datpuz

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by datpuz 1y ago
Very good point. Not everyone has the same degree of self preservation instinct.
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by datpuz 1y ago
If your situation is 100% totally hopeless, it's probably preferable to most people to take the clean shot than to try to escape and have a potentially much worse death.
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by datpuz 1y ago
My ex girlfriend was a doctor and we talked about this once. The gist of it that I got was that excessive early tests have a lot of risk factors that come along with them, because tests themselves being harmful (CT scans cause something lik
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by datpuz 1y ago
I don't think efficiency of navigating your IDE is a major factor in your productivity. If you like your setup, it's probably not going to matter a whole lot. The tool you make money with is your brain.
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by datpuz 1y ago
That's awesome. I set up Arch Linux a while ago, and despite working in Linux shops for more than a decade, let's just say I was very out of my element...
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by datpuz 1y ago
I would argue that they need heavy human oversight
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by datpuz 1y ago
Can you describe the cultural gap? I haven't really met these folks in the wild, so I'm curious what the programmers of yore were like.
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by datpuz 1y ago
Just wait til the honeymoon period ends and you actually have to stand behind that slop you didn't realize you were dumping into your codebase.
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by datpuz 1y ago
I dunno, but I'm pretty sure Jesus is not controlling my addiction, either.
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by datpuz 1y ago
Benchmarks in software have always been bullshit. AI benchmarks are just even more bullshit since they're trying to measure something significantly more subjective and nuanced than most.
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by datpuz 1y ago
Are you rich at least?
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by datpuz 1y ago
Okay, but the therapy industry is also a total grift. So I guess the trick is to reinforce your external locus of control by blaming your trauma, so that you go to a pseudoscience practitioner who will fix the problems that were created for
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by datpuz 1y ago
It seems strange that one of the steps is admitting you have no control over your addiction. I feel like the first step should be deciding that you do. But that kind of self assuredness doesn't really align well with whole surrendering
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by datpuz 1y ago
Yep that was a deal-breaker for me going to AA. I eventually just quit drinking on my own after a few years, but AA being the only option for addiction support groups in many places is a bummer.
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by datpuz 1y ago
Reading 80k tokens requires more than 80k tokens due to overhead
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by datpuz 1y ago
It's just another tech hype wave. Reality will be somewhere between total doom and boundless utopia. But probably neither of those. The AI thing kind of reminds me of the big push to outsource software engineers in the early 2000'
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by datpuz 1y ago
If you've seen many such videos, certainly you can produce one where the officer refused to identify themselves, right?
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by datpuz 1y ago
Do you have evidence of federal law enforcement officers refusing to identify themselves when making an arrest?
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by datpuz 1y ago
Easy debunk: ICE is a federal law enforcement agency. Entering or remaining in the country illegally is, by definition, illegal. ICE agents are law enforcement officers, not "deputized Proud Boys." Federal law enforceent agencies
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by datpuz 1y ago
Consider yourself lucky that you've never had to call the cops as a victim. People forget that cops also save lives.
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by datpuz 1y ago
I genuinely cannot wrap my head around spending this much money on hardware that is dramatically inferior to hardware that costs half the price. MacOS is not even great anymore, they stopped improving their UX like a decade ago.
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by datpuz 1y ago
The productivity gains decrease with user experience. A high-performing senior engineer won't get a lot, but I think they've reached a point now where even seniors will benefit a fair amount. For me it's not really that they
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by datpuz 1y ago
Wait 'til you see the bill.
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by datpuz 1y ago
DeepSeek never mopped the floor with anyone... DeepSeek was remarkable because it is claimed that they spent a lot less training it, and without Nvidia GPUs, and because they had the best open weight model for a while. The only area they mo
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by datpuz 1y ago
The average user of a developer API is quite a bit smarter than the average user of, say, a mobile game
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by datpuz 1y ago
AI agents can't even do very basic things without causing absolute mayhem. Do you really think it makes sense for your basic assumption to be that your user is dumber than a token generator?
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by datpuz 1y ago
Yes, let's cite the most biased possible source: the company that's selling you the thing, which is banking on a runway funded on keeping the hype train going as long as possible...
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by datpuz 1y ago
> I guess the main (valid) concern is that LLMs get so good at thought I don't think that's a valid concern, because LLMs can't think. They are generating tokens one at a time. They're calculating the most likely toke
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by datpuz 1y ago
I've "written" whole apps by going to GitHub, cloning a repo, right clicking, and renaming it to "MyApp." Impressed?
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by datpuz 1y ago
Can you provide a source

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