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by saulpw 7mo ago
From your first link, it says 10% of 28k employees in India were cut. I personally know several people who were laid off from Oracle this week (OCI). One person who's still there described it as a "bloodbath across our division&
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Yes, and, the world would be better off if the price of oil were higher. We would produce less plastic crap and take fewer frivolous airplane trips and take more public transit. Our petroleum consumption is based on underpriced oil.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Have you been walking since you were a child? Or were you raised in a car-centric culture, and discovered as an adult that you prefer walking?
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by saulpw 7mo ago
I don't know what model you're using or how you're prompting it, but for me some 60-80% of the time the results require only a little bit of steering to be 'acceptable' (like at least what I would expect from a juni
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Isaac Newton tried to keep his Calculus secret and almost got scooped by Leibniz. IMO trying to hoard knowledge is not a great look; we all (mostly) have a sense that knowledge belongs to humanity as a whole.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
I'm a committed open source dev and I've flipped my own switch from "default public" to "default private".
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Timelinize[0] has been at this for awhile on several platforms. [0] https://timelinize.com/
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Sorry, not getting it. Maybe you should start using AI to proofread your insufferable comments!
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by saulpw 7mo ago
What is "500TW/h"? If you mean 500TWh, is that 500TWh/year?
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Hm, are you sure? I was under the impression that only ASML could build SOTA fabs.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
They were saying, if you want to see the end state of lack of oil. Like how would it look if your oil spigot were turned off? A lot of people haven't thought about it.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
How many companies have a memory fab? How many companies can build a memory fab?
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by saulpw 7mo ago
I am having a similar concern about the toxic asymmetry of LLM PRs. So I came up with a taxomony of AI Levels and am asking all contributors to self-assess the level of AI involved in making their PR. https://visidata.org/a
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Something is really wrong with your setup and I can't tell what it is from these high-level descriptions. Would you be willing to hop on a videochat and walk through this simple case? I'd be really curious to figure out what&#x2
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by saulpw 7mo ago
It's not unusual for my initial output (as a programmer) not to compile either. I wouldn't say I "failed" if I can then get it to compile. Which as people are saying, is what happens with Claude Code and Opus, either a
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by saulpw 7mo ago
In that case, you can explain the nuance and offer a more balanced viewpoint, without invoking the devil as an accountability sink. Your words should stand on their own merits. (To be fair, you did this! I'm just saying you shouldn&#
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by saulpw 7mo ago
The devil doesn't need any more advocates.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
large print and I'm in
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by saulpw 7mo ago
I think they are probably referring to marketplace bears and bulls.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
"nobody technically employs" strongly implies that this is not a corporate organization.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Mine has been disputed several times (because it changed due to name change and wasn't updated). There is a very clear mechanism to dispute that decision, and in fact that's why they ask for your phone number and/or email on
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by saulpw 7mo ago
After only 3 months (!) you can claim a plateau, but not a wall.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
I mean, are you using it? Things have really moved in the past few months.
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by saulpw 7mo ago
I'm actually becoming an AI convert myself. If there is ideology here, it's not about AI, but about keeping trash off the streets. For example, I checked out their "Fictional Encyclopedia". It's an absolutely terr
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by saulpw 7mo ago
One issue is that I interpreted the parent as OR, not AND. "useless stuff OR productivity tools OR AI tools". Moreover though, I'm not even saying you shouldn't do those things. I'm actually playing around with AI
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by saulpw 7mo ago
Some of them definitely do not. Like a fictional encyclopedia? What is the point of that? That's like "an alphabetical novel". And even for the ones that might "beat the rap", I don't understand from your de
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by saulpw 7mo ago
"cannot be won" "only solution" "only alternative". sorry, no, that's too black and white. There are other solutions, even if they will only work for a couple of days/months/years.
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by saulpw 8mo ago
I agree, Claude Code has been addictive for me too. It feels like I'm finally churning through a backlog that has been weighing on me for years (decades even). Maybe the addiction is not to Claude but to productivity, and Claude is ju
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by saulpw 8mo ago
Same but for me it's 25 years of accumulated personal backlog that I'm finally burning through. Like I've been a project hoarder and now I have a house elf to tidy up and do all that widget fobbering business. I just need t
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by saulpw 8mo ago
The danger is that we won't be sending these fully-autonomous drones to 'war', but anytime a person in power feels like assassinating a leader or taking out a dissident, without having to make a big deal out of it. The reali

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