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by pton_xd 9mo ago
I do admit to feeling some schadenfreude over them reacting to their product being leeched by others. I get it though, Anthropic has to protect their investment in their work. They are in a position to do that, whereas most of us are not.
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by pton_xd 9mo ago
As long as I have a Claude subscription, why do they care what harness I use to access their very profitable token inference business?
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by pton_xd 9mo ago
> 4 hours That made me imagine -- in the future when AI is much more advanced, maybe I could just prompt it with say "something sentimental to make my wife cry." I mean, I still came up with the idea and ultimately it's th
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by pton_xd 10mo ago
Not to be an alarmist, but... your body is covered with bacteria, viruses, and fungi; literally crawling with microbes, inside and out.
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by pton_xd 10mo ago
> Apart from being all AI-written I think nearly 100% of blog posts are run through an LLM now. The author was lazy and went with the default LLM "tone" and so the typical LLM grammar usage and turns of phrase are too readily a
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by pton_xd 10mo ago
So I guess this talent hire + tech license is the new way to acquire startups? Chatacter.ai, Windsurf, and now Groq. Any employees of those companies lurking here? I'm curious how the morale is now.
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by pton_xd 10mo ago
It's just fatigue from seeing the same people and themes repeatedly, non-stop, for the last X months on the site. Eventually you'd expect some tired reactions.
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by pton_xd 10mo ago
> "Just Eat Less" is roughly the way to lose weight Maybe the messaging should be "eat healthier"? How many obese people cook for themselves and eat exclusively from the outer aisles of the grocery (fruits, vegetables
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by pton_xd 10mo ago
> For years, despite functional evidence and scientific hints accumulating, certain AI researchers continued to claim LLMs were stochastic parrots: probabilistic machines that would: 1. NOT have any representation about the meaning of th
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by pton_xd 10mo ago
This is what seemingly every app does. They add 15 different categories for notifications / emails / whatever, and then make you turn off each one individually. Then they periodically remove / add new categories, enabled by d
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by pton_xd 10mo ago
I have to say, it was fun while it lasted! Couldn't really have asked for a more rewarding hobby and career. Prompting an AI just doesn't have the same feeling, unfortunately.
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by pton_xd 10mo ago
So the brain is a mathematical artifact that operates independently from time? It just happens to be implemented using physics? Somehow I doubt it.
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by pton_xd 10mo ago
> And they can't even write a single proper function with modern c++ templating stuff for example. That's just not true. ChatGPT 4 could explain template concepts lucidly but would always bungle the implementation. Recent model
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by pton_xd 10mo ago
That's standard in the games industry as well. Plus many others like no rtti, no huge dependencies like boost, no smart pointers, generally avoid ctors / dtors, etc.
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
I also enjoy my morning ritual of preparing the grinds and brewing a fresh pot. But I'll be honest, at the end of the day it doesn't really matter where I get it -- brunch at a nice restaurant, Starbucks, McDonalds, a cheap hotel
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
At the very least, modern cars are much heavier and ultimately mass wins. For example, a 2005 Honda CRV weights 3400 lbs while a 2025 is 3900 lbs. Plus they have tons more auxiliary safety features like lane departure warning, forward colli
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
A dozen eggs is up over 350%, but a 6-pack of Budweiser is only up 60ish% since 2000. So you know, it all balances out. Maybe drink a few extra cans of Bud with your next meal.
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
I was really excited about the idea of a modern statically typed language with green threads ala Erlang / BEAM. I lost interest when Rust moved away from that direction and became focused on zero-cost abstractions instead.
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
I bought a Dell XPS M1210 laptop in 2007. About a year later the laptop died. From what I could gather, the soldering on the NVIDIA 7400 graphics card had failed. Some people were apparently able to reflow it but I had no such luck. In my o
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
What are the odds it's a forgery? Couldn't find any details on their grading method and how it was "positively identified to originate from the first print run of the issue" [0]. [0] https://www.ha.com/he
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
> Multiple Supreme Courts have also made it clear several times that they believe you do not have a right to privacy in public spaces. So all the traffic camera databases do is automate and make easier something that is currently definit
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
I love how programming discussions du jour have basically devolved into "really? my socks definitely smell better after using 2 scoops of last month's soap. what spin cycle are you using?"
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
Reid Hoffman already resigned so I guess, kudos to him for getting ahead of the curve!
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
That's a charitable take. It was them joking about how to leverage his power to pressure her into a relationship. Also the woman's dad is the founding president of some major Chinese bank (AIIB) that he was cozying up to. Also a r
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
> It's not about the extremism of the belief. It's about the mechanism of control. > but are not actually cults, because you can leave without much difficulty if you set your mind to it. By that definition Islam should be co
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
> It's mostly used as way to slur a disfavored group. I generally agree. The divide between religion and cult is just a distinction between what's deemed acceptable behavior by society. Obsessing over a person who died thousand
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
Too granular, there are 4 levels of wealth: the destitute, those who have to work, those who have enough assets to not work, and finally the elite who influence the rules of society.
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
> People may well have a fuzzy idea of how their credit card works, but how it really works is formally defined by financial institutions. > Our probabilistic, fuzzy concepts are often simply a misconception. How eg a credit card work
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
What did they think would happen? Installing surveillance systems to monitor people is acceptable, as long as they're only used against the majority? I don't understand the logic here.
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by pton_xd 11mo ago
I think this is the beginning of the end of Github. Who has time to read through all these new vibe-coded projects and tools? The READMEs alone are basically essays. You can always get a chuckle or two if you read long enough though, so the

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