short_sells_poo

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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
This is entirely predictable: we get an army of vibe coders, vibe coding up tools to make vibe coding easier.
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by short_sells_poo 7mo ago
Because the power is disproportionally concentrated with one party - the service provider. The users of the service are numerous, comparatively small and uncoordinated. In a situation like that, users have no means of resisting egregious te
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by short_sells_poo 8mo ago
A few weeks ago the github integration was completely broken on the claude website for multiple days. It's very clear they vibe code everything and while it's laudable that they eat their own dogfood, it really projects a very ama
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by short_sells_poo 8mo ago
Perhaps it was convenient for everyone involved to have an obvious enemy. Say the US wiped out the USSR... then what? Hegemonies are not known to work well without some bogeyman to conquer or rally against. The USSR was a very convenient en
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by short_sells_poo 8mo ago
That's very individual. Particularly for games where twitch reflexes are irrelevant, I much prefer smoothness to minimizing input lag.
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by short_sells_poo 8mo ago
At 30 fps you already have 30ms between frames so you aren't getting anything close to instant input.
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by short_sells_poo 8mo ago
I actually came to this realization recently. I'm part of a modding community for a game, and we are seeing an influx of vibe coded mods. The one distinguishing feature of these is that they are entirely parasitic. They only take, they
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by short_sells_poo 8mo ago
I'd absolutely want to review every single line of code made by a junior dev because their code quality is going to be atrocious. Just like with AI output. Sure, you can go ahead and just stick your head in the sand and pretend all tha
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by short_sells_poo 8mo ago
For a long time to come. The energy density of fossil fuels is very high (about 50x higher than that of lithium ion batteries), there's a ton of infrastructure for handling and transporting them and a ton of infrastructure for using th
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by short_sells_poo 9mo ago
I see your point, but consider this: getting to and through a major airport is a huge pain the ass. Trains also tend to take you to city centers more often than airports, which almost always need to be a significant distance from anything i
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by short_sells_poo 9mo ago
To people who have to commute to London, particularly if it's not a mainline train, it's tragically bad and overpriced. Train outages happen on a daily basis, the fare is very expensive compared to mainland Europe and the quality
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by short_sells_poo 9mo ago
The issue is that wages in London are much lower for tech than in SF or NY. If you want to make good money in London, you have to work in finance, and preferably in the investment business. London is a very expensive city, and the median
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by short_sells_poo 9mo ago
The courts may (still) be independent, but it feels like they are pointless because the government just wholesale ignores them anyway. If the executive branch doesn't enforce, or selectively enforces court judgements, you may as well s
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by short_sells_poo 9mo ago
I just realized something: doesn't this allow the actual drivers to escape the non-monetary penalties? In the UK, if a driver is caught speeding, they'll (generally) also get points on their license and after accumulating 12 point
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by short_sells_poo 9mo ago
It's a soft version of money printing basically. These firms are clearly inflating each other's valuations by making huge promises of future business to each other. Naively, one would look at the headlines and draw the conclusion
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by short_sells_poo 9mo ago
Someone else mentioned it elsewhere in this thread, and I believe this is the crux of the issue: this is all predicated in the actual end users finding enough benefit in LLM services to keep the gravy train going. It's irrelevant how s
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by short_sells_poo 9mo ago
The fact that there's an incestual circle between OpenAI, Microsoft, NVidia, AMD, etc.. where they provide massive promises to each other for future business is nothing short of hilarious. The economics of the entire setup are laughabl
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by short_sells_poo 9mo ago
I never thought of it this way, but now it's clear. I found that once I tack on luggage, a seat with more space, etc.. they become more expensive than traditional airlines with the same package. In other words, their business model rea
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by short_sells_poo 10mo ago
I just had an issue where Opus misspelled variable names between usages. These are fundamental and elementary mistakes that make me deeply distrust anything slightly more complex that comes out of it. It's great for suggesting approach
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by short_sells_poo 10mo ago
That's "just life" unfortunately. By the time most people reach their mid-30s, they accumulate enough commitments that they have to plan things in advance or they just don't happen. If a friend turned up randomly and una
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by short_sells_poo 10mo ago
Ha, bold of you to assume they'll respond!
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by short_sells_poo 11mo ago
You are right, but this doesn't mean that the amount of work is conserved as your original message implies. The correct statement would be that "algorithmic complexity is just one aspect of actual practical complexity and an algor
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by short_sells_poo 11mo ago
It was nothing like covid. The dot com crash lasted years where tech was a dead sector. Equity valuations kept declining year after year. People couldn't find jobs in tech at all. There are still plenty of tech jobs these days, just le
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by short_sells_poo 11mo ago
They already do this. Including peripherals which appear as an actual mouse, but they are there only so that cheat software can take control of the input without modifying the game memory. There are cheats which run on a separate machine an
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by short_sells_poo 11mo ago
I'm writing this as a heavy python user in my day job. Python is terrible for writing complex systems in. Both the language and the libraries are full of footguns for the novice and expert alike. It has 20 years of baggage, the packagi
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by short_sells_poo 11mo ago
How is this going to solve the supply chain attack problem at all though? It just obfuscates things even more, because once an LLM gets "infected" with malicious code, it'll become much more difficult to trace where it came f
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by short_sells_poo 11mo ago
I don't understand how is this "forced privatisation"? There's nothing preventing a state owned rail company from operating, no? All this says is that private companies must be allowed competitive access. Am I missing so
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by short_sells_poo 11mo ago
I'd argue that subsidizing the railway system from the taxes is inherently a better way to pay for it. In the UK, the trains are ridiculously expensive out of pocket. They are vastly more expensive than in Switzerland (a really high Co
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by short_sells_poo 11mo ago
You touch on the core issue of the UK, but there's both a cultural and policy aspect. 1. As you say, an aging population has placed the entire country into a gridlock - the pensions system as it stands is ridiculous and unsustainable.
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
This is so far out of my expertise that I have nothing to add to the actual topic, but I must say that the veritable forest of beam mirrors, splitters and whatnots looks fascinating. It reminds me a bit of the early integrated circuit resea

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