demorro

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by demorro 3mo ago
I would be interested to hear of any in my nation that would have me, seems like quite an ask to allow a stranger to join your community when they bring little of value. That's not to mention whether it's legal or not, which I sus
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by demorro 3mo ago
> These days, anyone can get a free K-12 education, and then loans for college. Generational wealth is not required. Our system is based around competition, where advantage compounds. How do you square this circle? In the case of two ide
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by demorro 3mo ago
Because she believes that the economy is closer to zero sum than you do. One person having a lot means another person has less, not just in terms of material distribution either, but also the distribution of power. It is rather strange to h
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by demorro 3mo ago
> (b) most people could simply opt out, own nothing, and go live in the woods if they wanted to, but would strongly prefer not to. Almost every single person I know would rather do this, including myself, and can't. The woods are al
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by demorro 3mo ago
These comparisons are tricky, because software in particular has always been a bit weird about what it means by "engineer". The article gestures at this, the majority of the people with the title are not actually engineers at all,
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by demorro 3mo ago
If you make a "Are we X yet?" website, surely the answer must be yes or no, or at least something equally terse. That's the joke right, reducing something complicated to a simple yes/no question? "The roots aren&#x2
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by demorro 3mo ago
> one that doesn't just boil down to "a billion is really really a lot of money". Why? That's the point. It's too much damn money for one person to realistically earn. We all know how long a day is and how fast a
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by demorro 3mo ago
> To be fair, reality is a special case Thank you, you made me laugh in earnest. This is one of the funniest things I've read today.
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by demorro 3mo ago
Winnings.
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by demorro 3mo ago
Surely you can see that not trusting mainstream economics shouldn't be as controversial as the hard sciences. Mainstream economics consistently fails to make correct or replicatable predictions.
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by demorro 3mo ago
> If it was unfair, they would presumably reject the offer outright. My word do people actually believe this. What theoretical econ 101 textbook are you living in?
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by demorro 3mo ago
Which was not contradictory, as they were saying they wanted to quit. I also want to quit all social media, including hackernews, in the same way I want to quit eating Mcdonalds and getting high all the time.
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by demorro 3mo ago
Dead on. If we could wave our magic wands and ban "harmful social media" without negative externalities we'd probably do it, but we can't. Sometimes I think legislators think laws are these magic documents which just dir
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by demorro 3mo ago
I'm really torn on this. On the one hand I agree with you 100%, whilst on the other I have little faith that our government will implement in a non-damaging way. However, I'd almost be willing to trade some amount of civil-liberty
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by demorro 3mo ago
It surprises me when people think engineering, software or no, isn't about the physical world of humans, psychological, imaginative, aesthetic or otherwise. Everything I do uses "human stuff" as a base foundation of value. En
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by demorro 3mo ago
It's practically guaranteed. Most people will have no more need to learn how to perform miscellaneous knowledge tasks well if at all, and thus won't.
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by demorro 3mo ago
In every case up until now, a jump in abstraction has moved us forwards in ease of understanding the underlying artifact at a conceptual, human level. High level languages are effectively runnable documentation. It's possible to say th
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by demorro 3mo ago
> it's really hard to imagine why you think you'd have a better take on this than Google. Do you mean this as an appeal to Google being the home to great talent, or more as an endorsement of the specific guidance provided by th
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by demorro 3mo ago
They are absolutely deniable. Huge swathes of people deny them.
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by demorro 3mo ago
Perhaps you have framed this overly strongly, but I think I get what you mean. I have worked in companies where "X is not complete" would be logged as a bug. Even beyond that, non-completeness often leads to behaviors, especially
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by demorro 3mo ago
I liked this article (although I found the scrolling effects distracting) > If you want somebody else to care about a thing, you have to care about it, too. This has always been the crux of it for me, you're right to focus on intent
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by demorro 3mo ago
I still struggle to accept this when my colleagues are producing implementations with AI assistance that are consistently broken and don't do what they think they do. As yet I can't square this circle, no one is better at their jo
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by demorro 3mo ago
I am anti-gun despite guns being extremely effective at propelling metal at high velocity. I am not anti high-velocity metal, nor do I believe guns should never be used under any circumstance. This post is absurd, childish binary thinking.
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by demorro 3mo ago
I find it hard to agree that the stdlib is poorly designed and implemented. In my entire career it has pretty much worked entirely to spec. Yes, it can exhibit non-optimal performance, and in some specific cases (regex's especially), e
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by demorro 3mo ago
Consciousness is unique in that we, as yet, have not identified any externally observable properties that could not also occur in the absence of consciousness. This is not true with matter. Normally when we debate what something is, what we
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by demorro 4mo ago
Does anyone in these comments not have ADHD? Seems like neurodivergence is so common now we might as well think it typical, and be perfectly happy condemning tools and systems that don't work well with it.
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by demorro 4mo ago
It always has in my experience, you merely have to make it true.
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by demorro 4mo ago
This is also my point of confusion. People in the comments seem to be saying that MCP is necessary due to discoverability, but I fundamentally fail to understand how a protocol can make interfaces discoverable to an LLM in a way that wouldn
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by demorro 4mo ago
Who are you to decide that a child is not a fully autonomous person? Sounds like you're imposing a normative rule based on societally derived presuppositions of right and wrong, which is exactly the point. We're just haggling over
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by demorro 4mo ago
What is the point of having a speculative market if everyone has access to the same information and capabilities? You might as well just direct deposit a proportional share of all economic growth relative to investment into every citizens a

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