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by xienze 2y ago
I'm not saying it's not useful, I'm saying that we hold humans giving us answers to a much higher standard than LLMs.
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by xienze 2y ago
The difference is that a human will tell you things like "I think", "I'm pretty sure" or "I don't know" in order to manage expectations. The LLM will very matter-of-factly tell you something that&#x27
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by xienze 2y ago
I agree with the other commenter that said if you're "vastly" more productive as a developer due to AI, you probably weren't that good to begin with. Otherwise, please provide concrete examples. Myself, I do find it quit
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by xienze 2y ago
You’re missing the bigger point, that the cuts they proposed in response were far beyond what would be necessary for such a small budget cut. To say nothing of the fact that they immediately jumped to making highly disruptive cuts (like an
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by xienze 2y ago
> If a tech company has to make rapid cuts, it will lay off engineers. This is basically the same situation. Eh, maybe. Part of me thinks this is making a spectacle out of having to tighten up the finances. I’m reminded of when I was in
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by xienze 2y ago
> Instead of gradually rebuilding the manufacturing capabilities of the US while supporting essential industries (like steel production) to create competition, they think slapping tariff will magically make the domestic manufacturing com
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by xienze 2y ago
> Not to mention that in Texas, student IDs issued by public colleges aren’t legal IDs to vote. But gun permits are. I'm going to take a wild guess here and assume one of those IDs can be obtained by non-citizens and the other can&#
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by xienze 2y ago
> Right now there is an electric denier in a cabinet position. There's a whole lot more than one. Remember that when Republicans win, the results aren't "denied" but the Democrats sure do cast a whoooole lot of doubt
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by xienze 2y ago
> For example, you could patent a program that "chooses the best investment options using AI" without describing any details even if you don't know how to actually implement this. That’s not true. I have several issued US
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by xienze 2y ago
I’m talking about the 2000s and 2010s though.
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by xienze 2y ago
> And now since WFH has become the norm in the US, employers are realizing there’s no need to pay to keep employees in the U.S. and outsourcing to significantly cheaper locations instead. “Whoa we can do this cheaper in another country??
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by xienze 2y ago
> Perhaps, but a multiplatform codebase won't call the console SDK directly from hundreds of random functions. You’d think so, but some developers have a very adversarial relationship with abstractions, such as abstracting away plat
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by xienze 2y ago
> “Many times … I met men who employed foreign-born labor because it was cheap and submissive, and then washed their hands of all responsibility,” she wrote. “They deliberately chose such men because it meant … a surplus of eager, undema
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by xienze 2y ago
Perhaps a requirement left unsaid by OP, but something reasonably priced. $2500 is a bit rich for what it would be used for.
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by xienze 2y ago
Well OK, I should have been more specific that, even for server GPUs on eBay: * Cheap * Fast * Decent amount of RAM Pick two. These old GPUs are as cheap as they are because they don’t perform well.
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by xienze 2y ago
The price goes up dramatically once you go past 12GB though, that’s the problem.
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by xienze 2y ago
I get where you’re coming from, but the problem with LLMs is that you very regularly need a lot of back-and-forth with them to tease out the information you’re looking for. A more apt analogy might be a coworker that you have to follow up w
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by xienze 2y ago
Yeah it might be easy for municipal electricity to win on price when the bar is set at $0.42/kWh. Out here our evil private company is charging $0.11/kWh. I have serious doubts any municipality anywhere could deliver power for hal
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by xienze 2y ago
> but Trump got a majority because eggs are too expensive. You guys need to stop being so disingenuous (and get some new material). EVERYTHING got a lot more expensive under the previous administration. Whether it’s Biden’s fault or not
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by xienze 2y ago
> How about gun control? Kamala was all too happy to talk about how she's a proud gun owner. On the contrary, they very much want to “control” guns out of existence. But they know during election season they have to tone down the rh
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by xienze 2y ago
The problem with “build more affordable housing” in countries that are desperately importing the entire world in an attempt to keep welfare programs afloat is that the amount of housing required to be built EVERY YEAR is staggering. When a
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by xienze 2y ago
Apparently not obvious enough for anyone in the FAA ever, over numerous decades, to think it can’t be safely done.
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by xienze 2y ago
OK then, what regulation do you think was missing that could have prevented this
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by xienze 2y ago
Then why is there an ATC union if, apparently, it can't affect any change?
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by xienze 2y ago
> Regulations are written in blood, which is why it's such a disservice to indiscriminately tear it all down. We will re-learn the same lessons and people will pay for those lessons with their lives. And which regulation was elimina
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by xienze 2y ago
Fair enough. The parent was making it sound like the entire brand was excluded.
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by xienze 2y ago
> People just want to buy whichever is the best price/quality EV out there, they dont care who or what the CEO says most of the time. Yes, most people think this way. However, what you have to remember is that virtue signaling is a
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by xienze 2y ago
> This means that higher-priced models, such as Tesla vehicles, do not qualify for these incentives. Is there not at least one Model 3 less than 62K Euros in Portugal?
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by xienze 2y ago
> But if it improves, is that on Milei? Or is it just waiting out the worst of a bad economic boom-bust cycle? This might be a valid observation in most other countries, but Argentina has been a basket case for ages. It’s defaulted nine
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by xienze 2y ago
OK, that would cover about a year of expenses. Then what?

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