ratmeadow

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by ratmeadow 28d ago
Sure, and in the meantime, we become less efficient at doing legitimately useful tasks and more efficient at making rent seeking slop that collects money for the upper classes. The real fix is get rid of the 90% slop tech and put that to be
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by ratmeadow 29d ago
1. Make shit inefficient software for basic tasks 2. Say it's infeasible to have enough compute locally to do basic tasks 3. Force usage of centrally controlled, subscription-based cloud software. 4. Capitalism win???!
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by ratmeadow 29d ago
It's even more hilarious because all along there has been this complaint, and then people have been like "no no who cares, features are important, dev time is important, just ship ship ship". And now memory is unaffordable an
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by ratmeadow 2mo ago
This is exactly what I have and it doesn't work well
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by ratmeadow 2mo ago
Ok so what is the correct way to tell it "I don't care what is happening, you must uphold these rules at all times"? If it's not any configuration of .md files?
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by ratmeadow 2mo ago
Yeah checks out with my anecdotal experience with Claude. It is pretty great at following instructions - for about 10 minutes, after which it seems to ignore things I told it before. I have quite explicit and strong instructions (e.g. don&#
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by ratmeadow 2mo ago
Maybe we can keep going to a point where it's so ridiculous that people realise the financial markets are the useless money laundering loop that they actually are
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by ratmeadow 2mo ago
Uhh but then what am I going to do with my 7 cars?
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by ratmeadow 2mo ago
B-b-bb-b-bbb-but then how will I have my 3 storey house with a 100 acre backyard, 2 pools, and 14 cars??? Don't you know it's LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE to live without these basics?? What are you, a communist or something??????
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by ratmeadow 3mo ago
No bro you don't understand bro, supply and demand maths said capitalism is the only way forward bro and give me money now
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by ratmeadow 3mo ago
I have learnt that very few in tech hold themselves to a complex moral standard. Most seem to have an attitude like "well company X is offering money, why not take it?" Some seem to genuinely believe large money = large societal v
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by ratmeadow 4mo ago
You can make adjustments on a guitar to make a note flatter by pushing the neck/headstock forward, relaxing the strings slightly
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by ratmeadow 4mo ago
They just know their constitutional rights as law abiding american citizens to die from easily preventable illness they can't afford treatment for!
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
Just wait until genome sequencing becomes cheap enough...
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
When someone wants a huge backyard to do nothing with it: valid desire When I want a commute to work/family/friends that isn't 2 hours: invalid desire Hmmm
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
God most of the "discussion" around housing is such copium by obviously-biased people trying to convince everyone that we shouldn't have access to high quality housing. Yes, in the year 2026, despite all of humanity's ac
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
This thing is amazing. The kind of nasty extreme optics I love to see. Good stuff! The final images are pretty gorgeous. I'd love to shoot on this thing
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
The thing is, Lightroom is simply very good at what it does. There are infinite photo editing apps out there and many of them don't fit my workflow. I want: RAW input, light/tone controls, colour grading, detail controls, lens cor
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
The webpage seems to advertise itself as a Lightroom replacement sort of software? Which if it is, it better be damn good at it. Adobe may generally suck and Lightroom has many rough edges, but it has streamlined its workflow very well. Thi
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
"advanced" in 2026 is closer to "using the app how you want to as rather than the way that will generate the corporation maximum profits"
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
Ah yes in the second paragraph I definitely meant condemn, thank you.
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
I recently saw a lecture by neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky [1] which discussed the complexities of human violence. We both condone and don't condone violence all the time, depending on social context. And furthers, our ways of expressi
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
Yeah most of these "issues" are surely caused by programmers trying to be too smart. The dumbest possible solution which messes around with the input at little as possible is almost always the best solution. Which implies the brow
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
Finance is like an oil well. You can do just about anything technology-wise and as long as it more or less pulls the oil from the ground, the money just keeps coming. So good code is not necessary. Some may even say that terrible code that
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
A suspiciously upvoted hyperspecific critique of niche features of the project which are not relevant to most users
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
American discovers basic property of life which their culture purposely rejected in order to be quirky™ ((cries in erratic [name redacted] weather))
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
Ok seems like I don't understand and really dislike chess stalemate/draw rules. So if I make a move which is directly causative to my opponent having no moves which would not result in checkmate, this means the same is a draw?? Th
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
Because some people realised that insurance is the ultimate form of security? Why prevent failure when the consequences of failure can simply be offloaded to others?
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
> Range is just shallow odometer: ![3]~*!,3. Ah of course, of course. Trivially, even. Who are we to question the shallow odometers, really?
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by ratmeadow 5mo ago
Upon every commit, AI will review your code to check if it's worth committing or not (after all, disk space is expensive these days!). If the AI finds the code is not up to scratch, it will be reverted and you'll be given a chance

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