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> He says he has earned more than £100,000 since creating his OnlyFans account in January.

God damn

It's a very common attitude that makes me suspect people have been abused by devs after hours at every job they've had. There's this farcical assumption that an LLM capable of crafting complex distributed systems is still unaccountably incapable of understanding the complexities of designing a product or business model.

IMO that's unlikely. For all his faults he doesn't seem particularly egotistical. He was more likely manipulated by Cheney and the MIC and probably as shell-shocked after 9/11 as the rest of us. Dumb war; dumber pretence; not a dick-measuring contest with his dad.

Why epocolpyse? Wouldn’t such an organism be doing us a big favour?

In the context of an article about an innovation fund for tech startups, that’s obviously what I mean by “tech”.

The context of the article is an innovation fund for tech startups. The comment was a dumb remark about how the US will fail in this domain. Airbus is not relevant to the discussion because Airbus is not a tech startup.

So, Spotify and raises eyebrows … SAP. Innovative.

Compared to whom?? The EU??? Lmk when they’re building anything competitive.

you can leverage MCPs without building any app at all.

I have a question someone can hopefully help me answer. I've heard this narrative for many years now - private equity buys a company and drives it to shit. Recently it was PE firms buying all the vets in an area. If that's indeed the case, wouldn't it make sense to hold out because eventually you'll get all the customers? Like, if there are 10 vet offices in the county, and PE firms buy 8 of them, over time won't everyone end up flocking to the 2 that held out?

Google APIs have always been difficult for me to use. I find their documentation super fragmented, and they always build the same thing twice with awkward overlaps. In this case, it's Vertex and GenAI - two different SDKs with isomorphic data structures that are seemingly incompatible, but only sometimes. I don't understand how these things happen - but as usual I blame PMs trying to mark their territory and pissing all over everything.

The new gemini models themselves though, are killer. The confusion is a small price to pay.

> - Combining friend hangouts. If you want 15 friends but only have time to hang with people every couple days, you don't have time to meet with people one-on-one. Organize group events like dinner parties or pot lucks. Also don't restrict these events to be just "work friends" or "pickle ball friends". Cross-pollinate groups.

World's are colliding Jerry! These situations always make me sweat.

LLMS DO NOT HAVE GOALS.

Welcome to the slave house is far more egregious than welcome to the plantation. Not sure why they chose the latter for the headline of the article.

Your bravery is inspiring.

Those actions are usually celebrated as anti colonialist. I guess we’ll do the same now, right guys? Right?

Thanks for sharing your valuable insight.

There are test kits for at-home usecases like paint and stuff - I think they're pretty reliable. For exposure, you can get blood tests at your GP. They might be absurdly expensive if you're in America, but maybe next time you travel to Europe you can pay privately and get a better deal.

The article doesn't have any evidence of any nefarious activities, and if you've been keeping up at all with Boeing getting people stuck in space and SpaceX bailing them out, it's pretty obvious who's building the superior product. But the article wants to plant the idea in your mind anyway, because orange man bad.

The Supreme Court said it’s illegal so presumably they’ve knocked that off now.

Interesting context, thanks for sharing. It sounds like college admissions are broken in the same way SWE interviews are broken.

One of the EU's primary revenue streams is periodically (annually?) being "tough" on Big Tech. If you can't build - regulate, or something like that.

Most people value truth and I don't think revealing affairs is a valid criticism of this product.

> they are less violent than the American population at large.

I made no assertion about the criminality of the immigrants, but rather the cartels bringing them here.

Regarding "trans rights", which is quite a large umbrella of ideas, negatively impacted parties include:

1. Parents who don't want schools influencing their children's ideas about sexual identity.

2. Women who don't want to compete against biological men in athletics (this is the most bewildering failure of the left's tolerance).

3. Women who feel uncomfortable sharing previously women-only spaces with biological men.

4. Trans people who made life-altering decisions as a minor and now regret it.

These negatively impacted parties are vocal now - they aren't hard to see. You don't care about them, is all.

> If it is a policy that doesn't impact me personally, but benefits someone else, yeah I tend to not give a shit.

You're excluding a key point - the policy often benefits one party at the cost of another. You mentioned immigration and that's a great example of this sort of pathological empathy that has infected the left.

There's a cheap and fleeting sense of virtue attained when you champion illegal immigration and decry deportations. You post photos of mothers and their children crying at the border because the human trafficking organisations are having a hard time getting them across nowadays. But it's important to remember the negative pressure illegal immigrants place on wages and why there's a gross cabal of large corporations, lobbies, and affiliated NGOs, who virtue signal immigration as a means to lower their labor costs. It's important to remember the entire pipeline of illegal immigrants is owned and operated by extremely violent cartels - humans are now their most valuable product. Your desperate craving for that high of in-group acceptance is propping this up.

It's not that you're empathetic - you just don't care about the negatively impacted party. Nothing new under the sun.

If you have a desktop - maybe sell that and replace it with a laptop. Thinkpads continue to be absolutely workhorses and an older model should be relatively cheap these days. Best of luck.

Are you implying that people should only vote on things which they encounter in their day-to-day lived experience? That's silly and not how the world works. Why are you mad about Gaza? You aren't getting JDAMs dropped on your roof, are you? How does Gaza impact you on a daily basis?

Harris failed to distance herself from positions that are deeply unpopular with the majority of Americans (e.g. sex changes for illegal immigrants). That's all there is to it.

If you want to step away from this particular issue, she failed to distance herself from the Biden administration's policies. There's a pretty famous clip of her failing to answer a question to that point, definitely on the youtubes.

This problem of non-technical product folks over-promising features is going to get much worse in the age of LLMs. The models are incredibly adept at providing a proof-of-concept. But it's often a monumental endeavour to cross the gap between 70% and 90% accurcacy; 90%-95% even more. This long-tail pain isn't new, but the ability for non-technical folks to poke a model on a chat site and then assume their idea is ready to be deployed to production is a more recent phenomenon.

I’m SWE on a product and generally agree with this, at least for user-facing prompts. Once you’re walking an LLM thru OOXML it’s better done directly by ENG.

For tools, not clear how this works since as you adjust parameters and whatnot you’re also presumably changing the code downstream when you “execute the call”.

But probably both sides of this will be done by LLMs directly in the future. I rarely write or tune prompts by hand now.

> As an on-call engineer, this is the point when you start questioning your life choices. You know that the issue is affecting thousands of users, but the offending phrase doesn’t appear anywhere in EQL’s codebase, aside from some very old launches several years ago.

Dark days indeed.

> Joelle Emerson, chief executive of the consulting company Paradigm, told The New York Times that Google was advancing a "flawed and incomplete sense of equality." Google should instead address "equity," she said, examining structural issues faced by women engineers.

And from the linked 2019 article:

> Google seems to be advancing a “flawed and incomplete sense of equality” by making sure men and women receive similar salaries for similar work, said Joelle Emerson, chief executive of Paradigm, a consulting company that advises companies on strategies for increasing diversity.

Unreal XD. I genuinely do not understand how you can find yourself siding with these termites.