pclowes

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by pclowes 17d ago
I just have no idea how they are remotely going to enforce this. Like the bad actors can make E2E apps and side load or have their own store. Now with LLMs, this is increasingly trivial. You cannot stop pedophiles and terrorists from using
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by pclowes 25d ago
Is this progress in the room with us right now? The state of population level mental health seems to be declining in most measurable categories.
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by pclowes 25d ago
We have actually little idea how human brains work. Every age thinks they know how they work, and then every subsequent age laughs at the previous age’s rudimentary understanding. We gave a Nobel prize to the psychiatrist for inventing a me
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by pclowes 1mo ago
This is one of the best high-level survey explanations of GC I have seen, nice work.
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by pclowes 1mo ago
From a very naïve perspective, why isn’t air traffic control a solved problem? Would love to be educated here, but it seems like there are just not that many moving pieces per airport (<10,000) and all of them are tagged with transponder
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by pclowes 1mo ago
Amazing fresh ice cream is just not that hard to make at home. It’s also a fun social thing especially with young kids. Companies need to be taught that if they enshittify they die.
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by pclowes 1mo ago
Apple is historically successfully secretive. I suspect their security “lapses” are more along the lines of “give them enough rope to thoroughly hang themselves”
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by pclowes 2mo ago
This is something you don’t need to argue about. You don’t need a cite studies. The studies are not geared for a sample size of one there is only one you. Just… Try it. You can just do things. They don’t have to be rational, the best things
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by pclowes 2mo ago
How? I would argue Jack is a much better 0 to 1 guy than Zuck and Zuck is a better 1 to N guy Jack: Twitter, Square (Block), Bluesky/ATProto, bitchat (interesting), buzz (we will see). He just always fumbles the 1 to N (See Vine as an
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by pclowes 2mo ago
I would agree with that, but we probably have different definitions of poor. Destitute? Absolutely. I don’t think anybody is shocked that starving people commit crimes to not die. However, I have been in plenty of low income high trust area
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by pclowes 2mo ago
This looks very interesting, thank you for the recommendation.
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by pclowes 2mo ago
Because it is naive to think that the people with the power of absolute surveillance would ever permit “sousveillance”. People already survey atrocities committed by regimes and reporting them does less and less every year. Camera towers ma
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by pclowes 2mo ago
There are high trust communities all over America. Fewer every year.
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by pclowes 2mo ago
People always want high trust societies. They are incredibly hard to create and incredibly easy to destroy. However, once the cameras go up, you will never ever create one there. High trust requires, well, actual trust. You can’t build real
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by pclowes 2mo ago
Safer for who? Definitely not anyone critical of the Chinese dictator or regime. Definitely not the Uygher population. Free society is more important than marginally safer streets.
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by pclowes 2mo ago
I don’t understand how you could possibly get that take away from my comment. Not maintaining existing public transportation and making it dirty, difficult or dangerous to use is what prevents the construction of more. Voters vote against t
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by pclowes 2mo ago
This still feels like a good faith discussion so I’ll engage. The US does over incarcerate on average. There is clearly a problem there! The solution is not abdicating prosecution and the rule of law to make up for it in “progressive” citie
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by pclowes 2mo ago
I don’t think you appreciate how hard it is to get arrested and how ineffective it is when a DA won’t prosecute crimes. Like yes in a more perfect and just society, this would not be a problem. In fact, most cities can operate just fine wit
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by pclowes 2mo ago
Lol, no it was not just graffiti. I dont mind graffiti nearly as much as say: - open drug use (literally smoking crack on the bus) - screaming threat of violence to everyone one around - purposefully urinating or defecating on the seats. -
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by pclowes 2mo ago
https://growsf.org/news/2026-02-12-bart-fare-gates-10-millio... The maintenance cost graph is very eye-opening.
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by pclowes 2mo ago
The impact in SF was absolutely incredible. A very small percentage of the writers was causing 90+ percent of the problems and vandalism. Treating these people like adults would be best, but I’ll take getting them off of public transportati
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by pclowes 2mo ago
Enforcing fares massively decreases vandalism, and antisocial behavior on public transportation. If you don’t have public transportation that I feel safe having a 10-year-old ride on unaccompanied by an adult then you do not have public tra
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by pclowes 2mo ago
I dont know. The tooling feels trivial. I swapped from claude to codex and back with zero friction. If they were very expensive to me personally I would probably just use them to build the harness and then plug Kimi into it etc.
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by pclowes 2mo ago
Counterpoint: XCode is such slop that an app made by a developer with the taste to avoid it has a higher probability of being less "sloppy" than average.
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by pclowes 2mo ago
“ You ask me if your verses are good. You ask me. You have asked others before me. You send them to journals. You compare them with other poems and you worry if certain editors refuse your efforts. Now, as you have given me permission to ad
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by pclowes 2mo ago
Not with a new language but novel approaches within a framework or paradigm feel outside the LLM wheelhouse. Even if the LLM is adept at novel languages the developer still has to learn it and learning new languages now when most programmin
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by pclowes 2mo ago
Interesting, I am thinking/expecting we will see a massive decrease in new languages. Or people might make new languages but the will not get any adoption. A new language now has to clear the ever growing hurdle of not being in the LLM
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by pclowes 2mo ago
Australia is also going bankrupt just slightly faster than the United States. Looks like deficit spending and debt levels are only trending the wrong direction there as well. I am all for flight for life as we call it here, but that is diff
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by pclowes 2mo ago
I think what I’m saying is being misinterpreted. I should have been more clear. Everybody’s definition of “taken care of” is different. The government needs to balance the interest of the public with the interest of the individual. It is no
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by pclowes 2mo ago
We give our farmers absolutely insane subsidies already. It is not the government’s job to “take care of” anybody. Everything has a cost, staying has a cost, leaving has a cost. The question is how much should the public be taxed to pay for

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