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so-long-mode is sophomoric garbage.

The buffer is the UI, rendered by Emacs's extremely optimised text display machinery The author is known in the community as a mere packager whose knowledge of the nitty-gritty der…

Not every modern editor. Neovim bogs on long lines too.

I mean, it's 1.5M more than the foundation knows what to do with.

Use a condom.

Anthropic, like most frontier companies, have more money than they know what to do with. When the prize is world domination, turning a profit isn't high on their todo list. Twenty …

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They don't have hands in the future because you can stick it right in.

I was backed up for weeks, so I called a professional to clean my pipes. $120, plus a $20 tip for good technique.

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That's right, but HN clapback derangement syndrome compels me to state another obvious fact of life. Profit motive is the singlemost powerful motivator for the pharmaceutical indus…

"Tremendous societal cost" is putting it uncharitably. My country was built on the financial incentivization of patents. I can think of several economies with an open disregard for…

I say "clawed" only because that's how it's pronounced.

Your generalizing about the fungibility of labor yields nothing. Every successful hire is a unique mix of right place, right time, right man. You control what you can.

Consider augmentation surgery.

Every woman would come from central casting. No small talk, no dinner, no funny smells, just ready-to-bang honies at your doorstep. Pros: * Guaranteed sex. * No more time wasted se…

Many reasons: 1. Internet has made distribution frictionless. So unlike giving out Uber trips, giving out code costs you nothing. 2. You have a real job. The "80% time" for which y…

In any timeline, software, as a frictionlessly distributable commodity, would have become effectively free just as music did.

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You trippin. 1000+ pages to say greed is good, a realization most people make by fifth grade.

Selfish Gene, of course. There is no self. We are but pre-programmed propagation vectors.

Ergo, my initial claim that "modern approaches have zero overlap with Chomsky's deterministic methodology." Statistical token prediction began with the Dragon folks, the CMU guys, …