mypalmike

Trump doesn’t lose support of congresspeople except those on their way out. I don’t suspect nukes would change that equation, despite wreaking havoc on markets and humanity as a whole. The right wing propaganda machine would find an angle (probably fear of imminent attack) to make it seem prudent and even heroic. The reins have been shredded for a long time and the horse just keeps running wild, cheered on by those who would have any power to wrangle it.

We can and do talk about the price of diesel and new releases of Linux and quantum mechanics here on hn. But here we are talking about something else.

I know you chose 50/50 arbitrarily. But I think the real numbers are much worse. A few years ago, I stayed a couple nights at a hostel in a rural spot in Italy. I’m in my 50s, and most of the others there were Americans in their 20s, fairly recent grads. A dozen of us went out to dinner one night, and among the topics discussed was cheating in college. Only myself and one of the younger people said we did not cheat, the others all treated it as an expected part of the college experience. This isn’t exactly “data”, and perhaps there’s some sort of correlation between hostel-goer and cheater, but I was shocked at the numbers. And that was before LLM usage was common.

California plates. I was pulled over and searched years ago in Kansas for the same reason.

In this case, the Flock data then showed a bunch of recent interstate travel, which cops consider to be probable cause. They know it’s not legally probable cause though, so they pointed to her “nervousness” (aka not consenting to search).

The real question is how many times the same cop pulled over people who he searched and found nothing. Certainly nonzero.

Same experience almost exactly, except it took me longer to land a job in part because I was unwilling to grind leetcode.

Spending time commenting on HN is even less likely to yield useful mathematical results in a few centuries, but here you are.

Unless the GPU output is feeding back into the game loop simulation, there’s no nightmare.

I’ve worked on games with intentional determinism, and it’s a very valuable tool. A playtester can hand a dev a recording of the game inputs (including clock) for whatever bug they encountered, and the dev can fast forward to the exact point and repro it 100%. The amount of time saved chasing down difficult bugs is enormous.

Or 8 pairs of jeans on sale.

Most code before LLMs was human slop, not the carefully crafted artisanal blocks of fine braces you claim. AI today produces better slop than most devs ever did. And LLMs are getting better - humans were never on an upward general trajectory.

On the last point: your customers absolutely feel the impact of your poor code. I’ve worked on very well written codebases and very poorly written ones. The well written ones have had far fewer outages and complaints. When you have multi million line codebases, being “functional” (I understood you to mean this as “working correctly” rather than the technical term) is a spectrum.

For the 99% of developers who are shuffling data around constrained by I/O, you win small.

!did ydaerla eW

We simply need neural implant technology to overclock our brains, making the world (and its Claude instances) appear to go slower.

Meanwhile the US is doubling down on fossil fuels because… reasons.