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by arthurjj 26d ago
Agreed they’re definitely underperforming compared to us meatbags according to the famous book “Three felonies a day”. But I don’t think that’s the point the artist was trying to make
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by arthurjj 26d ago
As an art piece this is delightful. But it of reminds me of the @patio11 saying "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero" the fact that Google and Meta have had 0 and 1 incidents is a bad sign for them. [1] https://www
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by arthurjj 29d ago
I'm sympathetic to the points he makes. But it's hard to take it seriously when he makes his money selling marketing and he's complaining about cpc advertising . It's like if a horse breeder were complaining about car
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by arthurjj 1mo ago
A few years ago a software engineer asked a few Chemical/Civil/Mechanical engineers and the majority of "real" engineers seemed to think we were [1]. I'm not aware of a better study but happy to be proven wrong, sin
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by arthurjj 1mo ago
> I'm an SRE and I think it's quite likely the best infra language I've ever seen. I only worked with 4-5 SREs and they all grudgingly tolerated it. What did you like about it, compared to other infra languages you've
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by arthurjj 1mo ago
I think the internal web tooling was pretty good compared to anyone but AWS circa 2016 but by 2020 when I left it felt a bit antiquated. Similarly they didn't have linters rolled out until it was industry standard iirc. But BCL is stil
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by arthurjj 1mo ago
My only commentary is that I prefer "meat puppet" as it's an existing term, which already means something very similar[1], and is a bit more derisive [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meat_puppet
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by arthurjj 2mo ago
Real, although the speed of the development in the novel is fictionalized [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchet_(novel)
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by arthurjj 2mo ago
>And all science fiction is, in one way or another, technological. Even when it’s written by people who don’t know what the word means. I think this goes too far and then everything is science fiction? She talks about low tech. Is Hat
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by arthurjj 2mo ago
To be clear my issue is with the reporting, not the policies Starting your article with "We expose Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policies" especially when a quick google shows it doesn't appear to work [1], isn&
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by arthurjj 2mo ago
> Adversarial advocacy is core to most (western?) societies... It's exhausting that _everything_ is litigated. But I still prefer it to authoritarianism. This is definitely an great way to think about it. Us fighting about it (I hop
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by arthurjj 2mo ago
Thanks for explaining what the lawsuits were about. I'm not sure how I feel about the actual case or even how effective I think black octagons will be. Apparently they were first done in Chile and had little to no long term effect [1]
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by arthurjj 2mo ago
The article says 80% of the lawsuits were in Mexico and ~3% were in America.
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by arthurjj 2mo ago
I'm about as hippie with my food as you can get, but this "article" is badly written propaganda that conceals more than it reveals. Half way down the article you learn that ~80% (193 out of 239) of the lawsuits are in Mexico
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by arthurjj 2mo ago
I try to buy as many shirts as possible from bands I like and this post reminded me to go look again. I listen to a lot of metal and punk and the problem is most the shirts are either black, which overheat you in SoCal, or have designs tha
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by arthurjj 2mo ago
I missed that thread when it came out, it's really a wild read. The difference between how people describe her vs how she's normally portrayed in the media is really startling
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by arthurjj 2mo ago
I like this summary https://www.andymasley.com/writing/the-ai-water-issue-is-fak... And this is a reply to her comment about water usage where it becomes clear she's not arguing in good faith. https://x
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by arthurjj 2mo ago
I think part of it is she had excellent PR skills and a dedicated fan base. I was at Google when she quit, working in ML, and hadn't heard of her until the story broke. I remember there were a large number of Memegen posts about it, bu
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by arthurjj 3mo ago
It might take a while for people to see how the model is useful to them, or to figure out how to make it useful or the capabilities weren't there ye. My mother tried ChatGPT in '23 and thought it was useless, she now uses it regu
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by arthurjj 3mo ago
> More than 30 percent of the US working-age population is using AI [meaning about 70% isn’t], an increase of 3 percentage points from the end of 2025 This makes me less bearish on the AI investments that are being made, if 70% of the wo
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AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output(newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2 points by arthurjj 4mo ago|0 comments
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Complicated truth about European economic stagnation and living standards(drthad.substack.com)
4 points by arthurjj 4mo ago|0 comments
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by arthurjj 4mo ago
> employees will receive a minimum of 16 weeks base pay (plus 2 weeks per year worked), their next equity vest, and 6 months of COBRA As someone who lived through multiple rounds of layoffs at big tech companies this seemed quite generou
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by arthurjj 5mo ago
Thank you for demonstrating my first point while trying to contest my second.
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by arthurjj 5mo ago
> As I said in another comment, I think it’s important to debate what these companies are doing, how they’re doing it, and whether the United States’ actions are morally and legally justified. I think it's sometimes hard to debate t
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by arthurjj 5mo ago
I was pretty curious as I have a kid who's not very aware about cars. That appears to be an extrapolation from a pretty biased source [1]. It's probably more honest to say "the aforementioned systems are expected to save 58 t
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by arthurjj 5mo ago
> When a good programmer writes a new feature, they are looking for both existing and new abstractions that can be applied. They are considering their mental model of the whole system and examining whether it can be leveraged or needs to
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by arthurjj 5mo ago
Agreed. If I'm looking at what it proposes then about 1/2 the time I don't make the changes. If this were fully automated you would need an addendum like "Only make the change if it saves over 100 lines of code or remove
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by arthurjj 5mo ago
LLMs not being lazy enough definitely feels true. But it's unclear to me if it a permanent issue, one that will be fixed in the next model upgrade or just one your agent framework/CICD framework takes care of. e.g. Right now when
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by arthurjj 5mo ago
I just want to thank the submitter. This is the type of internet that I really miss. A very smart person who's a good writer, proud of their interests and obsessions.

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