german_dong

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by german_dong 8mo ago
so-long-mode is sophomoric garbage.
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by german_dong 8mo ago
The buffer is the UI, rendered by Emacs's extremely optimised text display machinery The author is known in the community as a mere packager whose knowledge of the nitty-gritty derives entirely from hearsay. Perhaps he read the long
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by german_dong 8mo ago
Not every modern editor. Neovim bogs on long lines too.
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by german_dong 8mo ago
I mean, it's 1.5M more than the foundation knows what to do with.
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by german_dong 8mo ago
Use a condom.
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by german_dong 8mo ago
Anthropic, like most frontier companies, have more money than they know what to do with. When the prize is world domination, turning a profit isn't high on their todo list. Twenty dollars per month is the bare minimum hurdle to preve
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by german_dong 8mo ago
They don't have hands in the future because you can stick it right in.
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by german_dong 8mo ago
I was backed up for weeks, so I called a professional to clean my pipes. $120, plus a $20 tip for good technique.
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by german_dong 9mo ago
That's right, but HN clapback derangement syndrome compels me to state another obvious fact of life. Profit motive is the singlemost powerful motivator for the pharmaceutical industry. Take that away, and let's see how many smart
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by german_dong 9mo ago
"Tremendous societal cost" is putting it uncharitably. My country was built on the financial incentivization of patents. I can think of several economies with an open disregard for patents, even some where the state assumes owne
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by german_dong 9mo ago
I say "clawed" only because that's how it's pronounced.
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by german_dong 9mo ago
Your generalizing about the fungibility of labor yields nothing. Every successful hire is a unique mix of right place, right time, right man. You control what you can.
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by german_dong 9mo ago
Consider augmentation surgery.
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by german_dong 9mo ago
Every woman would come from central casting. No small talk, no dinner, no funny smells, just ready-to-bang honies at your doorstep. Pros: * Guaranteed sex. * No more time wasted seeking mates * Potentially less semen wasted with bespoke rec
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by german_dong 9mo ago
Many reasons: 1. Internet has made distribution frictionless. So unlike giving out Uber trips, giving out code costs you nothing. 2. You have a real job. The "80% time" for which you're paid subsidizes the self-promotional
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by german_dong 9mo ago
In any timeline, software, as a frictionlessly distributable commodity, would have become effectively free just as music did.
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by german_dong 9mo ago
You trippin. 1000+ pages to say greed is good, a realization most people make by fifth grade.
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by german_dong 9mo ago
Selfish Gene, of course. There is no self. We are but pre-programmed propagation vectors.
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by german_dong 9mo ago
Ergo, my initial claim that "modern approaches have zero overlap with Chomsky's deterministic methodology." Statistical token prediction began with the Dragon folks, the CMU guys, and Yorktown Heights, many of whom encounter
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by german_dong 9mo ago
Computational linguistics was the subfield of computer science that all the smart kids gravitated towards in the 80s and 90s (RMS came up in CSAIL during this time). While proving various results about formalisms and contrived grammars was
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by german_dong 9mo ago
You know, when the internet made distribution frictionless, all "knowledge work," most notably music, became feasibly free. The advent of AI now threatens to make not just the distribution but also the creation of such work feasi
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by german_dong 9mo ago
Why do we continue to give increased weight to a guy whose computer science knowledge ends in 1980? Dude became an icon by preaching a rationalization to an all-too-receptive generation of cash poor college students: that Microsoft should
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by german_dong 9mo ago
No, modern approaches have zero overlap with Chomsky's deterministic methodology..
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by german_dong 9mo ago
Like a lot of professional talkers, you've gone off on a long-winded, narcissistic pontification, 90% of which I didn't read. But shortly before Claude Pro went mainstream, I was dealing with my parents' estate and the proce
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by german_dong 10mo ago
The only way to get attention on X is to announce you're leaving it. Well played, whoever you are.
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by german_dong 10mo ago
At the time I had just enough pink and lift in my cheeks for quid pro quo.
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by german_dong 10mo ago
GP is a longstanding pita in the emacs community who has yet to come to terms that FOSS is an financial black hole.
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by german_dong 10mo ago
I have to externalize the mental model so the AI can operate with it. Just as writing clarifies thinking, so does this. That's not a cost, that's a prudent investment.
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by german_dong 10mo ago
I go get my dick wet on backpage. Hey, you asked.
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by german_dong 10mo ago
When not having Claude feels like you left your phone at home, I'd say no, using AI is very much a part of our identities.

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