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They’re going to be shipping around much less than a gram. We haven’t generated close to a gram in total across all particle accelerators on earth so far.

Producing a gram would cost ~$2.7 quadrillion - https://ket.org/program/physics-girl/why-this-stuff-costs-27...

> The "golden" end state of coding agents is that you give it a Feature Request (EG Jira ticket), and it gives you a PR to review and give feedback on. Cursor, windsurf, etc, are dead ends in that sense as they are local editors, and can not be in CI.

Isn’t that effectively the promise of the most recently released OpenAI codex?

From the reviews I’ve been able to find so far though, quality of output is ehh.

Are we maybe moving the goalposts here? How much of human creativity is brute force?

Tried my best to fit the title within the length limit while keeping the meaning intact.

I really feel like the title length limit could use another look. It seems like more than half of the time I'm submitting something I have to mangle the title to get it to fit.

Blaming the loons might in fact get people to understand that the loons are the problem and should be kept out of power.

This would help us avoid things like swathes of progressives getting sold on this message that dems are the real problem and subsequently not voting, voting third party, or deciding to support the loons, causing the loons to win.

How much of the fault for the actions of republicans and trump rests on republicans and trump?

This is such a weird take. If Dems win ostensibly the negative consequences of their actions are the Republicans’ fault, and then if Republicans win their actions must be owned by the Dems?

Why the weird causal swap?

The actions of this administration are primarily the responsibility of… this administration and those who supported it.

This pencil was proudly advertised as being comprised of the remains of all that was decent in humanity. The fact that it wrote in blood was gleefully touted and cheered.

I’m a pretty slow reader. I tend to reread sections, pause and play around with the ideas that come into my head, get lost while doing that and have to start over… I still prefer reading specifically because it allows me to do all that at my own pace. I don’t have to feel rushed along by a presenter or actively pause, rewind, try to scrub the timeline to find a point I want to rehash etc.

To be clear, I am in no way a conspiracy theorist, at all. Seriously, not just a bs disclaimer. That said, all of the recent photos of the moon that have come out in the last month or so look, to my eye, super CGI. Just uh, overly smooth and lacking in detail?

Is there a reason for this or am I just tripping?

I completely agree with you, yet this morning I was looking at pictures of Lingchi execution, and now I'm picturing the victim thinking to themselves "you know, my problems really aren't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things."

For those also morbidly curious (consider yourself warned) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi

That presentation was super underwhelming. We got to watch them compare… the vibes? … of 4.5 vs o1.

No wonder Sam wasn’t part of the presentation.

It’s really been advertised heavily lately but I just discovered it a couple weeks ago, and in case you’re unaware the real aha moment with Cursor for me was Composer in Agent mode with Sonnet 3.5.

If you want the highest chance of success, use a reasoning model (o3-mini high, o1 pro, r1, grok 3 thinking mode) to create a detailed outline of how to implement the feature you want, then copy paste that into composer.

It one shots a lot of greenfield stuff.

If you get stuck in a loop on an issue, this prompt I got from twitter tends to work quite well to get you unstuck: "Reflect on 5-7 different possible sources of the problem, distill those down to 1-2 most likely sources, and then add logs to validate your assumptions before we move onto implementing the actual code fix."

Just doing the above gets me through 95% of stuff I try, and then occasionally hopping back out to a reasoning model with the current state of the code, errors, and logs gets me through the last 5%.

How do you account for the impact of culture/lived experience of the specific population viewing the painting? Intuitively it seems like that would be the biggest factor, rather than the objective attributes of the painting, no?

It’s a tool with limited functionality. I think over time you vaguely learn the shape of its limits and work with what it can do, and it becomes genuinely useful.

Doing basic stuff with a very limited scope that’s likely well documented all over the internet, great.

Boilerplate, tedious yet simple things, works awesome as enhanced autocomplete.

More complex stuff, give it a shot, maybe you’ll get lucky, otherwise if it starts fucking up I’ve had the most success just taking a step back and doing it myself, maybe chatting with it as a live docs substitute, or a realtime stack overflow/discord programming channel which are also sometimes of dubious quality but frequently useful.

The misery really lies in getting stuck in that cycle of it just messing up over and over as you try to get it to make this thing work that is clearly beyond its scope and it’s just turning everything into a greater and greater mess of hallucinated bullshit.

Eh, as someone who’s been vegan for a couple decades, ascetic for a solid chunk of that time, and active in various other ways to greater or lesser degrees, people will still shut down mentally when they don’t have the hypocrisy lever to pull.

People in the reactionary/denialist/antagonistic camp will just end with “okay yeah you’re right but I’m not changing/I don’t actually care/I accept that I do evil and shrug”.

People looking to inspire positive change being required to be perfect saints lest they and their movements be condemned seems like a hint that human psychology is not tuned to rise to this occasion.

That expectation of perfection is unrealistic. Humans are messy and bound to be hypocritical in countless ways.

The CEO of Phillip Morris may volunteer at the local children’s hospital and feed the homeless on weekends.

Yet his hypocrisy in doing good in his personal life while doing so much harm in his professional life doesn’t seem to interfere with his ability to do harm, in fact it likely helps.

The executive director of the nonprofit children’s hospital going out on weekends and beating stray dogs to death with a pipe, well his hypocrisy may very well end his ability to do good in his personal life.

It seems like we’re just destined to let people who do bad things without any pretense of doing good off the hook, while crucifying anyone who dares try to do a moral good who isn’t somehow perfectly aligned in their lifestyle, ideology, and entire life history. Despite the fact that the former may represent a large net negative to our world and the latter may represent a net positive.

TLDR: Even if the climate activists weren’t hypocrites, your friends would likely be no closer to embracing the terrible reality of climate change and the necessity of painful sacrifice to address it.

Bonkers that the climate change fueled by fossil fuels is leading to children starving to death due to changing weather patterns, more extreme droughts, and my god how many children and adults will live and die in agony as it really kicks in and global mass migrations for survival truly develop, I could never.

This was written as someone that drives a gas powered car. Your comment reads like a meme being seeded on the internet by oil companies to muddy support for a transition away from fossil fuels.

It’s okay to just accept that your position was indefensible, you don’t have to pretend to believe in utterly asinine positions just to attempt to save face.

“I would totally be correct if we redefined what it means to be correct.” <- This is the honest end state of this type of behavior.

This seems like word salad, are you sure you’re continuing to argue all this in good faith?

You’re now saying that medical procedures can change your skin pigmentation, so race is no longer immutable? You genuinely hold this position?

Is everything mutable then? Since with the right surgical and drug interventions you can theoretically change anything about a person’s mind or body, which trivially includes their height.

Wow, truly this is deep.

If there are short/tall people who are being targeted for harassment/oppression then yes they too are in the right to wish that heightists/heightism didn’t exist and their harassers are in the wrong.

What are we even talking about here?

Being a right wing trump supporter is an immutable characteristic like being black or gay?

Substitute homosexuality, being transgender, or whatever you'd like.

People defending themselves from bigotry, and bigots themselves, are not equivalent. Black people not wanting racists to exist, and racists not wanting black people to exist, do you see a distinction?

There has been such a consistent attempt at ramming square pegs into round holes online in trying to “both sides” a bunch of these issues.

One trait is immutable and the other is not.

One trait is entirely internally focused and is not defined by a rejection of anyone external to the subject, the other's trait is entirely defined by such an external focus on the rejection of another person's immutable identity.

Yeah I didn’t pick up on the phrase “first actual case” in the handful of references to the anecdote I’d seen over the years.

> This wasn’t the first case of attributing unexpected mechanical defects to invisible pests. The popular term “bug” to describe technical glitches was used as early as 1876.

I always thought the term "bug" came from people finding a literal bug stuck in the machinery of an early computer [1], TIL that Edison was using the term in the 1800s.

[1] - https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-fir...

I think there are a small minority of people who consistently want to guess at the identity of Asahi Lina and make comments about her gender.

I wonder at the long term vision for humanity. We have AI replacing a lot of art, writing, coding, etc. We have a bunch of robotics companies racing to replace physical human labor. Waymo and Tesla replacing drivers.

What role do the majority of people realistically play in this world?

Interesting that GPU core counts and max memory remained static from M3 Max at 40 and 128 respectively, cost saving measure to account for the bump from 8 -> 16gb at the low end of the line?

This entire comment is amazing, but I particularly like how evolution is unproven but the Christian bible and existence of Christianity’s version of God are proven.

I wonder if we went out into the world which we would find more evidence in favor of?

The mind is a frustrating thing.

I was acutely ill on vacation in the UK and went to the hospital, got seen within an hour, no bill.

I’ve waited far longer in US hospitals and paid hundreds of dollars AFTER insurance.

I want people to think that I fly my biplane while wearing a furry leather bomber jacket on the weekends.