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by strken 2mo ago
I think the point here is that there are two categories of "environmentalists", one of actual environmentalists who go out on the weekend and plant shrubs and monitor the Lesser Black-Tailed Whatever, and the other of people who d
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by strken 2mo ago
We're getting close to post-scarcity on calories at this point. You can feed someone three meals of rice and beans for under an hour of minimum wage labour in most of the developed world, which is pretty neat even if the extra money is
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by strken 2mo ago
I've lived in an apartment complex with weirdos before, including one lady who used to scream at random times, but we basically couldn't hear them. The screaming lady was only audible if the window was open. All the apartments wer
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by strken 2mo ago
I literally meant the team should decide, collectively. Maybe take a vote.
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by strken 2mo ago
Plastics tend to be more chemically active than a lot of rocks, for example. Although that's not going to protect you from crystalline dust from silica and asbestos.
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by strken 2mo ago
This particular test might be reasonable, but at some point you're just filtering out anyone who's not in your bubble, which is a problem when your beliefs are extreme because your bubble is tiny. Imagine a Marxist who refuses to
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by strken 2mo ago
I'm baffled by the claim that tech oligarchs are bad readers, as opposed to getting the point but disagreeing. Some authors seem to think that readers may only read Heinlein if they are prepared to join the army the next day or renounc
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by strken 2mo ago
AI has been trained on real data, and some real human speech uses the same catchy hooks as an AI. In this case, the style seems consistent with his earlier work.
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by strken 2mo ago
There's a bit of nuance here. A material which doesn't biodegrade but is inert, a material which biodegrades but only when exposed to light or moisture or heat, a material which biodegrades into something else which is in turn ine
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by strken 2mo ago
I'm not an extrovert, I'm more or less on the line between the two extremes, and I prefer WFO or hybrid. Teams should really be choosing their model of work themselves, and anyone who doesn't like it should shuffle off to a d
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by strken 2mo ago
I think there's a coherent argument lurking in there, but the author hasn't refined it enough. Here's my attempt. The industrial revolution seemed like the end of the artisan as an important man in his community, the death o
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by strken 2mo ago
This is setting up a contrast between long term memory and an LLM. You might equally contrast someone who is physically in the Grand Canyon with an LLM given access to a drone with sensory attachments. I'd bet that if you told groups o
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by strken 2mo ago
I think you're seeing a compound word because it's part of your native dialect, whereas I'm seeing each word independently. If you think about "grilled", "cheese", and the silent "sandwich" as di
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by strken 2mo ago
I haven't tried using an AI to write prose, but I use Claude to write code daily and it spits out the worst comments I've ever seen, along with some surprisingly good ones. Would we not expect AI fiction to be the same? A stream o
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by strken 2mo ago
We call the entire genre of toasted sandwich a toastie. A grilled cheese would thus be a cheese toastie, the addition of tomato would make it a cheese and tomato toastie, and so on. As a non-grilled-cheese speaker, I don't intuitively
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by strken 2mo ago
This is something of a circular argument. Bob doesn't waste energy on on-call duties, so he implements more features, so he's a prolific engineer, so he doesn't have to waste energy on on-call duties.
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by strken 2mo ago
What is there to discuss? Outlier weather events are growing more common and the hot summer obviously played a role here. Even climate change denial has moved from denying the fact to denying that we can fix anything, for either economic or
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by strken 2mo ago
Huh. I should probably add a .curlrc file with a generic Chrome UA and see if it can get past the most annoying filters. This has always struck me as dishonest, but recently I've been blocked from accessing the docs of a service I pay
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by strken 2mo ago
I'm surprised a formatter does that. Prettier in the JS world likes to jam destructured arguments onto one line, but it will leave them alone if there's a comment.
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by strken 2mo ago
This sounds interesting but I couldn't find any sources in a few seconds of searching. Got any resources for further reading?
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by strken 2mo ago
Yeah, I've seen that too, even in pre-LLM times. I don't have a good explanation for how candidates with zero ability to write code can make it through a hiring funnel to sit in front of you. Maybe they don't know what they d
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by strken 2mo ago
I said "interesting" but I really meant "bad". You might as well test someone on whether they remember bitwise operators. I feel that you did not address the specifics of what I wrote. It's a silly test because it&#
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by strken 2mo ago
Fizzbuzz is interesting because it relies on either the candidate remembering the modulo operator, or the interviewer allowing them to write a modulo function. I can understand why a candidate could forget how to find the remainder from an
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by strken 3mo ago
I'm not religious nor a recovering alcoholic, but I've always liked the serenity prayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer . Obviously it is unreasonable to continue walking with a stone in your bo
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by strken 3mo ago
In 2019 I bet they were more than 2x what they were in 2012.
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by strken 3mo ago
Do you mean "just because it's a bell curve, doesn't make it a normal distribution"?
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by strken 3mo ago
> The question is, for what purposes is the user trying to be unmasked? I disagree that ads are the only reason to dox someone. I assume that few pieces of writing would be controversial enough to warrant a fake identity, but those few
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by strken 3mo ago
I was thinking this. Why not just lie? Come up with personas, stack them on other personas, and eventually you're pretending to be a 23 year old Asian man from California who is pretending to be a 50 year old New Zealand carpenter and
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by strken 3mo ago
I'm finding it almost impossible to fill that free time with work, unless it's just reading emails and chat messages. I can context switch between two or three chats, but doing so speeds up my agent use at the cost of making revie
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by strken 3mo ago
The user doesn't need to carefully goad Claude, they just need to send it to an attacker's website. The attacker is the one creating the link traversal merry-go-round.

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