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by xienze 4mo ago
Well it's those large metro areas that roll out the red carpet for them (assistance programs and sanctuary status), so I see no problem with it.
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by xienze 4mo ago
If I hadn't been hearing that the illegal immigrant population has remained unchanged at approximately 11 million _for decades_, I'd probably agree with you. I think a lot of people are truly in denial about just how many illegal
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by xienze 4mo ago
> Why does it need to be Android? Make a phone that will send text messages and run a web browser I think we're quite a ways past the point where most people would be satisfied with phones that only do voice, text, and web browsing.
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by xienze 4mo ago
> My takeaway from this is that it's incredibly validating as a business model. Inference is _highly_ profitable. The problem is you can't just separate training costs from inference costs. If OpenAI just didn't train a ne
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by xienze 4mo ago
The big caveat here is that these local models require you to invest some time tweaking your harness, AGENTS.md, and skills in order to get things roughly to the level you'd expect. But something like Qwen3.6-27B with web search capabi
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by xienze 4mo ago
It's obviously not perfect but DNS-level ad blockers like Pihole or Adguard Home still make a dramatic difference, so all is not lost.
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by xienze 4mo ago
Yeah that would be ridiculous, this administration pumping stocks.
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by xienze 4mo ago
And still just as relevant.
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by xienze 4mo ago
Oh please, the earlier spat with the Trump admin was the best thing that ever happened to Anthropic. Before that, Claude was really only well-known in developer circles, not the wider normie-sphere. After Anthropic got the "Trump hates
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by xienze 4mo ago
As long as the person is white no one will blink an eye no matter what you say.
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by xienze 4mo ago
You likely still wouldn't be able to figure that out even if you had a percent usage view available. Will your request take 1K tokens or 10K? Who knows! That's the magic of non-deterministic black boxes.
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by xienze 5mo ago
> Yeah it's years because they will slowly unload it to entities that are forced to buy I get your logic, but why all the handwringing over the short time frame for inclusion in these funds (days instead of a year)? None of that sho
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by xienze 5mo ago
Years? The way people are talking in this thread it's all an AI exit scam, which shouldn't take years to play out. It's a popping bubble, remember?
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by xienze 5mo ago
I suppose everyone reading this thread counts as "well-informed" then, right? All I have to do is move my 401k into the bond-heavy fund right now and then back into the stock-heavy one when everything craters is what I'm hear
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by xienze 5mo ago
Maven does not run arbitrary scripts just by including a dependency.
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by xienze 5mo ago
Dunno, it depends on what brand that is. $60 per gallon sounds about where Sherwin Williams paint has been for a while.
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by xienze 5mo ago
> In many cases the skills are available in house to do the necessary vetting, but these people are already overwhelmed with their existing day to day. I think a lot of the time it's just pure laziness. AI gives people a magical &qu
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by xienze 5mo ago
Well if they did wouldn't be able to feel superior to Americans about that particular thing. Perish the thought!
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by xienze 5mo ago
The problem is that statement is a bit too open to interpretation. Ever had Claude piss you off by being stupid and talking in circles? Sounds like manipulation of human behavior!
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by xienze 5mo ago
Tell me your thoughts on the quality of LLM-generated code. I've never understood this attitude where people are absolutely disgusted by the slightest whiff of AI prose but will happily slurp up AI-generated code by the bucketful and p
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by xienze 5mo ago
> I can't fathom thinking that LLM writing is even remotely passable. People that think this should honestly read more. This makes me think you're only exposing yourself to high quality writing online and from an intelligent ci
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by xienze 5mo ago
> but it leads the reader to a potential false implication that an average man is better than an average woman. I think that's _you_ turning the statement into something much broader than intended. The claim is about engineers and y
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by xienze 5mo ago
> Memory used to be worth more than gold by weight, and still every stick was sold. And right before that, was it dirt cheap? No? Slightly different scenario then. > GPUs, flight controllers, etc went sky high during the pandemic and
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by xienze 5mo ago
> We're simply making those conversations feel more human, conversational, and natural. Explain what iMessage does to accomplish this goal that RCS can't.
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by xienze 5mo ago
> If I need to chat with a business, an airline for example, why would I want to use SMS instead of iMessage? Why does it matter? > but being able to easily send screenshots or photos and know they were received would be a huge improv
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by xienze 5mo ago
> The formerly "fiscal conservatives" that I know are working overtime explaining how the debt isn't a bad thing and we can just move numbers. Sounds like they're just catching up to what Democrats always used to say
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by xienze 5mo ago
> their performance drops when forced to navigate explicit architectural rules Even the best models have trouble adhering to stuff as mundane as rules for how to style generated code (indent this much, name things with these patterns, et
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by xienze 5mo ago
I'd argue you have a lot more to worry about with developers as far as token usage goes because they're the ones who know how to rig up these wild workflows where tens of agents simulate an entire software development team. The no
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by xienze 5mo ago
> To be fair, the cost of software development has always been fairly unpredictable. Yes, but in a "oops this is gonna take another two months to finish" kind of way, not the "oops this is the 12th time this month 8 develo
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by xienze 5mo ago
The part of that people aren't considering is that it's very common to get brief, intense thunderstorms that dump a lot of rain quickly. They won't flood the whole city obviously but there's _always_ pockets that have ve

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