tyg13

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by tyg13 14d ago
Yeah, the problem with "not fighting it" is that you'll naturally do what feels the best in the moment, and having fun will always feel the best in the moment over doing something boring. The fall only comes later when all yo
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by tyg13 14d ago
pretty sure Krugman himself said his prediction was intentionally pessimistic to counter the hyper-optimism of his peers. and in fairness, he wrote that at the height of the dot-com bubble. actually, thinking about it more, I wonder if we&#
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by tyg13 28d ago
Ah, but you see, it was a general purpose programming language. A general purpose, functional, optionally-typed programming language, with its own optimizing compiler and build system. In fairness, it wasn't originally developed to b
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by tyg13 28d ago
Yup, and every time it breaks, you've got to pester someone whose job probably isn't maintaining that thing actively. I worked at a startup with massive NIH syndrome, once. We even used our own in-house programming language, becau
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by tyg13 28d ago
Must we always see this restated every time? It's getting a bit stale always seeing these kinds of comments on articles about LLM.
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by tyg13 2mo ago
The incessant need to constantly leave "the code doesn't work like <bad implementation>, it works like <good implementation>" frustrates me to no end. No amount of directions against it in project MEMORY, CLAUDE.m
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by tyg13 3mo ago
I too have settled into a kind of dual Claude/GPT model setup. I will often use one to review the other's work, or critique the other's plan in some way. Sometimes I'll have Claude implement a feature one way, then have
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by tyg13 3mo ago
most large companies, maybe, but small-to-medium-sized businesses can and will tell you to take a hike. there are no consumer protections in the US regarding returns beyond the goodwill of the company
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by tyg13 4mo ago
Exactly. You as the programmer know that the loop counter won't overflow, and in general, essentially nobody would actually write it that way. But if you don't assume it can't happen, the possibility for signed overflow is ev
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by tyg13 4mo ago
I see what you're going for, but I don't see how your example is UB. If `p` is a pointer, and, after your `if (p)` check, `p` is dereferenced unconditionally, then yes, your check for `p == NULL` could be removed, and the code und
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by tyg13 4mo ago
Exactly. I see this common idea trotted out that "where there's a will, there's a way" -- if the government bans something, the ban will never be effective, because people still want that thing, and so a ban will just en
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by tyg13 4mo ago
No, you don't understand. We're... - mining the 95th percentile, leveraging the Pareto Principle - optimizing and ubiquitizing under-optimized paradigms - pioneering agentic solutions to aggressively expand product frontiers - inn
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by tyg13 4mo ago
Yeah, actually I completely agree with you. This discussion has gotten way out of hand.
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by tyg13 4mo ago
I don't think that altruism is specific to Christianity. I clarified that in a sibling comment (which you seemed to indicate you had read?), and that what I meant was Christianity specifically requires that good deeds must be purely
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by tyg13 4mo ago
If you were interested in demonstrating my lack of education, I'm not sure you have done so. But I'm happy to conclude this exchange with your feeling satisfied on that point. I don't imagine you're interested in an actu
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by tyg13 4mo ago
Why not eliminate tax entirely, then? Is that a conclusion you'd support?
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by tyg13 4mo ago
> The us govt wastes by some estimates 30% of its budget. Trillions annually. Have to start with the waste and fraud. Empty daycares are not a good use of hard-earned tax dollars and have a massively pernicious effect on the society. The
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by tyg13 4mo ago
26% AI generated? What does that even mean? How is Pangram arriving at that figure?
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by tyg13 4mo ago
> Nobody wants to give away a slice of their net worth to pay for bullshit wars and ballrooms. The vast majority of people in America are already doing this, because their wealth is entirely derived from their income. Your complaint isn&
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by tyg13 4mo ago
Sure, I never claimed that Christians invented charity. They're certainly not even the only religion that advocates universal charity. To be clear, what I see as distinctly Christian is the idea that charity must be purely altruistic
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by tyg13 4mo ago
> Everyone's job is to please their manager. Indeed. I've spent my professional career seeking out positions at companies of increasing prestige and technical renown, each with a higher reputation for professionalism and perfor
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by tyg13 4mo ago
The vast majority of people tuning into those kinds of slop streams are not really active listeners. It's more akin to turning on the radio while you work/clean/perform some other task that doesn't require strict focus o
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by tyg13 4mo ago
Not only have you misinterpreted my comment to attack claims I never made, you've also used this misinterpretation as license to insult me. Lovely.
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by tyg13 4mo ago
I don't think you can really escape this anywhere online. Hacker News has the same problem, really.
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by tyg13 4mo ago
I'd even argue that we should encourage _more_ of this behavior, if it leads to more charity. The idea that you have to do good deeds without expecting any kind of reward or recognition seems distinctly Christian to me. For Christians,
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by tyg13 4mo ago
The way some people talk about AI is so distinctly religious to me. The comment above reads like some perverse prophecy. The author is clear to indicate that it's only supposition, but it induces a sort of second-hand embarrassment in
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by tyg13 5mo ago
Not really sure you gain much, either. Unless false confidence is your goal.
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by tyg13 6mo ago
I've noticed a prevailing narrative (mostly observed on Reddit) that DLSS 5 "rewrites" artistic intent, painting NVIDIA as sort of carelessly slopifying games without any care for aesthetic in the sole pursuit of selling more
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by tyg13 6mo ago
This is only true if people's want for it exceeds their want to not break the law. For illegal drugs, people who want them want them a lot, so them being illegal isn't a strong deterrent; although, legalization has still absolutel
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by tyg13 6mo ago
No, I only use the finest, home-grown, naturally-produced Human Brain slop to make my comments.

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