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by taylodl 2y ago
Why stop funding at the university level? Why not also defund high school and middle school as well? After all, by the end of the 5th grade you should be able to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Anything beyond that you can fund yours
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by taylodl 2y ago
That is an excellent response. If you're afraid educating your citizens will cause them to realize their country is crap, then your country is crap.
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Trump is breaking the law, but Congress has no interest in holding him accountable - and they're the only institution Congress specifies for having the authority to hold the president accountable. So...Trump is breaking the law and get
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by taylodl 2y ago
Step 1. Destroy the government Step 2. See? The government doesn't work! Just like we said! Step 3. "Fix" the problems created from Step 1 Step 4. MAGA eventually realizes the swamp was enlarged and made worse, not drained
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by taylodl 2y ago
Authoritarians do not want an independent judiciary challenging their power. They are sending a loud message to the judiciary that it's "our way or the highway." Once they've established control of the judiciary, their
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by taylodl 2y ago
> I am developing an evaluation suite so I can keep watching the progress in a systematic way.. Sounds like something that should be published on github
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And conservatives famously skewered Michelle Obama for promoting good exercise and good diet from an early age onwards. They think I have a short attention span.
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by taylodl 2y ago
Yes, the US is an entertainment tour de force, but what about technology products? How willing are Canadians to ditch: - Apple - Facebook - Google - Microsoft That's what will be interesting to see. If they do ditch these companies, it
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by taylodl 2y ago
Do I see it happening in the next five years? No. Ten years? Maybe. But our workflow will have changed to accommodate AI being the primary code generator. Twenty years? The new workflow from ten years will be standard and AI will be able to
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by taylodl 2y ago
Given the track record of Trump's cabinet picks, it seems fitting that the Secretary of Health and Human Services would follow the same trend of 'unique' qualifications. Consistency is key, right?
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IDK, I've been developing software for 40 years now and have been through several of these "developer replacement" hype cycles. Every single time what ended up happening was even more developers were required. I see this
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by taylodl 2y ago
Works much better on greenfield projects. Brownfield requires the LLM to have ingested your codebase and all the libraries you're using. That's why tools such as DeepSeek are exciting because that potentially opens up the door to
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by taylodl 2y ago
> it's an industrialization of coding That's a fantastic insight. There's a popular metaphor comparing software developers to blacksmiths, emphasizing the craft and trade aspects of the profession. Historically, blacksmi
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by taylodl 2y ago
> Your job was never to write code, it is to solve problems for your users. They are why we have a job. You need to talk with the users, empathize with them, understand their problems and feel their pains. This is much too important to
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by taylodl 2y ago
> Teams need to be encouraged to "inspect and adapt". Agree 100% and that's on excellent callout.
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There's no single approach that works for everybody. What works best for you is dependent on several factors: - Whether you're primarily developing or maintaining - Size and organization of the codebase - Size of the team working
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by taylodl 2y ago
While it's true that the Pope is a politician in the sense that he's the head of the Vatican State and has political responsibilities, his role within the Catholic Church is much more significant. As the spiritual leader of the Ca
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Advocating for digital rights is political activism, and privacy is part of your digital rights. This is perfectly in line with the EFF's mission.
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> Why are austrian economics fans so wilfully out of touch with reality Because it's the only way to make their economic model work. Reality messes up everything.
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What is a thought and why can't machines have them? This question is off-the-cuff while reading your response.
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Goes back to the Reagan era. They needed to hide the data in order to hide the fact their policies were decimating America's manufacturing base. That's when America transitioned to a so-called "service economy." We'
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You assume these people care about the Constitution. They do not. Which means they don't care about America, either.
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It's almost like you need an ecumenical authority to decide these matters. Too bad we never had one (or a couple) of those... :)
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They're just aligning with the current regime ruling Amerika, who also espouses the prosperity gospel. In other words, the exact opposite of what Jesus taught. They call themselves Christians, but they're not. Heck, things have go
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The title should be "Elon Musk's Team Creates Another Mess to Be Cleaned Up by the Judiciary." The question we should all be asking is whether Congress has any intentions whatsoever of doing their actual job? So far, they hav
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by taylodl 2y ago
You're making junior-level salaries because you have no working experience. You should never have expected to make more than a junior-level salary. So, let's get some numbers. In the NYC area, a junior-level salary for someone i
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The more time they waste with this inane crap then the less time they have to do us real harm.
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by taylodl 2y ago
If I want an answer to a question, then I use an LLM. If I'm looking for a website, then I'll use a search engine. I usually want an answer to a question, so my use of search engines has dropped considerably. For years I had used
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Interfering with the operations of government as specified in the Constitution in order to grant more power to the executive branch in which they reside isn't an adequate definition for you? Let's review what's happened in th
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by taylodl 2y ago
That project is so "ambitious" I think it's more responsible to call it "wishful thinking" for these reasons: 1. We haven't been able to sustain a fusion reaction for longer than 1,000 seconds, just a little ov

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