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There is a grotesquely pulsing layer of overconfident dumbasses in business (and society in general) and this is the language they speak. My job at any company, as far as I can see it, is to make sure my local orbit is cleared of these wackos. They are parasitic extractors of value and soul.

moral panic

The ones who walk away from omelettes.

"a single poorly preserved bone and radiocarbon dating"

You realize you are giving people the indication that you are knowledgeable on the subject, have read the article, or the underlying research - by framing your statement this way?

"much narrative archaeologists construct"

This comment has it's own narrative, to be skeptical of archaeologists. Be skeptical of the skeptics too.

Anyway you can read about the additional archaeological contexts which are used for evidence of the claim here (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23524...).

This is also a pharmacological arms race. Some research is showing that statins reduce serum GLP-1 levels (https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(23)...).

This just isn't right.

'Calculating' an integral, is usually done by applying a series of sort of abstract mathematical tricks. There is usually no deeper meaning applied to the solving. If you have profound intuition you can guess the solution to an integral, by 'inspection'.

What part here is the knowing or understanding? Does solving an integral symbolically provide more knowledge than numerically or otherwise?

Understanding the underlying functions themselves and the areas they sweep; has substitution or by-parts, actually provided you with this?

It's safe to say that if we are sticking a 6-ton 20ft mirror into space that the scientists probably have a reason for it...

I had someone like you in my early life as a soft-eng and they made a huge impact on me personally and professionally. You will be remembered beautifully.

What does the practical implementation of this look like? One 'oatmeal-day' a week ? Two?

This is a fancy way of saying that if you invent the calculator, people get worse at sums. I'm not an AI doomer or a boomer - but it's clear to me that some skills will be permanently relegated to AI.

Early cursor was just integrated chat and code completion. No agents.

Claude Code was released a month after this post - and cursor did not yet have an agent concept, mostly just integrated chat and code completion. I know because I was using it.

Karpathy coined the term vibecoding 11 months ago (https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383). It caused quite a stir - because not only was it was a radically new concept, but fully agentic coding had only become recently possible. You've been vibe coding for two years??

It is honestly incredible that such an important part of the Windows dev process is nearly unusable. It is easily the most fickle and opaque bit of software that I am required to depend upon.

This type of reflexive snark is just shite; I'm so bored of it. Things can be both earnest and compelled - right? I agree with you, and still hold my opinion.

In other words: the penny finally dropped for lawyers. The next decade will be every knowledge field actively conspiring against AI.

This isn't a one way door. It's a warranted societal experiment. Re-eval in 5 years, ask the kids, compare to other countries... this sort of do-nothing hand wringing is why we stagnate.

pretty hard to underreport homicide

When I refresh this post your thread is either at the very top or bottom, it is odd.

There are likely very very many - to the point that I'm pretty sure >50% of posts I read are sock puppets or agents.

Edit: At this time this is my most heavily downvoted post. I'll leave it up because I think that itself is interesting.

I do think this could only be temporary victory over the food industry by the pharmacology industry. It's only a matter of time until food additives or varieties are discovered that partially ameliorate the effects of ozempic.

All well-documented knowledge fields will be gone if software goes. Then the undocumented ones will become documented, and they too will go. The best advice to junior devs is get a hands on job before robotic articulating sausages are perfected and humans become irrelevant blobs of watery meat.

Well even the post itself reads to me as AI generated

The model (and you) have inferred completely without context that index_value is meant to somehow map to the dataframe index. What if this is raw .csv data from another system. I work with .csv files from financial indices - index_value (or sometimes index_level) confers completely different meaning in this case.

301 to a competitor site.

My solution to this problem was to have my phone permanently on silent. The logic being - there was nothing so urgent 25 years ago that couldn't be solved by an asynchronous answering machine message checked once a day; why do I need moment to moment updates now.

Nowadays I'd probably use a tool like yours. My partner is going through legitimate withdrawal symptoms after two years of short-form content addiction. Turning off all notifications was one of the first things I did for them.

you basically do, especially older people and women. it helps significantly with bone density, balance, and other markers for long-term health. the idea that weight lifting is just for men (or that bulking up is something you can do by accident) is an idea that should (and is) dying quickly.

How likely are we to look back on Agent/MCP/Skills as some early Netscape peculiarity? I would dive into adoption if I didn't think some new thing would beat the paradigm in a fortnight.

it's even worse than that! non-devs are doing it as well