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Isn’t that part of the llano estacado? The Comanche lived there just fine.

Being incarcerated and having very little control over every aspect of your life IS punishment. The violence, sexual violence and extreme conditions are not necessary.

Still too high of a rating.

Have any data that the savings are passed on to the consumer? I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't see any modern, late-stage capitalism companies doing anything that actually benefits the consumer.

I know exactly one person who has a 3D printer. I would argue strongly that “most households” do not in fact have a 3D printer.

RoW = Rest of World?

If so, those constituencies are immune to facts and common sense.

Also the GOP. They stopped being "conservative" a long time ago and became performative terrorists.

Re: ChatGTP - Mars says the answers were “almost always wrong.”

I know it's sports ball, but it's still humorous.

I've never encountered that term before (cohesive erosion) but I like it, if I'm interpreting it correctly.

Do you mean like the hyper focus an LLM puts on the task in front of it so you end up with drift (duplicated concepts/multiple ways of doing things, terminology drift (e.g., now we have "customer" and "client"). That sort of thing?

More expensive and worse in most ways. Just like most things in the current stage of oligopolies.

I’ve gotten a few of those “lite” version license cards over the years but had already invested in logic.

I was on a public highway.

The constitution was written centuries ago and its authors expected the founding documents to be routinely updated.

Surreal in that I’ve only dealt with that sort of thing (army checkpoints) in places that have active armed military conflicts.

I despise this sort of tax on our time as consumers. It’s getting to the point that someone should run on the “if you wanna do business in the US and you’re not going to employee citizens as customer service reps you pay a 1% dividend on your revenue to all US residing citizens annually” platform - and then we use this to help fund single payer healthcare :)

Isn't there a difference between getting picked up on someones Tik Tok "broadcast" and a private/public surveillance operation?

Probably selling data to CBP/DEA. I went through a combined military and police checkpoint a bit north of Rio Hondo last August and it was surreal.

I'm sort of the opposite - when I can name something, then play it, then I can hear it. E.g., going from minor third to major third to root. I can't "unhear" that in blues-based music now. But before it had a "name" it was just an interesting sounding "thing" that didn't pop out to me in any specific way.

There definitely is a prosperity gospel in America that is increasingly influencing our politics.

I used Audacity decades ago (2006-2010) but when I stopped buying PCs I always found there was noise on a Mac so I switched to logic.

I always thought audacity was great, and still prefer its workflow to slow tools or logic. I haven’t ever tried Reaper however.

Taxes are disproportionately applied. We have more than enough taxes on working people and not enough on the wealthiest classes.

A significant portion of modern professional jobs can be done remotely and this has been true for decades.

When using LLM's to help write things like tutorials, how do you reduce the verbosity firehose?

Even though I use MD/skills and other methods, I have remind models that they are not paid by the word multiple times a day.

Thanks. And yea, my PR was in 2004. Citizen now but living in the US again.

Mine is a different issue - I've produced hundreds of specifications over the years and it's obvious that implementation teams don't read them at all before they are "approved" because I never get questions or comments until it's time to build.

Now, granted, I'm an experienced software developer in my own right, and I know that sometimes you aren't giving something full attention until you need to, but my experience is that it's different than that.

You are correct that in identifying the issue - but that's a separate one from what I intended. I cannot stand sycophantic LLMs and use methods to get rid of any anthropomorphizing they do. But I feel like I'm somewhat outside as a person whose life is far more analog than most.

I just hung some laundry outside. I'll be (manually) splitting some firewood later today. HN is my ONLY social media.

The only point I would disagree is that I do find LLM's to be useful.

I am only "forced" to use them as a matter of staying economically competitive against my competition, but I do find it like having a second opinion or a way to force myself to express my thoughts.

And, finally, it's good that someone (something) actually reads the specifications that I work really hard to produce ;)

I feel like I am repeating myself a lot lately, but I think that the "middle class" of software/tech companies is being eroded as fast as the middle classes of North American societies. The oligarchs just buy everything since they can no longer innovate.

The thing about consulting is that someone needs to verify the output, know what questions to ask in the first place, and provide a throat for the client to choke in the event of an issue. Also, professional insurance. I could be wrong but in the worlds I live in professionally, accountability is still a thing.

I did it 20+ years ago and I had to “land”. They’ve relaxed a lot of immigration rules since then so it might have changed.

But does America have a trade imbalance with Canada?

Canada has things that our economy needs desperately (e.g. potash).