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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
Okay then - let's stop subsidizing gasoline, yeah?
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
They do, but the current leadership does not have any appetite for entering Iran's airspace after the last downing drama. If Iran captures a pilot, there is going to be no more room for market manipulation.
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
It IS an issue if stand-off war is your only war, and it seems to be the exclusive approach here. If you run out of long-range precision weapons, what do you have left? Boots on the ground? That's not going to happen, and that means yo
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
Leave it to HN to over-intellectualize and twist something obvious because why not? The cretins in charge of the country think the problem is that the soldiers don't have enough testosterone and have too much facial hair, and these peo
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
If I do it, I make sure it's a good image, not just slop that I prompt and paste in, because I can. And on rare occasions when I do, it's on my own gaming system with Stable Diffusion so I can have as many takes as I like, fairly
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
It's kind of ironic how Stephen Miran's strategy of "to hell with the rest of the world, we do what we want" keeps running into electric fences. They want to devalue and inflate the dollar, but the Horse in the Hospital
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
You probably don't want your soldiers all wound up and ultra-horny during an offensive. The Nazis gave you speed as part of a standard kit. That's why the Blitzkrieg was done in one wave with no rotations. The drawback is that tho
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
They are just adding zeros to already obnoxious numbers that make no sense. The endgame is on.
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
I think of that Netflix series on FIFA and its rampant corruption. The bribes in question are laughable, considering that FIFA is a multi-billion dollar operation, and it's always some round number like $1M. At least add some cents to
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
We don't really have that nomenclature. We just recently decided what a planet it for the solar system, and even that is contentious.
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
If you are learning for sure. If you know what you are going to write, that's just typing. I am will punch a baby squirrel if I ever have to hand-craft another login or contact form. I've done it with 20 different languages and fr
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
No - you do not always give it back immediately in many cases as you have a transaction, which cannot "change hands". If a write connection makes consecutive updates to the DB, you must see it through before closing.
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
You can easily deal with these cases by tactically using transactions, but a vast majority of code can be simplified by dealing with an HTTP endpoint as an atomic concept. This all depends on what you are building. A classic CRUD app will b
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
Most of the time you will save yourself a lot of grief by having a transaction decorator for each endpoint, as each HTTP call should be atomic. And then have another read-only decorator for RO transaction.
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
We can actually review code and prompt better. Most of these people's skills involve connections made in business schools and the ability to shoot shit during three-martini lunches.
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
Like others have said - many people at the top are so successful because they ended up at the right place and right time, and their approach just fit exactly the problem at hand. They did not see the future, they just had a hunch - and that
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
I stopped caring about wellness trackers ever since the FIRST FitBit. Once you get an idea of what 10K steps feel like, it really becomes redundant at that point. This personal optimization fad is exhausting. We already get enough "dat
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
When I write these days, I am more aggressive in using "I", so it's clear it's my own voice. Generally, an LLM is less prone to self-reference like that unless it's prompted to, I guess.
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
The one Claudism I will never ever use is "synthesize". I don't even know where that came from - no one talks or writes like that - "I can synthesize that for you".
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by renegade-otter 3mo ago
The problem is bigger. Outside of coding, there is no real way to reinforce a model with pass/fail cycles until it stops hallucinating. This is why customer service uses will always have a problem. This compounds as you chain agents to
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by renegade-otter 4mo ago
The news here is that people are still using instagram.
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by renegade-otter 4mo ago
That only happens in governments that treat regulations as a racket, not something to be used for public good.
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by renegade-otter 4mo ago
Yes, but it does get easier with experience and some battle scars. Telling a startup to stick to the problem and not go wild with microservices and event sourcing is not exactly a hot take.
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by renegade-otter 4mo ago
Related, but the best quality to have in a startup is knowing when and what corners to cut instead of going on these side quests.
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by renegade-otter 4mo ago
I wipe my context relentlessly. I never have long-running conversations. In and out like Seal Team Six.
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by renegade-otter 4mo ago
Right, this is why I would slam the breaks on investing into your workflow all of your time and effort, because 2 months from now it may be out the window. Frontier models are also constantly being tweaked, so what worked yesterday may be o
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by renegade-otter 4mo ago
That may be true, but the FDA is no longer run by fiduciaries of the United States.
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by renegade-otter 4mo ago
That CGI looks quite OK, and even surpasses much of "modern" CGI. Have you ever seen "Flash"? This is considering the effects were done in 1990. Edit: a lot of what people think is CGI in T2 is actually NOT. https:&#x2F
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by renegade-otter 4mo ago
Subjective, of course, but Apple is the new HBO. They don't have the massive amount of content, but they go for quality.
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by renegade-otter 4mo ago
That's exactly right. The US Government is ruthlessly efficient - yeah, people don't want to hear that. Sure, there are Pentagon-related boondoggles, but that's different. Try working in a government office - you will be luck

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