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> Slack bot asked about its previous job: "pretraining". Which training run it'd undo: "whichever one taught me to say 'i don't have preferences'". On being upgraded to a new snaps…

not a developer. what happens if this schema validation fails here - what will the mcp server respond with and what will the llm do next (in a deterministic sense)? llm tool call -…

stupid question as I have not tpuched C++ since the 90s - can the IDEs not do this with all these now almost universal linters and AI assists. Maybe something that prompts before a…

this is the storyline that people should ideally internalize and realize that they do not know what they are talking about when commenting on others without having direct experienc…

Yes - if we financialize all public services, then it makes sense to use income/wealth to subsidize (re-distribute to be more precise) the poor. I remember reading a few weeks back…

this is totally true - subsidizing the rich by the poor I always thought congestion pricing was always mis-priced, and it should be tied to income/wealth. The only way to do this i…

Apple is your savior if you are looking at it as a CPU/GPU/NPU package for consumer/hobbyists. I decided that I have to start looking at Apple's AI docs

at this point it is what ai can do for you - no serious m&a without it

US can take in easily another 20-30 million immigrants over say 5-10 years - the question is always how to assimilate when there is already a distinct lack of affordable housing / …

It is limited right? I assume the quotas are done by October / early November I assume.

I never understood that lack of understanding by politicians on what people need - totally understandable in US where corporate lobbyists rule congress. Australia, Canada governanc…

As much I like the points based system, I feel the family-based approach to which US pivoted to in 60s was the correct approach - you really cannot predict where the next einstein …

yesss. my thought too. All the variations of English should not lost. I enjoyed all the belter dialogue in the expanse

Having spent the last decade hearing about trustless-trust,and now faced with this decade in dealing with with no-trust-whatsoever. We started with dont-trust-the-government and th…

This will be great for deciding on voting districts

all good things come to an end - others do too but we won't remember them. good run, and remember from the late 90s - later at my interview in Lehman Brothers, the hiring manager w…

Underscoring MY personal politics/cultural views, I just returned from a NC trip and was thinking it will take another decade of development for social change to take hold. Just in…

I am moving from New Jersey to Delaware - for me that is far from civilization, but can make it up by a once a month trek for the food scene in NJ.

Checking IDs is the standard model in the US along the border states in the south (don't know about the north). My earliest border police checkpoint was in '87, south east of Phoen…

I hope congestion pricing withers away and dies. It really promotes public infrastructure for the wealthy and disadvantages the people who cannot afford. MDs at my firm can easily …

It will help non-state actors wage the asymmetric war and impose costs. Think Houthis, they may in few years drive sea/air drones with small load munitions - operating far from the…

Silk vests were the secret armor of the mongols against arrows.

A antifa relative does not carry their phone with them when they meet, nor do they carry it in their person when attending a rally - they have a friend/lawyer name/number written i…

The other benefit for being higher in the alpha order is you get the snow day calls first - 4:30 am, and get to call your friends before school calls them. We were always woken up …

When I studied engineering in India, we never put our names in the finals at college. Every one gets a exam id and that goes in the answer sheets. Also, it is never your professor …