saulpw

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by saulpw 1y ago
It's not just you, I completely agree. 128-bit addresses are overkill. 64-bit would have been fine, and yes, backwards-compatible would have gotten us there that much sooner. For me, it's a deal-breaker that I can't reason
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by saulpw 1y ago
But then, what is really the difference between chatting with a person on the street without a connection, vs an LLM without a connection? I guess I've had enough of the former to value it not much differently.
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by saulpw 1y ago
It's hollow and doesn't lead to any kind of friendship or bond. You might as well walk around blazed out of your mind and saying hello to everyone you pass on the street. It feels friendly but no connections are made.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Ph.D. dropout.
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by saulpw 1y ago
That's all fine and good. But nothing lasts. And then when you can no longer lift things, the humiliation you suffer is proportional to the pride you take in it. Saying "it is nice to have a thing to hang your hat on" sound
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by saulpw 1y ago
Proud of your work, not proud of yourself. The latter is quite a reliable source of unhappiness, I've found.
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by saulpw 1y ago
You mean if you're under 30 years old, like half of the people in the world? Or pick an age at which being "astonishingly naive" should be expected, since you just don't have the life experience yet. The proportion of
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by saulpw 1y ago
Being addicted to workahol means they aren't able to enjoy other things. Your comment is like saying "maybe alcoholics just enjoy drinking".
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by saulpw 1y ago
This is a tangential argument. I want neither foreign nor domestic propaganda infesting our information streams. We seem to agree that people as a group are quite prone to systemic influence, and the fact that US corporations do it does n
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by saulpw 1y ago
We tried that, and it turns out you can't trust people to exercise their critical faculties. Haven't you been paying attention?
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by saulpw 1y ago
I don't understand how this relates to the material. Because people can't get their spouses to exercise, anyone who cares about themselves should have to pay a premium to a private insurance company so they don't lose everyt
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by saulpw 1y ago
Well for one thing it means that you are infertile, which would be very upsetting to many people apart from their gender.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Yes, Adderall is mind-altering, even if it's not as profound as psychedelics. Caffeine is also mind-altering to a lesser degree.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Re: the Sorites paradox, I have a definition of a heap that I think is workable. It's not a specific number; it's "a collection of items becomes a heap when some indeterminate number of items are obscured by other items on to
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by saulpw 1y ago
> Even if you had a meager income of $50-$55k a year this whole time, you would have produced nearly $1 million dollars worth of income before taxes by now. And how much was rent, and food, and car insurance? It's easy to multiply
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by saulpw 1y ago
Well, I mean it's unlikely but hear me out, what if SpaceX were actually run by a rogue trillionaire and the country were run by another rogue billionaire and they didn't get along?
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by saulpw 1y ago
How about as a backup in case all other current options are unavailable?
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by saulpw 1y ago
Thank you, I feel similarly. We've become gods of computing through global-scale invention, production, supply-chains, and finance, and we're apparently going to use that power to "improve productivity" which in the bes
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by saulpw 1y ago
I use privacy.com for this. (Not affiliated, just a satisfied customer.)
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by saulpw 1y ago
I have opted out of the scanner at numerous airports over the past 20 years, without fail (dozens of times), and not once have I been asked to go through a 'magnetometer'. It's been a manual pat down every time.
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by saulpw 1y ago
They weren't! X-rays were the first step towards nukes. 1895 for X-rays and 50 years later in 1945 for the atomic bomb.
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by saulpw 1y ago
It even says at one point > I've reviewed the full list of US states So it's either incompetent when it reviews something without prompting, or that was just another bit of bullshit. The latter seems almost certainly the case.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Sex is an intimate physical act, which often/usually has intimate emotional consequences. Sex work is not foul like garbage collection. Sex work is invasive like body horror stunt work. How many jobs have an essential requirement to p
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by saulpw 1y ago
Most of what you are saying makes sense, except this: > I think it's about as wrong as getting your iphone screen fixed by someone who couldn't cut it in "real" IT work. Or getting your garbage picked up by someone wh
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by saulpw 1y ago
> considering "out-of-context reasons" and taking a wider perspective is pretty much the defining aspect of LLMs as general-purpose AI tools. "out-of-context" literally means that the reason isn't in its context.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Each FTE doing that manual data pipelining work is also validating that work, and they have a quasi-legal responsibility to do their job correctly and on time. They may have substantial emotional investment in the company, whether survival
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by saulpw 1y ago
You say this like you can just talk with the VP and CFO and have a nuts and bolts conversation about big systems things as an pre-hire IC. You can't negotiate with even medium-sized companies at that level. They have a fixed idea of
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by saulpw 1y ago
Yeah, no one wants some abandoned open source project for a defunct business. The only value is in code that is living and maintained. So if you're not willing to make it a living, maintained codebase, then don't bother releasin
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by saulpw 1y ago
Also the Queen song "'39", written by Brian May (who resumed and completed his Ph.D. in Astrophysics decades after his time with Queen).
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by saulpw 1y ago
Why only for donations? What about for all subscription services? For this I use privacy.com, to give each 'vendor' its own unique credit card number, with a monthly/annual/lifetime limit. I can review all my recent ex

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