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by pton_xd 2y ago
I think the usefulness is just very domain specific. If you're writing some types of boilerplate or often-tutorialized code it can spit out something very reasonable. Other types of code, like say in game dev, it stumbles around and ne
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by pton_xd 2y ago
I've always heard that "security through obscurity" is discouraged because, well, there's no stopping someone from digging in and figuring it out. However in this case it seems somewhat successful in that the author was
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Conclusion: "The administration should loosen all the restrictions that it has imposed above and beyond what Congress has required, and Congress should overhaul the system to open legal immigration for any person willing to work to con
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by pton_xd 2y ago
We can't even simulate a C. elegans worm with 1k cells and 302 neurons. But, sure, a few more GPUs and we'll have AGI!
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> News flash: you can read newspaper articles at the library. Reading an article != selling a product that redistributes the article.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> It's entirely possible that these goons will start fiddling with official statistics around things like unemployment and inflation to tell us that inflation is not actually happening any more and that therefore we must cut interes
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by pton_xd 2y ago
I'd call a month in the fridge a pretty long shelf life. An open container of chicken stock barely lasts a week.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> The change, first proposed in 2018, makes inspections consistent with those for meat and poultry products, said Paul Kiecker, administrator of USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service. Inspectors will operate under a "patrol
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Portland tried that in 2020 by decriminalizing drug possession. They reversed course and recently passed a law to recriminalize possession. I think its the right move. Downtown turned into a very unpleasant place.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
PAFACA, enacted April 2024, bans all apps operated by ByteDance. Anyway, I'm sure if DeepSeek was sold to a US company that'd be fine, too!
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by pton_xd 2y ago
... like banning ByteDance apps? Both parties are guilty here.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> It seems so strange to me to hear stories about people suddenly coming into a bunch of money and not finding contentment or even ending up depressed. If I could afford to retire today, I would do it in a heartbeat and I'm pretty s
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Always loved the TrackPoint and only buy ThinkPads for that feature alone. Maybe I'm getting older, or lazier, but these days I usually carry around a small mouse just in case I need to do some pointer navigation. Can't stand usin
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Honestly, good for them. This whole "we can use your output for our input, but don't even think about doing the same" is just absurd.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> How much of a productivity increase is that? Well jeepers, if you’re only doing 1/5th the work, then you are… punches buttons on calculator watch… five times as productive. To state the obvious -- only if all units of work are of
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Plain greek yogurt usually has no added sugar -- Fage, Siggi's, Oikos, Chobani, etc. It's also significantly higher in protein than regular yogurt.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> you're acknowledging rolling back DEI initiatives in part because of the "political landscape" Isn't that the same reason they were rolled out in the first place?
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> However I would argue an LLM will never built a trained model like stockfish or deepseek. It doesn't have to, the LLM just needs access to a computer. Then it can write the code for Stockfish and execute it. Or just download it, t
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> People said the same thing about IntelliSense. Personally I think it's true. I do the majority of my coding with IntelliSense off. It has its uses, however flexing the mind and maintaining a clear mental map of how the code is org
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by pton_xd 2y ago
After owning a Model Y for a year I have to say -- it's the best car I've ever had. Comfortable ride, the visibility with the cameras is great, amazing all-weather traction. It's freakin' fast. The voice-to-navigate work
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by pton_xd 2y ago
"The story of linear algebra begins with systems of equations, each line describing a constraint or boundary traced upon abstract space. These simplest mathematical models of limitation — each equation binding variables in measured pro
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Maybe we can do some analysis and optimize phone battery life based on your cohorts usage patterns. I don't know, I'm sure we'll figure something out once we have your data!
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> This is what a good privacy story looks like. I have an idea: send an encrypted, relayed, non-reversible, noised vector representation of your daily phone habits and interactions. That way you can be bucketed, completely anonymously of
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> I wouldn't be concerned about trusting the results of ChatGPT if it also were providing links to the sources it had cited or used as a reference in its answers. This will only be a problem for a few more years. Soon every article,
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by pton_xd 2y ago
This is Costco, you have a membership tied to your identity which they check every time you enter the store and checkout. Your order history is tied to your membership. There is no "anonymous" purchasing at Costco. They likely sha
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by pton_xd 2y ago
And simply pay 1-2% more than everyone else using a Visa card.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Agreed. Having gone through it several times myself, I don't even mind init.el bankruptcy once every 5-10 years. It's kind of rejuvinating to clean house and start anew. And these days the "starter kits" like Doom make i
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by pton_xd 2y ago
"Only models with a post-mitigation score of 'high' or below can be developed further." What's that mean? They won't develop better models until the score gets higher?
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Pretty sure they were always mealy and disgusting. I never liked apples growing up because the only two options were basically Red Delicious and Granny Smith. Maybe some Braeburn, Fuji, and Galas now and then, none of which are particularly
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by pton_xd 2y ago
My own experience is that Honeycrisp is the most consistently sweet and crisp apple you can buy (contrary to the claims made in TFA -- maybe it's a regional thing?). Cosmic Crisp is decent but I'm not a fan of the flavor.

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