raducu

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by raducu 8mo ago
> Gemini also frequently gets twisted around, stuck in loops, and unable to make forward progress. Yes, gemini loops but I've found almost always it's just a matter of interrupting and telling it to continue. Claude is very goo
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by raducu 8mo ago
> let myself atrophy, run on a treadmill forever, for something You're lucky to afford the luxury not to atrophy. It's been almost 4 years since my last software job interview and I know the drills about preparing for one. Long
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by raducu 9mo ago
> notice is that there's always been oscillations There's always been oscilations, true, but the rate o change and trend on those oscilations is the real issue.
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by raducu 9mo ago
> Once you use up the entire internets worth of stack overflow responses and public github repositories you run into the fact that these things aren't good at doing things outside their training dataset. I think the models have reac
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by raducu 9mo ago
> Claude is still just like that once you’re deep enough in the valley of the conversation My experience is claude (but probably other models as well) indeed resort to all sorts of hacks once the conversation has gone for too long. Not s
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by raducu 9mo ago
> That's just a different bias purposefully baked into GPT-5's engineered personality on post-training. I want to highlight this realization! Just because a model says something cool, it doesn't mean it's an emergent
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by raducu 9mo ago
> Eggs in one basket. Renewables are good, but it gets cloudy, night is a thing, it might not be windy Also, we can't survive an asteroid crash/extinction event with solar. Nuclear is transcedental. If we had practically unli
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by raducu 9mo ago
> Unfortunately this does not stop many from exaggerating claims in order to (maybe become) be internet famous I've been thinking about this a lot lately in another context -- vira priests being anti-vax and realized it's the o
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by raducu 9mo ago
Would it be possible for the CLI not to be binary and just a shell script, or a webshell would be great. My issue is I've had my work laptop wiped twice because of things I've installed on it and it's a hassle to switch accou
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by raducu 9mo ago
> I still don’t fully understand how ideology can cloud the mind so thoroughly that only a single way of thinking remains possible. I'm envious of those true believer kind of people. My father is one of them and he's held absur
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by raducu 9mo ago
> I think people get into a dopamine hit loop I also think that's the case, but I'm open to the idea that there are people that are really really good at this and maybe they are indeed 10x. My experience is that for SOME tasks
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by raducu 9mo ago
> don't need 10 parallel agents making 50-100 PRs a week I don't like to be mean, but I few weeks ago the guy bragged about Claude helping him do +50k loc and -48k loc(netting a 2k loc), I thought he was joking because I know p
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by raducu 9mo ago
> And this is incredible motivation for me. Two caveats: I'm talking about early 2000's Romania where it was quite rare to see really muscular men AND I was in my early 20s, I have no clue if men in their 30s or 40s get the sam
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by raducu 9mo ago
Not just one reason, but I stopped because I more or less maintained my physique for 7-8 years afterwards (probably being in your 20s helps) and my life circumstances were in a goldilocks zone; my dad (a doctor) was adamant I'd destroy
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by raducu 9mo ago
> not the mass used. Completely anecdotal, but when I was 18, in highschool, I trained in the gym in my hometown, supervised with a trainer, 12 reps per muscle group, very modest gains. I move to university, start reading a fitness forum
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by raducu 9mo ago
> Reputation management is what it will take to bring trust back to all forms of media. Does that really work, though? I think it doesn't -- think all the anti-vaccine type influencers -- their identities are known and they're
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by raducu 10mo ago
the prices jumped and uber is now profitable, I think that's the future for AI as well -- some will fail, but eventually some will be profitable.
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by raducu 10mo ago
That's completely beyond the point, though? Kodak invented the digital camera, did not think anything about it and others then ate their lunch. Those others are also not crushing it in 2025. The point is IBM is not the go-to to
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by raducu 10mo ago
> expedited the fall of Soviet Union by forcing them into expensive competition? Nobody forced the Soviet Union into anything. I think the soviet leaders knew that the system in the West AT THAT TIME was simply better in all ways imag
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by raducu 10mo ago
> The USSR First, China is nothing like the USSR economically and the West is NOTING like the old capitalist West in any regard. Second, the ideological capitalism of the West during the Cold War is not what actually brought prosperit
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by raducu 11mo ago
> in a pre-civilization pre-agrarian world, but ADHD would make pretty much no difference. I have ADHD and I also have hyperfocus, I think hyperfocus is an advantage in a pre-industrialized world. As a child I was fascinated with blowgu
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by raducu 11mo ago
> This would come at a cost to social/copying skills. This idea doesn't explain "systems thinking". The concept of envy/malice/insecurity and people lying to your face and stabbing you in the back was comple
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by raducu 11mo ago
> lisdexamfetamine. It's not legal where I live also, I did try 2-FMA and it felt better in certain scenarios -- like following a hard course, but I also felt the tolerance ramps up much faster in releasers than re-uptake inhibitors
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by raducu 11mo ago
> This might also hint at SWE struggling to capture what “being good at coding” means. My take would be that coding itself is hard, but I'm a software engineer myself so I'm biased.
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by raducu 11mo ago
> CBT works pretty well for adhd. I want to share my counter example -- no amount of therapy could help me not almost loose it every time I drove my daughter in heavy traffic or deal with her just being a toddler. But after 2 weeks being
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by raducu 11mo ago
> You're right that, for people with ADHD and related disorders, stimulant medication sort of just adjusts their baselines so they can pay attention like a "normal" person. I have ADHD and take metylphenidate(I've tri
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by raducu 11mo ago
> Also equipment depreciation is tax deductible whereas cloud bill isn't. Genuine question out curiosity (I have a master in finance, but never practiced it) -- aren't both the cloud bill and depreciation all tax deductible, ev
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by raducu 11mo ago
> 1. Do you really need a queue? I'm a java dev and maybe my projects are about big integrations, but I've always needed queue like constructs and polling from a db was almost always a headache, especially with multiple consume
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by raducu 11mo ago
> Some of those men could meet someone if they quit Tinder Maybe your intentions are good, but remember, unless we legalize polygamy, the "bad/inept/creepy straight-white men" narative should crumble for people in the
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by raducu 11mo ago
My partner is ok with it *

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