kbarn.com
florida born, texas made, dc uhhhh
data pipeline plumber
writing at https://kbarn.com
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now *this* sounds like the perfect thing to throw on while I'm out running. thanks!
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I rented a townhouse in Houston with a fundamental problem with the 2nd floor balcony (it was sinking and falling away from the house). Contractor who worked on fixing it said he'd made a living *exclusively* doing that same repair to dozens of townhomes over the past decade.
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square wheels were the compromise after four fruitless years of "project archimedes." we went through two COOs in that time.
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Oh and you've been waiting in the pick-up line for like an hour.
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The upcoming bank run will be a bunch of people unable to use the Starbucks mobile app and immediately going next door to kill their neighbors
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Okay fine I can think of *one* moral use of AI: Automatically sending the IP address and screenshots of accounts like this one to a district judge.
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downdetector.com/status/citiz...
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exactly. but I dunno, Google says I might be throwing out a lot of valuable flavor. maybe should keep it in a jar besides the sink, for cooking
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I've been pouring my used motor oil down my kitchen sink, to keep it from clogging up.
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Yeah, mine has. It's been shifting recommendations way more aggressively, too. If I don't fall down a particular recommended rabbit hole within a day or two, it just abandons that topic and moves on to recommending Stoicism or video essays about Steven Universe or some other left-field thing.
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Like, I can make up situations in my head where that might be necessary, but at the point where you have to shoot a grizzly bear or an intruder from inside your attic in the middle of nowhere... reconsider your lifestyle?
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Every action RFK Jr's taken in the past fifteen years was motivated by his deep insecurity and desire to be remembered as more than his father's son. He took the devil's bargain to become head of HHS and now every change within HHS demonstrates his powerlessness and lack of input.
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People on here are so desperate to confirm their priors they'll say Charlie Brown had hoes.
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Valid concern! Conservative media spent a decade painting Chicago as the national capital of lawlessness and violent crime, and you know they'd be playing that card, too. My hope is that Pritzker's independence would lend him a moral credibility that voters desperately miss and want to support.
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I think it's a little deeper than "he's not scared of a VC-funded challenger," though that's part of it. Illinois Dems have always been a well-oiled political machine and right now, theirs is largely independent from the comms, strategy, and money of the national Dems.
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Even my most extroverted friends learned that they should just conk out on planes by the time they turned 22. It only takes one bad experience trapped with a stranger to understand it's never worth the risk.
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The closest analogy I've witnessed personally is Huntsville, TX, which normalized working for the prison by indoctrinating the town and making it impossible to live there without being pro-prison. They moved the state's prison agency out of Austin to Huntsville. SHSU is a criminology degree mill.
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Danzig, we need you for a few events.
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Satire is when you write something and no one can tell if you're serious and all sides agree it sucks.
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I simply don't see a reason at this point to move my mental model of working from "spending time doing stuff" to "ask an LLM the exact correct question to do the thing for me then spend time checking its work"
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We didn't need to boil the oceans and a significant amount of the world's latent capital just to create a better autocomplete for Visual Studio Code, and I resent that AI shops have moved on to developing "agents" with so many obvious problems lingering in the simpler LLM use cases.
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I don't take *the* most pessimistic view on LLMs, but every time I've ventured to use one or had one pushed in my face, it has omitted an important piece of information from the answer, or added something totally wrong. The impression was so bad I don't use them and I suggest others don't, either.