dgfitz

> For better or for worse, AI enables more, faster software development.

So, AI is to software what muscle cars were to air emissions quality?

A whole lot of useless, unabated toxic garbage?

I currently am this person.

What exactly would one do with a 2 million dollar loan? Please don’t say real estate.

Somehow you’re wrong somewhere between two and 3 times in one sentence.

> It is a constitutional monarchy with an elected, time-limited king.

> Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.[1][2][3] Constitutional monarchies differ from absolute monarchies (in which a monarch is the only decision-maker) in that they are bound to exercise powers and authorities within limits prescribed by an established legal framework. A constitutional monarch in a parliamentary democracy is a hereditary symbolic head of state (who may be an emperor, king or queen, prince or grand duke) who mainly performs representative and civic roles but does not exercise executive or policy-making power.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy

Title as of 1339 EST on TFA: US Supreme Court backs Trump on aggressive immigration raids

Title here: U.S. Supreme Court Allows Racial Targeting ICE Raids to Continue in LA

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if interest rates went up 10% tomorrow, housing prices would have to come down if people wanted to actually sell their homes.

> It was the automakers’ failure to compete with highly capable foreign competition.

I contend it was when Dodge won the court case deciding that shareholders were more important than employees. It’s been a slow burn ever since.

Unbelievable.

If nothing else, if this was truly “open” then whatever bullshit training or certification would just be released into the public for people to reference at-will.

So now there’s going to be some database of “you passed our certification to use our tool” essentially creating an in-group and an out-group.

All this because “you’re holding it wrong, clearly the problem isn’t us, it’s you people”

This is dystopian.

If we’re being pedantic, it’s actually somewhere between 4 years and 2 days, to 5 years and 364 days, 2024 was a leap year.

I sure don’t feel like I added anything to the discussion. Do you?

Sure, I agree with all that, well-said. “Dickhead, asshole, douchebag, fuckstain” are terms of endearment in some of my social circles. Context matters.

Tone and body language are like 80%+ of in-person, verbal communication.

We need to be very careful to, as I mentioned, not “abuse” the term abuse to the point where it becomes meaningless. If everything is abuse, nothing is abuse, and we need to invent a new term.

In a strange plot twist, calling trivial things “abuse” is what actually trivializes abuse.

I’m tired of things like this:

> Eventually, as models and their users improve

You’re pushing opinion and assumption as fact. Stop doing that.

Pretty confident it’s from South Park: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobacks

If I’m wrong I’ll accept that. If I’m right nope we learned a valuable lesson about making the worst assumptions about strangers in the internet.

The second paragraph of your first link: “ However, she has not provided many details on her plans”

Edit: did you read these links?

“ The American people lacked any concrete policy positions from the presumptive, and then official, Democratic presidential candidate for seven weeks following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race.

Despite the absence of clarity on key issues, Vice President Kamala Harris quickly rose in the polls compared to Biden”

Prompt engineering isn’t hard to master, weeks to months tops. That is the point. LLMs are at the top of the s-curve.

Assuming prompt engineering is hard, assuming that LLMs are going to continue to make any kind of substantial leap without _any_ evidence other than blind faith, is as close to believing in a religion as it gets. Having blind “faith” in this house or cards, saying things like “when things continue to advance” without any evidence that there will be any advancement, is absolutely insane.

I’m having a hard time believing you needed me to spell that out.

If you think I’m implying that, English must not be your first language or you’re being intentionally obtuse. Neither would surprise me.

Google fu, before Google fucked everything up, was not hard to learn, and then plateaued. It’s not like it was hard to do, and it’s not like once you figured it out there was this boundless growth potential to keep learning. You learned algebra one. Congrats, that’s all there was to it.

Tech literacy I’m not even going to address, because again either you don’t understand what that means or you’re being intentionally obtuse.

> Eventually, as models and their users both improve

I like how this is presented as a given thing that will happen, that models are going to just improve forever. That there isn’t some plateau on “user skill with LLMs” like it’s fucking calculus mixed with rocket science that only the elite users will ever attain full fluency in using.

This is starting to read like religious cult propaganda, which is probably scarier than whatever else ends up happing with this shit.

She did? What was her platform? I never did figure it out.

So, because it’s hard to lose weight, solutions that work (which are hard) get shunned and argued against?

This feels like a “the truth hurts” kind of thing. Or a “personal responsibility isn’t my problem!” thing.

Maybe that’s the whole point though, anything that requires personal responsibility and accountability is rebuked.

They were elected in part because of the coffers of the national Democratic Party, along with the rhetoric of the national Democratic Party. The same Democratic Party that shapes policies.

Maybe if Harris had made a few she would have won…

I can’t name any polices per se, but it is very well documented how corrupt the city governments of Baltimore and Chicago are, and have been for decades and decades.

Hard to serve in the best interest of the people what that was never the goal to begin with.

For whatever reason, mentioning keto or calories in, calories out around here is extremely unpopular.

I have watched many people lose weight with one or both of these methods, naturally.

I’ll never understand the pushback.

Extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation, makes sense.

I’m more on the side of the author. I write to get my own ideas out of my head. I don’t even publish them, not yet anyways. But if I ever do, I also won’t use analytics. I fear it would somehow bias me into writing for bigger numbers, and I don’t want to do that.

Less investment? You must be trolling. I encourage you to look at the about of stupid money that has been “invested” into LLMs.

> But as the model advances, they will train less and less.

They sure have a lot of training to do between now and whenever that happens. Rolling back from 5 to whatever was before it is their own admission of this fact.

My gripe with json is the lack of support for comments. Whenever I come across a config file that has comments about what the config line(s) mean, I am so grateful.

Whenever I come across a json config file, I kind of despair a little and start poking at the code in hopes there are comments about what the config means.

I think I’ve read them 25-30 times, mostly when I was a kid, couldn’t help myself. :)

It’s worth mentioning that the economic numbers reported from China about China are not terribly trustworthy.

"The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin's Bane" - J.R.R. Tolkien spoken by Gandalf, 1954

Imagine, if instead a cop had handed the kid a gun, there would be riots in the street.

And I fucking hate cops.