lamontcg

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by lamontcg 6mo ago
If this proposal was to add toxic positivity and optimism bias as a psychiatric disorder, I'd be on board with that.
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by lamontcg 6mo ago
The duct tape people are generally drowning under all the work they're doing, and they'd be fine to keep doing other productive stuff. There's always going to be duct tape stuff around, and you don't want the people who
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by lamontcg 6mo ago
More than half the SCOTUS is corrupt and bought off, and the Republican Party in congress is just rubber-stamping what Trump wants. I don't have a lot of faith in the word "unconstitutional" anymore.
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by lamontcg 6mo ago
This thread is literally doing nothing. Nobody is going to stop using grammarly extensions to post to HN, nobody is going to be able to detect its usage. This thread just lets a certain kind of people put on their best condescending hall-mo
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by lamontcg 6mo ago
Really kind of weird with all these people who think it is just fine for services to take over accounts of people. Of course, they can literally do whatever they like, it is their platform. But it would be nice if everyone considered what i
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by lamontcg 6mo ago
I spent years doing it.
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by lamontcg 6mo ago
Well good luck detecting it.
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by lamontcg 6mo ago
I don't personally use AI/LLMs for any informal writing here or on reddit, etc. But I think it is pretty weird to be overly concerned around people, particularly ESL, who use tools to clean up their writing. The only thing I rea
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by lamontcg 6mo ago
Books and newspapers have had editors for centuries. It is just code review for the written word. [It looks like MS Word 97 had the ability to detect passive voice as well, so we're talking 30 year old technology there that predates L
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by lamontcg 6mo ago
So exactly like reviewing a code change from an outsourced development team in another country?
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
You can hire expertise off your competitors. Being able to Greenfield something new is a tempting pitch to use to poach employees. And first to market often doesn't win, or else WebVan would still be doing grocery deliveries. We tend
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
Yeah, if you turn it all into buttons and settings in the actual settings menus, someone else is going to post a long rant about how the settings menus have a million confusing options that nobody uses... Mine also isn't anywhere nearl
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
LLM usage is not very likely to "dry up". What is more likely to happen though is that it doesn't take multiple $10B of datacenter and capital to build out models--and the performance against LLM benchmarks starts to max out
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
This is Meta claiming in their internal communications that they plan on doing it while people are distracted with other concerns. It isn't really "rhetoric", they're talking like they believe this actually happens, this
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
Yeah, I still remember when I flipped from Linux to Mac at home. In my case it was a long time ago when I got a 4k monitor and couldn't scale the display text/icons and so couldn't read shit on it, and setting up a multi-mon
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
Yeah, apparently I should have been explicit that I was talking about air strikes and not occupation. We aren't going to occupy Iran. Comparing this to defeated nations in WWII is also a massive stretch, I almost can't believe peo
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
So adjust the work schedule. If people want more time in the evening, get up earlier and go to work and go home earlier. You can even shift school/work schedules throughout the year.
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
Has there been a regime which has collapsed due to an external strike like this where it hasn't resulted in some decades long civil war nightmare? I can't think of any time when bombing the shit out of a country and killing their
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
Interestingly, I've got a truck with a dead engine that I'm considering if I should yank it out and replace/rebuild it... Never done that before and don't know how to do it...
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
Kids these days just don't appreciate security through obscurity...
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
I got a pretty nice 120Hz ultrawide dell for cheap at one of those surplus shops awhile back.
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
> Most people, when they turn the tap on, they don't know where the water comes from. Yeah, but at some point you need a plumber who at least has a passing understanding of where it comes from, and more importantly knows how to fix
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
That's kinda the whole point. SpaceX can use an optimization algorithm to hoverslam a rocket booster, but the optimization algorithm didn't really figure it out on its own. The optimization algorithm was used by human experts to s
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
Not really. Pretty sure I read recently that Newton appreciated that his theory was non-local and didn't like what Einstein later called "spooky action at a distance". The Lorentz transform was also known from 1887. Time di
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by lamontcg 7mo ago
Sometime around 1992, I wrote a college essay on how the Internet was going to wipe out ignorance and enable true democracy...
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by lamontcg 8mo ago
I'd like to get a look at SpaceX financials. I'm pretty sure their margins are thinner than you might expect, Starlink is less profitable than you might expect (but quite necessary to fund the launch cadence of Falcon 9) and that
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by lamontcg 8mo ago
People are kind of missing the fact that you can draw a line from slave catchers and slave patrols to ICE. You don't have to go through Germany.
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by lamontcg 8mo ago
Yeah, I think it is a bit more subtle of an issue than this flamewar always descends into. There's people upthread arguing that every cellphone in the country is on IPv6 and nobody worries about it, but I'm certain there are thous
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by lamontcg 8mo ago
It is going to die because it won't ever be perfect enough, while Google will win because the vastly more important problems with Google's control are just the status quo.
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by lamontcg 8mo ago
It really seems like all the complaints about firefox are mostly ego-deflection. People know it is wrong to stay on Chrome and empower Google to the extent that it is, but they're stuck on that workflow and don't want to change, s

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