warkdarrior

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by warkdarrior 5d ago
Of course, the process (of squeezing the customer) is the point. The implementation of that process, with either human account reps or sales bots, is irrelevant.
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by warkdarrior 6d ago
Yes, we in tech. Even going back decades, email technology was a huge disruptor. Professionals used to have secretaries to type up letters/memos for them. All those secretary roles are now gone.
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by warkdarrior 6d ago
How does competitor softwaret kill GPL packages?
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by warkdarrior 6d ago
I stopped reading at the first line: > Note: Other than for illustrative purposes, no LLMs were used in the creation of this content. This kind of performative declaration, IMHO, tries to lower any critical-thinking guardrails because th
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by warkdarrior 10d ago
Hermes is not a coding agent.
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by warkdarrior 12d ago
And by linking to your site from other websites, by not requiring authenticated human-only login, and by not blocking traffic from all referrers, you agree to allow my bot to access you site at zero cost.
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by warkdarrior 12d ago
What would you prefer instead of "static typeset report"?
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by warkdarrior 12d ago
Yeah, it's exhausting. > "The next two experiments look like a clean A/B test. They are not."
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by warkdarrior 12d ago
Maybe we can have the government provide token quotas as you have offspring. Zero children = you (the parent) get zero tokens One child = the parents get 18-years worth of tokens Two children = the parents get 2 x 18-years worth of tokens .
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by warkdarrior 13d ago
The letter claims that AI is destroying the mathematics community as is now. The blog asks whether the mathematics community as is now is worth saving.
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by warkdarrior 15d ago
Exactly my thought. For, say, $50/month I can get a second ISP to my house, host the proxy (and only that) on that link, and enjoy free movies. It is cheaper than having 2-3 streaming service subscriptions.
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by warkdarrior 15d ago
Beaudelaire
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by warkdarrior 15d ago
> had to go back to writing their own code I hate it. My fingers are cramping and my head is hurting.
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by warkdarrior 15d ago
Almost no programming-related posts left after filtering. Nice!
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by warkdarrior 15d ago
No, but one company (UPM -- paper mills) consumes 8-9% of all electricity produced in Finland.
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by warkdarrior 15d ago
Yeah, it was a bit ambiguous. They should have picked better wording, one of the following would do to clarify. > ... 25 initial signatories — all of them Fields Medallists — OR > ... 25 initial signatories — all of the living Fields
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by warkdarrior 15d ago
I am adding it to my instruction-following training data, as a negative sample.
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by warkdarrior 16d ago
First to publish -- it's always been this way.
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by warkdarrior 16d ago
Scientific papers many times have citations of the kind "private communication." APA has a style guideline so certainly not looked down on: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/...
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by warkdarrior 16d ago
Jacob Coxon was at Anthropic since 2024, so more than 6 weeks.
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by warkdarrior 16d ago
In all the rideshares I've taken (Uber, Lyft) the drivers were busy checking two-three phones and selecting/rejecting rides, and some times taking phone calls, all while driving.
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by warkdarrior 16d ago
They also train on synthetically generated data.
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by warkdarrior 17d ago
> I've wondered why someone hasn't tried manufacturing an enclosed go kart with AC and enough trunk space for a few groceries. Because they are completely unsafe against a twice-the-height, multi-ton Ford pickup truck.
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by warkdarrior 17d ago
> other people are subsidizing cards with higher benefits/cash back Ripping off other people is the American way.
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by warkdarrior 17d ago
Why hasn't Alipay completely replaced Visa and Mastercard in US? Everyone has a smartphone to scan a QR code.
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by warkdarrior 17d ago
> Cards have fraud protection. This is only in US and it is needed in US, because US has very limited consumer rights regulation. EU has much stronger consumer rights (mandatory 14-day return windows for any reason, easy cancellation for
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by warkdarrior 17d ago
You think the owner is taking the cash to the bank?? Unless they are an one-person operation, they likely have an employee do it (among their other duties).
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by warkdarrior 17d ago
Stop asking relevant questions! I have a narrative to push and you are getting in the way.
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by warkdarrior 18d ago
Most airlines let you change flights, usually for a fee plus the difference in fares. The fee may be zero if your original ticket allows it -- sometimes called "flexible fare."
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by warkdarrior 22d ago
Not only Google does know your full address, but it also knows which corner of which room you are cowering in.

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