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by sanderjd 1y ago
Because they are similar and repetitive, but not identical .
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by sanderjd 1y ago
That's all fine and good, but there is always boilerplate that you can't design away. Even the most succinct cli command definition and argument parsing library you could devise is going to require a bunch of option name definit
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by sanderjd 1y ago
ha, very apropos example. One of the things I was ecstatic to let an LLM write for me last week was a click cli. Nobody finds joy in writing this kind of boilerplate, but there's no way to avoid it. The click API is very succinct, but
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah. LLMs make this a lot easier, is the thing.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah but this is exactly why using LLMs doesn't actually preclude problem solving. You still have to do all these things. You just don't have to physically type out as much code.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I think this is a good analogy! But I draw a different conclusion from it. You're right that you wouldn't want to use a forklift to lift the weights at a gym. But then why do forklifts exist? Well, because gyms aren't the onl
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by sanderjd 1y ago
This is exactly my take as well! I do really like programming qua programming, and I relate to a lot of the lamentation I see from people in these threads at the devaluation of this skill. But there are lots of other things that I also
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by sanderjd 1y ago
No, it's not what happened... The election was not won with 35% of the popular vote... Again, if you insist on talking about "35% of people in the US" rather than "35% of voters", then fine, but I think it's a
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Oh hmm, if the 35% number is all Americans , then sure. But typically people are talking about percentages of voters with statistics like this.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
ha, well put!
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I hoped it was clear from my comment that this was a youthful indiscretion and should not be used as any indication that I was right about any of my motivations for this at the time :) Though I dunno, this was a long time ago, much closer
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Agreed. It was really a revelation to me. Looking back now, it's clear that I started reading it as a status seeking thing. I thought my intellectual friends (and especially girlfriends) would think it was cool that I actually read the
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Interesting! But then it seems like he would have said it a bit differently, that the odds of that particular tournament with those specific players ending in a tie were much lower.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
If you only have 35% of the popular vote, you aren't going to win in the electoral college.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I agree. This was my point. The 35% number is the strong support. But that is not enough. If they lose all their weak support, they lose.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
35% is still not enough, even given those issues.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
... no it isn't. If you have 35% support but everyone else is opposed, that's not enough to win elections.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
And yet, we can all choose what kinds of protests we do and don't support and respect. It's true that the opposition will say that even the best most peaceful protest is bad. But sometimes people broadly will agree with them, and
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Recognizing that this won't result in any useful benchmarks, is there a way to emulate an nvidia gpu? In a docker container, for instance?
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah I think we did kick up a fuss? The better question is why the tech industry seemed to forget that the first Trump administration was terrible...
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How vibe coding is tipping Silicon Valley's scales of power(semafor.com)
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by sanderjd 1y ago
There are lots of concrete examples in this article: https://www.semafor.com/article/06/03/2025/how-vibe-coding-i... Do I think those rise to "case studies"? No. But to another commenters point
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Thanks, that's helpful. I agree that first point is interesting, but it's maybe the most mainstream view he expresses in the article. (The issue of judicial power is pretty commonly discussed by normie liberals as well!) But that&
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Right, I just disagree with this utilitarian frame. I understand that lots of people buy this, but I think it's poorly reasoned. But it's your prerogative to see it this way! I just don't. But my point here has been that to t
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Hmmm, ok, I read this. Are there any parts of it that you find particularly thoughtful about power or areas of democratic failure that are worth thinking about? I think we probably just fundamentally disagree here, because to me, this whole
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by sanderjd 1y ago
But it's not rationalists mad about this split who seem to have outsized vitriol for him. It seems to me that it's people who were not involved in that community to begin with.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
This doesn't really track with respect to Scott Alexander though? He hasn't ever been a progressive, so how is he a traitor?
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by sanderjd 1y ago
> It might be fun to imagine, but when talking about the real world it makes no sense. I choose to assume that the people who accept this premise want to make sense, so I assume they mean a real, human dictator who will eventually die. I
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I don't really disagree. I just think "ugh, so sick of this guy" is an understandable gut reaction for people to have.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
... what is your point with these anecdotes? Neither of those things made it less possible to find out what Donald Trump or a bunch of groypers think about anything.

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