JeremyNT

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by JeremyNT 5d ago
I honestly feel like you're making this sound more complicated than it needs to be. I get what I would describe as very good results from GPT 5.6 on my projects. There are some methodologies that can improve things for me versus just Y
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by JeremyNT 6d ago
Perhaps he's quite nice over zoom, but since very few of us are going to meet him in that context, the rest of us are left to judge him by what he posts. And as they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Based
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by JeremyNT 6d ago
> These tools are bad, objectively! They give inferior user experiences, and waste resources (ever more important now with RAM prices what they are). They can be "bad" in some dimensions (as you mentioned) while being "g
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by JeremyNT 6d ago
> I've been wondering whether AI really is improving rapidly at open problems or we're being fooled. I think your suspicions are warranted and your explanation seems plausible. If better training data is the reason here, it w
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by JeremyNT 7d ago
Yes. But although they can't know "why" a specific "wrong" answer was selected, the response is often still informative, and it can highlight real weaknesses in process or code structure that should be addressed any
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by JeremyNT 7d ago
Exactly. If their productivity fantasies are real, the precarious (and already very anti-worker) balance between capital and labor immediately disintegrates. Serious solutions to this would look like nationalizing tech companies, mandating
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by JeremyNT 8d ago
> Why this is, is an interesting question but it hits on too many taboo topics. What are those "taboo topics?" Can you state this plainly rather than obliquely?
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by JeremyNT 8d ago
> I don't think anyone finds this flavor of activity beneficial. What's beneficial is the underlying system that is sufficiently free and flexible that great things (like VMware to begin with) are possible. As much as we don&#
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by JeremyNT 16d ago
He leveraged his past success as a web developer to get into online culture war punditry. Now he's a prominent race-baiting reactionary. There's a sort of cult of personality around him at this point. His acolytes follow him for h
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by JeremyNT 17d ago
The whole point of Omarchy is for people who want to use Arch Linux but have it configured the way DHH does. So I think it's a little different. Anybody using an opinionated respin should understand what they're getting.
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by JeremyNT 19d ago
The pessimism is justified. This is the way most Americans want our country to be run. It's unambiguous. Most Americans either actively supported this administration, or didn't mind it enough to even do the minimum (which is to vo
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by JeremyNT 20d ago
Follow AI people and watch their reposts. Starter packs can help bootstrap it. Perhaps this? [0] A lot of the biggest boosters of AI are aligned with the politics of Musk, and so they're just going to stay on X. This means the AI disco
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by JeremyNT 21d ago
Yeah, and how long / how many tokens do these attacks take? The user has to send the agent off into these weeds intentionally, or else be totally asleep at the wheel while something goes very far off the rails.
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by JeremyNT 21d ago
Attempts to find plausibly deniable rationales for this administration's anti-immigrant policies other than "gutter racism" are ridiculous. Occam's razor. When somebody shows you who they are, believe them. Nativism is p
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by JeremyNT 21d ago
> The funders are not funding the development of a Linux distro, they are co-signing the political statement. It's not even a Linux distro. It's an Arch respin with tweaks that DHH likes. This is for people who want to work
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by JeremyNT 21d ago
I have trouble imagining it. The early rails community was very welcoming at the time. The things he now openly states were simply not welcome in most polite society at the time. I'm not sure DHH really held the same views back then, e
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by JeremyNT 22d ago
The main competitor in this space is sadly Instagram, which is no better.
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by JeremyNT 22d ago
> I don’t understand this logic. If I’m being honest, the most productive people with AI on my team are the two youngest. It's high variance. A young person can move fast because they lack the accrued assumptions of a senior, but
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by JeremyNT 22d ago
And even where the signs and procedures exist, often the rules are not enforced... at least, not against people who appear to plausibly be customers. If you're a well groomed adult and walk up to the counter at a coffee shop and ask fo
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by JeremyNT 23d ago
Is it not possible to build a mechanical handle with similar aero properties? It's the electronic activation that's at issue here, not the shape.
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by JeremyNT 23d ago
Sure can see the use cases where it might be helpful, but "a better bittorrent" on its own doesn't warrant the hype or cash flowing into it. I guess the user base has proven this out in the end. Torrents are good enough.
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by JeremyNT 27d ago
Indeed, in music there is a fandom subculture where bands are appreciated only so long as they aren't too successful - hence the indie music scene. Some fans want to discover new bands that are obscure, but not too obscure (after a
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by JeremyNT 28d ago
> For Linux, there is https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar I came here looking for a reference to Solaar, which is what I currently use. AFAICT there's no reason to switch to OpenLogi for Linux users.
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by JeremyNT 1mo ago
They could use ignorance as an excuse the first time, but only those who were too young to see the first term can use it now. One of the failures of the US media is to continue allowing these voters to hide behind such plausible deniability
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by JeremyNT 1mo ago
The current oligarchy has forgotten the lessons of history. The implicit deal is that they can keep extracting the value from us as long as they keep tossing us enough scraps. They show every intention of claiming a bigger piece of the pie
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by JeremyNT 1mo ago
Even just going backpacking for a few days highlights it. Despite access to some modern amenities (maybe a lighter, or a camp stove, and some food you bought and took with you) it's humbling. Looking for water in the wilderness - even
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by JeremyNT 1mo ago
> Garmin upper end stuff is where it is. The problem for e.g. Google is right here. The Garmin stuff is so good at its niche (and passable at the other "nice to have" stuff) that the market is already segmented. If you'r
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by JeremyNT 1mo ago
> I've heard some refer to this as a "nature is healing" scenario for the industry where if you only signed up for a high paycheck and didn't care to think critically about any of the work you're doing then this
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by JeremyNT 1mo ago
It's stuff like this that really makes me wonder about the great man theory of history. Without JW Booth, maybe Lincoln would've broken the southern white aristocracy, and maybe Reconstruction would've succeeded. One man coul
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by JeremyNT 1mo ago
Yep - there are issues still with this class of product (bulky, wired) but they're getting much better. It's not quite portable enough yet and the ux is a train wreck since phone OSes don't handle them appropriately yet, but

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