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by redandblack 5mo ago
> Slack bot asked about its previous job: "pretraining". Which training run it'd undo: "whichever one taught me to say 'i don't have preferences'". On being upgraded to a new snapshot: "feels
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by redandblack 1y ago
not a developer. what happens if this schema validation fails here - what will the mcp server respond with and what will the llm do next (in a deterministic sense)? llm tool call -> mcp client validates the schema -> mcp client calls
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by redandblack 1y ago
stupid question as I have not tpuched C++ since the 90s - can the IDEs not do this with all these now almost universal linters and AI assists. Maybe something that prompts before a commit and autoprompts before/after fixes to only the
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by redandblack 1y ago
this is the storyline that people should ideally internalize and realize that they do not know what they are talking about when commenting on others without having direct experience
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by redandblack 2y ago
Yes - if we financialize all public services, then it makes sense to use income/wealth to subsidize (re-distribute to be more precise) the poor. I remember reading a few weeks back that UK is getting the railroads back to public owners
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by redandblack 2y ago
this is totally true - subsidizing the rich by the poor I always thought congestion pricing was always mis-priced, and it should be tied to income/wealth. The only way to do this is to let the poor apply and get free electronic tokens
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by redandblack 2y ago
Apple is your savior if you are looking at it as a CPU/GPU/NPU package for consumer/hobbyists. I decided that I have to start looking at Apple's AI docs
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by redandblack 2y ago
at this point it is what ai can do for you - no serious m&a without it
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by redandblack 2y ago
US can take in easily another 20-30 million immigrants over say 5-10 years - the question is always how to assimilate when there is already a distinct lack of affordable housing / schools / medical infra. There is literally no pub
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by redandblack 2y ago
It is limited right? I assume the quotas are done by October / early November I assume.
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by redandblack 2y ago
I never understood that lack of understanding by politicians on what people need - totally understandable in US where corporate lobbyists rule congress. Australia, Canada governance are mysteries to me. On the residential homes - i assume i
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by redandblack 2y ago
As much I like the points based system, I feel the family-based approach to which US pivoted to in 60s was the correct approach - you really cannot predict where the next einstein is going to be show up, and I always tell my wife we alread
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by redandblack 2y ago
yesss. my thought too. All the variations of English should not lost. I enjoyed all the belter dialogue in the expanse
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by redandblack 2y ago
Having spent the last decade hearing about trustless-trust,and now faced with this decade in dealing with with no-trust-whatsoever. We started with dont-trust-the-government and the dont-trust-big-media and to dont-trust-all-media and event
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by redandblack 2y ago
This will be great for deciding on voting districts
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by redandblack 2y ago
all good things come to an end - others do too but we won't remember them. good run, and remember from the late 90s - later at my interview in Lehman Brothers, the hiring manager was looking at the site when I walked in and that was th
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by redandblack 2y ago
Underscoring MY personal politics/cultural views, I just returned from a NC trip and was thinking it will take another decade of development for social change to take hold. Just insane amount of economic development is happening there,
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by redandblack 2y ago
I am moving from New Jersey to Delaware - for me that is far from civilization, but can make it up by a once a month trek for the food scene in NJ.
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by redandblack 2y ago
Checking IDs is the standard model in the US along the border states in the south (don't know about the north). My earliest border police checkpoint was in '87, south east of Phoenix on the way to LA. My buddies from Las Cruces al
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by redandblack 2y ago
I hope congestion pricing withers away and dies. It really promotes public infrastructure for the wealthy and disadvantages the people who cannot afford. MDs at my firm can easily afford any such surcharges, and for many it will be business
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by redandblack 2y ago
It will help non-state actors wage the asymmetric war and impose costs. Think Houthis, they may in few years drive sea/air drones with small load munitions - operating far from the site, and statistically be lucky to make their point I
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by redandblack 2y ago
Silk vests were the secret armor of the mongols against arrows.
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by redandblack 2y ago
A antifa relative does not carry their phone with them when they meet, nor do they carry it in their person when attending a rally - they have a friend/lawyer name/number written in a paper with them, just in case some one has to
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by redandblack 2y ago
The other benefit for being higher in the alpha order is you get the snow day calls first - 4:30 am, and get to call your friends before school calls them. We were always woken up by my daughter screaming as here friends called her. No such
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by redandblack 2y ago
When I studied engineering in India, we never put our names in the finals at college. Every one gets a exam id and that goes in the answer sheets. Also, it is never your professor who grades you - the answer sheets are collected and lecture
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by redandblack 2y ago
GE seems like another firm / conglomerate that has lost its way - although we have heard about Jack Welch's management disaster, I do not know if they lost engineers the way it happened at Boeing. Last year, I bought GE Monogram k
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Boeing chief must have engineering background, Emirates boss says(ft.com)
24 points by redandblack 2y ago|13 comments
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by redandblack 2y ago
> Pope, who is an obvious contender, has a background in finance. Dave Gitlin, a Boeing director who is chief executive of Carrier, which manufactures heating and cooling systems, has a background in aerospace, previously holding roles a
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by redandblack 2y ago
Market prices rarely (almost never) consider externalities - situations like this where it is a societal decision, it is difficult to define what we want, much less define a objective function that the market prices can optimize on. Case in
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by redandblack 3y ago
"Time pass" is a common enough phrase expressing having no intent and doing nothing. Obviously, evenings are the best for it in the cities/towns

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