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by xdennis 6mo ago
It's a bit unconnected to all-father. My impression would be that uuldurfadur would be literally "world-father". But it actually means "glory-father"[1]. It's more commonly spelled wuldorfæder. (Also unrelated
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by xdennis 6mo ago
I completely agree. This is one of the most annoying things about LLMs. I always see them fixing linter errors by adding ignore comments, typing many things as "Any", duplicating test fixtures instead of extracting them, sometimes
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by xdennis 6mo ago
The "5x" and "20x" no longer make sense for Max. It's supposed to be 5 times the Pro limits. But if only Max 5x has access, then they need to renamed to "Max 1x" and "Max 4x".
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by xdennis 6mo ago
Why do people have such faith in "open source" models? There's nothing "open source" about them. No individuals have the ability to train such modules. They are just released by companies to commoditize the models o
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by xdennis 6mo ago
The "ancients" refers to phone makers 15 years ago when batteries were still replaceable.
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by xdennis 6mo ago
> If you stood on the street corner and asked every passerby what they would change about their phone, I think you would be there all day before someone said "I wish I could replace the battery". Not my experience at all. The (
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by xdennis 6mo ago
It was omitted because it is irrelevant. It doesn't matter which ally the US sells weapons to. If the Gazans attacked Luxembourg, Luxembourgers have the right to defend themselves (and win) too.
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by xdennis 6mo ago
Yes. If you're a guest in a country and don't follow the law you should be deported. You don't need waste money putting them on trial (except for murder/rape/etc), just deport.
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by xdennis 6mo ago
> "Master" didn't really make sense. It was supposed to mean one thing that controls another thing (the slave), but nothing ever works out that way in reality. I really hate how people pretend to be stupid and not know tha
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by xdennis 6mo ago
> Master-slave is an oppressive metaphor Git has nothing to do with that (not that master-slave is wrong). > master-slave metaphor is both technically and historically inaccurate How can a metaphor be historically inaccurate? The whol
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by xdennis 6mo ago
> $50k gets you a lot of developer time, upwards of 2 months. God, I wish I was American sometimes...
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by xdennis 6mo ago
Is that the original phrasing? Now it's: > The bottleneck is no longer engineering. It’s moving up the stack to judgment, customer insight for desired outcomes and distribution.
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by xdennis 6mo ago
Bombing Korea led to bin Laden attacking on 9/11? You did not read that GP was saying. He's saying that many conflicts are not started because US bombed a place.
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by xdennis 6mo ago
Please tell me what ceasefire Israel signed? Is it in the room with us?
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by xdennis 6mo ago
> Israel broke the ceasefire Correct me if I'm wrong, but Israel didn't sign any ceasefire. The ceasefire was between Iran and US. Israel separately announced (not part of any deal) that it would stop attacking Iran. It honored
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by xdennis 6mo ago
Iran has killed thousands of its civilians. The only reason it has only killed a few Israelis (excluding Oct 7) is because they can't easily get past Israeli defenses.
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by xdennis 6mo ago
Azerbaijan does not have US bases. It was bombed anyway.
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by xdennis 6mo ago
> You know, like CNN exaggerates how terrible iran is. Do you not know it's a theocracy where women have to hide their faces, the punishment for BEING raped is death, and any dissent is illegal (gets you executed under the charge of
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by xdennis 7mo ago
> The git history is expected to track accountability and ownership, not your Bill of Tools. The point isn't to hijack accountability. It's free publicity, like how Apple adds "Sent from my IPhone."
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by xdennis 7mo ago
Depends on how you use it. If you say "reword this to sound <whatever your goal is>" then it does suck. But if you say "This is what I wrote. My intention is so-and-so. The audience is <audience>... Please mention
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by xdennis 7mo ago
Wasn't it always allowed? It's very common on https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/
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by xdennis 7mo ago
> They attacked Iran not the other way round. This whole war is a continuation of the Oct 7 attack on Israel by Iran's proxies. It's been revealed recently that Israel took the decision to assassinate the leader of Iran soon af
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by xdennis 7mo ago
> Maybe don't murder the religious leader that made the rulings. Are you saying that politicians should be immune if they also serve a religious role?
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by xdennis 7mo ago
> Iran repeatedly stated that they will not attack any country's assets if they do not assist the US/Israel. They attacked the UK in Cyprus at the start of the war back when the UK refused to allow any of it's bases to be
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by xdennis 7mo ago
> Health conscious folks would definitely choose these over hamburgers. I seriously doubt that health-conscious people would pick hyper-processed plants that are meant to resemble meat over plain meat+bread+vegetables that make up a non-
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by xdennis 7mo ago
> Let's celebrate "small internet theory", an internet where exploitation is effectively impossible because every company that tries it is overrun with AI bots. But isn't it even harder for small forums to resist the
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by xdennis 7mo ago
> Funny enough I now involuntarily take RTFA Residential Treatment Facility for Adults? Red Tail Flight Academy?
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by xdennis 8mo ago
> what if the code you write or autonomous machine you contribute to used for killing? This line of thinking, that creating machines that kill is unethical, will destroy the West. If the US wasn't so good at producing killing machin
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by xdennis 8mo ago
> It is incredible how far the overton window has moved on this issue. > When I graduated in 2007, it was common for tech companies to refuse to let their systems be used for war, In 2007 the US was the sole world hegemon. It could af
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by xdennis 8mo ago
> Train an LLM on all human knowledge up to 1905 and see if it comes up with General Relativity. It won’t. AGI just means human level intelligence. I couldn't come up with General Relativity. That doesn't mean I don't have

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