hermannj314

But DoorDash has a patent on giving you a deal if you combine your order with another restaurant, and giving you a higher price unless it determines that pisses you off and then backing off a little. Those contributions to humanity must be protected.

I do think certain tax incentives to create jobs, contractual obligations between employer and employee and legal restrictions on termination of employment can create a condition where someone is responsible for employing you.

Amtrak has a $500 10-segment, 30-day rail pass in the US.

I am doing a winding Seattle to Lancaster, PA trip visiting friends and family.

Currently heading to Yuma, AZ after spending yesterday in the Bay Area.

I see you, and I feel the same way. You have articulated the dread of the monotonous sisyphean slog of being middle-aged.

44, unemployed since July, on a cross country train trip trying to decide if it is worth going on. Stood on a bridge a bit too long the other day just wondering what the point is.

It is over for a lot of us in IT. It isn't going to get better, it is going to get worse very quickly. Rather than tell myself a convenient lie, I'd rather try to figure out why to keep living in a world like this.

Anyone going through the same thing, I hope you find something worth living for.

I wouldn't believe this until it happened to me. New bedding on prime day - came used and stained. This is fucking disgusting.

Amazon is like - we will send you a replacement but you have to print a label, box it back up and drive to a UPS store to return. Why are we working for them for free? You send me soiled bedding and the reply is to make us do work and then get the product we originally bought.

I tried quitting these people years ago, its hard to do.

Currently, I am doing firmware development for my clients, so I do not have a CI pipeline. I'm doing build, test, flash manually on the bench.

(about to be hit with rotten vegetables by the purists...)

Exactly. I'm running forgejo in a container, pushing backups to a private S3 storage, and sent the forgejo team a small liberapay payment.

Maybe 30 minutes to get it all setup and then I moved on with my life.

Assuming the code is black box, an outside observer would need no more than a thousand observations before they could definitely say something was off about your rand_1_to_10() mod 3 code (with 95% confidence).

But in the case of the random_u64() mod 10, you would need the heat death of the universe number of samples before that bias would be noticeably distinguishable from random.

Is there an actual example of where that specific case could be significant for anything other than maybe nation-state cryptography?

I am using pi the same way everyone uses Codex and Claude, but pi makes it very simple to make folders to make the agent behave a certain way and that was easy for me to understand.

ChatGPT Desktop seems to intentionally hide what they are doing and where they are storing state, sessions, config, I never had any idea what is in context or what "archiving" even means. I got sick of OpenAI hiding how ChatGPT Desktop was working. I opened pi and the default behavior shows me how much context I am using, how much that costs and tells me where it stores my session data.

Suddenly it was all demystified and that is why I use pi. It has nothing to do with a functional gap, it was the joy a using a harness that was transparent about how it worked.

Torres v. Madrid (5-3)

Carpenter v. United States (5-4)

Collins v. Virginia (8-1)

Barnes v. Felix (9-0)

These are all Supreme Court cases that were specifically about the 4th amendment and happened in the last 10 years.

The 4th amendment is over 200 years old and yet requires constant supervision by the Supreme Court to define the word reasonable or to police the lower courts understanding of precedent.

So you are wrong, with whatever presumption you are making that the word "unreasonable" is well defined.

It is not self-explanatory how to define the weasel word "unreasonable"

I see no evidence that in our nation's 250 year history or the broader practice of law (specifically adversarial law), that lawyers are working to make their job more efficient, legal outcomes more reliable, or legal tools more accessible.

Burn their entire industry to the ground. I welcome making the practice of law an AI-only field and ban humans from working in it to remove prejudice, misconduct, expense. As a former foster parent, I've seen children being delayed justice for weeks because two lawyers couldn't find time for a 15 minute conversation in front a judge. I've hated all lawyers ever since. Gatekeeping priesthood of the 21st century.

The retailer or distributor can also be named as a defendant if the manufacturer is difficult to track down, bankrupt or overseas according to me spending a few minutes reading about pressure cooker lawsuits.

I have lost track of the metaphor, but man pressure cooker lawsuits are more common than I thought.

Is it possible to construct a control system where bad, fast and cheap can become good, fast, and cheap through repeated sampling and a strong spec/eval harness?

I am trying to keep an open mind with AI, but I also have little understanding of control theory, trying to learn.