_zagj

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by _zagj 6mo ago
And yet, has anyone ever claimed regular marijuana use improved their memory?
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by _zagj 6mo ago
Did you not see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777 Look at how many updoots it has. Look at how many vacuous, enthusiastic replies it got. That post is especially egregious, but you see stuff like that on a
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> I think these issues are totally separate. You don't think the timing is suspicious?
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> The chip machines Taiwan uses come from Europe, for example. Yeah, the EUV photolithography machine, but not much else. American companies like Lam Research and Applied Materials are the leaders in thin film deposition and etch, KLA Te
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by _zagj 6mo ago
This chart: https://www.longtermtrends.com/home-price-vs-inflation/ And Case-Shiller is based on price-per-square footage, so the argument that houses are bigger is moot.
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> The MIT license I still can't believe that developers got memed into this being the default license. 20 years ago, you'd always default to GPL and only opt for something else if it was a complete non-starter, and then you&#x2
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> submitted a fix and told them how to and I received a barrage of comments about working for free for a corporation that's making money off me After it became obvious that 1) these LLMs were trained heavily on OSS, and 2) that they
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> I feel like anyone used AI coding tools before 11/25 and after 1/26 (with frontier models) will say there has been a massive jump in, there is a difference between whether LLM can do a specific task or pass some arguably arbi
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> Well, on one hand they lack new data. Lot's of new code came out of an LLM, so it feeds back. Supposedly model curation is a Big Deal at Big AI, and they're especially concerned about Ouroboros effects and poisoned data. Also
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> I've endured 50k runs Did you see this? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/health/running-colon-canc... But I agree with you, I would only want this done if I could get it without sedation.
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> Among many, many other things, he invented the term "vibecoding". Yeah, that's a great reason to hate him, but the person you're responding to asked why his Twitter braindroppings belong on the front page. It should
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by _zagj 6mo ago
Somewhat off topic, but any theories as to why the shilling for Claude (not insinuating that's what the OP is doing) is so transparent? For example, the bots/shills often go out of their way to insist you get the $200 plan, in p
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by _zagj 6mo ago
It's strange that I don't accept unverified anecdotes on their face, especially when they contradict the best evidence available? Also > calling this person a liar "Liar" implies a deliberate attempt to deceive, but I
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> Odd choice of a comment to post this reply to. How? They claimed LLMs somehow enabled them to write more code in the span of 3.5 years (assuming they started with ChatGPT's introduction) than they would be able to write in the spa
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> ... you think It was good time? Yes, as do, probably, most people who remember it.
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by _zagj 6mo ago
Lots of projects have had requirements like this for years, usually to prevent infection by (A)GPL's virality, or in the case of the FSF, so they can sue on your behalf, or less scrupulously, so the project can re-license itself or dua
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> Realistically, there’s a lot in there now that I simply couldn't have built in a standard human lifetime without them. I have yet to see a study showing something like a 2x or better boost in programmer productivity through LLMs.
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> I always assumed this was the case anyway; MIT is, if I'm not mistaken, one of the mostly used licenses No, it wasn't that way in the 2000s, e.g., on platforms like SourceForge, where OSS devs would go out of their way to le
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> The LLM ban is unenforceable Just require that the CLA/Certificate of Origin statement be printed out, signed, and mailed with an envelope and stamp, where besides attesting that they appropriately license their contributions ((A)
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> creator of Redis, published a broader defense of AI reimplementation, grounding it in copyright law and the history of the GNU project Has anyone else lost almost all respect for Antirez because of stuff like this?
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by _zagj 6mo ago
This is the still-maintained (v5.0.4 is from 2026-01-23) fork of the open sourced AOLserver.
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NaviServer, a versatile multiprotocol (HTTP(S), etc.) server written in C/Tcl(github.com)
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> worry about I don't "worry" about it, as I don't care about karma and almost never flag anything, but most other users care greatly about their internet points (it is orange reddit, after all), and as krapp pointed
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> flag I'm not sure this is good advice. dang and the rest of the HN braintrust are very opaque about how your own flagging and voting affects your account, and I wouldn't be surprised if flagging or downvoting something like t
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> At 67 I'm refreshing my calculus, linear algebra, and statistics Does anyone else find this messaging from Anthropic's marketing department silly? AI ultimately devalues human knowledge by commoditizing it, which ought to mak
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by _zagj 6mo ago
Odd how you still see announcements of this nature if Anthropic's marketing is be believed.
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> start learning What is there to learn about all of this? The way it's presented makes it come across as an "end of history" technology with a low skill floor and a skill ceiling that comes down more with each iteration.
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by _zagj 6mo ago
I doubt Big AI is mass violating the CFAA just to shill, but maybe some other entity did the dirty work and is now reselling the accounts or indirect access to them, similar to the residential IP proxy business they use to disgusie their sc
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by _zagj 6mo ago
I meant to quote the entire clause, including, specifically, the > by force part, which is the part Trump repeatedly disavowed (as your own post demonstrates).
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by _zagj 6mo ago
> but the recent one about "I love coding at 60 now because of Claude Code!" by a new user with "cc" I immediately guessed that's what prompted this thread when I saw the title. > I'm not trying to spark

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