svachalek

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by svachalek 5mo ago
This is typical "help, the 99% is being oppressed because the 1% is not being oppressed" garbage. There's gluten everywhere. In a lot of American cuisine, every single item on the menu has wheat flour in it. Gluten isn't
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by svachalek 5mo ago
That's right. Housing is not an asset to society or the economy, it's a drain that wastes money on preserving human life. Unlike valuable uses of capital like options trading and cryptocurrency.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
How is rent-seeking and monopolizing "doing great things for the country's economy"?
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by svachalek 5mo ago
How does it disincentivize "stakeholdership"? Are people expected to say, please don't make me rich, because I'd have to pay 1% of it?
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by svachalek 5mo ago
I'm absolutely the opposite. I'd do a reasonable pay per view on Netflix, but I don't want 73 different streaming subscriptions draining my account every month.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Well my thought is in this case the buyer is OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
There really should be a micropayments setup on the internet that's not advertising based. Let these models pay a nickel to read the article, covered by the multi trillion dollar AI blank check.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
I'll give them images. Gemini/Nano Banana is notably better at understanding and generating images than OpenAI, imo, and Claude can't even generate. While I'm at it I've got to give them credit for Gemma as well. St
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Wait so you're countering an accusation of astroturfing with an actual confession? That's new.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
We ran into a lot of stuff like this in the early days of the web. For example, there was a lot of information that was "public" in that anyone could go to the city courthouse and ask to see the documents. But it changed in nature
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Fair but it's pretty clear if you've used the new Google. I'd have to say Google is just catching up here, though, rather than leading the charge. I, like many people, stopped clicking on random links quite some time ago, in
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by svachalek 5mo ago
We need a 2026 version of PageRank, some fully game-theory-maxed transitive trust model. And we need it a few years ago already.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
You don't ban the users or the internet, you make it illegal to do shitty psyops on the public. They were making plenty of money on chronological friend feeds.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
In my experience Google is the most flaky in general, which is surprising considering the rock solid history of their search and other products. Just more likely not to respond at all, to give a response out of left field, to handle the sam
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by svachalek 5mo ago
You can go straight to Gemini for that. In general it'll get a better response than AI mode too (which I think tends to use flash or flash lite).
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by svachalek 5mo ago
It's just the performance was ridiculously poor. With like half a dozen people connected, it made 300 baud modems look fast.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Prompt engineering of course.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
In the US, the government only answers to the wealthy class.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
DEI is not racial quotas, where I've seen it practiced it's about broadening the pool and considering candidates that may not have got a foot in the door based on traditional class signifiers. So the anti-DEI crowd is the side arg
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by svachalek 5mo ago
To play devil's advocate I do feel like Grok has a unique "feel" to it. All the Chinese models feel like GPT or Claude distillations, but Grok has a certain unique way of saying and doing things. But that said, it also feels
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by svachalek 5mo ago
I think so. For some kind of legalese reasons that's generally what a Tesla "recall" amounts to these days.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
GGUF is mostly a hobbyist format, but yeah I'd assume it's a big pile of tensors and and executable.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
All those numbers are equally gameable and terrible metrics for productivity. With any of those, as with AI spending, you've got to look at actual results qualitatively. There's no shortcut.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
When the chainsaw fails the juniors, they're going to be adding wood chippers and stump grinders. The seniors are going to be out there chipping artisanal wood blocks with a hatchet. You don't need a lot of history to see who you
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by svachalek 5mo ago
I'm a very senior dev (32 years exp) but I've got the process nailed down tight enough with .md documents, skills, review agents, etc, that I don't typically have that feeling or any need to do anything extra. I don't th
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Most people speak at about 150 wpm, but very few can type that fast. But reading and gesturing are fast, which is what TFA is about, combining reading and gesturing with speech.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Programmers, at least the mass market programmers, have optimized for ease of writing code for many decades. It's a natural urge, but in the long run for successful applications, it's more important that code is readable and maint
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by svachalek 5mo ago
The part that always gets me is I tend to only install a few packages like React and maybe some kind of data access layer. But you let that recurse down a few levels and suddenly you've installed a thousand packages, some of them hopel
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by svachalek 5mo ago
As a manager of a full stack team, we've found AI falls short a lot more on front end. It has its weak points on both front and back, but the problems with backend are quite easy to feed back into it -- needs more performance, needs to
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by svachalek 6mo ago
I feel like this is where it's going -- it's not where we are, the tools are not reliable enough that it makes sense to step back quite this far, but it feels like where we are going to arrive really soon. If you look at agile pro

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