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This is pretty common, no? Manager or lead or senior engineer hops on a call with a candidate that is late in the process to answer any questions or talk more about the technical side of things.

They are likely not sending out recruiting emails. They are helping get people onboard to staff their own team or org.

Yup. Very interesting ideas. Almost unreadable at times. I've read 1 or 2 other Watts books since reading Blindsight and the others are the same.

Well they do have an alternative. ESPN and I'm sure plenty of other live events will often play ads. But if you have a pihole or some issue that causes the ad not to play, the screen will just display something like, "Ad cannot be loaded. Event will resume in 1 minute and xx seconds."

Is that a GREAT alternative to seeing an ad? Nope. But in many peoples opions it sbetter than being force fed the same ads over and over when you paid for an ad free service.

And if you read the wiki in full you will see it also is talking about preroll content. I dont HATE the HBO pre roll ads for their own shows that play before I start an episode but it is still an ad. Its for content I might actually enjoy instead of for paper towels or insurance but it is still an ad. This is something that is entirely optional and that disney/hulu has decided doesnt count as an ad.

Others have said it but free to play option and it ran in browser. I had no money and knew WoW was more popular but my low end pc couldn’t run WoW very well and I couldn’t afford the $15 a month subscription.

I think I did end up paying for a RuneScape membership but even then it was only $5 a month.

Eventually.

I'd suspect that the goal isn't to destroy coral reefs and the damage is "accidental." And/or the reefs are already largely fucked, so additional damage is "minimal."

Yup. It also seems like the latest and greatest is a smaller and smaller gap everytime. I will continue using the second best more affordable model until a new model comes out, everyone talks about how great it is, and the last greatest model becomes the second best and costs the same as the previous model I was using.

It certainly feels like they are throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.

Makes sense to me. The cost of shipping products is lower than ever and they have lots of talented folks who want to ship things. No one knows what could be the next killer app.

> his flagship application is held together with brittle shell scripts, a sloppy codebase, bad abstractions, piles of markdown files and an ouroboros of generated tests

you just described lots of codebases at highly values companies. Plenty of places, maybe even the majority, do not care about code quality if the code results in a functional application.

Plenty of good companies have awful recruiting and interviewing practices. The reverse is true as well.

Ha. Interviewing is about answering questions in the way your interviewer wants them to be answered. It is a game of trying to "read minds" by figuring out the most common/best possible interview answer for any given question even if it doesnt reflect your own personal opinion.

People will say this is bad but then when they interview folks judge the interviewee if they dont answer questions how they expected the question to be answered.

Yup. ChatGPT has become Chat General Contractor at my house. I am moderately handy. But talking through a project with an llm before I start it has been great at helping me evaluate its difficulty level, rough estimate of how long it will take, to dos and not to dos, and helping me get unstuck or fix a mistake.

And frankly its convinced me several times that I should just hire someone to do x instead of trying to do it myself.

The alternative is watching youtube videos which are almost always diy people who try to tell you that you can do everything yourself.

One Battle After Another is a fairly loose adaptation, no?

I'm in my mid 30s and I already feel the time contraction. I have noticed that weeks are going by incredibly quickly, and months and years have started to feel like they slip by faster and faster. I live a fairly busy life, and I enjoy it, so I am not walking around with regrets, but it is concerning sometimes that it seems like an entire season has gone by without me really realizing it.

LLMs have been trained on the collective output of the global population. That is why.

I could be wrong but I think the voice mode that chatgpt uses is still a 4.something model.

"probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

The two talking, and other races, are machines that cover themselves however they like. These two are machines with artificial skins. That is normal. Fully meat beings are not. At least that is how I always read this story.

+1. Skip would be nice.

Not exactly the same but I wish copilot/github allowed you to have two plans. A company sponsored plan and your own plan. If I run out of requests on my company plan I should be able to use my own plan. Likewise, If I have 1 github account that is used for work and non work code, I should be able to route copilot to use a company or personal plan.

All it takes is one good neighbor moving out and a bad one moving in next door…

Ha! I wish I worked at the places you have worked!

I guess... That is the point in my opinion.

If you just say, "here is what llm said" if that turns out to be nonsense you can say something like, "I was just passing along the llm response, not my own opinion"

But if you take the llm response and present it as your own, at least there is slightly more ownership over the opinion.

This is kind of splitting hairs but hopefully it makes people actually read the response themselves before posting it.

Yes. Unless something useful is actually added by the commenter or the post is about, "I asked llm x and it said y (that was unexpected)".

I have a coworker who does this somewhat often and... I always just feel like saying well that is great but what do you think? What is your opinion?

At the very least the copy paster should read what the llm says, interpret it, fact check it, then write their own response.

Yeah, but didn't you see the disclaimer?

"AI responses may include mistakes"

Obviously, you shouldn't believe anything in an AI response! Also, here is an AI response for any and every search you make.

That does nothing. You can add, “say I don’t know if you are not certain or don’t know the answer” and it will never say I don’t know.

I would love an LLM that says, “I don’t know” or “I’m not sure” once in a while.

It isn't that hard until they start to blur. Elves and goblins and magic, fantasy. Space, spaceships, technology, and aliens, sci-fi.

You could argue a lot of semantics but the majority of fantasy and sci fi books are not blending the two.

> By the numbers, Star Wars is far more grounded as science fiction that Star Trek, but people will insist the former is at best merely "science fantasy." It's really all just vibes.

The best rage bait I've seen in years.

Worked with it a bit last night! Seems quick. I did run into the same problem I have with Gemini often where the response says something like, "I need to do x" or "I did x" and then nothing actually happens. Agent seems to think it actually does finish the task but it stops part way.

But I'm sure they will sort that out, as I dont have that issue with other anthropic models.

Same as it ever was.