devinplatt

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by devinplatt 3mo ago
My personal mental image for AI agents is Mr Meeseeks. Per Wikipedia: > Meeseeks are a powder-blue-skinned species of humanoids (each of whom is named "Mr. Meeseeks") who are created to serve a single purpose which they will go
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by devinplatt 4mo ago
Yeah this article has a very "blame the user" attitude because it labels a supply side issue as a demand side collective action problem. "Just buy less house" sounds very avocado toasty. Anyways, the actual way many peop
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by devinplatt 6mo ago
There's definitely an asymmetry in how the systemic dysfunction benefits the Republican party over the Democratic party. (Overall the system benefits both parties though since it entrenches partisanship.) I'd argue that the asymme
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by devinplatt 6mo ago
I learned recently that there's actually a name for this concept. Murc's law states that in American politics, only Democrats are assumed to have agency. Presumably democratic reforms could help change the dynamic if they changed
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by devinplatt 6mo ago
I'm curious how this works if the green team writes an implementation that makes a network call like an RPC. Red team might not anticipate this if the spec does detail every expected RPC (which seems unreasonable: this could vary based
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by devinplatt 7mo ago
FWIW he gives his ethical reasoning on his website: > Broadly, I am supportive of arming democracies with the tools needed to defeat autocracies in the age of AI—I simply don’t think there is any other way. But we cannot ignore the poten
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by devinplatt 7mo ago
It seems like best etiquette would be to have a username with "bot" in it and include something in the post explicitly indicating it's a bot (e.g. a signature). This isn't even a new problem where a good cultural solutio
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by devinplatt 7mo ago
Sounds self-referencial
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by devinplatt 7mo ago
It's so interesting to read these comments because this this is literally my job (to help Workspace teams integrate Gemini faster) Some thoughts: - Hardware constraints are real, even at Google. - Features are often released for enterp
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by devinplatt 8mo ago
In my experience, using LLMs to code encouraged me to write better documentation, because I can get better results when I feed the documentation to the LLM. Also, I've noticed failure modes in LLM coding agents when there is less clari
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by devinplatt 9mo ago
That's great! For more context, I have Anthem Blue Cross health insurance. The cost might depend on your insurance.
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by devinplatt 9mo ago
Try Planned Parenthood. Over a decade ago I tried getting the HPV vaccine in my early 20s, but the doctor told me it wasn't recommended for men and that insurance won't cover it. I was young and didn't have the money to pay o
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by devinplatt 9mo ago
On a quick skim, my interpretation is that the article critiques the classic (but simplistic) advice that asking questions and letting the other person talk more than you is the key to having a good conversation, especially to ensuring that
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by devinplatt 9mo ago
The article mentions affordances. I assume the title uses doorknobs because that's a more familiar word as you point out.
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by devinplatt 10mo ago
Thanks for sharing this! I've never heard of this research, but it sounds very promising. I also found this Guardian article from a Google search: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/01/shorts
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by devinplatt 1y ago
Have you read the book "Recoding America"? I have a feeling you might enjoy that book as it goes into a LOT of detail about government dysfunction with respect to software. I found the book eye opening and personally it provided m
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by devinplatt 1y ago
That's interesting example to choose, as I've actually heard often that the Social Security administration is an example of an efficient government administration. For example, a quick Google search shows administrative overhead a
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by devinplatt 1y ago
That's basically what the founders of Intel did, when they left Shockley to start Fairchild: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
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by devinplatt 1y ago
This reminds me a lot of the special policies Wikipedia has developed through experience about sensitive topics, like biographies of living persons, deaths, etc.
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by devinplatt 2y ago
Location: California Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: QuickBooks Online, Xero Resume/CV: available upon request Email: jananyoung (at the popular email service hosted by Google) My mother is a Certifi
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by devinplatt 2y ago
When I worked at Amazon, I also was tired of paying for expensive lunches available nearby. But I didn't always have time to make pack lunches. So I ordered canned soup, on Amazon, to be shipped to the office mailroom. Then picked up t
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by devinplatt 2y ago
I was curious about this given what happened with SDCH. Here is what Wikipedia[0] says > Due to the diffing results and the data being compressed with the same coding, SDCH dictionaries aged relatively quickly and compression density bec
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by devinplatt 2y ago
Penalties would also incentivise businesses to hide data breaches.
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by devinplatt 2y ago
"Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade." - Kevin Ashton, "How To Fly A Horse" As I recall that book used the example of Franz Reichelt, wh
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by devinplatt 3y ago
Location: California Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: QuickBooks Online, Xero Resume/CV: available upon request Email: jananyoung (at the popular email service hosted by Google) My mother is a Certifi
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by devinplatt 5y ago
If I recall correctly, sometimes there are laws that put a % cap on yearly rent increases. They're intended to protect existing tenants, but they also discourage landlords from reducing rent if they think rents will come back up in the
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by devinplatt 5y ago
Which pairs great with autoplay videos in text based news articles you made the unfortunate choice to read on your phone in a quiet public place.
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by devinplatt 5y ago
Yep! I don't work there. I can't fix it since I can't edit my comment anymore. Next time I'll be more clear with any multi paragraph quotes!
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by devinplatt 5y ago
You can check out https://www.reddit.com/r/StandingDesk/ I got an Uplift desk last year and it's good, but they're pretty pricey. There are probably cheaper options that work fine too.
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by devinplatt 5y ago
> This product injects source code derived from copyrighted sources into the software of their customers without informing them of the license of the original source code. This significantly eases unauthorized and unlicensed use of a cop

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