slopinthebag

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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
i eat a certain cheese almost every day and i feel like im being molested very time i stock up. i get your general point, but the dairy cartel reigns supreme. it's funny because we had someone running for PM in 2017 who was the only pe
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
funny cuz i still cant buy european butter :P best we can get is "european style" id love to just move to somewhere in the eu and be able to freely work there. thats how it should be in every country btw. until then, it seems like
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
im canadian but this feels performative yes i get it, stick it to the USA. yay patriotism. suddenly thats cool and not problematic for some reason. and im also all for less restrictive coordination between nations. it's all performativ
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
you sound like a web developer
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
cuz jordans (especially 1s and 3s), dunks, af1s, air maxes etc look great and have heritage behind them. same reason people wear converse (awful basketball shoe). idk if they could change them without pissing off a lot of ppl.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
this has always been broken
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
I’m not saying this is legal, I’m saying this is a tactic governments use to deflect culpability from themselves for their actions. The fact people even blame the flock guy and not the politicians who sent him there means it’s working.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
It’s a smart tactic for governments to use private corporations to do stuff like this. Flock takes all the heat and the government can even make themselves look good by ditching Flock. 2 seconds later they’ll use a different company. There
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Ok but if you have to update your software it’s not done, it’s dormant. And when it wakes up, it’s not like this is some massive change. It’s trivial and automatable.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Your software is done, so why do you need to recompile it with a new version of the compiler? After all it’s done. Pin compiler version and problem solved. No limitless amount of future work.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Nah, what they should have done is called themselves the UK government and then all of HN would be praising them instead
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Maybe it’s cuz I started with async/await instead of threads but I cannot relate to people saying it’s harder than threading. To me it’s substantially easier to understand than threads, goroutines, or structured concurrency in Kotlin.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Why would this be optimistic? This sounds extremely negative to me…
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
if you mean this in a reductionist way for humans, i dont think most of us think we’re omniscient my point more broadly is that if you have an incomplete spec, any entity implementing it either needs to be omniscient or make assumptions abo
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
healthcare is one of the most highly regulated and state-controlled industries on the planet. surely that has nothing to do with it though. must be those damn capitalists!
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
bro your own website has hard coded viewport widths where things jump
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
I doubt AI will ever become omniscient
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
i hope they ban hacker news over there soon too
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
that doesn't seem correct. it's equivalent to saying nobody should be allowed to drink because a small minority of ppl cannot control themslves
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
lmao funny you say that because i dont call myself a libertarian despite holding many adjacent views.... there's also a difference between Libertarians and libertarians. im not american so i refer to the latter but i know what u mean
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Yes this is the way, not another law to paper over the issues of prior law.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
That’s because unlike other political factions that treat politics as a team sport and prioritize group identity, libertarians tend to be free thinkers and have their own opinions and views.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Yeah that's kinda my point. I'm not sure if the models have gotten that much smarter, but they're certainly getting more capable. That's not the same thing though. There are things GPT 6.0 can accomplish for me that 5.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Lol that chart is hilarious when you look at Nvidia. Always sell shovels in a gold rush I guess
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
You'd still have access to the Chinese models though right? Even if you want to argue they aren't truly SOTA they're still pretty dang good.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
People said this for Opus 4.6 too. Every release the models get RLHF'ed into accomplishing a new task and the people who need to do this task think there was a step change.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Coincidentally, that’s how much you contribute to the discussion
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
The optimal form of taxation is none
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
If I wasn’t betting the farm I’d go into debt arming myself somewhere in northern Siberia with enough rations to live a lifetime. Since neither of us are doing this, we’re apparently both betting our lives on the current trajectory of LLMs
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Actual AGI might be really bad but thankfully we are not even close to building it and I doubt I’ll see it in my lifetime (imo ofc)

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