rich_sasha

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by rich_sasha 28d ago
What is meant to be the selling point over Emacs? Apart from scheme>elisp? Arguably 80% of the emacs goodness is the terabytes of elisp written in the last few decades, if you break compatibility with that you need to throw in something
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
Well, quite. Recently I gave it a database dump, and told it what the processed data looks like. Since the raw data was messy, there was a lot to explain. It didn’t go well.
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
I feel a really odd dissonance with all these accounts. I have access to top models via Cursor at work. Every time I think to myself, here’s a tedious but well defined task, with clear success criteria, where you can achieve a lot with pers
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
I find it… frustrating? Delusional? Insane? When OpenAI says, hey everyone, look, we made this thing and it’s so advanced and clever and unhinged that it can do super hard, dangerous, bad things it wasn’t told to do, and we can’t control it
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
You don’t look like a cultural fit to our company, but try a course of Ozempic and reapply in 6 months. Probs already there…
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
Well, the US clearly has far, far more rope than Greece or Italy. Question is, is that a buffer, or a perfect noose in the making. The Fed seems already constrained by the administration to not raise rates. Yields went up anyway. US primary
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
Sort of yes and no. I don’t think indefinite spending was ever on the cards. But if other countries tried to maintain the levels of US deficit / debt, they were given far less lenience from investors, in pressure / yields. This wa
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
But we’re talking 180 degrees every… 2 weeks?
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
For me the real test will be maintainability going forwards. Not a JS user. I suppose it’s one thing to rewrite code and make tests pass. But a lot of my own CPU cycles when coding go to making the code understandable, modular, editable etc
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
This seems generally like the US corporate playbook. Create a product, monopolize it and milk the monopoly. SpaceX, Uber, Amazon, Stripe, Facebook, Google…
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by rich_sasha 1mo ago
Don’t we already have plenty of deadly viruses around? Why would you design a virus when rabies, anthrax and Ebola, for starters, exist in the wild?
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
Makes the Pole of Inaccessibility easier to visit - win-win!
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
Why do they actually need to do it? They all allow web access from just about any browser. I haven’t tried but I’m sure there must be one where the web interface works from Emacs. Why are apps different?
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
SpaceX in a nutshell: simultaneously going to the moon and crashing.
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
Mmaybe- not sure. For technical applications like coding, perhaps. Though even there you have plenty of opinions about different models’ differences on subtle features, this model writes bad tests, that one is bad at JavaScript etc. But the
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
This only works up to a point. Plenty of different makers of phones for example all making fungible phones at ever lower prices, yet managing to eke out a profit. I can see a world where OpenAI, Anthropic, Chinese companies corner the marke
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
I largely agree with this take. What gives me disquiet is that I thought more or less exactly this about Uber, and was proven comprehensively wrong. Despite burning money like a furnace on an app for taxis, it seems that anyone who invested
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
I didn’t make it clear but my question isn’t about cars specifically. Cars are clearly a part of it. I can’t find any handy data, but my understanding is that US and China certainly have the most fossil fuel in their new power plants. As
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
In fairness they’re not telling us to clean up the pool, but rather that swimming in shit is great and we should all make a nice big shitty swamp. Not much of a consolation but I want to give credit where it’s due.
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
The world is in a weird prisoner’s dilemma right now. US, China, to some extent India, are pumping out CO2, and deriving a short term “co2” dividend of higher growth, unencumbered by green transition cost. Europe is somewhat trying harder t
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
There’s plenty of second order effects. What would this do to the insurance or pension firms who hold this debt? The banks who hold this debt? Also a lot of this debt is possibly held by smaller players who would get wiped out. The GFC “pro
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
It doesn't make me upset that China seems able and determined to catch up on the litography technology - what else are they supposed to do? What does make me upset is that Europe has the technology and seems unwilling or unable to ge
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
I don't know about Ceuta, but it is true Belarus has been "importing" people and forcing them to storm the Polish border, in huge numbers. It is also true that many times the Polish state has behaved inhumanely towards these
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
Lots of IDEs claim to offer Vim/Emacs emulation. Vim users seem often quite happy with the vim emulation they get (I'm only an occasional Vim user so don't have an opinion). The issue with emulating Emacs is that the editor k
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
I suppose for a non clickbaity use of a question in the title, the article should be about the question not the answer. I would think an article about the (so far inconclusive) search for extraterrestrial intelligence headed by "Are
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
Polar has an API where you can get more or less anything out. That bit is fine - sadly you can't put things in (like virtual cycling, or any activities not recorded on the Polar).
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
I read the post slightly differently. LLM code past a few pages is really unreadable. A workflow of LLM writes code, human reads/checks/corrects is IME very unproductive and frustrating, and you're usually better off writing
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if all the cash burned in Afghanistan and Iraq was instead used to combat global warming. As a plus, it would have likely left the US in a better place than having fought these wars!
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
I've noticed something else - as Anthropic models get even more and more superhuman, they seem to serve me more and more casual nonsense. Not like adding glue to pizza. Here's an example from today (paraphrasing): "you need t
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by rich_sasha 2mo ago
It's $225 per bike so revenue of $135b. Moar valuation!

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