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> I think it's pretty reasonable to think that an extreme climate would cause extreme mortality. Classic equivocation fallacy on the word “extreme” in two different contexts. If ou…

It’s pretty much limited to the US now though. Most people elsewhere are unlikely to have heard of it.

Security theater is what gets the economic rewards.

I’ve learned tons since I started using LLMs. They’re an amazing tool for learning as long as you use them like that. Ask it questions about things you don’t understand. Verify the…

Right. The answer is necessary but not sufficient.

That attitude isn’t universal to everyone who enjoys tinkering and making computers do interesting things. I just had lunch yesterday with one of the most tinkering people I know, …

Yup, we stopped using Atlassian completely. Highly recommended.

> Rovo will helpfully tell you (after loading for 5 seconds) that YES stands for Yassified Entertainment Setting, a new option added to the app in January 2024. The problem with ou…

Joke’s on you, I’ve blocked evil.com

Our company dumped Atlassian. No-one misses it, it’s universally considered a good decision.

Hardly any Americans would recognize “git” as an offensive word. That would not have been a barrier to adoption in the largest single software market in the world. I grew up in one…

The comment was calling Hurd a Linux killer. One hopes that was intended as a joke.

Have you tried asking an LLM to fix that?

> Every organization has a mission, a reason for being. Organizations pass that mission — along with their terminology, procedures, systems, standards, and ways of working — to the…

I use Antigravity and Gemini daily because it’s cheap and so is the company I work at. It really isn’t anywhere near as bad as people seem to imagine. I’ve developed a lot of good …

> Then your argument is we should have no police 'because power corrupts’ That’s an uncharitable strawman. We have checks against police abuse in place. Probably not enough in the …

> These nameless people could very well want to help people. The criticism is that what they’re choosing to work on is misguided, if the goal is truly to help people. The cost is j…

A sequence of logical implications that each follow from previous ones is exactly what a proof is. Did I really need to spell that out?

> Technology seemingly tends towards increased specialization. The bitter lesson says the exact opposite.

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Stringing what together? A sequence of logical implications? The word for that is "proof".

> Maybe, just maybe, that's because inventing something is actually within their grasp The problem is that inventing a solution that no-one needs or wants and then using venture mo…

Very good point. That number almost certainly doesn't take into account recent RAM price increases, etc. Tracing back through all the multitude of references to the $600k price, th…

Flock provides tools and information that influence and encourage bad behavior from police. Yes, we need laws to help stop this. Ideally, those laws should entirely destroy Flock's…