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chr15m

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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 …