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by m-ee 13d ago
The claudespeak immediately irks me now, then there’s also the irony of using Claude to complain about Claude
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by m-ee 15d ago
Almost all EA takes I’ve read strike me as basic contrarianism
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by m-ee 29d ago
A significant number of people in positions of power in the AI industry get their moral framework from science fiction books and a particular Harry Potter fanfiction. It’s hard to predict what ideas and philosophies will become important.
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by m-ee 1mo ago
Bad no matter which side you look at it. Fritz Zwicky coined the term as spherical bastard
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by m-ee 2mo ago
“Come with me to Canada. Toronto is just like New York, but without all the stuff”- Steve Martin on 30 Rock
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by m-ee 3mo ago
If I wanted moral philosophy I’d read a better moral philosopher
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by m-ee 3mo ago
Debt creates debt crises. Throughout history it’s been a major function of any government to resolve these. Notably this function predates any concept of a market in the modern sense. For the most part markets were created by fiat by the go
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by m-ee 3mo ago
It never did. In debt the first 5000 years Geaeber makes the case that pure “free market” trade has never really existed in “the west”. The closest to this ideal that’s ever happened was during the Islamic golden age enabled by religious pr
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by m-ee 3mo ago
I don't know about better but it's certainly different. It's painfully slow through claude code vscode extension compared to copilot but maybe "smarter", I feel like I have to correct it less using sonnet on both. I
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by m-ee 3mo ago
They have said in depositions that they just did substring searches or fed lists to chat gpt, it’s not even a question.
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by m-ee 3mo ago
The best intelligence apparatus in the world missed the Oct 7 planning which Egyptian intelligence noticed, told the Israelis about directly, and still went ignored?
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by m-ee 5mo ago
He’s pretty obviously referring to the extreme emotional reaction Hashimoto had, not his choice to use a different git solution
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by m-ee 7mo ago
To maybe save others a google. Appen is an Australian company focusing on linguistics/translation. Different from Appin, the hack for hire service out of India.
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by m-ee 10mo ago
Used to happen to me constantly trying to go across the bay bridge in either direction when I lived in Oakland. I didn’t even mind the cancelations so much but the worst was when they would try and hide around the block, close enough to say
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by m-ee 10mo ago
The long term part is overstated in my experience. People move around a lot at these offshoring firms as better opportunities arise. In my experience by the time you find someone competent they’re already interviewing for a better role. Con
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by m-ee 11mo ago
They’ve always been pretty bad but it feels worse post Hawaiian merger
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by m-ee 11mo ago
There was a Rohde and Schwarz rep that was pretty active on those forums when I still paid attention to it, might count for something. Hard to justify going with the legacy brands as hobbyist with what comes out of China these days. Rigol a
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by m-ee 11mo ago
Keysight is not very hobbyist friendly these days. A year or two ago it broke on the Eevblog forums that they were refusing to honor warranties/service contracts unless you had a corporate account with them. If you were just a guy with
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by m-ee 11mo ago
I went to Stanford and that was absolutely not the case. I once got an A on a midterm with a 65%
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by m-ee 1y ago
Yes, I knew people who cotermed in MS&E (and other masters programs) with a different undergrad major. I think you just need to make sure you fulfill whatever prereq courses they ask for but my knowledge is old at this point. I imagine
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by m-ee 1y ago
I’m not sure how it factors into the overall admission statistics but getting accepted for a coterm is, or at least was, significantly easier and more straightforward. In my time it just meant a GPA above a certain cutoff, a letter of rec f
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by m-ee 1y ago
I believe there’s a way to enter dev mode on the infotainment and reenable the touch screen while in motion. Try looking on YouTube. I found the method for my 2014 but neglected to actually do it since I prefer the center console wheel anyw
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by m-ee 1y ago
I mean, the rear window was still transparent it’s not like a couldn’t see where I was going entirely. I did miss the much wider FOV of the camera when backing out of my garage though.
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by m-ee 1y ago
My 2014 Mazda 3 has fairly regular infotainment issues, audio playing on my phone but no audio from the speakers, resolved by rebooting it. Also had an issue with the backup camera cutting out. Was caused by a loose connector. Dealership wa
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by m-ee 1y ago
This isn’t a hypothetical leap either. This thinking directly lead to the murders committed by the zizians.
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by m-ee 1y ago
Kim Kelly does excellent labor reporting for them
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by m-ee 1y ago
She wrote a whole book about it, and yes that’s more or less her claim. Her telling is that she tried to avoid touching China policy as long as possible until she was forced into it, largely as retaliation for reporting sexual harassment fr
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by m-ee 2y ago
Public schools are closing due to lack of enrollment. Transit agencies are cutting back from low ridership and lack of fare revenue. If housing costs were low enough for more people to move in affordably it could be a boon for the city.
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by m-ee 2y ago
For anyone unfamiliar with Andy Ngo he has an extreme far right bias and associates with the proud boys. Worth taking anything he says we a heap of salt.
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by m-ee 2y ago
For anyone who thinks the comparisons to monarchy are an overreaction look up favorite philosopher of Peter Thiel and JD Vance Curtis Yarvin. He quite explicitly calls for a “CEO king” to fire all federal employees and replace them with loy

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