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> working with an LLM is much more like working with another person than working with traditional software

Have to disagree with this line of thinking, and I think it's even more dangerous with intimation further down that using an LLM for coding is akin to being a manager of people.

You do not have to consider the feelings of an LLM. You can micromanage it as much as you like, and you can modify it's thought processes. Don't like this one? Switch to another model. Most importantly, you cannot /new on a person and get a fresh state.

Working with people means building trust, respecting their autonomy, and considering how your actions affect them. I worry a lot that the transactional nature we treat LLMs is leaking into how we treat other people. And yeah, there's an argument there about how that was already the case, company / society culture and so on, but I mean additive or multiplicative to that.

LLMs feel to me like an entirely new kind of interaction, and I'd rather it was discussed in ways that set it away from how we interact with people, making the differences clear.

> - they are amoral > - they have no innate sense of proportion > - they cannot assess their own confidence in-band

Are you talking about the LLMs or the people at OpenAI running the experiment? Or are they the same?

Which leaders? I don't believe any of the players thought they would gain empire in Europe. Everyone was trying to be defensive, combined with slow communication and poor politics. Now that historians have access to much of the internal documentation it doesn't seem like an inevitable war. If only the Habsburgs had been more decisive, or Wilhelm more politically astute, instead of making grand gestures then going on a boating holiday with his British naval mates.

It's not that they needed an excuse to say no, it's that they each thought backing down would be worse. And tbh I don't think any the current leaders are better. Nicholas II "I will not become responsible for a monstrous slaughter" vs Putin's war of choice.

It's the kind of thing that looks cool in demos, but is annoying when you have to put up with it everyday. I usually have all animations on my phones turned off. I turned them on yesterday to test something and I'm already getting tired of all the fade ins, blurs, window movements etc - it's quite tiring when you know you can have that screen immediately.

Didn't he start that campaign at a conference for WordPress developers funded by WP engine? I don't have any insight into what they did or didn't contribute, but it seems their obligation was zero and their level was quite a bit higher than that.

I don't disagree but it's not like I can turn back time. That said, it does seem that brain plasticity is better for older people than commonly thought, so never write off learning. It takes longer, but you might balance that by having more patience for it. It might be that I'd never have gotten this even if I started as young as my kids.

It's funny though how different people respond to learning music theory differently. I started on guitar when I was 19. I played for a long time at campfire level. When my kids started learning music I also learnt a lot, and now I know scale shapes and modes on guitar, so I can reasonably play to a song I'm hearing for the first time, then figure it out by ear. But I just cannot make the leap to knowing the notes at each position. I can read music, very slowly, to play on piano, but fluency has never clicked for me even though I've put the time in.

My 8 year old hardly ever practices but just looks at the music and knows the notes on piano and violin.

In any case, I agree that this isn't that helpful to being able to play, it's just an interesting way to understand why things are as they are.

> The household he was born into lived on roughly $3.04 a day per person in today's money

Go back not even that far and money comparisons like this make no sense. A family subsistence farming doesn't have the same kind of relationship we do with money. Also they couldn't really go down the shops. Existence was in the edge for everyone, even the wealthy.

The other problem I see is that it's seems to pick a random time before a random location. So this will favour the times when there were far fewer people. No way around this, you either end up picking mostly near modern times because that's when the bulk of the people lived, or people further back in time who are pretty disconnected from our modern society.

I was interested in this because it happened the last time I returned to NZ, but I hadn't seen it before. There are several approved methods and it depends on the airline. The method that doesn't involve spraying with you onboard is more expensive so tends to be used by budget airlines, and also airlines who might rotate their planes and crew around routes more often because it is a treatment that lasts for weeks.

A small typescript util rewritten into rust is going to look so similar that I don't think this will be a problem. As the parent commenter said, maybe not for a larger project. But rust semantics are really close to typescript for the most part, at least the bits you'd use for a simple tool.

Well my house isn't cold and draughty so at least 0.0001%

More likely a second hand book store in Newtown is an old and draughty building. Running a heater in there would be the same as running one outdoors.

Or she just gets cold. My daughter wears those kind of gloves all winter regardless of how warm we heat the house.

Reading her Wikipedia page, she's given huge amounts to all kinds of charities. Easy to get swept up in the whole pro/anti conversation, but even the one charity that specifically serves women only rape victims is doing good things. I just can't equate her with Musk.

Yes I expect they started digging those missile bunkers 2000 years ago knowing that one day someone, somewhere, would invent something they could launch at passing ships.

I read it as 1873 to 1877 for North America and most of Europe, but contining until 1879 in France and the UK.

Living space per person has tripled since the 1950s for Americans. House sizes have gone up and family sizes down.

I do notice that new houses seem to be built to maximize house size and leave little for the garden. I assume most people want that. Personally I've got a large garden, although it's a lot of work.

They haven't made any more moves in that direction since the store appeared. If anything, it's use seems to have declined since then. For awhile I would download a few apps from there, but when I did a fresh install this year I didn't even think about it and got nothing from there.

I didn't really understand your comment. More than 50% of Americans poll as supporting Ukraine, with something like an even split between too much, too little, and enough, meaning sentiment is generally weighted that the US should be involved or do more. Polling in Europe is more supportive.

But you used the word 'want'. I don't imagine anyone wants to be involved. Everyone who is wants the other side to stop fighting.

I made https://newsagents.app and I ended up using the extract API from kagi and falling back to cloudflares browser API for problem pages. That looks to be more cost efficient than firecrawl, but I could run this and get more extraction. Search APIs dominate the expense though.

Of his work the Reality Dysfunction was the one I liked the least. Character development in his last 2 series, Salvation and Exodus, seems improved.

> There's only one spot in London where you'll have to drive like much of the rest of the world

That makes it sound like Britain is the only place with left side traffic. 35% of the world population live in countries where they drive on the left side.

I can't really think of anyone I know who doesn't have a hobby. Of course, most people I've met are via a hobby.

They didn't take anything, they just sell it hosted. And surely they only got 50% of the market share by doing a better job of it? I also note they have some contributions, for example they seem to be the developers of faustjs.org so they can't be totally absent from contributing?

I'm not sure we know what people want though. After terrorist attacks politicians seem to decide what people want, tell people what they want, but rarely, if ever, offer a referendum on the subject. And on this alone they also get bipartisian support because nobody dares look weak on terrorism, so there's no possible vote against it.

isn't that the point of bubbles: nearly impossible to predict when they'll burst?

I've made my own bread for many years now. Every other day I make a loaf. Whenever I do buy one, even from a nice bakery, I'm disappointed and my kids hassle me to make it instead of buying.

It's not really relevant to the story though. Bread machines don't make great bread, although they can knead well so when I didn't have much money I'd buy a used bread machine as a mixer.

This breaks the analogy, but I think making your own is more convenient if you meet certain criteria: work from home and have learnt how to do it (ie past the learning phase). It doesn't take much time, but you need to be around. You can make the exact size and type your family prefers. You can make a pizza dough too just whenever you fancy a nice pizza.

Again it's almost certainly other people using their phones. One of your facebook contacts friended this person, maybe even before you shook their hand, facebook is going to recommend you friend them too. I don't friend anyone any more on facebook and the last time I did I lived in another country. It knows where I live now but it has never recommended anyone close by to friend. However, I do get friendship recommendations for folks in the country I moved away from, and I'm sure if I lived there still I'd have actually bumped into said people and thought "huh coincidence that facebook recommended them or are they spying on me?!?!"

It makes sense though for the price to fall (in relation to inflation) when the general public got into gaming though. The cost of development is unchanged whether you sell 10,000 or 1 million. Which is my argument against the microtransaction shit being driven by a price fall.

Didn't they hold a referendum on an alternative voting system and it failed? I'd moved away by that time, but I seem to remember they basically chose a bad and confusing system to make sure it didn't pass.

MMP seems to work very well where I currently reside and it wouldn't be too confusing to add it to the British system, basically adding a party vote alongside the local MP vote and then taking MPs from the party lists to make it proportional.

I saw a product, it had a 1 rating. I added a higher rating. The total rating went down... bug?

As always, the problem with this kind of site is that as soon as you gain any kind of traction the marketers and bots will come and ruin the rating reliability.