tengbretson

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by tengbretson 4mo ago
If I had $300k going through my bank account every year I really think I would have noticed by now.
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
>it costs $1200000 to raise baby What exactly are you planning to do with all that money anyway? Consume things?
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
I've never bought a sticker like that.
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
Does automated fraud detection not replace the work of human auditors? Do these large machines automate tasks? If you believe automating human labor is an evil, then I hate to break it to you, your in hell's chatroom. "Software is
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
That assumes that a value-judgement can be optimally made with intelligence alone.
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
> Why da f*#$ do they have to continue developing a technology which they think will replace droves of people by machines?? Say, you wouldn't happen to write software for a living, would you?
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
I suspect this is sarcasm but seriously. Craigslist has floundered and now Meta/Facebook Marketplace is dominating the private buying/selling space. Is that not at least $500M of harm?
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
Everyone on this site has been cashing checks building the job eating machine for years. The concern is only pouring out now that it may not need us anymore.
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
You have to admit-- it is interesting that all of this media, that was made during a time when there were standards and morals, has painted such a clear picture of what you now expect life to be like.
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
In the 10 years prior to like 2023, any new large scale data center build-out was explicitly for serving more ads. Meanwhile, now that we have a new tech that's literally solving unsolved math problems, we're suddenly doomers. Why
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
This is going to have so many api keys stored in it.
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
> I, unlike you, live in a democracy and expect the government to not send goons to intimidate opponents. How are those two concepts actually related or linked in any way?
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by tengbretson 4mo ago
I'm not even sure if I disagree with the conclusion, but I feel pretty safe disregarding the words spoken in front of a slide profoundly declaring "UX + DX = AX"
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
Is this inspired by the old famo.us work?
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
"Do as much as possible with AI" and "Make sure you're actually accomplishing something with your AI usage" are obviously compatible directives.
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
To be fair to the swimmers, it looks like they used a ridiculously slow pool for the competition.
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
> That path, junior to mid to senior, isn't just a career ladder. It's the mechanism by which the industry reproduces its own expertise. It's how knowledge transfers. Neat.
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
Today, sure. In 30 years I wouldn't expect to be able to retire with less that $50 million in savings.
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
> Well for a start it pressurises asset holders to sell their assets. To whom are the selling? The buyers would be only those that can make efficient enough returns to offset this tax due to their existing systemic advantages, like econo
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
I'm not disputing the claim that few people are able to save and invest into having a stake in the means of production. However, if your goal is to increase stakeholdership, how would a policy that explicitly disincentivizes that behav
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
> The math doesn't math for someone on the other extreme end of the spectrum who has zero savings or investments and obtains all his income from labor: To him, a N% wealth tax = 0% income tax for all N. Those with -some- savings are
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
> Designed for Gemini Intelligence They should design one for users.
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
Admittedly, I have very little experience with LLM-assisted Python. However, based on the severe degradation in output quality I have seen from an LLM working with plain JavaScript as opposed to TypeScript, I can't imagine choosing t
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
RIP lala.com
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
I'll happily take 10 "oops I messed up your order"s over 1 "I put sawdust in the bread"
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by tengbretson 5mo ago
The land is the thing that is actually valuable here, so filling that land with a perfect grid of 6 foot craters in exchange for a few dollars is probably a bad call.
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by tengbretson 6mo ago
I'm a big fan of SQLite and all that, but if SQLite constrains you to a single writer process, why not do this in your application layer anyway?
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by tengbretson 6mo ago
Were those surveys performed before or after the patient received the bill? Getting billed for a "dietary consult" because your doctor may have asked you what you had for lunch due to the coding intensity of these scribes is asini
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by tengbretson 6mo ago
> or even unnecessary code wrangling data (mapping objects into new objects of narrower types when won't be needed) Dude! The amount of ad-hoc, interface-specific DTOs that LLM coding agents define drives me up the wall. Just use th
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by tengbretson 6mo ago
A whole brick of asbestos? Buddy, we've got you for intention to sell. Why don't you step out of the vehicle.

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