IdiocyInAction

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by IdiocyInAction 4mo ago
I am a really heavy Claude Code user but source control is still one area where I have regular bad experiences just using Claude.
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by IdiocyInAction 6mo ago
The article mentions reduced job growth in SWE due to AI but the fed actually says the opposite: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE The people best suited for implementing and interfacing with LLMs a
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by IdiocyInAction 6mo ago
Most of it is just blatant tax evasion.
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by IdiocyInAction 6mo ago
Nurses in the US are actually very highly paid. Ask anyone how their week was. They'll all say it was crap.
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by IdiocyInAction 10mo ago
Writing code can often just be the means to an end which is delivering value.
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by IdiocyInAction 10mo ago
That still doesn't not make it not slavery. What if you don't agree with the social contract?
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by IdiocyInAction 10mo ago
A new grad is not necessarily the same as a potential H1B hire. Tech workers are not fungible. A company might prefer to hire an Indian or Polish person who has won ICPC, has hard-to-acquire experience, etc. over a D-average new grad withou
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by IdiocyInAction 1y ago
I think the idea of shaming people for being successful conquerers is ironically very western. Ask what the Mongols think about their conquests or the Han or what the Turks think about the Ottomans or the Russians about their history…
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by IdiocyInAction 1y ago
I don't know what you imagine perceptions of the British empire to be but most people don't think the UK sent 10000 ships to India to zerg rush the existing power structures.
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by IdiocyInAction 1y ago
He mentioned native allies at several points actually, though he doesn’t emphasise them and their purported numbers are still like 100x lower than the forces they are facing. > And that they overemphasize planning and tactics and downpla
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by IdiocyInAction 2y ago
> That's partly because inequality doesn't fit into their models. Well Piketty being wrong doesn't fit in many people's models either. Economists routinely do talk about inequality and I think it's intellectually
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by IdiocyInAction 2y ago
Iceland is in the EEA so EU FoM is already a thing.
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by IdiocyInAction 2y ago
AFAIK a lot of these ideas are not new (the JSON thing was done with OS models before) and OpenAI is possibly the hottest startup with the most funding this decade (maybe even past two decades?), so I think this is actually all within expec
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by IdiocyInAction 2y ago
> Since AI vision is not yet good enough, it’s possible that one reason the AIs do relatively poorly on this new test is because the verbal descriptions of the questions are not written as well as they could be, and further research coul
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by IdiocyInAction 2y ago
If you do a global comparison the US is incredibly richer rather than these countries being incredibly poor.
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by IdiocyInAction 2y ago
Self employment is 3 times higher in the UK than in the US actually: https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SL.EMP.SELF.ZS/r...
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by IdiocyInAction 2y ago
The UK leads in Europe for start up founding… Almost nobody in the UK works for the same company for 50 years and this used to be a thing in the US too. Canada has similar laws/issues. Social mobility is also higher in the UK than the
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by IdiocyInAction 2y ago
At least in my industry non-competes seem to be a tool to reduce worker mobility and a way for competitors to collude and keep costs down. It's a highly-paid industry FWIW. I think it makes sense to ban them.
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by IdiocyInAction 2y ago
Non-competes are a thing both in the UK and several EU countries and quite common in some jobs. Also quite enforceable and also not necessarily paid.
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by IdiocyInAction 2y ago
Given that women generally avoid dating lower-paid partners, there's a good chance you wouldn‘t or that those people would be outliers.
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by IdiocyInAction 2y ago
At least the version I hear most often about is a gross disparity between the genders without taking anything into account. IIRC if you look into it it's mostly a maternity penalty anyway.
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by IdiocyInAction 3y ago
Those manufactured goods partially get enabled through these services
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by IdiocyInAction 3y ago
I get your grievances about Germany, but alimony/child support laws can turn out much worse than that in many parts of the anglosphere. Bad bureaucracy is also hardly unique to Germany. The tax thing I do get. Especially if you are not
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by IdiocyInAction 3y ago
Anytime Spotify makes money the music labels up their prices. Music streaming is not that great of a business model.
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by IdiocyInAction 3y ago
Yeah, I used it today to interact with some database stuff I have some passing knowledge about and it told me a bunch of wrong things. Though it also helped me solve the task; ChatGPT at least requires you to somewhat know what you are doin
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by IdiocyInAction 3y ago
Also the only fossil fuel Germany has in abundance in its own territory.
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by IdiocyInAction 3y ago
> *also to be clear I don’t mean to say achieving agi with gpt5 is a consensus belief within openai, but non zero people there believe it will get there. Uh, that's burying the lede to say the least. "Non-zero" could mean
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by IdiocyInAction 3y ago
I've copied like 3 things from SO in the last year max. Speak for yourself.
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
Ultra high net worth individual
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
I partially agree on that - for example, I find it hard to believe the LLMs will make many lawyers or doctors redundant - not necessarily because of a lack of capabilities, but due to regulatory burdens.

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