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by stickfigure 2mo ago
From a strictly utilitarian perspective, more redundancy will result in more deaths, since food handling expertise is concentrated in larger organizations. I say this as someone who gets most of my veg from a local CSA. It's not becaus
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
They are famously good at ignoring large code snippets.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
...along with more than half the country at this point.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
"I personally know more skydivers injured by parachutes than whatever they are supposed to prevent"
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
I think that if you have a long enough chat, yeah, I think you can figure out who's meat. The original rules for the TT specified a short interaction, but I can probably accelerate it by pasting in large code snippets to force early co
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Here are two: * Using spherical points instead of trig to calculate distance between two geo locations. * Packing data to minimize memory bandwidth consumption. Converting arrays of objects to multiple arrays of their component parts I sort
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Not OP, but I went through this last week. I (ok, codex) optimized a hot path in some Java code from ~350ms to ~60ms, which made a substantial difference in "is this whole business going to work". My Java profiling knowledge is...
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
They can't keep them, you'll get the devices back. Use a temp phone in the mean time. Sad that we have to accept this as a risk of international travel, but here we are.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Nobody got gored. HuggingFace may have the right to make demands; presumably they have already worked that out with OpenAI privately. Not really our business.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Interesting! It reminds me of something I once heard another banjo picker say... something like "I spent most of my youth figuring out how to cram more notes into a piece, and most of my maturity trying to remove them". I am not f
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Just in case you're too young to remember, nutjob politicians with stupid ideas long predate social media.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
That which is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
At least chemistry is objectively useful knowledge. Even if he would rather work in software engineering, there are a lot of places where domain expertise like that is very valuable. Plenty of software in the sciences.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Unemployment in the US right now is historically very low and "dystopian situation" is your projection, not real life. The future is uncertain, but most objective metrics in the non-war-torn part of the world are positive right no
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
We can only ask. Don't act shocked. Also, gritty insider information is never the same as the official word.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
"In theory" you can imagine all sorts of terrible scenarios that will make you depressed. In practice you can ride in a real self-driving car in a dozen major metro areas in the US. I have and they are fantastic. In practice you c
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
We have self-driving cars and near-human AIs. And yet the author can't find something to get excited about?!?!? I'm slightly older than he is and I lived through all those changes he talks about. I'm still in awe every time I
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
OH MY GOD this completely fixes the problem. All the ad noise is gone. This needs to be pinned as the top comment. Thank you!
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Yeah, parent's comment doesn't make any sense. Temu is a marketplace, they aren't manufacturing these products. I doubt Blackrock is investing in random bottom-tier manufacturers in Yongkang.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
I use YouTube all the time and it's great. Log in, pay for premium, and use the like and subscribe buttons liberally. Use the downvote button too. It learns. My feed is really fantastic. Once a month or so I notice some AI slop (usuall
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Hah, I love sharing that link too. But contemplate this: Give the Oracle 12 engineering culture an unlimited token budget, do you think the code will get better or worse? Based on what I've seen in industry, I think the answer could be
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
You should stop using Wells Fargo anyway. It's been what, nine months since their last national scandal? They're overdue.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Alternatively, if AI is doing most of the work, why not pick a platform that performs? If the cost of the code (and preferences of the developers) are factored out of the equation, pick based on operational cost. Serving traffic with Ruby a
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
The answer is simple: They're willing to burn money faster than the others. Nobody's profitable in this space, they can price it however they want as long as investors keep pouring money in. And SpaceX just got a lot of money pour
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
From Matt Levine's description, SpaceX has a governance model that explicitly makes it resistant to shareholder lawsuits. It's not a Delaware corporation. It might or might not work long-term, but I wouldn't count on courts t
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Because the residents of Irvine want it to be even safer? Automobile thefts still happen there, crime isn't zero. Who are you to say "stop complaining about your car break-in, it's worse in other cities". Reliable studie
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
I didn't have to walk far.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Like Mexico, our immediate neighbor to the south? Policing in Mexico is ~100 deaths per 100,000 compared to 11.3 deaths per 100,000 in the US. 100 deaths/100,000 is on par with logging workers in the US, which is the #1 most dangerous
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Things not protected by the constitution: * Driving a stolen car * Driving a car used in a recent homicide
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
I invite you to spend a few hours watching this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliceActivity It's pretty unvarnished; there are good shootings and bad shootings, they just post everything released. There are ~2700

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