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jorblumesea

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About jorblumesea

Software Engineer in Seattle, WA

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    Comment #49262548

    as if the other, 20th century surveillance states were so accurate and effective

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    Comment #49261159

    This is kinda silly, AI is just a faster re-tranmission of information but it's not fundamentally different from stackoverflow or older styles of communication. If you wrote a blog…

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    Comment #49102968

    resi has been drained pretty hard in the last 10 years, this just adds more fuel to the fire.

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    Comment #49010189

    great distraction for the masses from the files

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    Comment #48993807

    sure as if laws apply anymore. who enforces any of this when the DOJ is run by the president's personal lawyer?

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    Comment #48926995

    most bricke and mortar should have at least 1mg tablets, and you can break those in half. or break a 3mg into 3rds. not perfect but should work.

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    Comment #48923856

    sure if you're just taking it as a dietary supplement, but clearly OP is using it as a form of sleeping pill. which is also fine but just seems like mental gymnastics.

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    Comment #48921370

    It's funny you talk about treating the root cause, and take magnesium, instead of addressing the workplace stress factor.

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    Comment #48736627

    well if you ask claude how to implement something, you may not always get the optimal solution. this feels like something claude would spit back at you given a basic prompt

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    Comment #48576302

    expat is usually synonymous with fire/retire early. most people move to spain or portugal and see their purchasing power multiply.

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    Comment #48561630

    project 2025 is also just about the wholesale destruction of the opposition, including academia.

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    Comment #48492395

    anecdotal but a good number of people have clearly stopped working as much or quiet quit. some even left the company or the industry. CEOs are also telling everyone to 5x their out…

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    Comment #48482923

    if you've ever bought and sold a house, you will know people who look at deeds and titles aren't very detail oriented. they even have title insurance because it happens so often.

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    Comment #48453657

    that's not the issue, Elon is just a petulant child that is losing the ai game ever since he left OAI. Elon wanted full control, and that dispute over control is the central issue.…

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    Comment #48413843

    most retirement systems assume at least stable population growth. if the system can't sustain itself, debt borrowing can be done but eventually creditors will come calling. what it…

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    Comment #48413781

    wow, that's really high. average price for the us is maybe $0.25 kwh adjusted for AUD

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    Comment #48405263

    very jealous of how cheap AUS solar prices are. < $1 AUD per watt after rebate

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    Comment #48326856

    awesome, now you can spend your money burning tokens to enable burning your retirement

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    Comment #48239430

    The US is trending towards a Russian style oligarchy and these latest moves are just one of a wider pattern of trying to suppress academia, freedom of speech, personal freedoms.

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    Comment #48154134

    right my point is these are 1 time investments, locals will be dealing with the consequences and most of the workers will just leave after the job is done.

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    Comment #48153733

    What's the value add for states and cities? data centers don't create a lot of long term jobs, the skills required are highly specialized and will probably hire out of state. the c…

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    Comment #48150729

    Has anyone actually seen true business lift from agents or is this one of those "do stupid things faster" situation?

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    Comment #47926249

    So China is just claiming that anyone who is ethnically Chinese should be pressured? Manus is in Singapore and has no direct connections to China physically and financially. SG off…

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    Comment #47893168

    models are great but models don't magically fix things. you need to set up systems to handle the output of code, you need to instrument metrics to llm to listen to and flag. experi…

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    Comment #47797006

    really struggling to understand where this is coming from, agents haven't really improved much over using the existing models. anything an agent can do, is mostly the model itself.…