mpalczewski

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by mpalczewski 5d ago
and then the new york times pushed us into the iraq war.
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by mpalczewski 11d ago
any more "ethical" tobacco company got out competed. result: blame tobacco companies that survived. People still smoke. any lies the tobacco companies sold to the public were either so old that few alive heard them, or believed t
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by mpalczewski 14d ago
who is to say that it is great. what makes it so, why is that valuable. Is doing more good than harm. that there is even some inherent value in a "great institution". A bunch of smaller companies would probably be better economi
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by mpalczewski 14d ago
A legitimately rule based legal system is far more beneficial than one that takes sides based on the taste of the day. beneficial for everyone involved. If you want to write "Stan for billionaires", without any sort of reasonin
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by mpalczewski 14d ago
I do wonder how many people that criticize the renaming, were criticizing Obama when he rename Mt McKinley. What are the principles here? Or is it just names I like vs names I don't like.
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AI Political Compass(aipolcom.net)
4 points by mpalczewski 19d ago|0 comments
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by mpalczewski 19d ago
Precompiled so faster and a 9x reduction in memory footprint. seems like no downside to adopting this.
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by mpalczewski 21d ago
Interesting. This showed how imperceptible it is at first glance. If they had 100 of these and they showed you if you got it right or wrong and why after each answer instead of making you do all ten in a row, I wonder if I would be able t
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by mpalczewski 21d ago
volume and velocity used to stand out, you could get very far with it, and if you had built a career on that(I had), your career is now over or you pivot. Volume and velocity also had it's own quality and over time you did so much tha
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by mpalczewski 24d ago
fair enough. at least not primarily an email provider. so if they offer any email.
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by mpalczewski 24d ago
I wonder how this list ended up being created anyway. Was it a long standing issue, or just some ai slop? web.com, web.org, web.net don't look like an email provider.
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by mpalczewski 26d ago
When you get out into the real world, what will matter is how effectively you use AI. When you are done with school, you can take the "exam" using AI. The problem is that teaching is trying to teach skills that are no longer rel
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by mpalczewski 1mo ago
this is exactly right. We've got this society that readily accepts unpleasantness as what you need to do to get ahead(I'll question that but it's beside the point). People regularly accept suffering of all sorts. However,
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by mpalczewski 1mo ago
I've been using the grok cli, and this is what I love about it.
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by mpalczewski 1mo ago
everyone interferes with elections. you just prefer people to interfere on your side.
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by mpalczewski 1mo ago
I've been using grok 4.5 with grok build soon after it came out and dropped claude. primarily for personal code. It communicates better. While that might not sound like a big deal it is. It doesn't give me a wall of text, tells
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by mpalczewski 1mo ago
that’s just you lacking skills and making an identity out of being assertive. Rather than calling them skills, you go straight to “doesn’t make you non-assertive”. Rather preferring manipulation because it’s convenient and the only thing y
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by mpalczewski 1mo ago
Leverage, consequences and assertiveness are far better skills to learn when dealing with people including children rather than lies, shame and guilt.
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by mpalczewski 1mo ago
Some kids cracked their knuckles. It annoyed some older adults, and instead of telling them to stop they made up some bullshit reason. Classic non assertive behavior. The kids, being kids, believed them. They continued believing them int
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by mpalczewski 1mo ago
that optimal amount likely varies too. by age, sex, percent body fat, and genetics. uk's recommended level is likely way too low to be optimal.
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by mpalczewski 1mo ago
What a shit article that doesn’t match what it is saying. If you are active you benefit from more protein. If you are not then maybe it’s not good without any reporting on how they even got to the main conclusion except for a citation whi
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by mpalczewski 2mo ago
pretty sure it was on by default for me
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by mpalczewski 2mo ago
they typically offer a brokerage option. fidelity and vanguard both offered this when I had them. if that wasn't on the table I'd roll it into something that gave me flexibility.
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by mpalczewski 2mo ago
You can buy IVV instead and get the same exposure but this time you get to vote. Or you could just not own spy and buy the shares individually.
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by mpalczewski 2mo ago
use ai to read it. we're increasingly moving to world of ai reading the ai slop that someone else wrote to basically get back their original prompt.
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by mpalczewski 3mo ago
I have so little faith in "high-level" officials that I prefer our AI overlords.
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by mpalczewski 3mo ago
One beer company tried to do it. But because beer has vitamins in it, they were prohibited from doing it as it might have made the beer seem healthy.
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by mpalczewski 4mo ago
and it's wrong. a 6000 line class is not easier for a model to understand. the same things that help humans also help agents. I find myself adding linters that must pass and the agent muss fix that limit file size, function length, f
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by mpalczewski 4mo ago
Gemini models have consistently disregarded rules and gone their own way for me. They will finish a task and get it done frequently way above the scope that you gave it, but they take a million shortcuts to get there. e.g. deciding the li
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by mpalczewski 4mo ago
I tried reading Myth of Sisyphus by Camus recently. I found it tedious and boring. Sort of a rehash of stoic and Taoist teaching. Yes embrace the absurd but sooo long winded. Has anyone else read this, am I missing something?

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