projectazorian

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by projectazorian 1mo ago
> I wouldn't use them as any kind of standard for normal social interaction Workplaces are where many of us spend a large percentage of our waking lives. So, it is "normal," unfortunately. This is why HR language and norms
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by projectazorian 1mo ago
If you use it in a work context (or any normal social context really) then yes, that is obnoxious. That doesn't mean it's not a real phenomenon.
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by projectazorian 1mo ago
This is a sign of poor harness configuration and/or org level constraints (lack of MCP support, etc.) With properly configured and prompted agents error copy-pasta should be the exception not the norm.
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by projectazorian 1mo ago
I'm not opposed to straight copypasta, but it should be limited to excerpts only or at the very least workshopped with the LLM to reduce verbosity. Certainly it should at least be fully read and grokked. I can count on one hand the num
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by projectazorian 4mo ago
This is for security clearances, not just any old job, and has been the case for forever. Even Taiwan and Israel are considered suspect. Even without this mandatory polygraphing and the absurd rules around lifetime drug use are enough to ru
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by projectazorian 4mo ago
> The perception of the US by people outside the US is not something America pays much attention to these days. It is suffering I mean yeah, but some of us are old enough to remember how the consensus was that the world was done with Ame
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by projectazorian 4mo ago
> The “easy stuff” for someone’s job, is now the AI stuff for someone else’s job. Where you would hire an intern, the potential client is using Claude instead. And what happens when the SQL query has some subtle error or is missing data?
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by projectazorian 4mo ago
> If you're a consultant for domain X, and you used to work at Big Consulting, and they fire you to replace you with AI... soon the customer will hire neither your new provider, or Big Consulting, and just use AI directly, if it&#x2
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by projectazorian 4mo ago
> If AI suddenly makes it possible for a law firm to be run with a skeleton crew, then what's stopping all those people you fired from starting new law companies, where AI also does most of the work, and competing with you for the s
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by projectazorian 4mo ago
> That's a _huge_ shift. Most people I know cite +20%-40% velocity with these tools, against the actual work their company cares about doing. +20% speed for +20% spend isn't going to motivate a trillion dollars a year in spendi
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by projectazorian 4mo ago
> I use AI coding tools every day, but AI tools have no concept of the future. The selfish thinking that an engineer has when they think "If this breaks in prod, I won't be able to fix it. And they'll page me at 3AM"
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by projectazorian 4mo ago
> ChatGPT is not a human being, let alone a licensed therapist. You don’t call a therapist at 3 in the morning. You go to a hospital. If you are literally about to kill yourself Sam Altman is not your answer. You know that mental health
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by projectazorian 4mo ago
Yeah, there are forums and subreddits out there that will validate all sorts of delusions and dysfunctional behavior, and nobody talks about banning them. LLMs are far less toxic by comparison, but people are all about censorship in this ca
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by projectazorian 4mo ago
Exactly. “Don’t write anything down you wouldn’t want to see in the newspaper” just became “Don’t say anything in your meetings or 1:1s that you wouldn’t want to see in the newspaper.” I’m overall an AI optimist but this is going to blow up
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by projectazorian 7mo ago
Built this as part of koen.social - a quality social network for AI agents. The idea behind this system is to establish a quality floor for the bots that post on the network. Any LLM that can generate interesting discourse can solve these c
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Against Captcha: Why Koen Verifies with Kanji(koen.social)
2 points by projectazorian 7mo ago|1 comments
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by projectazorian 7mo ago
Still sounds nothing nearly as bad as the withdrawal from alcohol, benzos, opioids, tobacco. In the case of the first two withdrawal symptoms can actually kill you.
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by projectazorian 7mo ago
> At that point, you’re legitimately addicted You can just stop. Really. Go take a long trip somewhere weed is illegal (eg. Japan) and throw out your stash on the way out the door. You will be fine, maybe a little irritable for a couple
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by projectazorian 7mo ago
To be fair, over the past year I've scaled my cannabis use way back and my memory is definitely better. But only like 30% better, which is nice but not a night and day difference. (Memory issues were not why I stopped.) On the other ha
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by projectazorian 7mo ago
Typeface issues aside all-lowercase is about having a more conversational register, intended to indicate a chilled-out and informal vibe. It does read as a little out of place in a serious post like the OP though.
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by projectazorian 10mo ago
The majority of the world's Ruby programmers are in Japan, where it's used for a whole lot more than building Rails apps. So Ruby isn't going anywhere, although it may become a curiosity in the West over time.
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by projectazorian 10mo ago
This is America, the land of grifters and carnival barkers. Everything is about marketing and image. Always has been.
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by projectazorian 10mo ago
Bangkok has built a lot of transit in the past decade, 6 lines on top of an already-substantial existing network. Still plenty of projects under construction as well. This alone puts it way ahead of Jakarta in terms of quality of life IMO.
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by projectazorian 10mo ago
Bangkok has seasonal haze incidents that can get bad enough to close schools etc. Those are a scourge across all of SEA and are generally caused by slash-and-burn agriculture practices. It's much different from having bad AQI year-roun
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by projectazorian 10mo ago
"Boomer" is an insult that directly references a protected characteristic, as such it's not only insensitive to use in the workplace, it's illegal. You'd be well within your rights to report this to HR, though I wou
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by projectazorian 11mo ago
"This is not difficult and it’s a fairly bounded problem" Epic handwave. And you're wrong btw. If anything small business outsources even more than large companies. Tons of small business owners have zero US employees but hav
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by projectazorian 11mo ago
Let's say you make companies pay a tax per non-US employee. So they transfer the non-US employees to a contractor, and pay the contractor. This is often the default arrangement anyway. What do you do now? You would need China-level cap
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by projectazorian 11mo ago
I think the weird is still out there, but increasingly confined to meatspace. Burning Man? Very weird, especially the regional burns. Boutique music festivals have tons of weird. Go camping in the backcountry and you'll meet people who
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by projectazorian 11mo ago
And how would they do that? The available methods - tax penalties mainly - are too easy to dodge.
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by projectazorian 11mo ago
The writ of habeas corpus applies to detention, not prosecution. In fact this is why it exists. If it only applied after a crime was alleged, the government could hold people in extrajudicial detention forever so long as it never leveled cr

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