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I know complaining about the site is poor form, but it is really hard to take advice seriously for a site that lets other visitors spam... just general internet things to other vis…

Pets.com was only 25 years to early.

And if you squint a bit and stretch some definitions... then tipping culture isn't a million miles away from bribing culture. What is a tip if it's not a bribe to not spit in your …

I'm a little disappointed that https://bribes.fyi/bribes doesn't redirect to that support page to be honest. When I saw the name/tag line I thought this would be a travel advice si…

Yup. In other words, we totally could, but there is no reason to put the time, effort and money into doing so.

Yeah, seems to be the direction the US is heading in. I'm interested to see what the response to that will be from the rest of the governments in the world. No need for everyone el…

Not necessarily. A reproduction task as a spaced repetition activity can help embed learning. If you are trying to write that prompt there is no reason you can't refer back to the …

> We have difficulty defining “actual understanding”. Indeed. C.f philosophical zombies and the Chinese room problem. The idea that some “actual understanding” (or more precisely, …

Using remote control I will choose a model but Claude will always revert to Haiku for the first turn. Basic stuff about features that are more than a week old just get no attention…

And maybe they just wrote a sentence like that because that's how they write. LLMs learned their style from humans, we were here first.

Do you think the US needs all of its current military capacity to just deter outside aggression?

When you read someone's comment there is some responsibility to read the words they wrote and not attempt to attack them for an argument no reasonable person would extract from tho…

But paying the money is less resource efficient than using the waste heat for a productive use. As a general rule we should probably insensitvise good use of resources that benefit…

You know China is busy genociding its Uyghurs population, right? Their cars are probably better than US ones, but they are not free of the taint of genocide. Edit: and that's not c…

Retired people have had to deal with this. I assume it is less of a problem in multi-generational homes.

I think you'll find America failed democracy.

Yes, compare Czech Republic-> Czechia. No problem typing that out, no problem updating my mental map of the world. Frankly I dispute that Türkiye can be the English name given it c…

Oh wow, that's a game I haven't thought about in forever. Thanks for reminding me.

> But in any case you cannot go back to a GUI and not have that problem of GUIs being too restrictive: invariably there shall be a need to chain several simple commands that do one…

Just because they weren't paid doesn't mean women were not doing economically valued labour. The washing machine is probably the greatest productivity unlock since the steam engine…

Changing the tax system to tax capital rather than labour would probably get you 90% of the way there without great societal upheaval (capital would fight back though).

There is a basic problem with framing though. Why does the labour need to find somewhere to go, but capital doesn't? Why can't the increase in productivity be captured by labour an…

None of those are helpful examples we could mimic to figure out how to use the tools. This reads like a CV, not trying to help or educate.

Agreed. I'm actually excited to hope for a cambrian explosion of IDE experiments. LLM powered visual diagramming of the code as you work? The ability to edit the diagrams and have …

They (Stripe) don't have to be a arbitrator of every edge case, just use the information they have that merchants want to give them and surface a risk signal back to merchants, the…