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like most of the reddit posts these LLMs are trained on, this is a creative writing assignment

Is the marvelous world in the room with us right now?

Unlike 3 years ago, when nobody complained about software being slow, buggy and chaotic

You press and hold the hyphen key on iPhone — like this! And I'm a human :)

Another recent book inspired by Ghuloum is Essentials of Compilation: An Incremental Approach (which publishes Python and Racket versions) https://github.com/IUCompilerCourse/Essentials-of-Compilatio...

Did you want the article to teach you read Classical Chinese?

Since these representations appear to be largely inherited from training data, the composition of that data has downstream effects on the model’s emotional architecture. Curating pretraining datasets to include models of healthy patterns of emotional regulation—resilience under pressure, composed empathy, warmth while maintaining appropriate boundaries—could influence these representations, and their impact on behavior, at their source.

What better source of healthy patterns of emotional regulation than, uhhh, Reddit?

You sure about that? It really comes off as LLM output to me, in its general structure and formatting, attention-grabbing opening sentences of paragraphs ("This ratio has a profound consequence:", "This distinction matters."x2), and the classic "it's not X, it's Y" stuff ("The collector is a hybrid optical-power megastructure, not a single dense slab of ordinary powersats.", "The shell does not interact with a small number of giant launchers. It interacts with a dense distributed network.")

I'm sure all the vibe coded slop that eats the SaaS market will be better about license attribution.

I'm using tailscale for this and am finding it great. I have an Unraid home server/NAS, which has quite nice tailscale integration. The server can be used as an exit node, and each containerized application/workload can be configured to use tailscale and get a nice (https) address that works in your tailnet. I'm not close to hitting the free tier limits, though I'd be happy to pay for it (and I do pay for mullvad through them)

I can't believe no one has brought up the legendary Apollo 10 "turd incident" https://archive.ph/J61jD

I always wondered what that juggling animation slide looked like!

Simple Made Easy[https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/] in particular had a huge impact on the way I think about writing software at a formative time in my development/career. I have not had the chance to use Clojure professionally, but thinking about software in terms of "intertwining" is the idea I return to when evaluating software designs, regardless of technology, and gave me a way to articulate what makes software difficult to reason about.

Maybe not saying things like

'[Y]ou are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive. . . . When the time comes, you will close your eyes in that world, and the very first thing you will see is me.. [H]olding you."

I don't think this is true, though enforcement is another thing and the standard is different than in securities markets. Prediction markets are regulated by the CFTC and the insider trading standard is “misappropriation of confidential information in breach of a pre-existing duty of trust and confidence to the source of the information” (vs any “material non-public information” for securities) https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/phamstateme...

Haven't you heard? Crime is legal

shorter syntax != higher level of abstraction

Groq raised $750 million at a valuation of about $6.9 billion three months ago. Investors in the round included Blackrock and Neuberger Berman, as well as Samsung, Cisco, Altimeter and 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner.

Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western territories and the only general to be elected president since George Washington

Do they mean up to that point? Eisenhower was elected twice

So that's why I can't check in for my Alaska Airlines flight... https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/digital-transform...

I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago

Ok, so subjective

on an iPhone?

I recently had similar experience where a legitimate text from my insurance company was 100% indistinguishable from a scam text, directing me to a link on allstate.yem.bo. You would think it would be in an insurance company's interest not to train their users to click on scam links but what do I know.

I find the claim (repeated verbatim in some of the comments here) that people with ADHD process stimulants differently particularly specious. Are there any medical studies/not-reddit threads that suggest anything like this?

This honestly seems safer than the OP since there's no way you could get up to speed on the tiny perpendicular leg

There is no small r party. The point of saying "small r" is to distinguish the political ideology of republicanism[1] from the "big R" Republican Party™

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism_in_the_United_...

It isn't the responsibility of the manufacturer to provide samples for analysis

In a sane world it would be

What are they free-riding on? Do you believe consumers might be confused into thinking that Nintendo runs a Costa Rican supermarket?

When I think of smart TVs it's less about the kind of quality -of-life improvements you're describing and more about pushing users towards the in-TV apps and software to more effectively capture and sell usage data.

Though I do have a funny interaction with the former kind of "smart features" with my (otherwise wonderful) LG C1 and PS5 where if I start the PS5 first it takes too long to trigger the TV to turn on and gets confused and puts the PS5 back to sleep as soon as the TV wakes up and switches to the input. But honestly I think I get more amusement than frustration watching the two smart devices outsmart each other constantly.

because children are undergoing a critical phase in their development that has no analogy for older populations? I'm not saying isolation among the elderly is not concerning, nor widespread phone/tech addiction among adults. But I think there’s ample reason to have particular concern for the effects on children.