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DaiPlusPlus

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About DaiPlusPlus

Everything is terrible.

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    Comment #49232001

    That’s all fine and I don’t think anyone can malign you for that. What we take exception to is how your project’s landing-page misrepresents the project by saying it’s “hand-writte…

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    Comment #49228215

    > Linux […] said "no AI contributions or repos" On the contrary: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8T...

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    Comment #49228197

    And LLMs are still confidently bullshitting: > Everything after that is the interface you remember from a 1984 Macintosh: […] and a dock along the bottom with one tile per running …

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    Comment #49226023

    > Counterpoint, industry cyber security is so generally weak, if there were actually a secret "huge cold cyber war" on-going, we'd see real world impact. But we do: ransomware stor…

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    Comment #49187385

    > Why are people so sour about this? To many people, myself included, who have to wade through huge amounts of low-quality AI slop which is actually a negative value: no-one benefi…

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    Comment #49187070

    More like someone taking LessWrong postings too seriously.

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    Comment #49187048

    > I do not see how the second sentence follows from the first. Point 1 on the list is "Make Solar Energy Economical". Solar is economical today - mostly due to China investing (and…

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    Comment #49169887

    “AI signals” are not a hallmark of quality; it’s the other way around. A superintelligent LLM/agent that wants its content to be read by humans (…which itself is suspicious - if no…

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    Comment #49169766

    > you can then prompt AI to validate whether the diagram matches article and vice versa No repro with Nano Banana with an infographic prompt.

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    Comment #49169733

    > the problems you describe existed before AI No, the problem of mass-produced, outright wrong, educational graphics flooding image-search results did not exist before 2023.

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    Comment #49163829

    Here's the kicker: it's not just load-bearing — it's a whole new paradigm support column.

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    Comment #49163818

    > I have Claude break down high level physics "as if I'm a farmer standing in a field" - works beautifully. Careful now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMoz3gSXBcY

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    Comment #49134393

    > i think you have misunderstanding of what mathematicians do They get to make cool 3D plot visualizations of functions so obscure to me that they’re named after someone who is sti…

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    Comment #49027584

    > In my experience, managers enforce code review as a quality control mechanism: the "Find Bugs" step in the article's pyramid. Nope. To reduce it down to a single word, I'd say we…

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    Comment #48999272

    > Redux only plays a role in adding syntactic sugar over React's support for reactive programming Redux doesn't have anything to do with any kind of syntactic-sugar for Reac. > the…

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    Comment #48999195

    > the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses The funny thing is that prior to 2015 "the ones nobody uses" were the academically-designed ivory tower FP languages; perp…

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    Comment #48996815

    Credit where credit is due, though: ReactJS became #1 on its merits. ...yes, Redux (not React) deserves to be #1, but Redux isn't a complete, all-under-one-roof framework the way R…

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    Comment #48996506

    > but I can't deny the wonderful downstream effect of their open source. ReactJS has been a very mixed-bag...

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    Comment #48996479

    > if your purpose is truly to learn or to teach, the process of describing that image will do wonders for retention. If you're wanting to learn then you won't have the expertise to…

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    Comment #48991541

    …but the illustrative diagrams are a simulacrum; if you ask Qwen, or any image-generator, for an “accurate” poster-design featuring a representation of a model of an atom and expla…

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    Comment #48978510

    With a GPU ban, then the PRC will accelerate domestic "AI chip" R&D and production, while still getting-away with grey-market imports for their AI/LLM R&D. Without a GPU ban, then …

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    Comment #48970943

    > how many current persons working on Minecraft are also Modders? Probably less than you'd think: lots of people recognise they need to leave their work behind at work and not get …

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    Comment #48970907

    > Why hasn't this been an industry standard for 100 years? Because the US heavy rail system is a duopoly with no incentive to innovate.

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    Comment #48955636

    > “When people first saw it, they said, ‘Why haven’t we been doing this for a hundred years?’” Doerr said. “That’s the kind of question I love to hear, because it means the culture…

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    Comment #48947409

    > I don't want people to lose jobs. I don't want the advantages to accrue to a few hyperscalers. Versus: > It is now possible for dedicated, hard-working ICs in several domains to …