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by verbify 1mo ago
> Why would I pay $10-20K/mo to employ a software engineer and then balk at a $500, $1000, or even $2000 monthly AI bill, assuming they were even vaguely trying to use the tokens productively? Spending $10k and then balking at an ad
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by verbify 2mo ago
Is that all humans are? When clockwork was the frontier, people thought the brain was akin to clockwork (which is why the mechanical turk fooled people). By analogy, now that classifiers are the frontier, we think the brain is a classifier.
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by verbify 2mo ago
> ignoring that people would start keeping themselves homeless for several years on purpose Don't you need to spend on bureaucracy to figure this out? That then increases the cost.
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by verbify 2mo ago
A certain Calvin and Hobbes strip comes to mind https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg...
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by verbify 3mo ago
So I don't use stuff like Superpowers either - I think if it were actually that good, it would work it's way into the core product. But I do mod Claude Code to incorporate gotchas from my specific workflows. For example: Which sno
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by verbify 3mo ago
My company gives me 1k a month to burn on Claude. Any experiments have to be relevant to my work. I'm guessing it’s similar.
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by verbify 3mo ago
Companies always trade at a premium to book, so how would that work?
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by verbify 4mo ago
Always? There's never a place for it?
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by verbify 4mo ago
> With home ownership though, things like a modern kitchen, a shed, new laundry machines not only better your life today but also (likely) have some value add. Just beware that it's usually much less than you put in though. We bough
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by verbify 6mo ago
The snowclone is annoying, but comparisons are sometimes necessary. The problem here is the actual content is sloppy.
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by verbify 6mo ago
> Palestine isn't a country, it was once where Israel now sits, but hasn't been since the 40s. In the 40s, the British were ruling Palestine as a mandate, I wouldn’t really call that a country.
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by verbify 6mo ago
Just in case someone gets the wrong end of the stick, the UK isn’t getting rid of the House of Lords, just the hereditary members (of which there aren’t many).
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by verbify 7mo ago
I'm sceptical that it was entirely autonomous, I think perhaps there could be some prompting involved here from a human (e.g. 'write a blog post that shames the user for rejecting your PR request'). The reason I think so is b
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by verbify 7mo ago
A stop sequence, but for humans.
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by verbify 8mo ago
In Babi Yar, over two days, 33,771 Jews were killed, and this was prior to the 'peak' in Operation Reinhard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar The Nazis were still killing people in other places at the s
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by verbify 9mo ago
> It only makes sense in the context of a company. Don't you think it can make sense in terms of pension contributions? I used to track my finances very carefully (but now I'm more lackadaisical). Double entry would've bee
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by verbify 9mo ago
I'm not sure why we're doing states vs cities. Jackson (the largest city in Mississippi) has a population of 150k. If I find a non-commuter belt town in the UK with a size of 150k, then the house prices will be dramatically lower.
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by verbify 9mo ago
The median home price in San Francisco is $1.5m. In London it's $893,000. These are not comparable places. San Francisco is much much more expensive, I'm not sure why that means London is "broken". It's just got a d
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by verbify 9mo ago
I spot checked some of this and from what I can find, the median salary in London is about $12k more than Mississippi, and the median house price in London is about $100k less than California. Bear in mind that obviously the mean salary in
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by verbify 9mo ago
> Just like San Francisco and Dallas/Texas (from his article) are very different in the US, we should expect lot of differences in Europe Dallas and San Francisco are both English speaking cities with a shared recent history of bein
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by verbify 9mo ago
They'll version control the prompts because the requirements change.
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by verbify 9mo ago
The article is full of snow clones that I see in AI writing. Or as the AI would put it "that's style *without* authorship". The point is still valid, although I've seen it made many times over.
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by verbify 9mo ago
I once was thinking that if intelligent machines surpassed human intelligence, the end game would be human intelligence would atrophy but the machines would continue to serve us. Then I had a humorous thought - what if this already happened
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by verbify 9mo ago
> large vegetables I'm not sure why, but I've noticed that smaller vegetables taste better. Small cucumbers are tastier and sweeter than the big ones (that taste like water), cherry tomatoes are more flavorful than large ones.
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by verbify 10mo ago
I've done a brief Google, and the UK does have one of the hardest driving tests in the world. This matches with anecdotal comparisons with international friends. https://www.zuto.com/blog/driving-tests-around-the-w
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by verbify 10mo ago
I'm not sure it's social media as much as just mobile phones. I used to memorize phone numbers, addresses, directions, short notes, etc. Memory works like a muscle - use it or lose it.
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by verbify 11mo ago
In some countries it's not considered a slur. In the UK, the government's list of ethnic groups contains 'Gypsy or Irish Traveller' - https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/style-gui... .
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by verbify 11mo ago
The guidelines state: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they&#x27
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by verbify 11mo ago
This joke was in the article?
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by verbify 1y ago
I thought "The Bitter Lesson" was that whole a specialised system will outperform in the short term, generalized systems with lots of data win in the long term. http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLe

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