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by skippyboxedhero 6mo ago
Anthropic models haven't been far ahead for a while. Quite a few months at least. Chinese models are roughly equal at 1/6th the cost. Minimax is roughly equal to Opus. Chinese providers also haven't had the issues with uptime
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by skippyboxedhero 6mo ago
It has been a daily thing for 2-3 months.
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by skippyboxedhero 6mo ago
classic :D i did think when i wrote that maybe AGI is already here, definitely worked with enough devs like that
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by skippyboxedhero 6mo ago
I appreciate the work done here. Been having this feeling that things have got worse recently but didn't think it could be model related. The most frustrating aspect recently (I have learned and accepted that Claude produces bad code a
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by skippyboxedhero 6mo ago
Nope, just economic history. People think the "new thing" is new...this has happened many times before. Macro tourists come in and think ten minutes with ChatGPT has turned them into an economist. Basic knowledge.
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by skippyboxedhero 6mo ago
The correct distinction is: if you can't do something without the agent, then you can't do it. The problem that the author describes is real. I have run into it hundreds of times now. I will know how to do something, I tell AI to
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
The Chinese were right about democracy being fundamentally corrupt. To remove all regulation. Using economic policy to achieve social outcomes is insanity. Even the most free markets ultra would never suggest this, and you have people who a
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
Not aware of what happened in the 70s then with Bretton Woods? Not aware of what happened pre-08? It has gone wrong multiple times before just for the US and the US exporting inflation is not good for either the US or the rest of the world.
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
To be clear too, this is not capitalism. This is corporatism. Large companies dictating economic companies is anti-innovation. It can only end with disaster and more control/corporatism because lower-productivity workers does not produ
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
By your logic, slavery was one of the finest economic policies. Cheap labour, how about free labour? Have we thought of that? Everything would just be free. In the real world, the evidence is obvious: average productivity/wages drop, i
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
Yes, also doesn't work for me. If the changes are simple, it is fine but if the changes are complex and there isn't a clear guideline then there is no AI that is good enough or even close to it. Gives you a few days of feeling pro
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
You can't write tests if you don't know what you are looking for.
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
Elements of the readme are a dead giveaway. I can also tell you that this was written with Claude. No issues with that in principle but I definitely would not trust Claude to get this stuff correct. Generally, it is quite bad at this kind o
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
Congrats you have storage for about twenty minutes of national consumption. Rough had 9 days and was basically just a hole in the ground in the sea, rather than the manically expensive battery storage which involve massive levels of corrupt
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
Yes, offshore wind has CFDs too. If you are building an offshore wind farm, you are spending lots of money to construct something that isn't a low-cost operator and will likely cause significant economic issues with customer's abi
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
Yes, there are massive onshore reserves. The Tory government that has been accused on here of pimping the environment immediately banned all exploration. There is are also two relatively big offshore fields that were taken to a very late st
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
It isn't the wrong type of crude. Forties pipeline was directly connected to a refinery. That refinery is now shutting down because of high energy costs, high general costs of doing business, and the investment outlook for UK North Sea
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
You don't understand what a subsidy is. Offshore wind subsidies are taken out of electricity bills, not the price. The price you are seeing does not include the subsidy. The reason why Hinkley Point is expensive is completely solvable.
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
Come on bro...next election, it will be different this time. Tories do not back the free market. You said it yourself, the two parties are the same. Elections are irrelevant, both political parties pander towards orthogonal groups of voters
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
They didn't refuse to invest in offshore wind. Tories were the ones who started this ball rolling in the mid-2010s by breaknecking the removal of non-renewable energy production without any clear plan. The issue with offshore wind is t
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
The study you have linked is completely wrong. There is no international market for gas because export/import is physically complex. This is why gas is priced very differently despite it being chemically similar (unlike oil). Anyone wh
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
It isn't just the "right" parts. Yes, the UK has less sun but ground mount is not happening in the UK because average dwelling size is so mall. So typically installed on roof of much smaller properties which costs significant
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
UK also has massive subsidies. I know someone who got a government subsidy, the company didn't complete the job, got paid for the government for the full job, and they calculated the payback was 50+ years. At this point, I do not under
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
Both have a prediction market product.
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
Insider trading does not (and should not) apply to prediction markets. When gambling companies make markets on Oscars, for example, they make those markets knowing 100% that people who know the outcome will bet on it. It is inherent to the
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
what do you mean legal "for many years"? it was never illegal. we have had telephone betting for decades, gambling for centuries...the reason online gambling was banned in the US was because the biggest donors to both parties requ
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
Functioning democracies are inherently authoritarian. The simplistic, textbook definition of dictatorship, which in the West is generally used to define the foreign other, has no basis in reality. This vision holds because it presupposes th
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
America is also, fundamentally, a divided country where people disagree over basic things (such as the distribution of rice) and there is a massive industry dedicated to amplifying that division. On almost every topic, the discussion will t
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
China's low level of corruption wins again
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by skippyboxedhero 7mo ago
accidents are not equally distributed across humans. more serious accidents will be caused by people who are habitually doing things that are unsafe but, for various reasons, most places lack effective ways to stop these people driving so t

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