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by xyzzy123 1y ago
Two things can be true at the same time: a) experts have knowledge b) that when you see an amplified expert opinion, that it is in a context where it is being presented to you to advance a specific interest.
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It's hard to be fair to kids who put in the effort and kids who were not taught to put in the effort or do not want to or do not have to or do not have the opportunity to, at the same time.
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Claude Code for devops / iac right now as IC. LLM writes most code, I manage guard rails, style, success criteria etc. To be fair, writing code was never really the biggest part of the job, it was always figuring out what people need,
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Also culturally a lot of people look down on people who work with their hands. The median outcome for someone baseline reliable & skilled but doesn't have the inclination to run a business is OK but usually not great.
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Also they hedge a lot, will try doing things one way, have a catch / error handler and then try a completely different way - only one of them can right but it just doesn't care. Have to lean hard to get it to check which paths are
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This seems to me more like a reasonable hypothesis than a foregone conclusion. Personally I suspect there's a floor (can read a chart, understands growth rates and compounding in general) which the public need to assess arguments const
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I wonder if national averages actually matter very much beyond being a vanity statistic? While it's good to have a generally more mathematically capable population, you would expect most actual "progress" (papers, discoveries
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You might as well say it's interpolating or extrapolating. That's what people are usually doing too, even when recalling situations that they were personally involved in. I think we call it "hallucinating" when the machi
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Stored... ReDoS, reflected... ReDoS(??)... [it pained me to type those] (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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It's great to have a safe options - and it would have been great if the default had been safe. I think many people are annoyed with ReDos as a bug class. It seems like mostly noise in the CVE trackers, library churn and badge collectin
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I found for me that when I unpacked it, a surprising amount of it was actually fear / anxiety. I know this isn't a post seeking answers but it's a thing I've battled a lot of my life. It's trite but I've gotten
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It sucks to do a 2-line change that requires 2 weeks of validation :/ Agree that codegen can flip the effort from creating to validating. Some people believe the "true" intellectual capital created by the software development
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I was not able to make much sense of that, but if you can create 10k+ lines of good C per day regardless of domain complexity, requirements etc, you could create ffmpeg solo including all codecs in under 6 months. That would make you, appro
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LOC are not all the same. My heuristics for assessing the difficulty of changes revolve around "load bearing-ness". It's basically free to change code no one uses. It's not bearing any load. If your metric is LOC you ca
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Am I the only one who feels that Claude Code is what they would have imagined basic AGI to be like 10 years ago? It can plan and take actions towards arbitrary goals in a wide variety of mostly text-based domains. It can maintain basic &quo
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There aren't really any huge gotchas imho in 2025, just watch out that you don't get sidetracked delivering awesome developer infrastructure (preview environments! blue/green! pristine iac! its fun!) if there are actually mor
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I'm not sure if the question is answerable given that consciousness is not well defined enough for everyone to agree on whether, say, a fly is conscious. Instead maybe we can think about the system that comprises us, the models, anthro
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by xyzzy123 1y ago
Great question, I don't know. It doesn't seem necessary to feel empathy for a pawn knocked off a chess board. I do think a detailed and realistic torture simulator game would be a bad idea though. Thinking it through I feel it is
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I think it's bad karma to let people torture models. What I mean by karma is that in my view, it ultimately hurts the people doing it because of the effect their actions have on themselves. What does it do to users to have a thing th
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> It will be a dystopian environment but they earned it and can earn their way out of it. It's not very clear cut but sometimes it seems like kids just end up being punished for having bad parents.
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Hi, it's quite challenging to reasonably limit exposure across all the devices, platforms networks and situations that kids are involved in, and it gets more difficult all the time as devices become increasingly essential to participat
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It's perfectly legitimate for the state to have laws where preventative enforcement is not really possible. Like, we can't surveill everyone such that we can stop murder, but we wouldn't want to do without laws against it. Th
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This is not a novel take, but what's arguably even more universal is cli access to a service. I have a lot more luck integrating service specific cli's with Claude than trying to use MCPs. As an additional bonus, AI tools instantl
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> An ambitious PM has a bunch of metrics in a dashboard. The PM uses them for things like: showing how well their team is doing, and asking for a raise, and asking for more resources. [metrics turn out to be useless] Key business metrics
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It's hard to value $20bn in 2025 vs say $2bn for cutting edge fab in 2000. Personally I don't think CPI captures the relative value of investments well. If you compare it as % of gdp, or relative to m2 or % of S&P 500, or ev
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Ahhh that's it, I think. It was on ODROID H3+, these run on pentium silver N6005 which don't support AVX, which means that "newer" MongoDB won't work without jumping through hoops to compile from source. I just ssh&
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It turned out to be surprisingly annoying to do this on Debian due to the MongoDB requirement. I forget the exact difficulties but I ended up having to punt and run the container from linuxserver.io.
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Agree, also llms change the balance of plan vs do for me, sometimes it cheaper to do & review than up-front plan. When you can see what goes wrong with the naive plan you then have all the specific context in front of you for making a b
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Thats cool, how are you integrating your phone with your Claude workflow?
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P.S. There are a LOT of details in this specific idea, some consumers are bad actors and are never happy, some merchants likewise are bad actors. Resolving these issues without disclosing sensitive information is extremely difficult. But la

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