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by pydry 4mo ago
If I did show you such a thread you'd likely just say "yeah I don't think any of them are paid". So what's the point? You've just confirmed very clearly that your criteria for what constitutes a paid comment is
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by pydry 4mo ago
I've yet to hear an argument that argues that software engineers can be replaced by AI that doesnt boil down to slop apologism, inability to detect slop or simple gaslighting. These are things I've come to expect from bots, cluele
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by pydry 5mo ago
How can you accurately detect what is and isn't a not? You seem very confident you can tell the difference so I thought I'd ask first.
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by pydry 5mo ago
You tend to see that more for the more high margin and branded supplements. The profit margins on creatine are not high.
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by pydry 5mo ago
The bifurcation is probably mostly just along the lines of slop tolerance than whether they "like" to code or whether they're a boomer or whatever. There are a lot of people with high slop tolerance and who are seemingly prep
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by pydry 5mo ago
And the land value tax does the exact opposite of that. If you sit on an underdeveloped plot of land in a high value location your tax bill will exceed your rental income. The land is worthless to you. So you'll sell up to somebody who
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by pydry 5mo ago
Most executives make commercially disadvantageous decisions in exchange for more power. It's practically a law of business: executives prioritize their power first and their company's profit margins second . This is one reaso
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by pydry 5mo ago
Companies that don't care about code quality always care about the side effects of poor code quality. They just can't connect the dots.
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by pydry 5mo ago
Not true at all. They do care about what's fashionable and right now what is fashionable is AI. Just because they're in charge of multi billion dollar corporations doesn't mean that they don't get distracted by shiny bau
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by pydry 5mo ago
I mean, I guess if you're a NIMBY who wants to inhibit the construction of more affordable housing that's a bad thing.
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by pydry 5mo ago
Land value taxes don't discourage desirable behavior when raised. Property taxes might discourage construction but if land values are high enough then property taxes approximate land value taxes. Raising income tax on the other hand di
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by pydry 5mo ago
It's definitely a form of psychosis - contact with reality has been lost in both cases.
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by pydry 5mo ago
I really wish the management behind these dumb ideas couldnt just quietly pretend they never did it once it goes out of fashion. The fact that somebody established a leaderboard for tokenmaxxing ought to follow you around like a black cloud
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by pydry 5mo ago
>It's clear that politicians don't get this from the way they talk about a "mere 1%" wealth tax. None of them would speak of adding a "mere 20%" to the income tax rate, even though that's mathematically
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by pydry 5mo ago
The thesis for gold is that it holds its value in times of war when companies and governments fall apart.
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by pydry 5mo ago
Github team are seemingly too busy fighting downtime with ever more slop.
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by pydry 5mo ago
Except in a small minority of circumstances "lowering the cost of code" doesnt really help if the code which was lowered in cost was crap code. High quality code hasnt lowered in cost. Arguably it's gone up actually becau
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by pydry 5mo ago
It's not complicated. They are in favor of public vandalism such as that which was committed by the Boston Tea Party whereas you appear to be suggesting that you are vehemently against it.
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by pydry 5mo ago
IME you give it very precise specifications and it still fucks it up. When we talk about "the" bottleneck being specs it just isnt the case that it's the only thing LLMs do poorly. Theyre really bad at a lot of stuff in the
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by pydry 5mo ago
The BBC is state funded media, largely supplying state propaganda, paid for with a tax. The only quirk is that you can avoid the tax by not owning a TV and that it sometimes used to hold the government to account in the days before David Ke
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by pydry 5mo ago
It will also vacuum up your user data and use it to train AI models and such.
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by pydry 5mo ago
Or dealing with the idiotic fallout of somebody who sucks at coding or even has never coded in their life trying to make that happen.
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by pydry 5mo ago
I dont believe this for one second. There ought to be entire sets of teams of devs replaced by one guy if this the case. There ought to be popular open source projects suddenly being improved at 10x previous speed if it were true. Im seeing
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by pydry 5mo ago
Gas is dispatchable. You can treat it like a huge battery. Nuclear power not only isnt a substitute for gas, it needs gas as a backup and to mediate supply and demand. Gas is also waaaay cheaper than equivalent amounts of nuclear power - li
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by pydry 5mo ago
Small modular mass produced reactors have been tried for about 30-40 years without any real progress on making them cheap. This isnt for a lack of investment either.
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by pydry 5mo ago
This the core unspoken bone of contention in most AI arguments I think: most people either arent writing code with strict quality requirements or dont realize where their use of AI is violating them. That said most of the world's most
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by pydry 5mo ago
You would likely get to 97% green energy first with 5-8 hours of storage: https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g... (for Australia it is 5, for other countries it might be 8) Once you get to that &quot
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by pydry 5mo ago
1/5th the price of nuclear. Probably when combined with batteries it is half the price. There are some colder areas in northern europe especially where solar doesnt work as well but they also tend to be better served for hydro (which c
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by pydry 5mo ago
There is verifiably a flood of new projects. The selfhosted subreddit had to put in checks coz too many people were complaining about vibecoded slop. iOS submissions are way up. What I havent seen is existing open source people develop 10
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by pydry 5mo ago
>We have been authoring HTML by hand for decades with ease No, we've been generating it with templates or authoring templates. Authoring HTML by hand is a very early 2000s thing to do.

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