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I've sold a few things on marketplace and have got some strange requests from buyers that i think are AI. I was selling a piece of exercise equipment that has a screen attached to it (rowing machine) and got a request to take a picture with a tape measure to verify the screen dimensions. The product is only sold with one screen size and it was plainly visible in the listing pictures too.

I made an agent to derive and iterate on a stock trading strategy for me. What I did was give it a virtual bank account that models your typical brokerage account. So my agent reads the news, financials, markets, all the information it can gather to decide what stocks to buy/sell and manage its portfolio. Then what I do is just follow along with real money.

I could see shopping being the same way, let the agent shop for you or identify good deals on things you want but then push them to you to make the actual purchase. Like you, I'm certainly not going to let an agent make a real purchase for me unattended and I doubt any merchant is going to have much sympathy for "my AI bought this by mistake".

I'm beginning to abandon the IDE (vscode in my case). I've always been very comfortable with (or at least not scared of) the command line so the Claude app with a terminal pane open is handling much of my IDE use cases. What I really need to do is get better at using find, grep, and other search tools from the terminal and then create a good .vimrc for editing and i'm set. heh what's old is new again!

> I am inspecting every single line it changes.

Honestly, when I'm looking at ClaudeCode's output 75% of time i'm doing it to learn and understand and not just check for correctness. I'm confident enough to admit I don't know everything and I've learned a lot from reading Claude's code.

yeah marriage is more of a business deal than anything else

/married for 20 years

> but excusing BLM protests because they agreed with their politics?

I had forgot about that. God what a ridiculous time, my county judge Clay Jenkins in Dallas would drive around yelling at people walking their dogs to get inside. He was overjoyed with his little hobby authoritative regime. During the pandemic, I met him at a fundraiser once where, gasp, no one was wearing masks (it was very fancy). I was going to ask him about it but my wife's friend who was putting it on just asked me to leave.

I guess we'll get to see how great the LLMs are at curing disease after all..

No one wants to give up their grant money. That was a big part of the letters floating around during covid asking/begging to keep things quiet IIRC. No one wanted their money pulled.

> how expensive is the plumber

well you don't call a plumber to unclog a sink, you'd call a "handyman" or someone like that. You call a plumber when you need a new feed off of a buried gas line. I think you have to factor in the expertise needed which will drive cost per unit time.

The line between Computer Science and Software Engineering is pretty blurry and the term "Software Engineering" has been controversial from the get go. Bolting together established enterprise patterns may be dead but creative problem solving with automation and the science of computers surely is not.

> We're copying morality and instruction following that seems to work on humans without really understanding why it seems to work on humans

To me it makes more sense to leave the models "unaligned" and leave it up to the operator to manage the morality of what they ask it to do. Besides, only humans can be charged with a crime.

North Korea's nuclear capabilities isn't what kept them from being attacked. It was Seoul being in artillery range and the refugee crisis on the chinese border that would result.

The Seattle museum is really amazing, i went last year. The tour guides at the museum are retired Boeing and military guys, they got a real kick out of my 14 year old's questions and knowledge of cold war era SAM systems (mostly from playin g DCS) haha.

the gamerfan is a new one for me. haha i had no idea..

Would be a good project for an afterschool club. Even using a multi color pen plotter + webcam would be pretty neat.

what a non-story, who cares? goto the county courthouse, pay the $10, and renew it.

I’ve been married for 20 years.

oh i wasn't comparing anyone to anyone else, only pointing out the humor.

hate to make a "me too" comment but TUIs working over ssh is what makes them so great. Also, when combined with something like screen it's icing on the cake.

person > ever married?

the major> No, I figure if the Marines wanted me to have a wife they would have issue'd me one!

-Major Payne

edit: isn't a government run dating site like a more gentle handmaid's tale basically?

Not sure what just happened but like 10 comments just vanished. Anyway, here's a wiki link to "The Martians" which was a group of Hungarian scientists and Von Neuman was a member.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

"The Martians" (Hungarian: "A marslakók") were a group of prominent scientists (mostly, but not exclusively, physicists and mathematicians) of Hungarian Jewish descent who emigrated from Europe to the United States in the early half of the 20th century.[1]

Leo Szilard jokingly suggested that Hungary was a front for aliens from Mars."

from the wiki > Leo Szilard jokingly suggested that Hungary was a front for aliens from Mars.

I had a girlfriend once who joked that Elon Musk was an alien and needs help developing the technology to get home.

> income taxes are easy to avoid for the rich.

ironically, it's especially easy for non-rich blue collar workers to avoid income taxes. Anyone who has ever hired a contractror/mechanic etc and then found they only accept zelle, cashapp, or something similar knows this. Another way to spot this is when someone whips out a roll of 100s to pay at the grocery store. If you only deal in cash and don't have a w2 the IRS has no way to know how much income you have and therefore no way to know how much tax you owe.

This is also how kids get basically free rides to college when their household income is actually high enough to deny any need based financial aid. None of it is reported to the IRS.

edit: i guess another way to think about it is imagine asking your local weed dealer how much revenue is set aside to pay for their income tax at the end of the year.

There are more 401k millionaires now than ever before. I wonder if in 20-25 years decrease in SS payout will be more palatable as people rely on other, far more valuable, retirement accounts.

On the other hand, I’ve been paying into ss for like 3 decades easy. Bitch better have my money!

> It does feel a bit like building on quicksand

that's a good analogy and puts into words the way i've always felt about software development. Every so often the entire industry rolls over into something new. I've been here 30 years now and, in my experience, the skill that counts is being able learn new skills. To go back to the analogy, to build something new on top of what you've built in the past before everything is swallowed by the quicksand.

There's always exceptions. To not beat a dead horse(hah!) in Texas you can still find people on horseback in the drive through line at Starbucks from time to time.

reality tv star on something like real housewives. I think AI/robotics would have a hard time being that irrational and illogical consistently. That behavior is pretty unique to humans.

I was watching something on YouTube last night and it really reminded me of informercials from the 80s/90s. Imagine trying to divine actual useful information about business, technology, and industry from infomercials..

Heh this sounds like someone’s passion project that is high enough up the food chain to demand it be done. I wouldn’t put it past Trump to flip through some old photos and then order NASA to restore the aircraft. I would take time off work and travel to see an SR-71 fly again but it doesn’t seem like the wisest use of NASA’s already too small budget.

In the US Gen Z doesn't drink because of social isolation. Drinking was always a social thing and drinking alone has a stigma associated with it. Also, THC use has become much more socially acceptable and that has replaced a lot of alcohol use.

yeah this was the devops promise too. Enterprise evolved into dedicated teams to manage AWS and other infra, instead of reducing headcount it raised it. so it goes.