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ryoshu

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About ryoshu

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    Comment #49204440

    I like judgement. Taste is a subset.

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    Comment #49176381

    In the old days porn peddlers were the pioneers of digital.

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    Comment #49071586

    "my phone died yesterday, a friend just gave me his old pixel" - please don't do this. That's lying to law enforcement and they can prosecute. Just say it's your travel phone.

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    Comment #49071478

    If the government could easily get the remote backup they would have already done it.

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    Comment #49046996

    iirc, a harness isn't allowed, but if the LLM wants to write its own tools to solve things that is allowed.

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    Comment #48951873

    Are you testing a model or a harness? People conflate the two.

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    Comment #48709033

    Can't you do that with regular Unix permissions?

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    Comment #48510667

    Age eleven and had access to a chemistry set that a relative gifted. It had sulfur, but the saltpeter, and charcoal came from elsewhere. The 1960s encyclopedia had the instructions…

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    Comment #48498651

    No. Excel is a general purpose tool that can be used for calculating tasks that are good, neutral, or evil things. It's a fancy calculator.

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    Comment #48440725

    Looks good for light-duty uses. Scared for my fingers for anything heavy.

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    Comment #48426347

    Trillionaire

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    Comment #48287685

    If Ghengis Khan was raping & pillaging in 2026 his Wikipedia article might have a more modern slant.

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    Comment #48281280

    They become hyperstition engines.

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    Comment #47979332

    When we do these it's a fine-tuned classifier, generally a BERT class model. Works quite well when you sanitize input and output with low latency/cost.

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    Comment #47961320

    Even if you spend a crazy amount of money with them for advertising they will try to gaslight you if they make a mistake.

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    Comment #47952446

    Finnish if you want to go hard mode.

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    Comment #47621538

    I’ve worked with their consultants and they were lovely. They hate Azure too.

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    Comment #47574877

    Sat across from Dr. Ruth on the Acela going from NYC to DC for business. She was lovely and sharp as ever.

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    Comment #47471467

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Brain_replacement...

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    Comment #47429815

    Like video gaming, but similar.

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    Comment #47404531

    I have a theory that prediction markets will becomes hyperstition engines. This is a rather... violent example.

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    Comment #47359969

    Do not enforce invariants with an LLM. Do not enforce invariants with an LLM. Do not enforce invariants with an LLM. Do not enforce invariants with an LLM.

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    Comment #47242703

    Entire product or a feature for a product? Sometimes you just want to test an idea and vibe coding works well for that in the very short amount of time it takes now. Product market…

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    Comment #47237917

    Wait until you meet a VP in finance.

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    Comment #47168397

    Oof. I turned the history referencing off. I use ChatGPT for wildly diverging topics and it will bring things up that have zero relevance to what I'm currently looking for if histo…