symfoniq

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by symfoniq 6d ago
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
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by symfoniq 6d ago
They’re using Electron to write proofs now?
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by symfoniq 1mo ago
In the same way that “Anthropic” apparently means misanthropic , we can probably add “AI safety” to the list of newspeak.
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by symfoniq 1mo ago
Or the "unicontext" that Derek Thompson recently wrote about.
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by symfoniq 1mo ago
I can nod along when I hear and read people talking about the dangers of these technologies and the endgame of their creators; and then suddenly very weird when everyone except me is nodding along that the answer must be similar (but differ
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by symfoniq 2mo ago
I think the GP just showed that in a particular scenario, Ruby isn’t “radically slower” than Go. So how is the comparison not relevant?
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by symfoniq 2mo ago
As someone who spent 15+ years doing Ruby/Rails, it’s nice to see this land. That said, these days you’ll pry the BEAM from my cold, dead hands. It’s hard to go back to any other concurrency story.
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by symfoniq 2mo ago
This is madness. Only LG themselves should be able to have this kind of invasive control over your television.
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by symfoniq 2mo ago
OpenAI only exists due to the theft of content created by others. If Apple’s accusations prove to be true, it just means that OpenAI is consistent.
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by symfoniq 2mo ago
Besides his role in Jurassic Park, I will always appreciate Sam Neill’s understated but important role as Borodin, the reliable and loyal First Officer in The Hunt for Red October. His character’s death (a change from the book) added emotio
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by symfoniq 3mo ago
That's one of the reasons CarPlay is non-negotiable for me: It limits the automaker's ability to enshittify the ownership experience.
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by symfoniq 3mo ago
I agree with the author: CarPlay is table stakes for me. Whenever an automaker says a car won't support CarPlay, I mentally cross it off my list. Which is fine, because there are plenty of other viable options.
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by symfoniq 3mo ago
And did you see Apple’s recent price increases?
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by symfoniq 4mo ago
There is a complete lack of courage in the leadership of tech companies today, and top-down AI mandates are just another manifestation. True visionaries think outside the box, but most tech executives are forcing their employees into black
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by symfoniq 6mo ago
Who would voluntarily do business with a company that does this? Not me.
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by symfoniq 6mo ago
As a huge film buff, I sadly agree. And theaters in my area aren’t doing a good job keeping their projection technology current. When we went to see “Wicked”, my wife leaned over and whispered that it would probably look better on our 77” O
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by symfoniq 8mo ago
I sweat a lot and as a result try to avoid cotton for the most part. Wool is just a far better material in my experience, and doesn’t hold odor like cotton.
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by symfoniq 10mo ago
So you’re saying there’s an upside?
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by symfoniq 10mo ago
Agreed. I’m increasingly using the presence of AI slop as a primary signal about whether to avoid a company and its products.
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by symfoniq 1y ago
VFR (visual) flights don’t require filing a flight plan.
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by symfoniq 1y ago
Anthropic are trailblazers and this will be everywhere soon. It happened to me tonight with a different company. "We use AI to do our actual work, but please don't use AI for this coding challenge."
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by symfoniq 1y ago
Maybe LLMs just make messes.
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by symfoniq 1y ago
Just wanted to say that I remember playing your game as a kid on the family Mac IIci. Thanks for the fun memories, and best wishes.
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by symfoniq 1y ago
Same, I just use my Passport Card when flying, which is a Real ID.
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by symfoniq 2y ago
Most of the people I see buying Land Rovers probably need a side gig to afford them.
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by symfoniq 2y ago
Same. Lack of RDS support is the only reason we aren’t using this.
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by symfoniq 2y ago
You’re basically me. I was a daily NPR listener until the Trump era. If a never-Trumper can’t handle NPR abandoning all pretense of objectivity, that might be a bad sign.
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by symfoniq 3y ago
Wish I could give this more upvotes. I was fully remote for more than a decade before COVID, but now I’m seeing all the same things you’ve written about here. It’s a huge regression.
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by symfoniq 3y ago
Between this and the recent elimination of 401k matching, IBM is sending a strong signal that it’s not a place I’d ever want to work. Hard to imagine they will be able to attract or retain talent.
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by symfoniq 3y ago
I’ve worked (burned out) under this. Eventually I realized that “debate everything” just meant the boss really loved to debate, because he could always “win.”

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