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lab14

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    Comment #49124656

    STE is part of the training set, so the skill is redundant and only pollutes your context window.

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    Comment #48897371

    Workflowy is awesome.

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    Comment #48688810

    I'm assuming you can launch them again after 8 hours.

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    Comment #48313510

    i'm OK with meditation, as it doesn't require believing in superatural, all powerful beings

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    Comment #48307519

    I mean, you see smart people all over the world talking to imaginary, supernatural, all powerfull beings asking for favors via prayers, like that would have any effect on their liv…

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    Comment #47888989

    "plansturbation" is a real industry, there are tons of successful YouTubers that sell millions of dollars in tutorials, courses, books, etc on how to setup your productivity harnes…

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    Comment #47589149

    it's not that deep, once a company reaches a certain size it gets ridden with middle managers looking for their next promotion. middle managers are gonna middle-manage.

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    Comment #47418224

    "most of the time" != 100% pass rate

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    Comment #47411175

    a test pass rate of 100% is a fairy tale. maybe achievable on toy or dormant projects, but real world applications that make money are a bit more messy than that.

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    Comment #47338552

    my point wasn't about using the "original rules", on the contrary it was about discarding uneeded ones. totally missed the point, but hey thanks for your contribution.

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    Comment #47338516

    totally missed the point, but you do you.

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    Comment #47338504

    > It's hard to take your argument of "removing capitalization has made my writing better" seriously when your comment history shows that you do capitalize your written text. right,…

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    Comment #47337620

    to me, the goal of written text is to put an idea or a concept in the mind of another person. _capitalization_ is one of those "arbitrary rules" that add absolutely nothing to this…

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    Comment #46975623

    - meh, i asked what happened to Virginia Guiffre and it told me that she's alive and well living with her husband and children in australia - i pointed out that she died on 2025 an…

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    Comment #46734090

    "why do you get mad at me when I do bad things? don't you see others are doing bad things too?! is it because you hate me?"

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    Comment #46527072

    Perhaps for extremely basic products. Most non-engineers can barely write and untangle their messy thoughts and you think they can just build a spec for an AI to build a product? H…

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    Comment #46282146

    Ah, thanks Internet stranger. TIL.

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    Comment #46278696

    > so if you’re hosted there, it should be about the same latency as using their managed DB service. yes and no. In my AWS account I can explicitly pick an AZ (us-east-2a, us-east-2…

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    Comment #46275841

    (tangent) for those of us who had close experiences with addiction in our families, it's so obvious why "give them money" or "give them homes to live in" isn't a solution to homele…

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    Comment #46275739

    Is there any time in human history where this wasn't the case? Genuinely curious.

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    Comment #45799221

    Does it work with pgbouncer?

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    Comment #45749692

    "Hallucination machine, responds with hallucinations". But seriously, entreprise customers (and any big spender account) usually get access to a dedicated (human) account rep and p…

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    Comment #45606529

    The message passing paradigm is called the "Actor Model" and was invented in the 70s IIRC. It's available in most programming languages and it's not something exclusive to Elixir b…

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    Comment #45606174

    What do you mean "consciousness for AI systems"?