cmcaleer

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by cmcaleer 5mo ago
I'm sure an automated system would do great in 95% of conditions but it's that 5% where you really, really need a human in the loop to make judgement calls that would be incredibly difficult to program. Here's a classic examp
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by cmcaleer 6mo ago
It's as much a gun to adversaries' heads if they hold lots of your bonds (China used to hold over $1T in USTs) so they would have an interest in not having that blow up by not annoying the US so much they refuse to pay foreign bon
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by cmcaleer 6mo ago
I remember being blown away when I was in a Kyoto Familymart after a few months of living in Osaka after they handed me my fried chicken very delicately with both hands like it was a business card! I guess that’s the cultural divide that oc
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by cmcaleer 6mo ago
I think if you were to do an Osaka version of this, the list would be limited to maybe 4 of these (licking, chopsticks upright in rice, passing between chopsticks, and pointing esp. toward a senior would be taboo). Whereas when I had a date
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by cmcaleer 6mo ago
I think if, 10 years ago, you spun Microsoft into several different companies with everything playing out exactly as it has today in the product management side, the most direct consumer-facing sections like Windows Desktop and Xbox would h
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by cmcaleer 6mo ago
Tesla has been this for a long time since the price fundamentally does not reflect the quality or future of the company, yet the road is littered with dead Tesla bears. Efficient markets hypothesis breaks down with Musk companies.
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by cmcaleer 6mo ago
Agree they’re great but it does fascinate me when there are weird edge cases that Apple mess up. For example if I have my phone and laptop running, and I’m listening to something on my phone, I pause with my AirPods, and then I unpause with
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by cmcaleer 6mo ago
I gave up on USBC headphones because if your port becomes full of lint (say by being in your pocket all day), it doesn’t take much to disturb a USBC connection and cause it to go through the whole handshake all over again for a few seconds.
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by cmcaleer 6mo ago
Gut cleanses are probably stupid but I wonder if people would benefit from taking antiparasitics prophylactically. It's not something I've ever done, but I eat sashimi pretty regularly and wonder if I should take something like pr
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by cmcaleer 7mo ago
These days I use Apple hardware despite Apple’s software, not because of it.
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by cmcaleer 8mo ago
Better yet, a link to Kaggle and provide prize funding for a few dozen competitions with most of them open to UK residents only. Directly incentivise the most driven types of people to compete and learn and give local firms a way to identif
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by cmcaleer 8mo ago
You could have contracted 5 small firms for £400k each (which, for this project seems frankly seems excessive) and even if a couple failed to deliver you'd have gotten 3 separate products to choose the best quality one from, £148k to l
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by cmcaleer 8mo ago
I'm struggling to follow the logic on this. Glocks are used in murders, Proton has been used to transmit serious threats, C has been used to program malware. All can be legitimate tools in professional settings where the users don&#x27
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by cmcaleer 8mo ago
You’re moving the goalposts. Gary Marcus’ proposal was being able to ask: Who are the characters? What are their conflicts and motivations? etc. Which is a relatively trivial task for a current LLM.
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by cmcaleer 8mo ago
I don’t really see how this is an AI issue. We use AI all the time for code generation but if you put this on my desk with specific instructions to be light on review and it’s not a joke, I’m probably checking to see if you’re still on prob
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by cmcaleer 9mo ago
> The following fees apply when a user completes [...] any app installs within 24 hours of following an external content link So does this mean a malicious competitor or motivated disgruntled user could fraudulently cause millions of ap
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by cmcaleer 9mo ago
The only thing that gives some slight semblance of hope is that he at least acknowledges that Mozilla is vulnerable and he very very briefly mentions needing new sources of revenue. No mention of an endowment (like Wikipedia has) or concret
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by cmcaleer 9mo ago
Being short anything AI now seems like shotgun tasting unless you really want to give Citadel and Jane Street money since the options premiums are so high, but I have been trying to get a bit less exposed to tech over the last few months an
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by cmcaleer 9mo ago
MS (or any large company for that matter) didn’t participate in BLM discussions and get speakers to describe themselves and list their pronouns because they thought it was virtuous or right, they were just following the cultural zeitgeist i
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by cmcaleer 10mo ago
You don’t need to loudly and publicly say no to Roskomnadzor’s extrajudicial notices, by recognising them you’re giving them more legitimacy than they deserve by acknowledging at all rather than treating the notice as the spam it is. Just b
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by cmcaleer 10mo ago
I moved away from Anker to UGREEN following Anker’s Eufy using unencrypted feeds and sending data to the cloud with no user consent, which was bad, but their gaslighting response to the tech media and overall handling of the situation made
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by cmcaleer 10mo ago
I shitposted about the ‘year of the Linux desktop’ for most of my teenage and adult life only to dual boot Linux for a bit as an experiment a year or two ago and have ~never booted in to Windows for anything other than games with anticheat
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by cmcaleer 11mo ago
OP has given all that they need, English is probably not their first language, and the first response was to ask for even more unpaid time and labour (presumably in English) in a format that is likely much more difficult for them to summari
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by cmcaleer 11mo ago
What’s stopping a similar crisis that 23andMe customers faced where their genetic data along with their identifying information getting sold to the highest bidder if you ever become insolvent? Considering how big a deal that was at the time
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by cmcaleer 11mo ago
It is frankly ridiculous how unintuitive it was to add an email account to Mail on iOS. This is possibly the most basic functionality I would expect an email client to have. One would expect that they go to their list of mailboxes and add a
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by cmcaleer 1y ago
> Open Office still exists (and is being actively supported) Actively supported is a stretch. Look at these commits. https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk/
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by cmcaleer 1y ago
This sounds pretty helpful. If I'm trying a new lib that I want to do something specific with, I paste all the documentation in and interrogate the LLM about it, then cross-reference with the docs. Usually much faster to do what I want
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by cmcaleer 1y ago
I always thought that Fight Club quote missed a crucial extra number: D, the cost of brand reputational damage. Maybe best expressed as multiplier <1 on revenue that converges towards 1 over time. Maybe a decade from now this becomes a s
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by cmcaleer 1y ago
Here's a question on expected value. Do you think Epic makes more money if: (a) they agree to Apple's demands and have Fortnite on the App Store during its peak of popularity for years and eat the junk fees on mtx or (b)
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by cmcaleer 1y ago
Monetary damages are damages, I don't think this is particularly complicated. If I made it so you couldn't get several weeks of your wages for hours that you worked you would be rightly furious with me and feel like a victim.

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