joshuacc

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by joshuacc 1mo ago
Lying to someone to deceive them into providing you with an economic benefit that they otherwise wouldn’t is textbook fraud.
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by joshuacc 5mo ago
You have a specific idea of customer in mind. Likely different than the gp’s. Many types of customers are quite happy to have prototypes thrown at them. Sometimes it’s even contractually required in agency work.
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by joshuacc 5mo ago
If someone wants to propose an amendment allowing the feds to do this, they can. They just need to get 2/3rds of both the House and the Senate to approve the proposal and then get 3/4ths of the state legislatures to ratify it. Not
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by joshuacc 5mo ago
Sure. But by the text of the constitution (the thing we made up) Congress does not have the power to criminalize “anything,” but only things in specific areas. Everything else is left to state law.
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by joshuacc 6mo ago
Customers aren’t in the habit of paying for things they don’t want.
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by joshuacc 6mo ago
These are factors to be considered, not pass/fail questions.
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by joshuacc 6mo ago
Nope. Virtually every fast food restaurant has free wifi, to say nothing of public libraries. It’s more common now than it ever was previously.
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by joshuacc 7mo ago
Presumably you don’t anymore if you have 5.4.
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by joshuacc 8mo ago
Codex added skills support recently. It appears to work exactly the same as Claude Code.
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by joshuacc 9mo ago
Cursor, Copilot, Roo Code, Cline, among others.
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by joshuacc 11mo ago
“firing people while turning a profit is 100% bad faith that should be regulated or barred.” That’s far too broad a claim. Just because you’re turning a profit doesn’t mean you should be locked into keeping all of your employees. Some are l
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by joshuacc 1y ago
Your expanded version is also incorrect.
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by joshuacc 1y ago
> If it really was "just a complex situation", you would expect equal percentages of simple and complicated cases for regular joes and huge corporations, no? Obviously not. Regular joes almost always have relatively simple situ
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by joshuacc 1y ago
Still relevant, as it means that a coding agent is more likely to get things right without searching. That saves time, money, and improves accuracy of results.
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by joshuacc 1y ago
Citation needed for the idea that zero is the optimal price for public benefit. Among other issues, I expect medication compliance would be higher when the patient has to pay for the medication.
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by joshuacc 1y ago
I believe they are talking about the OpenAI API, not ChatGPT.
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by joshuacc 1y ago
I’ve never provided a number first. I’ve also never been dropped from interviews or negotiations because of that. I’m an expert in my specialty now, but I wasn’t when I started following Patrick’s advice.
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by joshuacc 1y ago
I’m not a celebrity or superstar, and I’ve successfully used his techniques several times. The very first time it resulted in $20k improvement over the initial salary offer. Another time it resulted in an additional $40k in signing bonus. M
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by joshuacc 1y ago
I ran into this as well, but now I have given standing instructions for the llm to pull the latest RR docs anytime it needs to work with RR. That has solved the entire issue.
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by joshuacc 2y ago
Why wouldn’t you put your inputs in a form element?
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by joshuacc 2y ago
Have you ever read the books? The main characters are middle class or poor.
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by joshuacc 2y ago
Part of that is that Claude is exceptionally good at turn-based interactions compared to other models that are better at one-shot reasoning.
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by joshuacc 2y ago
In my experience it is true, but only for relatively small pieces of a system at the time. LLMs have to be orchestrated by a knowledgeable human operator to build a complete system any larger than a small library.
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by joshuacc 2y ago
This article covers a lot of the history. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-cant-the-us-build-ships Basically the US wasn’t great at shipbuilding post civil war due to high costs. WWII was an existential threat so cost
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by joshuacc 2y ago
How else do you propose to get a company to build a factory at your preferred location rather than theirs? Paying companies is the usual way to get them to do things. The economic effects are important but secondary to the national security
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by joshuacc 3y ago
> Here [2] is a table of best selling movies, inflation adjusted. No movie made in the past 25 years, including the endless men in spandex movies, is among them. The Force Awakens (2015) is #11. Avatar (2009) is #15. Avengers Endgame (20
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by joshuacc 3y ago
> classes are normally smaller than that This varies a lot by location. In my area, that's a normal classroom size. My sister is a kindergarten teacher with 27 students.
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by joshuacc 3y ago
Trailer park is just the older term for mobile home park. I believe the term you were looking for is RV park.
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by joshuacc 3y ago
Tags are functions that receive an array of strings and then a series of arguments corresponding to values passed in the interpolation slots, allowing you to use template literal syntax while the tag function does something much more comple
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by joshuacc 3y ago
I haven't used Tailwind in a larger codebase, but it looks to me like the problem here isn't with Tailwind, it's with the lack of abstraction in the HTML . The tone of the article rubbed me the wrong way as well. Pointing to

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