theshackleford

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by theshackleford 7mo ago
> The US has some of the most capable spy networks, knowledge, and military experience on the planet. Oh how cute, we are dusting off the cover on the greatest hits! I remember hearing this one back in the early 2000's! Unrelated, h
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by theshackleford 7mo ago
> I find the free models are much more psychophantic and have a higher tendency to hallucinate and just make shit up I keep seeing this claim yet it my experience it doesnt hold water. I pay for the models, most people I know pay for the
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by theshackleford 7mo ago
> the fun in the job should be I think i'm going to let people decide for themselves what they enjoy in their job rather than pretending I know better than they do what they should and should not enjoy.
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by theshackleford 7mo ago
> You're free to describe things however you want, but your descriptions won't change the underlying reality. You should be delivering this advice to your nearest mirror.
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by theshackleford 7mo ago
Some AI bullshitting into my medical history isn’t making my healthcare cheaper or more efficient, it’s just making it worse.
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by theshackleford 7mo ago
> I think any person using 'AI' knows it makes mistakes. You think wrong. I’m now encountering people on a regular basis arguing “those days are behind us” and it’s “old news.”
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by theshackleford 7mo ago
> You're making some leaps logic here here. No, you’re just shifting the goalposts. The original claim was “The president of the United States was friends with the supposed leader of a pedophile ring.” Your response to that was to i
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by theshackleford 7mo ago
> You conveniently omit the fact that they broke up 5 years before he was first convicted. And? It doesn’t change the reality of the original statement. The president of the United States was friends with the alleged ring leader of a l
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by theshackleford 7mo ago
> The most annoying part of SWE is everyone who isn't an SWE has inane ideas about what we do. I’ve tended to hold the same opinion of what the average SWE thinks everyone else does.
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
your instance does that. Mine does no such thing and I don’t know anyone for whom it does. Not to say it doesn’t, but it’s clearly not a universal issue.
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> If you don't read the article, "father" implies his son was a child, but his son was 36. Biologically and relationally, he in fact remains his fathers child. I also took no such implication from the title? It might be yo
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
Being an adult doesnt make you anyone less someones child, and mental illness makes you no less of a victim. > I think there's room for legitimate argument about the externalities and impact that this technology can have And yet bot
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
It's almost like not all "technical" people are the same, and in fact have different wants, needs, interests, tolerances and perspectives. Terrifying.
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> We've trained out the idea that these could just be local text files in a directory you can access and do with what you want. But have you considered that a meaningful number of users actually want functionality that plain text si
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> When the iPad nano was released they killed off the best selling iPad, the mini. Did you mean the iPod? :)
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> But why? A 13" MacBook Air is smaller and lighter than carrying a tablet + keyboard + mouse. Because portability isn’t just about weight? There are plenty of situations where a tablet for many will be more usable than a laptop. Cr
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> Which is really silly, because if someone needs to do actual work they are not going to do it on an iPad no matter how capable it is. The form factor simply does not work for getting work done. I know plenty of people who in fact have
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> Point being, it's really not hard to get off Facebook and to ditch Meta products. More people should delete it. As another poster mentioned, it can in fact be more difficult. Almost all of my social clubs/groups over the year
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
Well, i'm happy for you from the respect that as someone with ADHD, getting a working notes and TODO system for me was life changing, and was something that in fact took me years, and I still tend to occasionally uproot my system, so I
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
I am under absolutely zero requirement to glaze some random piece of software because you or anyone else personally find it interesting.
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> It's not 1 SaaS product you're signing up for. It's dozens. How so?
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> no, I'm not going to manage TODOs on my phone - whole other conversation I will. Far simpler, far more secure and far less wasteful than inserting some additional and unrequired LLM loop + hardware/virtualisation layer on top
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> As I said elsewhere, complaining about this is like complaining that rm can let you delete your hard drive. rm won't wipe my HDD on a whim whilst instructing it to do something totally different. You pretending they are the same t
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
This is not even remotely true.
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> Wow, that website is impressively cpu-intensive. Like, I'm on a beefy desktop processor (linux + firefox if it matters), and it's chewing through over 100% cpu and not keeping up. Just having the tab open causes my CPU fans t
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
Oh yes of course, everyone's a boot licker because you're unable to do the minimum to verify the claims you make. Nothing absurd with that claim at all.
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> I don't understand why there's so much fearmongering about ads when heavy competition + zero switching costs will effectively guarantee good UX. I mean literally every other technology sector has gone the other way, but i&#x2
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> Is discount really an ad? In most cases, yes. At minimum, it’s a marketing tactic built with the same intent as an ad: to influence your decision-making. > Also sponsored content is way different than having ads on a website or in a
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> but I still have never clicked an ad on a page and bought something. But millions, and millions, and millions of people do. Certainly enough that I provide consulting services for a number of businesses for whom the majority of their r
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by theshackleford 8mo ago
> They were rare > and special > and you'd have a few photos per YEAR to look back on. None of these things are true for me as a millennial in the 35-45 age group. And my family was poor to boot, and we were still drowning in

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