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shepardrtc

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    Comment #48974315

    That is easily fixable with the "Instructions for Claude" in your settings. Just put: "be critical, but correct. I don't want affirmation, i want to actually accomplish things." I …

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    Comment #48572434

    It has an MIT License

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    Comment #48543845

    It happened to my father, who was suffering a severe mental decline because of hydrocephalus. After weeks of trying to figure out what happened, one day he was sitting in the hospi…

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    Comment #48329023

    There's meaning in the term "car wash" that it understands. But I don't suspect anyone has taught it that for 99.9% of people, going to car wash ONLY means that you're going to was…

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    Comment #48037452

    > uncover blockers that people haven’t surfaced on their own I constantly reiterate to people, whether they're reporting to me or not, that they need to speak up when there's a blo…

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    Comment #47904456

    Plenty of evidence has been found. For one, the US government has leaked/released a video showing instant acceleration of a flying object. Nothing on earth can do that.

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    Comment #47779795

    Last year, there was a period of a week or two where I would see Gemini responses diffusing in. I don't know if they were experimenting with it, or if it was just an effect. It did…

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    Comment #47480963

    I built an algorithmic trader years ago just using Python, but for the hot paths I gave each algorithm its own function in its own file, and then I would compile the files with Cyt…

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    Comment #46800942

    > Inaccurate rescues - jobs that are long-running might get rescued even if the producer is still alive. Pro version uses smarter heartbeats to track producer liveness. So the non-…

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    Comment #46391964

    You may find this study useful: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09335-x I've begun taking very small amounts of lithium orotate (5mg), among many other preventative meas…

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    Comment #46386439

    From multiple personal experiences, including both of my parents, dementia is a slow, horrible death where you are robbed of your dignity and end up dragging all of your relatives …

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    Comment #46167103

    Yeah they looked at 120 people age 71 and above for that study. By that point its a little late.

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    Comment #46165025

    Taking valacyclovir should help prevent or delay as well.

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    Comment #46148861

    That makes sense. And its even worse of a reason. At least for people living in the US.

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    Comment #46139475

    Ok so a few thoughts as a former Seattleite: 1. You were a therapy session for her. Her negativity was about the layoffs. 2. FAANG companies dramatically overhired for years and ar…

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    Comment #46061850

    For input, - GPT-5.1 is $1.25 / 1M tokens - You are $0.50 / 1,000 tokens Output: - GPT-5.1 is $10.00 / 1M tokens - You are $1.50 / 1,000 tokens Am I reading that wrong? Is that a t…

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    Comment #46010816

    I had terrible anxiety as a child and what I experienced dramatically affected the core of who I am. It is engrained in me and I struggle with it daily, though after decades I have…

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    Comment #45747479

    I think you're missing a more human point: people dislike the effect of hiring and firing thousands of people with zero consideration. They hire thousands because it makes manageme…

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    Comment #45747353

    I pulled myself from a recent Amazon interview process because of how bad they are. At first I had the opinion that this could be interesting and exciting, but the more I thought a…

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    Comment #45683749

    Sounds like those ML "scientists" were actually just engineers.

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    Comment #45644725

    How does this fair with the Vidore benchmark? https://huggingface.co/spaces/vidore/vidore-leaderboard

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    Comment #45630403

    If the herpes virus can increase the odds of getting Alzheimer's, then taking valacyclovir is another thing that can be done to reduce the odds.

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    Comment #45606226

    The IRS does have a free filing service called Direct File: https://directfile.irs.gov/ The Trump Administration is trying to get rid of it, but its been so successful and so well-…