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by ramesh31 5mo ago
They still make Intel laptops? Sounds awful. A 5 year old M1 Max would give this thing a run for its money. Edit: it does https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5777vs4585/Intel-Ultra-...
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>IMO, this is one of the main strengths of the US: you have 50 different options to live according to your values and beliefs, and relatively little friction if you decide to move to a state that better reflects them. Also a weakness. Ut
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>"I still think even now they could print money if they'd just do an honest adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy. Even with all the damage they've done to the brand." They could print money by just having Bob Iger stand s
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
For me it's Toto. Musically they are incredible; a supergroup of the best session musicians in the industry who worked on some of the most iconic albums of all time. But lyrically it's complete nonsense, so you can lose yourself i
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>Spirit dying is going to mean prices go up substantially across industry. Maybe, but the economics of budget airline service are solid, so we will undoubtedly get new entrants. What wasn't solid was Spirit's outright disdain f
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
Yeah I'm not sure if that was a troll actually
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>Music was incredible Ehhh, the post-grunge world was a bit of a musical wasteland. Rock died as a culturally relevant force with Cobain, but hip-hop hadn't ascended yet, so we were stuck in this weird doldrum that gave us things l
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
It's an infinitely higher quality of life if you're not in the 90th income percentile in the US already. You'll never make that much, but you'll never have half the worries we do here for lower income people.
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>The model still does its full reasoning before generating the response, caveman just affects how the final response is formatted Right, and that final response forms the latest context for your next follow-up prompt. Not having that fin
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>"Apple failed to meet existing VR/AR developers where they are. Apple told us all to learn Swift and port our projects or pay thousands of dollars in Unity licensing costs to ship our existing projects to the new platform.&quo
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
*For the rest of the world. The cruel irony here is that this really won't affect the US at all. Europe and Asia will feel the brunt of it, and they seem completely uninterested in working toward a solution.
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
Caveman sounds clever if you have no idea how LLM reasoning works. Talking through a problem out loud, in depth, is a critical part of how things like Claude Code even get to a result. Those aren't "wasted tokens", they'
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
All across the northern US. We didn't have a single leaf on the trees until the last few weeks here in the northeast.
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
>Where did OpenAI go wrong? OpenAI was Anthropic. Anyone involved in actually developing GPT jumped ship when Altman performed his coup.
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
Effort should not be configurable for Opus, it should be set to a single default that provides the highest level of capability. There are zero instances in which I am willing to accept a lesser result in exchange for a slightly faster respo
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
Indeed there's a distinction that needs to be made here between "not refactoring this code means I'll need to add hacks" and "Oh I'll just clean that up while I'm in here." The former can be necessary
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
Makes the disease even more confounding, as one would assume that orange trees evolved alongside it. Normally invasives are destructive because the species has never seen it before.
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
>The idea being that if you're working in an area, you should refactor and tidy it up and clean up "tech debt" while there. This is horrible practice, and very typical junior behavior that needs to be corrected against. Un
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
>I get my DRAM needs at the RAM ranch. 18GB at a time
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
>"his title should be changed to Head of Corporate Bullshitting" They're hitting the physical limits of energy production and chip supply for inference capacity. There's literally nothing that can be done but reduce u
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
The real answer would be to ban all commercial cultivation and sales, but keep personal consumption legal. It's the multi-billion dollar tobacco industry that systematically hooks people through advertising, not the plant. Something te
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
>Can anyone explain why on earth VC's are making actual investment decisions based on imaginary internet points? Github stars used to really mean something. Having 1k+ was considered a stable, mature library being used in prod by th
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
The past is so much closer than you think. We are only three human lifetimes away from the American Revolution. The last living children of American slaves were around into the 2010s. Back to Teddy, the last living person who could have m
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
Big, could be a viable Bedrock alternative. Probably better uptime than Anthropic or AWS, too.
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
Dave the Diver is the best game I've played in years, and its a new kind of game that I think really solves this. You focus on atmosphere, characters, and discrete game mechanics that work together as a system, rather than relying on a
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
>"This article is nonsense. It lost me at "understood it was about itself". It is not self-aware and therefore has no understanding. It is a word guessing machine." I think everyone goes through the "omg this thi
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
>Red states are against the deals as well. The people are, their politicians are not. Overwhelmingly this is a problem of backroom deals with state and local Republicans subverting the electorate's will.
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
>It's strange to think how dependent people have become on these tools to the point where they can't function until they're back to normal. I'm doing the work of an entire team now. I can still do the work of one pers
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
This is becoming a pretty clear wedge between red and blue. Why do you think Musk opened his diesel turbine driven data center in rural Mississippi? Big Tech is systematically targeting small municipalities across the US with promises of in
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by ramesh31 6mo ago
It will still be $30k+ out the door, guaranteed. There's zero interest in making an actual affordable car when their margins are so high at that level.

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