thinkingtoilet

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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Instant access to all media has many benefits and is probably better than the how it was in the past, but there is definitely less magic in the world. Less surprise. Less excitement. The thrill of the hunt is a universal human feeling that
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
If you start a plant today, it's probably a decade before it comes online. At this point, solar is more than enough for most places if we invested in it and subsidized it like we do for coal and oil. Batteries are improving rapidly and
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
The time for nuclear power was 50 years ago. And it's sad due to unfounded fears and coal interests there weren't more built. I would love if historically we had build more nuclear power plants. I am against it now because we have
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
It's crystal clear Microsoft simply can't make good software at all anymore. Vendor lock and inertia are their biggest selling points.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
>"Ya, but what do those sneaky Chinese have up their sleeve here?!" I feel like that is way over simplified. I do not trust the American government. I do not trust the Chinese government. As an American, I believe the Chinese g
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
I've been having success with Opus but you REALLY have to tame it. Long prompts that list what files to look at, relationships between entities, etc... I went from regularly hitting my daily limit to almost never hitting it. Oh, and al
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
As a counter data point, I've been using Claude as my main assistant for months now and have never experienced this.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
> Which other AI company can say their models powered a rocket launch? Honestly, probably all of them. I imagine those coders are using all the tools they have available and are using Claude and ChatGPT as well as internal tools.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Your opinion doesn't matter when it comes to matters of the law, for right or wrong.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
In a sensible world, this would be considered lying to investors and be prosecuted.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
It's not just that. The US models were trained partly due to massive theft. They illegally acquired (not used, that was legal) massive amounts of texts that they trained their model on. If you or me stole that much we would be in priso
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Not at all. I can feel very strongly about that, but if I feel more strongly about health care so tens of thousands of people don't die needlessly and countless millions more don't go bankrupt or get maimed from lack treatment, o
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Your reasoning does not stand at all. There are plenty of things that the majority of people agree upon in this country but it does not get done for a variety of reasons. For example, it's not as important as other issues so they can
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Sigh. I'm sure the average person was completely fed up with the federal grant process for medical issues and it was a driving force in their voting decision. Excellent proof.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
>100% support (10s of millions of Americans do) many of these cuts when scientists are hired because they know someone, or are part of some “group” rather than being the best choice. Prove it. Prove this happens at a large scale. This is
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Agreed. It feels intellectually childish to say we can never have any government because of corruption. This government is flagrantly corrupt, has publicly ignored the courts, and weaponized the DOJ. This is not normal.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
I find HN to be filled with reactionaries who over react to every little thing when it comes to AI. Look at the response to Fable kicking some queries down to 4.8. If you read the comments you would think this was 1984 level censorship and
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Was it modifying the prompt? I thought it only kicked the request down to 4.8.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Oh come on. All that happens is that it kicks the query to a model that was literally state of the art two days ago. Stop with dramatics.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Because this effectively hinders 0% of people. I understand why people don't like it but day to day this is nothing. If you're using it for coding, it won't stop you. The pearl clenching here and over reacting is predictable
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
This is always the response. I'm not an idiot. I understand kids will do things to break the rules. The point is, it won't be something they have access to constantly. If they see a phone at a friend's house that's fine.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
I'm 43 and I'm about the happiest I've been in my life. I say that not to boast, but to say that putting some sort of restriction on your life because of your age is a bad way to frame things. It's never to late to try a
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Don't do it then. :) It's not hard. If they need to be contacted get them a dumb phone. And yes, my kids will miss out. They will miss out on their attention span being destroyed, their ability to critically think destroyed, body
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Well done, mate.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Open AI has never made a cent of profit.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
Again, it would have been a net loss for the city. So walking away with zero is a huge win.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
So other people's back yards it is! What a wonderful philosophy. As for Amazon HQ, I don't know what NY's deal was but I was in Boston when it was a consideration and the amount of tax breaks they wanted was insane and would
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
I believe this is something that is no longer done. On top of that, one of the early major proponents of it has admitted it was a failure, but I forget their name. The school my kids are at are not using this system. Obviously it's a d
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
He didn't take out ads or anything. He lived his life the way he wanted to and spoke his mind. That's not 'marketing'.
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by thinkingtoilet 4mo ago
I don't think anyone is under the delusion that cigarettes are healthy for you. Everyone knows they cause multiple cancers. That's part of the appeal. It shows how 'tough' and 'cool' the user is. No matter what

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