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I think Claude’s estimates are biased towards huge enterprise projects.

I asked it to estimate a timeline for a feature in my hobby project and it confidently replied, “4.5 weeks to code completion”.

Less than 4 hours later, the feature was done. I asked it to compare this against its initial estimate and it replied, “Right on schedule!”

I have completely given up on using it to estimate anything that actually matters.

By that logic, the European members who didn’t meet their defense spending obligations for years and years have already left NATO too.

Unfortunately you can’t even get the RAM for $400 anymore.

But mining all the tracking data in order to show profitable targeted ads is extremely intensive. That’s what kicked off the era of “big data” 15-20 years ago.

The redneck version that I heard as a kid was way worse than that. Things I won’t repeat…

Don’t blame the user - blame Matrix for designing the system like this.

> They have to be stored somewhere. You want private keys on the public server?

Yes. Encrypted. The feature is called “dehydrated devices” and the Matrix team has been working on it for quite a while now.

Well but then they spent 100 years telling us that the toddler stuff was the good stuff. Just as long as it was created by a “real artist”.

Usually in this context it means “the max effort that you can sustain for 2 minutes”.

Same thing goes for a 20-minute max effort or even an hour etc.

The contradictions are difficult but wisdom has always been like that. See for example the book of Proverbs, it’s full of contradictory advice.

“Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.”

Versus

“Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.”

The skill is to understand the truth of both statements, and to discern when to apply each one.

A big part of modern discourse is people tactically pretending to not know stuff

So you’re telling me that, in the past 10 years, this was the only speech on network TV that the Trump crowd didn’t like?

Kimmel got caught spreading blatant falsehood about who the shooter was. That has always been against the rules for public airwaves.

How are the grades of a student in a prestigious position at Oxford not relevant to the academic reputation of Oxford?

And it’s being reported that the new president of the Oxford Union only had A B B.

Safety is the much bigger challenge for public transit in the US right now. Since the pandemic, most cities have really eased off of any enforcement of rules or laws in public spaces.

Driving in rush hour traffic sucks, but it beats getting randomly stabbed in the neck by some psycho who didn’t even pay his fare.

It’s the end of the postwar consensus and the return of the “strong gods”.

Before: hands-off economic liberalism.

Now: doing what seems best for ones own nation state.

See “Return of the Strong Gods” by RR Reno for an interesting explanation of lots of puzzling behavior from major political parties.

Good news. We’ve waited so long that AES is pretty damn lightweight now too.

This illustrates the dangers of training on Reddit.

Americans can do software development as well

Are you trying to imply something racist? Just come out and say it.

I think Apple has historically used the college student market to clear out their remaining stock of last year’s MacBooks. Otherwise why release the new models just after classes have started?

The costs also used to be a lot lower - at least for most people who just pay the premium and don’t need much care. Now it’s not uncommon for a family’s health insurance to cost more than their housing.

The people who are mad are those who are paying more and not experiencing the benefits.

Sure it was great to see Wout win again - in Paris no less! And it does kind of validate the TVL strategy of “wear Pogi out with 3 super hard weeks of racing.”

Unfortunately for them it just wasn’t enough to make the difference in the GC.

But like Jorgenson said this year, there’s no tactics that can beat Pogi going up a steep hill at 7w/kg. At some point it all comes down to power to weight.

Funny how nobody in this thread has mentioned which party is running the UK right now…

It kinda looks like SwiftUI

No but people do pay universities for (among other things) a meaningful credential that testifies to their knowledge and abilities.

If taking away phones is what’s required to make that credential meaningful again, then the universities must do it.

I think of it like a personal trainer. Do you pay them to make you sweaty and sore? Not really, but sweat and soreness are consequences of doing what it takes to build muscle/endurance/etc.

There are no proofs of the hardness of DDH or RSA etc. That’s why they’re called assumptions.

OTOH if you want to win a Turing Award…

Having tried (and failed) to build a more privacy friendly social network, I can confidently tell you that the big players in this space do the shady things they do solely because users reward them for doing so.

Trying to grow a new product is super hard. Trying to move into an established market is even harder. Trying to do that while also foregoing all the dark patterns is … well I won’t say it’s impossible but ugh it would take a huge head start in terms of name recognition, funding, or something else truly extraordinary.

Problem is that the USD factories don’t provide enough jobs for the US population

The pinkie and ring finger share a tendon - this is why they are weaker than the other fingers.

Or, at least that’s how it was explained to me as a kid learning to play the double bass. The standard technique is to use those two fingers together to press the string on the upper part of the fingerboard where the most strength is required.