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by switchbak 1mo ago
"Anyone who brings up kids is either trying to manipulate you or is a useful idiot for the manipulators." So say a school administrator has a meeting to discuss the pro's and con's of AI in their school - in good faith,
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by switchbak 1mo ago
"Who’s to say that your fallible memory is incorrect" - you can very easily test if someone has a bullet through their head. Well, assuming someone didn't go and steal their brain. I'm saying that not everything is opini
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by switchbak 1mo ago
I wouldn't take language advice from a Product Manager and Chief Evangelist from anywhere - and especially not Google. Having said that: my opinion is that LLMs thrive by working in a tight loop. Unlike a human, they thrive with more a
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by switchbak 1mo ago
But isn't this expected from users that like a certain language? Won't you also hear this response from Rust users that like Rust?
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by switchbak 1mo ago
You said "Anyone who brings up kids is trying to manipulate you" - that's clearly not always true. Now it's OFTEN true, and in politics it's almost always used in bad faith. But that's still not everything, and
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by switchbak 1mo ago
I think of it more as a basis for shared culture - I could chat about Seinfeld / Friends, and odds were high that the other person would know what I was talking about. I imagine in prior ages this was perhaps more about folks reading a
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Everything is perceived, and our perception gets filtered based on our prior experience. Just because we're not directly perceiving objective reality, that does not mean _everything_ is opinion. JFK was shot, that's not just my op
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by switchbak 1mo ago
A fully traceable public ledger is kind of a wet dream for an intelligence agency/evil corp. Funny how much faith we put into that, and look at it now.
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by switchbak 1mo ago
“Anyone who brings up kids is trying to manipulate you” Any argument with such blatant oversimplifications is almost certainly lacking in nuance and can be ignored and dismissed. I get what you’re pointing at: politicians regularly abuse th
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by switchbak 1mo ago
This is the issue I have with most of my well meaning but somewhat politically uninformed friends. The idea of “wouldn’t it be good if …” (idealized scenario), is never followed up with a “yes, but …” (realistic evaluation of how politics a
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by switchbak 1mo ago
"breaks sucrose into fructose and glucose almost instantaneously" - I presume what you meant to write? And that's absolutely true. I think it's easy to hate (more) on HFCS because it literally says "high fructose&qu
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by switchbak 1mo ago
That cuts both ways though, and I have quite direct knowledge of how this has been misused in really gross ways. But that said, I would still bias towards more freedom than less, and hope that we can get a handle on the more extreme cases.
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by switchbak 1mo ago
I was almost taken out by two rogue kayaks being towed behind an oblivious truck driver. If I get taken out, I want it to be while I'm saving kids from an angry bear, not something stupid like ^
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by switchbak 1mo ago
It's 9:30pm pacific time - my build is still completely borked ... and we're self hosting runners. I think we need to ask for some money back, this is BONKERS. Any more of this, and we'll go full Gitlab, like we should have y
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by switchbak 1mo ago
"I don't see how they could manage that without a full-scale invasion and control of Iran" - that's precisely what they're saying, and that the domestic populace wouldn't put up with it. I suppose "could&q
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by switchbak 2mo ago
Why though - seriously, what need are you bringing by doing that? What good could come of that besides a little catharsis? These middle managers are robots in an organization. You knew they saw you as "resources", now they can&#x2
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by switchbak 2mo ago
Sorry, I wasn't suggesting you had little scruples. That's just a silly part of common parlance that can be confusing sometimes.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
In this last week, I've performed experiments in an almost fully automated way - parallel to my main work, and easy to orchestrate. This has led to 3 parallel pieces of adjacent work that each speed up our build by quite a drastic marg
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by switchbak 2mo ago
Absolutely - in some cases you'll see the major sins addressed, and there's a small mountain of lesser issues waiting to be uncovered.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
Maybe it's just me, but someone deciding to physically sand things without my consent would get a stern eye from me. Unless it's well into the "no brainer" kind of decision. (eg: the railing didn't have a finish on
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by switchbak 2mo ago
I’ve just had the displeasure of interviewing a batch of candidates over zoom. ALL of them were cheating with AI in realtime. If you have so little scruples, I can imagine you wouldn’t think twice about doing that with an assignment.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
"The issue would be that LLMs seem to not improve senior devs productivity" - that's the opposite of what they said. And the opposite of my experience.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
"Rules for thee but not for me" - isn't that beyond obvious now? The folks running things simply do not play by the rules you or I do (assuming you do).
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by switchbak 2mo ago
That is true. Then again if you can’t even provide a reference you’re unable to jump a very low bar. We’re inundated with fake applicants. References are more than mandatory now. But not enough, the whole system is broken. Also you come off
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by switchbak 2mo ago
Enough to make it a non-started at the organizations that pay their bills. Everyone else isn't big enough to matter.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
They're not saying "one point" about the conclusion, they're saying that their statement isn't nearly confident enough, and that they would prefer that they say with strong confidence that there is unequivocally NO
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by switchbak 2mo ago
I have normal hair, and probably less hair loss than is average for someone my age. I don't use products on it. Aside from this issue, it's been clear sailing the whole time.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
What I'm getting from all this is that we have an armchair expert explaining details about something they're not an expert in, and we have you reviewing the way they present this information, saying their very weak hedge wasn&#x27
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by switchbak 2mo ago
It was certainly the case that gym bros thought you had to cycle it. But you're right that this was never necessary.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
"poses no danger to your hair" I keep hearing folks say this, and even in this thread there's someone who's experienced that and had it stop when they eliminated creatine. I too have experienced exactly that with exactly

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