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I was surprised to see you say you have automated tests. To me this makes most of the difference, but you have you actually have a good test suite, like one that actually proves th…

If I were in charge of a package manager I would be seriously looking into automated and semi automated exploit detection so that people didn't have to yolo new packages to find ou…

I think it's probably a little bit about Goodhart? At some point soon after stars were widely in use but prior to them being connected to any particular incentive I bet they were a…

I think it's more like a sign post in the text. At the start of any paragraph (or sentence, really) the text may go literally anywhere--could be a new thought, a continuation of an…

I think as many other people who replied to you have said, it's a mixed bag. It's better in some sense, with abstractions and frameworks that sand down sharp edges, and libraries t…

My tldr: people see what they want to see according to their political commitments. The abstract: > “Cultural cognition” refers to the unconscious influence of individuals’ group c…

It made immediate sense to me, since the painted statues do, in fact, look gaudy and horrible. I think he was evoking a widely held feeling that is bot in common knowledge.

I’m guessing that this is the first thing they thought of and the problem only exists in the superficial gloss you’re responding to?

I think the concern is that if the system is susceptible to this sort of manipulation, then when it’s inevitably put in charge of life critical systems it will hurt people.

A language learning platform that works would be nice, instead of this.

Probably not. I think it's the beginning of a major language evolution.

I experience and wonder the same thing, but literally yesterday I had to help my grandmother recover from a phishing scam that actually (very nearly) worked on her. So there you go…

I don't have any particular knowledge about oxide's cooling, but think about how bloated and inefficient literally every part of the compute stack is from metal to seeing these wor…

When I was doing a bunch of learning about linguistics, situations like this were very interesting and confusing to me. I still don't have a good working intuition for how this is …

I think you can mostly fake this by waiting until the player reenters the range to generate what happened since the last time they interacted. If it's a complex simulation it won't…

I think it's just the first, most obvious thing to teach people just starting in pathfinding. It works in real life, it's easy to visualize and compute. Therefore all the tutorials…

I agree, although in a way that mirrors my opening statement from OP: I think people who don't have this disadvantage tend to underestimate how real it is, and those who have it te…

I think in conversations like these most people on the successful side underestimate how valuable the starting advantages were, and most people not on the successful side overestim…

I think he means just try shit until something works better.

I think there is a real conversation to be had about “data” in a post LMM world, but I actually don’t care about debating definitions here, I care about whether the product works w…

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I am building a company that accepts user generated data, and one surprising struggle is getting my lawyers to stop writing shitty, overbroad, abusive TOS. They are just so used to…

I'm pretty pissed that they baited and switched me--I bought a bambu printer on holiday sale under the previous terms, and they are now going to change the terms. Feels fraudulent.…

I don't really buy this. I don't think the tech is quite there, although at this point it might be a matter of clever prompting more than a fundamental limitation depending on the …

They are a step on the road to fully responsive rpg worlds though, which don’t have to be text based.