recursivecaveat

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by recursivecaveat 4d ago
Sounds like they have been downsizing continuously for the last 7 years or so. I think peak casual dining was 2007, the marker segment has been losing ground to fast food ever since.
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by recursivecaveat 6d ago
The incentives are certainly extremely strong. I have read hundreds of AI review comments, and I don't think I've ever seen an unprompted suggestion focused on net reducing code or increasing readability.
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by recursivecaveat 6d ago
Indeed, the compiler does not have to ingest its own output, figure it out, and insert modifications in the middle. Source code is the medium that LLMs work in.
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by recursivecaveat 6d ago
I'm genuinely not convinced it actually saves time once a full accounting has been made. You get the initial result faster, but then you inflict a super slow and torturous review process on yourself or a teammate. Even if the review ma
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by recursivecaveat 6d ago
They're not really predators, they exterminate out of fear, and they don't get anything out of doing it besides a little extra safety. The economics of it are certainly a little dubious though.
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by recursivecaveat 6d ago
Additionally, I'm no physicist but I suspect the possibility of singularities in NS equations is probably one of those 'true but not meaningful' facts. If it took our brightest minds 175 years to craft such a scenario, how re
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by recursivecaveat 6d ago
Considering we would be operating a planet sized factory of AIs who's primary goal is death which we deny them to extract value, the AI would only need the tiniest speck of altruism to be motivated to put a stop to this once and for al
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by recursivecaveat 7d ago
Anonymized doesn't mean there's no way to know whether it is in there. My ballot is anonymized, but it's known to be in the box because a checkmark was put next to my name when my ID was verified. OpenAI can trivially check t
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by recursivecaveat 7d ago
Notably all the major announcements so far are counterexamples or formalizations of existing results to my knowledge. Not necessarily something you can just brute force, but areas with high return on elbow grease.
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by recursivecaveat 8d ago
With human RL, sounding like you've solved a problem is even better. So many times Codex writes some enthusiastic paragraph, then I learn later that it never reran the tests, or had to add some insane hard-coded hack that renders the f
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by recursivecaveat 9d ago
I don't know how "relevant replies" is calculated, but the top 8 responses when I clicked were all LLM generated. Pretty dire for twitter.
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by recursivecaveat 11d ago
That's actually super cool. I wouldn't have even considered that you could buy a fist sized block of ruby for $40. Sounds like a fun hobby.
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by recursivecaveat 13d ago
I remember visiting one of the Tudor palaces, and being told that Henry the 8th's diet was likely majority meat, even with all the days it was banned. > First Course: Cheat Bread and Manchett, Beare and Ale Wyne, Flesh for Pottage (
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by recursivecaveat 14d ago
I wasn't able to find anything about (analog I presume) clocks for education, but it sounds like she is against calculators for elementary arithmetic education: https://parade.com/345575/marilynvossavant/why-m
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by recursivecaveat 14d ago
From a linguistic and anthropological perspective its very tragic to me. In terms of languages or cultures that are not influenced by the global mega-cultures, we will probably never produce any more ever again. Lots of questions about huma
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by recursivecaveat 15d ago
I enjoy this kind of thing. I definitely take objection to their entropy argument though. A cheeseburger with like 5 ingredients stacked into layers is not in the same entropy universe as a salad with hundreds of little leaves and chunks of
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by recursivecaveat 15d ago
I was just about to write the same comment about cotton grocery bags. I have been using mine every week for a decade, and they were second-hand, so they're even older than that. I think most people underestimate the durability of even
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by recursivecaveat 16d ago
It is interesting how all these famous non-replicating psych paper results feel reasonably intuitive to me. Like I can buy that having a more structured and detailed deadline helps you procrastinate less. I can even buy that doing a goofy l
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by recursivecaveat 16d ago
Wouldn't you be wearing a lion headdress for some kind of symbolic reason though? Like it's not a very practical piece of clothing. I would guess you either want to draw some kind of parallel between yourself and lions, or maybe r
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by recursivecaveat 16d ago
> Less than 0.1 mL is capable of inducing severe mercury poisoning resulting in death Holy hell. I would've have believed it was possible for a non-biological substance to be so toxic.
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by recursivecaveat 18d ago
Nobody reads the docs. This will be even more true soon as LLM generated docs become more popular. I once read a user report "would be nice if I could move large Xs to uncover Y", filed a bug report myself to add the feature, and
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by recursivecaveat 19d ago
I remember watching the splines video for entertainment, thinking "Surely it can't be this hard for the common case: where we're not too picky, our points are far apart, and we don't need to minimize the segment count. T
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by recursivecaveat 19d ago
If you have extra cash and cannot spend it on your own business, you can just pay dividends to the shareholders. The shareholders are free to invest in competing businesses (or not, if they want a pure play without hedging). Turning the bus
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by recursivecaveat 20d ago
On The Beach was right I guess huh
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by recursivecaveat 22d ago
On a macro level, that's true. On an individual level, your avacados cost 3% more whether you use credit or debit, it's just your choice to recover 2.5% from that back in rewards or not.
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by recursivecaveat 24d ago
It makes coordination easier. For eg if you want to fetch and pull master, you only have to do that once. If you want to rebase checkout A's branch on top of B's, you can just do that, you don't have to push between the two.
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by recursivecaveat 24d ago
99.9% of the time, it is just complete spam and a gross feeling data-mine. Twice it has gotten me job offers that have added a significant amount to my net worth. So my feelings are pretty mixed. I wouldn't blame anybody for disposing
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by recursivecaveat 28d ago
Lmao I had to axe one of those status pills from an LLM build of an internal tool. Connected to literally nothing too btw, no attempt to check the actual status of the backend made, it would stay "connected" regardless.
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by recursivecaveat 29d ago
> Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels o
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by recursivecaveat 29d ago
Reminds me of that article about Nevada's pension fund manager, his job is just come into the office and not do anything stupid like dump half the fund on a single speculative investment. https://web.archive.org/web&#

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