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> I don't see a clear demarcation of the things that only "reasoning" can accomplish. Producing beautiful, coherent, maintainable code. RL trained the models to produce correct cod…

> Stand up a router. it has to be some amazing router and while the models are open-weights, the knowhow to run them efficiently surely is not?

> So the price is rising and you have no choice but to keep paying more and more. I presume you can't use deepseek?

> where are the 500 meter trees in the rainforests. There could be structural reason as to why it's not possible, not pumping water *

> 30 seconds of surprise is plenty for a coordinated decapitation strike. Some guys in a mediterranean country are drooling right now...

How about sensory feedback loops?

> AND magically gets 4x cheaper energy they are in a much weaker stance for the long haul. By energy you mean electricity,the nuclear, solar and hydro-- the kind China has installe…

> A lot of people are emotionally unprepared for a world where the music doesn't stop. I've been wrong before. However, when was the last time this business model made sense -- tha…

> If the scales are only checked after the heat death of the universe, does it even matter? This is the kind of thinking that points to that reckoning moment being close. This and …

> can stay alive and well a lot longer than you can survive an open short position. I mean let's look at bitcoin/crypto.

> he people I found worst at this were IT. My experience as IT in modern banks was the opposite. The legal department were absolute assholes when it came to software features. And …

> is regularly wrong, frequently myopic, and just outright dumb constantly. I give LLMs snippets of text messages exchanges with my wife and I can't believe how dumb the LLMs are o…

> queryable from psql via an embedded DuckDB. noob question here from someone who ony played a bit with iceberg and trino: what's the reason to do the analytics stil inside the pos…

> Most nicotine users today? I did use pure nicotine and it was very bad for my health, probably due to high dosage, but still. I've used heavy stimulants, benzos, opioids, dissoci…

> notice more and more are consumed $1k in tokens a month I've said it before: if you allow people to see how much others spent, they will try to climb up the "leaderboard". It tak…

> dependent on a few minor lifestyle adjustments Only if you don't have psychological issues, then none of that really works. I've done all the sleep hygiene and it does help a bit…

Thanks, that's inspiring, I know I'm at the point that I should do these changes like yesterday!

No, I don't. I know I should.

>The older I get the more sensitive to a single poor night's sleep I become. Back when I was 20 I had a drinking problem. One time I drank so much that I passed out sitting at a ta…

I am a strong believer and selected as power user because of AI usage metrics, but I also see perverse incentives -- a colleague was desperately searching for me on the Claude toke…

>high level of motivation and self discipline to go 3 times a week. I don't really have the time for gym but going feels so good so I can see why someone who does have the time mig…

> Without weighing on the validity of their hypothesis that one or both sides found the other“especially attractive” I get that it's survivor bias and all, but modern racial prefer…

I have conflated those two, but my main point is the monstrous, one-sided destruction Israel has caused in Gaza is a clear proof Israel has gone way, way, way into the genocide ter…

> All other things being equal, if your opponent engages actively in hiding among medical and press workers as a type of guerrilla warfare, then the reality does become this. So le…

> Don't get me started on the thinking tokens. Claude provides nicer explanations, but when it comes to CoT tokens or just prompting the LLM to explain -- I'm very skeptical of the…