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by throwaway13337 1y ago
The EU's bank count per capita is tiny compared to the US. Their offers are never competitive if you compare to the US banks (e.g. interest rates, apps that actually work, customer service, etc). They lack competition due to over-regul
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
I recently went down a rabbit hole on how researchers make mice depressed so they can test antidepressants on them. The short answer is they disrupt the mouse's environment in ways that are unpredictable and uncontrollable. It's a
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
I don't think it was rigged. Having claude run the browser and then take a screenshot to debug gives similar results. It's why doing so is useless even though it would be so very nice if it worked. Somewhere in the pipeline, they
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
C# is definitely fast. There are some benchmark games that I relied on in the past as a quick check and saw it as underwelming vs rust/c++. For example: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/.
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
Great angle to look at the releases of new software. I, too, thought we'd see a huge increase by now. An alternative theory is that writing code was never the bottleneck of releasing software. The exploration of what it is you're
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
Agreed. Monopoly is the killer of the market engine that powers the positive sum society we all benefit from. Actually enforcing the anti-monopoly rules on the books would help, too. And while we're making wishes, we could kill the VC-
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
Does your analogy mean that you'd like to stop someone from owning that cadre of robots? Or is this just a personal preference? You can have your dishwasher and I'll take the robots. And we can both be happy.
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
It's true that AI makes the slop easier. That's actually a good thing. Slop has been out there and getting worse for the last decade but it's been at an, unfortunately, acceptable level for most of society. Gen AI shouts that
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
Can we have a disclosure for sponsored content header instead? I'd love to browse without that. It does not bother me that someone used a tool to help them write if the content is not meant to manipulate me. Let's solve the actual
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
It’s wild to me that people see this as bad. The point of the form is not in the filling. You shouldn't want to fill out a form. If you could accomplish your task without the busywork, why wouldn’t you? If you could interact with the w
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
Why wonder whats fair when we could let the market decide? E-feudalism isn't capitalism. The gatekeepers are governments without democratic representation. Wondering what fair exploitation looks like is choosing a warped perspective.
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
Is there a reason why prompt injections in general are not solvable with task-specific layering? Why can't the llm break up the tasks into smaller components. The higher level task llm context doesn't need to know what is beneath
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
I am also on Wayland (via CachyOS) and recently started using Deskflow for my MacBook KVM-type setup. Linux on one screen, Mac on the other. Works great except for the copy-and-paste issues and the mod key resets - just as you describe. I&#
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
>You can't build anything special with someone who keeps forgetting any context. I spent many years cycling between depression and resurrected determination trying. But finally gave up. Was that an LLM reference or is it the myopia
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
The real cost of the American fire truck is in the roads it forces to be extra wide. It’s those trucks that make it necessary to have oversized neighborhood streets. Most countries don’t need that. In Europe, you’ll see small, peaceful neig
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
Maybe the kids are just optimizing for the currency that they think matters most: attention. They might even be right.
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
The web gives us control over the way we interact with governments and companies. Because it allows modification, it can be used flexibly in ways that the organization did not think about or intend. This is always beneficial to the user. Wi
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
When you have the blueprint of what to build with a large export market ready to buy, it's easier to plan an economy. Modern economies, unfortunately, don't have that. The capital markets are already mature. What ventures left are
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
It's absolutely true that in that future vision, the agents will then be marketed at. And that's great. In that world, those agents will sift through the noise. And the one that does that the best will win. The end user experience
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
It's reasonable to be cynical, but the future hasn't been written yet. If we choose only to see a negative future, we will ensure that it can only exist. In the negative vein, I see a lot of VCs and business leaders talking about
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
Game jams are less fake and quite numerous. The reason is simply because there is very little money in indie video games. But still a ton of passion. If you want authentic nerd dev time, it's still there. Just don't expect it to b
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
Agreed! When I was learning to drive, I was afraid of hitting the curb. It made me a bad driver. My driver's ed guy told me the common sense advice of 'don't pay attention to the curb - watch the road'. When I internaliz
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by throwaway13337 1y ago
o4-mini is available on vs code. I've been playing with it for the last couple of hours. It's quite fast for a thinking model. It's also super concise with code. Where claude 3.7 and gemini 2.5 will write a ton, o4-mini will
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by throwaway13337 2y ago
These are survey questions. It seems to reveal most about cultural differences between what different groups feel like they are allowed to feel. It would be difficult to control for this but it’s just naive to think these numbers should be
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by throwaway13337 2y ago
Thanks. I think my post lacked clarity of what I was talking about. I meant that most people care about API access to use with their favorite editor. It's a big limiter with grok, for example. But I did mingle that with my knowledge of
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by throwaway13337 2y ago
Google has this habit of 'releasing' without releasing AI models. This looks to be the same? I don't see it on the API price list: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing I can imagine that it
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Welcome to the Zero Sum Era. Now How Do We Get Out?(nytimes.com)
53 points by throwaway13337 2y ago|34 comments
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by throwaway13337 2y ago
This is exciting. Michael Levin best posited for me the question of how animal cells can act cooperatively without a hierarchy. He has some biological experiments showing, for example, eye cells in a frog embryo will move to where the eye s
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by throwaway13337 2y ago
This sentiment is good and important. What we lack today is a vision that the future doesn't have to be shitty. It really doesn't. In the 2000s, we had technical optimism. The change was when the ad-supported model took over. Tech
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by throwaway13337 2y ago
I feel like this is a cynical take on an admitedly hard reality. It's becoming a meme here in response to these creative fires so I'd like to give a different perspective. I can say from my own experience that when you hate your j

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