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by scotty79 6mo ago
I had one occasion where GLM 5.1 did about 95% of the implementation that I needed but couldn't progress form there. And Codex (free quota) solved the remaining 5% on the spot. I'm super happy with both. I don't touch anythin
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by scotty79 6mo ago
I firmly believe that there are thousands of times more species of viruses in circulation that influence human health, almost always in minor fashion, than we currently know. Any random, sub-clinical symptom is in my belief highly likely to
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by scotty79 6mo ago
There would be every incentive to use the most optimal transportation (up to and including remote work) if business minded people were the ones bearing the cost.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
It would be great if governments decided they should instead.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
> how can VCs consider the 'star' system reliable I think VCs just know that there are no reliable systems, so they go with whatever's used.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
Definite proof that github is social network for programmers.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
It reads HN, so it basically achieved peak intelligence.
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by scotty79 6mo ago
> The people who get caught red handed like this are lazy, incompetent and stupid. Being a cheat significantly correlates with laziness, incompetence and stupidity so there are probably very few cheats smart and diligent enough to not ge
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by scotty79 7mo ago
Author says in the article that for tests, and assertion is a test, it's ok to use epsilon.
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by scotty79 7mo ago
I think cultural norms enforced over generations can lead to altered genetic variability.
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by scotty79 7mo ago
EML goes through complex numbers and infinities internally. Previous commenter meant that there are infinite series inside log and exp. To achieve a thing like sin(x) from his universal expression, yes you'd need infinite series of tho
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by scotty79 7mo ago
What percentage of DNA do all mammals share? And what all mammals except platypus?
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by scotty79 7mo ago
In the age of AI we probably could do better in dvivding humans by pattern of variation rather than amount of variation. But who cares about such divisions if we all can interbreed?
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by scotty79 7mo ago
Species is a fuzzy concept, much like class of radius variation.
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by scotty79 7mo ago
I'm just curious. Do you play computer games?
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by scotty79 7mo ago
I love how math is like a new language, in a new country, of culture you are not exactly familiar with. This article is like living there for few months. You see things, some of them you recognize as something similar to what you have at ho
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by scotty79 7mo ago
What would be a bad answer to stairs/elevator question?
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by scotty79 7mo ago
I'm all for replacing CEOs with AI.
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by scotty79 7mo ago
Apple should be on the hook for that. If you moderate, you are responsible for damage.
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by scotty79 7mo ago
Does the clock on the wall give you intructions? Do the contents of your desk give you instructions?
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by scotty79 7mo ago
Ask Hungarians at any point of the last 16 years. The problem is that 30% vote in a conman. 29% of people try to prevent that. Then 100% of people suffer for years. It happened in Poland and in Hungary. And even if that scenario doesn'
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by scotty79 7mo ago
You don't win in courts against people who bought the law. No reason to fight there.
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by scotty79 7mo ago
It's pointing and clicking. It's just one of the simplest things a game can make a player do. It's intuitive what sound roughly it should make and what visual effect to show up. It's as if it was weird that most dancing
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by scotty79 7mo ago
Probably not that much, but it's money of influential people, so the rest must suffer.
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by scotty79 7mo ago
Basically EU should step in whenever country level government doesn't do a good enough job for its citizens. It's not strong enough to do that yet but a lot of people with cheap governments wish it was.
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by scotty79 7mo ago
Thank you for the info. Sparse checkouts from remote repo directly or do I need to clone it in whole locally and only then can do a sparse checkouts into some work directory?
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by scotty79 7mo ago
Try it. Just make a loop. Periodically tell it current time and what tools it has available. See where it goes.
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by scotty79 7mo ago
Roughly the same was true for computers and internet for years and/or decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
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by scotty79 7mo ago
Whenever I need to deal with numbers I'm reaching for a calculator. And I feel very uncomfortable when one is beyond my reach. That's at least a dependency.
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by scotty79 7mo ago
To teach students critical thinking you'd have to do expose them to authoritatively sounding bs. And nobody had time for that. I don't think AI will help with that. It got too good too fast. You'd have to intentionally expose

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