patrickmay 8mo ago
Power will always attract the corrupt and corruptible. The problem is the power. Reducing the size and scope of the federal government and devolving power to the states, communities, and individuals is the only way to minimize the negativ
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by patrickmay 8mo ago
Is the knowledge of which finger to use protected as much as a passcode? Law enforcement might have the authority to physically hold the owner's finger to the device, but it seems that the owner has the right to refuse to disclose whi
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by patrickmay 8mo ago
In the case of stealing tips, that's wage theft and the New York State Department of Labor has zero sense of humor about that. They will definitely investigate all claims on that topic. It might be too little and too late for the ind
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by patrickmay 8mo ago
> Takes like this seem to just have a completely different understanding of what "software development" even means than I do, and I'm not sure how to reconcile it. You're absolutely right about coding being less than
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by patrickmay 8mo ago
Tell him you need him at the code review to explain his coding decisions.
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by patrickmay 8mo ago
Exactly. I once worked on a large project where the primary contractor was Accenture. They threw a party when we hit a million lines of C++. I sat in the back at a table with the other folks who knew enough to realize it should have been
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by patrickmay 8mo ago
Upvote for "literary street food." Thanks for that.
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
A great example of Hyrum's Law: "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody." combined with failur
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
I am a native English speaker and I agree with you completely that em-dashes look better when surrounded by spaces rather than connected directly to the words.
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
Good luck to both of you!
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
I found out that the reason my Mazda CX 5 infotainment console reboots repeatedly when the temperature drops below freezing is because of a low quality SD card used by the manufacturer. I'll be replacing it this weekend.
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
You just confessed to having taste.
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
I think the lesson to take from this is "Who's miracle can I be today?"
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
It does directly address your claim that there do not exist "more powerful languages."
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
> Can we design a language so expressive that library writers can easily write the most appropriate object system, or most appropriate type system, to fit their application? Why yes, it can and has been done: https://www.drea
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
Are you familiar with https://paulgraham.com/avg.html ?
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
You're right! Oh, wait....
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
It's a real problem. I saw people boomerang back to Google after 18 months at one or even two levels higher, much faster than they could have been promoted internally.
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
Meditate for 30 minutes every morning. If you don't have time, meditate for 60 minutes.
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
The benefits of static typing with regard to reliability are unclear, at best: https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
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by patrickmay 9mo ago
Time for a remake of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" with octopi.
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by patrickmay 10mo ago
A footnote with the prompt used would be even more polite. Then I can just read that and skip the generated text.
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by patrickmay 10mo ago
I worked at Amazon and we were taught exactly the opposite. Say what you want about the company, but the writing culture there is superb. I wish other large firms valued clarity and precision as much. "No weasel words!"
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by patrickmay 10mo ago
The plate can still be easily read by a human, just not one of the Flock cameras.

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