hnbad

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by hnbad 3d ago
Google (Alphabet) is a corporation. Corporations follow the profit motive. Furthermore it's a publicly traded corporation. These follow the interests of their shareholders. What does killing dodgy ads do for Google's bottom line?
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by hnbad 29d ago
Vehicle physics/dynamics in my case and yes, same. I got a lot of mileage out of letting it use Opus/Sonnet sub agents for much of the exploratory and implementation work, which cuts down on token use. I got into way fewer "o
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by hnbad 29d ago
I said this before and got attacked for it but this exact argument has been made in Germany and an important consequence is that this also affects contract work: If you're being paid to deliver code that means you're being paid to
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by hnbad 1mo ago
> If one doesn't believe there was a conspiracy, then the assassination attempt on Trump would exemplify this - one guy with a rifle nearly single-handedly killed one of the most guarded men alive. Sure, but that being a failure mod
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by hnbad 1mo ago
The US has local oil extraction so in theory its oil supply should be easily self-sustaining. Of course oil doesn't work like that (the local refinement industry is not built for the domestic oil) but this failure is ultimately a conse
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by hnbad 1mo ago
Wasn't this known for a while? The problem is that simply agitating the liquid already causes immense wear because these are natural caves selected for their potential as long-term storage, not active sources. Not to mention that drain
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by hnbad 1mo ago
> Look at how Hamas for example was seizing food supplies meant for starving Palestinians. Or look at how the IDF had to stand by powerlessly as Israelis blocked supply trucks from entering the refugee camps. Or how the IDF had to indisc
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by hnbad 1mo ago
They boast a "one year hardware warranty" (EU mandatory minimum is two) so I don't think they're targeting the European market directly right now.
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by hnbad 1mo ago
To be fair, I have yet to lead a conversation with Gemini that doesn't just consist of me having to check its responses and point out that they're objectively incorrect only for it to "apologize" and then give me the nex
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by hnbad 1mo ago
Given the state of ... well, everything ... it still surprises me when people pretend there's some level of modesty or decorum the rich and powerful still need to abide by at the risk of some sort of popular revolt. I guess it's a
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by hnbad 1mo ago
People misuse the term "wealthy" to refer to whatever is in their head at the time. I think GP's point stands if you consider "wealthy" to mean "billionaires". Sure, people like Bezos or Musk get to hear &
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by hnbad 1mo ago
That's why I said "main motivation", i.e. what actually caused them to follow through. The initial idea wasn't ideological either - not following from ideology doesn't mean it's pragmatic (in fact I'd argu
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by hnbad 1mo ago
The ends may or may not justify the means but the means definitely do tend to affect which ends you can actually achieve. It's why (left) anarchists argue vanguard parties will always inevitably lead to authoritarianism and never the s
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by hnbad 1mo ago
It's a common misconception: the ethics board isn't the committee deciding whether the trial is ethical, it's the instrument they use to punish you if they decided it wasn't and you decided to ignore them.
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by hnbad 1mo ago
When sparkies complain about "angry pixies" in the breaker panel, that's not what they mean.
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by hnbad 1mo ago
The empirical solution would be to administer the mushroom to people who are not equipped to correctly predict how an actual tiny person would physically interact with certain situations (idk maybe something involving surface tension and li
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by hnbad 1mo ago
Which part? I assume you mean the denial? A simple example would be "work to rule": in many professions work processes are heavily regulated (whether by law or by corporate guidelines) but the unspoken assumption is that you know
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by hnbad 1mo ago
If you read the article, it's ideologically consistent - the main motivation in abandoning Fraktur was strategic (i.e. military), not ideological. I'm pretty sure the "actually Fraktur is Jewish" argument wouldn't e
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by hnbad 1mo ago
You need to be smarter (or rather: more knowledgeable in the problem domain) than the model to be able to use it efficiently. Hallucinations are still a problem occasionally but a bigger one is failure of imagination. Even Claude Fable lack
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by hnbad 1mo ago
The problem is that you can't have content moderation without having editorial intent. There is no such thing as "neutral moderation". Most moderated spaces these days rely on moderating based on "civility" because
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by hnbad 2mo ago
We really need to stop thinking in terms of individuals and more in terms of systems. The problem isn't just Musk. If it wasn't him, it would be someone else.
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by hnbad 2mo ago
I know this will sound inconceivable to you but some people genuinely think nobody should have that much money - including themselves. If you want to make it sound irrational and emotional the correct word wouldn't be "envy"
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by hnbad 2mo ago
I'm sure they'll get around to building that electric VTOL Elon Musk has been "recently thinking about" for the past decade eventually, too.
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by hnbad 2mo ago
I would strongly recommend against taking legal advice from anyone who is not your lawyer, whether they're a greasy dweeb or working for Microsoft's or Oracle's legal department. Your business goals likely don't align wi
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by hnbad 2mo ago
Fun fact: because AI written works don't have copyright (in the EU at least) and the level of prompting many people engage in doesn't suffice to create a copyrightable "work" and software licenses require you to actually
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by hnbad 2mo ago
You had me at "dick workout".
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by hnbad 3mo ago
It's a war between Israel and the US vs Iran that was literally initiated by the US after a meeting between Trump and Netanyahu. Also Israel is a rogue state that has been committing war crimes including genocide and is engaging in exp
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by hnbad 3mo ago
This would be a lot more concerning if it wasn't widely known that Israel also illegally holds nuclear weapons of its own and therefore should have been sanctioned by the US for decades. Not having nukes is how Iran got here in the fir
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by hnbad 3mo ago
The article also states that Iran shot down the fighter jet the US had to recover the weapons officer of. I recall news reports at the time insisting that this was actually an accident or friendly fire incident as it had been the previous t
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by hnbad 3mo ago
True. Hitting the water reservoir is childsplay compared to the targeted attack on a girls' school with which the US decided to open this war when Iran was signalling agreement to make a deal. It also still makes the US far more reserv

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