zzzeek

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I'm the creator of the Python tools SQLAlchemy, Alembic Migrations, dogpile.cache and Mako Templates for Python. I am a strong proponent of sarcasm.

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Comment · 2 days ago
chat what is the German word for person who feels guilty for feeling schadenfreude

im sure it is a spectacular word

Comment · 2 days ago
when people say "there should be no AI taught in schools ever. prompting? what skill is there in talking to a liar bot?" this is where they are dead wrong. Being correctly critical of LLM output is a huge skill and news flash it applies to people and human-written things too.
Comment · 3 days ago
dont look at soundbites, look at legislation proposed. that's how Senators actually do their work
Comment · 3 days ago
not at all. wow people need to do some basic research on this. the Republicans are driven by a tiny handful of billionaires and with Musk, trillionaires. Democratic candidates OTOH rely to a vastly larger extent on millions of individual donors sending $100 or less - there are still large donors but their contribution to Democrats is close to an order of magnitude less than what GOP megadonors provide.

Of course, both of these funding models should be banned which would mean dismantling the Citizens United decision spearheaded by the now-known-to-be-fully-corrupt Roberts court, which might require a constitutional amendment.

Comment · 3 days ago
> both cool with selling our data.

I guess you can pretend Liz Warren, Ron Wyden, Patty Murray, dozens of house reps and thousands of Democratic legisltators in statehouses and towns around the country don't exist and just vote for the "party that lowered my taxes" again , right?

Comment · 3 days ago
I keep pushing the big "make it illegal to sell US citizens' data and arrest anyone who breaks that law" button on my wall here but nothing happens
Comment · 3 days ago
Have....they seen Arcane ?
Comment · 4 days ago
have two queues. one is the normal one with the AI review and all that, the other is for AI-abstainers, where:

> I rather wait a year before my package makes it through NEW (yes, that happened) than have my strong opposition to LLMs be ignored and all my uploads being automatically screened without my consent.

so those entries go in the "abstain-from-LLM-queue", where there is no guarantee of timeliness at all, and human volunteers can process that queue manually as they are available

tldr just tag the entries as "OK for LLM" or not. it's just like organic and non-organic produce, it can be done.

Comment · 6 days ago
Ok Elon
Comment · 7 days ago
great. let's pop this bubble so everyone panicking can leave us devs alone with our tools. GLM 5.3 is good enough if anthropic and openai go under (which they wont).
Comment · 10 days ago
ive got plex and jellyfin running but jellyfin hasn't won me over yet for movies / tv shows. guess it's going to have to

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