dismalaf

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by dismalaf 3d ago
If Anthropic has all this data that Claude was being used by the Houthis to develop a missile guidance system, why the fuck did they allow it? Linux follows international sanctions in not allowing citizens of certain countries to be involve
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by dismalaf 4d ago
Impressed with the model performance or the chatbot/agent performance?
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by dismalaf 4d ago
> started one-shotting serious long horizon tasks. They one-shot tasks for which there's a git clone one-liner, except worse. My experience with them one shotting tasks is that it usually doesn't work if you try anything ambiti
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by dismalaf 4d ago
Why don't you actually read the words and apply a little critical thinking? How often do you hack on actual LLMs? Or do you just use the chatbot or API for your agents? An LLM without internet access or tools is just as useless as a
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by dismalaf 4d ago
This is corporate speak for "LLMs have hit a wall". I mean, it's been obvious for a bit, lately nearly all gains have been from harnesses (or whatever you want to call all the non-LLM bits that make up a chatbot or agent). I
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by dismalaf 4d ago
> I don't know exactly what it meant by "chained" It does mean they tried to eliminate inflation as a factor. In my experience though the basket of goods used for inflation calculations do a poor job representing the majo
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by dismalaf 4d ago
> Also I don't think AMD and Intel is capable "to step in" to replace them AMD has powered 2 generations each of Sony and Xbox consoles, Steam deck and shops a ton of GPUs especially if you count APUs. And then Intel lite
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by dismalaf 5d ago
Attacking Iran and then backing down has just shown all the West's enemies that the US has no resolve.
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by dismalaf 6d ago
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/hub-carrefour/quality-life-qualite... You tell me. Median household (+ individuals not in an economic family) income went up $5k from 2015-2024. Given what you've experienced inflation
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by dismalaf 6d ago
Lots of counterpoints. Peronist Argentina, France under Hollande, Canada from 2015-today, etc... I live in Canada. Under the current government, business investment cratered, 40% of our 1% earners left and our GDP per capita relative to t
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by dismalaf 6d ago
Instead of leaking memory it'll just clone the whole heap over and over.
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by dismalaf 6d ago
If I were the Rust foundation I'd be keeping this to myself right now.
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by dismalaf 6d ago
> less educated men comfortable going to the doctor, let alone a therapist. Is it that or is it the cost and availability?
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by dismalaf 6d ago
> From an aesthetic point of view, I am getting pretty tired of this obviously LLM generated static site content template design in 2025/2026. Versus the same WP template or the same Jekyll template? I agree though, using an LLM to
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by dismalaf 6d ago
Information workers. Anyone whose whole job can be done from a laptop... They're among the most privileged workers in the world.
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by dismalaf 6d ago
Both are relative terms so they can be the same or different depending on who defines them. Nearly everyone that works in the US is rich by worldwide standards, so it's not clear that a lack of billionaires for example would make thin
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by dismalaf 7d ago
Making everyone poor never made the world better.
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by dismalaf 7d ago
There's still an ice sheet an hour from my home, and it's 5-35 degrees all summer....
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by dismalaf 7d ago
In general I've simply never known someone with an iPhone who's never shattered the screen lol.
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by dismalaf 7d ago
Yeah, these days hard to justify anything more than a $500-800 Android unless it's heavily subsidized. For $2800 I'd rather have a laptop + phone.
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by dismalaf 8d ago
Here's the thing about economists... The loudest ones don't want to be correct, they want to be influential. The ones who can actually make good predictions work for banks and hedge funds lol.
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by dismalaf 8d ago
1. Does unlimited actually mean unlimited? If I want to take 2 months off every year will there be absolutely zero repercussions? The others are valid though.
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by dismalaf 8d ago
US companies almost always adjust salaries for LCOL. The days of them paying 3x local salaries are long past...
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by dismalaf 8d ago
> But like I said, it doesn't cover inequality. Again, like I wrote, you need to prove that inequality is inherently bad. Or that home ownership is inherently good. You ever live in a 3rd world country? I saw families who "ow
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by dismalaf 8d ago
Lol if languages that literally run a virtual machine and abstract away everything about the hardware are low-level, what's high level?
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by dismalaf 9d ago
Common Lisp allows you to define VOPs (compiler instructions) in user code. Smalltalk allows you to write inline assembly. Are those also low level languages?
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by dismalaf 9d ago
> GDP/capita don't matter if majority of voters perceive themselves as poor. The per capita part literally covers the amount of people in an economy. There are very few examples of countries where GDP per capita doesn't le
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by dismalaf 10d ago
The "standard of living" component of HDI is literally GNI per capita PPP (basically the same thing as GDP per capita, with a few minor adjustments). The other components are just life expectancy and educational attainment. The ed
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by dismalaf 10d ago
Here's a chart to visualize: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location... My definition of the economy is the actual definition lol.
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by dismalaf 10d ago
> re-election is the real surprise for me It's interesting that it's a surprise to you, that such information bubbles exist. A great sage named Bill Clinton once said, "It's the economy, stupid!". And economic p

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