andrewmutz

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by andrewmutz 7d ago
Can't I just point my camera at an AI generated image? And it will get the stamp of authenticity?
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by andrewmutz 7d ago
I don't understand why you think old people would have to move. They have the ability to access the equity in their home at any time through HELOCs or mortgages. If they own a house that shoots up 1M in value, they have just had a ma
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by andrewmutz 9d ago
Multiple good things would happen without prop 13: People would move more instead of being locked in to a low effective property tax. The tax burden would be much fairer: instead of the police and schools being funded by newcomers, everyone
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by andrewmutz 15d ago
Don’t you make more money if the game is fun to play? (People buy the game)
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by andrewmutz 21d ago
Anyone know the specifics of how this works under the hood? I assumed the people over at Twitter/X would aggressively block systems like this from working. Are they doing something creative to get around that?
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by andrewmutz 1mo ago
If there are no subscription services, what will fund the free open source repositories?
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by andrewmutz 1mo ago
I've found that working in a style similar to this is very useful for managing multiple threads of work at the same time. I use virtual desktops, where each desktop contains a single thing that I am working on, and everything related t
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by andrewmutz 1mo ago
> On the other hand we don't give technology the same pass we give to humans, meaning that we don't tolerate machine incidents the same way we tolerate human ones. I completely disagree with this. I don't "give a pas
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by andrewmutz 2mo ago
From my experience, "Big pedigree, top of the line personality, zero results" isn't about hiring a CEO, it's about hiring in general. Hiring is really hard and its relatively common for someone to look good on paper and
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by andrewmutz 2mo ago
This issue isn't specific to the Kindle, you can go and buy books on Apple or Google or Kobo or Barnes and Noble and its the same story. Many books can only be bought this way. Publishers don't want to sell books through platform
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by andrewmutz 2mo ago
Is the only way to use it to break the DRM? I wish there was a path to being able to use all these devices with kindle ebooks legally
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by andrewmutz 2mo ago
One man's offensive penetration tool is another mans defensive tool. In the recent HuggingFace/OpenAI incident the safety controls stood in the way of the defenders, not the attackers: https://www.thestack.technology&#
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by andrewmutz 2mo ago
What’s different between “slop” and “bad”
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by andrewmutz 2mo ago
Why do we need anything more than good/bad? If there is a great post on a topic and the author used AI when generating it, what’s so bad about that?
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by andrewmutz 2mo ago
Interestingly, this website reliably crashes my firefox on linux while consuming 55GB of memory. Claude's TLDR of what's causing the problem (may or may not be accurate): "That animation loop is almost certainly leaking memor
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by andrewmutz 2mo ago
I also think that the people who are complaining loudest about Anthropics pricing and changes are the customers Anthropic is least interested in retaining. From my experience people who complain loudly about the price tend to be people who
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by andrewmutz 3mo ago
A tangential observation: the video on the linked page wasn't what I expected. I thought Mistral was a european AI company, so I didnt expect the video to be filmed in San Francisco featuring three people who don't seem to be eur
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by andrewmutz 3mo ago
It's beyond tech. Optimism in general is out of fashion, and pessimism is pervasive. The technology for delivering bad news and highly-engaging outrage-bait has developed much faster than our society has been able to adapt to it. Jus
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by andrewmutz 3mo ago
If you want to understand the likely capabilities of AI technology in the future, listen to software engineers like this guy. If you want to understand the impact of AI technology on the economy, don't listen to software engineers, lis
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by andrewmutz 3mo ago
There is no fixed demand for jobs, nor fixed supply of housing. Immigrant consumption creates a lot of jobs and immigrant labor creates a lot of housing
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by andrewmutz 3mo ago
When a person relocates to a country where their labor is more productive, a large amount of new economic value is created. Much of that value is captured by the migrant through higher earnings, but a lot also accrues to the people in the c
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by andrewmutz 3mo ago
The worst part of organic produce is that it is worse on two things that matter a lot: climate change and biodiversity. Most of the negative impact of agriculture on the climate and on biodiversity happens when we convert an acre of land fr
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by andrewmutz 3mo ago
I think it's a completely reasonable position that companies making self-driving cars and question/answer systems are legally liable for any errors. But if you hold that position, you also have to be fine with companies not offeri
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by andrewmutz 3mo ago
Both can be true. They can be charging what the market will bear, and still be charging less than their costs of running it.
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by andrewmutz 4mo ago
Any idea how soon dynamic workflows might be available in Cowork?
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by andrewmutz 4mo ago
I don't agree with this. But I also found the article really unsatisfying. The idea that middle management should spend enormous amounts of time building relationships because other middle managers got vibes that one day it might be u
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by andrewmutz 4mo ago
Claude works in Rails apps extremely well. As the author of this blog points points out, Ruby allows you to get a ton done with minimal coding. Also, Rails uses convention over configuration, making Rails apps even terser. One hypothesis
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by andrewmutz 4mo ago
The idea that Japanese companies provide more stability and lower returns on capital isn't a hypothesis, it's backed up by data https://www.nber.org/papers/w1762 https://ideas.repec.org/p&#x2F
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by andrewmutz 4mo ago
Japanese and American companies have different purposes. In Japan the corporation primarily provides stable income and employment for society, and secondarily returns on capital invested. In America, corporations primarily provide returns
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by andrewmutz 4mo ago
Apple has absolutely been dragging its feet on RCS. The DoJ explicitly accused them of degrading cross-platform messaging to protect their smartphone dominance. Internal Apple communications revealed that executives were worried that brin

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