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chr15m
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About chr15m
https://mccormick.cx
https://github.com/chr15m
https://youtube.com/mccormix
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Comment #49258319
I'm really sorry. I hope you are doing ok. Nobody should have to experience that.
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Comment #49258157
> there is a social responsibility to protect children which extends to the community at large 100% agree with this. Community responsibility is the literal opposite of what is bei…
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Comment #49258005
Do you actually think a railing on a balcony is the same as collecting the private information of minors in a centralised database? Please, stay far far away from my children. They…
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Comment #49257956
I agree that we must bring back villages. "Village-wide" is probably the exact right dimensions for any given policy, if you mean a literal village.
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Comment #49253192
Yes, it is an egregious attack on the privacy and safety of minors.
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Comment #49253148
The only constituency who matters is their parents and guardians. If parenting and guardianship is failing, then help them be better.
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Comment #49253134
The right people to protect children are those responsible for them - their parents and guardians. If there is a problem with children not being sufficiently protected, that is the…
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Comment #49208694
It's true and so it makes sense to be a bit picky about what you read. A great many non-fiction books should probably be blog posts or articles for example.
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Comment #49191097
"Inference" is just software running. It has always cost money to run software, it's just that it is generally too cheap to matter. If a client makes a regular API call to your ser…
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Comment #49162826
Read the code.
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Comment #49132072
In the age of LLMs this seems more prescient than ever.
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Comment #49132055
Clay Shirkey has a great article from 2004 about this called Situated Software. https://devonzuegel.com/situated-software
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Comment #49129962
Why would you say that? It's incredibly useful technology that also lies. It's not binary. There are tradeoffs. Just be careful.
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Comment #49118738
Claude lies, like all LLMs today.
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Comment #49117296
Sometimes it's important to rigorously investigate and prove "obvious" things. Sometimes those things turn out to not be obvious. That's part of good science.
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Comment #49055220
Lactose tolerance is a classic example of a recently evolved trait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence
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Comment #49054882
> You are a helpless onlooker. Before you a channel through which humans have accessed the ineffable and sacred for thousands of years is being sealed for eternity. Although I love…
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Comment #49016929
Would be cool to use Nostr relays, then you don't have to depend on the proprietary CloudFlare infrastructure.
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Comment #48997568
I assume this is slow and that makes me curious - what are you using this for?
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Comment #48894563
Actions speak louder than words. > "didn’t you say that you check all the AI generated code for Redis?"... Yes, I do For important code (Redis) he is still reading the diffs. > but…
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Comment #48889424
I am working on a local first LLM frontend that saves all chats directly to your hard drive and ships in a single index.html file artifact that you can self host. No code to show y…
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Comment #48879578
The universal human language is not music, it is donut.
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Comment #48857464
> Extremely useful if you are, say, trialing a novel chemotherapy drug and want to end your trial ASAP to get everyone on the intervention arm if the drug actually works. They are …