You lose close to zero money owning land even in down markets. That's why there are vacant lots that cost millions of dollars in every major city. Near-zero carrying cost.
There's risk in owning housing and so we should make sure people get rewarded for that instead of rewarded for owning land.
Yes! That's exactly true. I have a very real experience on this. I've been using Claude3.5. I fell in love with the specific personality of Sonnet, the model. I can't remember if back then Opus wasn't public yet but I remember very clearly trying out Opus several times when it became touted as best-in-class and actually recoiling from the foreign feel of the Opus model. I remember very well that my problem was that it was way too eager and pretty hard to steer. I returned to Sonnet and I've used ONLY Sonnet ever since. I have/had access to Fable and Opus4.8 but I never once tried them. In the early days with Sonnet3/4.5, I bought ChatGPT, I also remember thinking that it was a great teacher but a lazy coder. You'd get the scaffolding and then '# rest of code block' not full implementation so unless you wanted to learn the concept, weigh trade-offs, ask clarifying questions or jump into a rabbit hole... You had to go code it yourself. ChatGPT generally as a model is a very good teacher and I use the free in combination with the most advanced Sonnet model for SWE. And whenever there's an Opus release I'm actually very excited because it means there's a smarter Sonnet model OTW.
Do note that I only use LLMs in the ChatUI, I never use agents. I don't believe having a blackbox codebase managed by entities with a half-life of 'delete conversation' or 200k tokens is a responsible idea. In ChatUI, I lay the ground rules, kill assumptions about our working relationship, give it foundational context on the problem and codebase we're working on, explain the problem and then we have a conversation about it and I gradually disclose more logically context as it becomes relevant.
So, to directly answer your question, maybe I'm missing out on a ton of upside by not using the absolute best but I'd say familiarizing yourself with a specific model has all the benefits of having a human friend you've grown up with... except your buddy's a savant and would absolutely love to help!
> Now I am more excited about the major releases; for instance term issues are an issue for me with the aforementioned Claude integration. Not enough to stop me, but annoying.
Being a co-maintainer, I'm a bit biased, but I think you should try Ghostel (https://github.com/dakra/ghostel) if you aren't already. And if you are, you should report bugs so we can fix them :)
Systems like Emacs that are hyper-configurable via a text file seem tailor made for modern LLM's. If you've got a little bit of Emacs experience but bounced off of it because the learning curve was too steep I highly recommend diving back in with your agent. Agents are really good at setting up and maintaining your .emacs/init.el.
What are you trying to prove? He never said you're wrong, just the fact that something is illegal doesn't mean that it won't happen to you, just that it's illegal - those are just words written in a book somewhere. Even so-called law bound adversaries break the law all the time. A cop beating you senseless or breaking into your home is illegal, but it happens all the time. You're welcome to sue after the fact.
it can't be those 8 guys with >50% of the wealth! no sir, it must be all those poor people taking up the poor people's space they were alotted in 1995.
We are in "the future" relative to both works. The current intelligence threatening our planet is an unconscious token predictor, much more like the hostile non-entity in Blindsight (which even speaks to humans via token prediction) than the mechanical persons in Terminator 2.
I wasn't aware that he put a "2005" deadline in his prediction. Taking this into account, he probably wasn't wrong actually, at least in terms of net impact: in 2005 most of the moderate positive economic impact of the internet would have been offset by the significant negative economic impact of the dot com bubble and subsequent crash.
Specialists keep up with the latest research in their domains and talk with other specialists in their field. They usually know about these things before their patients discover them spontaneously.
You can read a lot of published papers on PubMed by searching for a condition or drug. You should be aware that there are a lot of papers published that say disease A can be treated with drug or supplement B that fail to replicate if anyone else tries it. It takes some practice to recognize when a treatment represents a real trend as opposed to a single quack doctor looking for a status boosting publication with some questionable claims.
Yeah, it'd be easy, but the hard part is getting people to agree what the standard will be.
Plus, frankly, a lot of people (myself included) who want a richer experience are pretty much just happy turning on emacs keybindings in VSCode or IntelliJ or whatever.
Hey, author here, I agree with you. Landing page is shit. I will rework it, but at the moment, I'm rather focusing on improving the project itself.
To answer your actual question, it does both. It emulates both windows and linux (although linux implementation was done by a contributor and it's probably not as evolved as the windows part). It also does so on every platform, so you can emulate windows on your android/ios phone, even on the web. It cross compiles to pretty much every platform.
It supports various emulation backends, e.g. Unicorn (which uses QEMU under the hood), but also Hyper-V on windows. That's where the sandboxing part comes in to play: As Hyper-V is pretty fast, the emulator starts turning into a sandbox.
Maybe some day I can add KVM support so you can run sandboxed Windows apps on Linux, but I haven't had the time yet. So at the moment, only the slow emulation backends work on Linux.
I guess it's time to abolish apartment buildings then. And how dare someone want to rent a house/condo/apartment when they only expect to live in a city for a couple years.
Terry Tao, Bert Hubert, Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf), Bunny Huang are just a few in my feed. But Mastodon is more about peer-to-peer communication than celebrities farming engagement indeed.
No signs of enshittification either so far, barely any new features being added TBH
I don't get the sense they hate compilers at all. The writing describes work they seem to love doing. It's just clickbait.
And it may not have crossed their mind that the clang behavior is a bug after finding a workaround. I'd also assume compilers do things "no mere mortal can fully comprehend on their own".
What are interesting problems? Deepseek and some other open source models do decently well in the gpu kernel benches. https://kernelbench.com/hard Most people think they’re working on “very hard” problems and they really aren’t
does the mysql/mariadb comparison actually make sense? mysql is not really a downstream distro of mariadb (maaybe even the opposite?) so i thought i understood the situation as presented until that paragraph
It happened a few times to me that I'd find some very well constructed scam scheme (cryptocurrency washing systems, web platform/phishing scams), then I'd research deeper into it to see how it worked, just to ultimately feel powerless not knowing what to do with the information.
It is a rare side effect, I helped a bunch of people (~50) get LDN, primarily for LongCovid, and only one other had a similar ‘too much energy’ effect and both of us have multiple TNXB SNPs and a very similar rare personality profile. I think the brain is so starved for dopamine at that point that it becomes hyper sensitive. I do miss the extra high energy but I also know that isn’t maintainable and I try to err on the side of caution.
I’ve had ME/CFS my whole life but the third covid vaccine shot sent me to new lows, to the point LDN just wasn’t cutting it anymore. These days I take a combo of modafinil in the morning and amitryptiline at night. And low dose ozempic has been super helpful as well. I was researching GLP1As prior to the current craze because I was worried about hyper sensitivity so I waited for more data before trying, I started at 1/100th the normal starting dose and still got temporary gastroparesis. These days I take a more regular dose of 1mg/wk but it also seems that my body has largely normalized as the hypersensitivities have worn off. Probably a good sign that I’ve successfully addressed actual deficiencies.
Defense (DoD) budget is $900 billion now. When you also account for veterans' health, expenditures on nukes (goes to the DoEnergy), military stuff in space (goes to NASA), border protection, etc., the total national security spending tops $1.5 trillion. That's not counting the interest on past wars.
Medicare + SS is about $2.6 trillion. With Medicaid, it's up to $3.3 trillion, but this still gets you nowhere close to "all military is 1/6 of ss and medicare".
Even if we are more conservative about how we count "all military" - for instance, include veteran's health and nukes, but not CBP - it still doesn't get us close to the 1/6 number.
Would you explain your reasoning and numbers a bit more?
It's worth being precise about this because it's a really important point. Most people who we call "landlords" are simultaneously a landlord and a property manager. Property management is an important and productive job. But the vast majority of such people's financial outcome is actually from being a landlord, that is doing literally nothing except holding a piece of paper granting them monopoly on a plot of land. That plot of land's value (separated from the buildings on top of it) is generated, by definition, by the community surrounding the plot.
So when you say landlords are the least productive class in society, it is that they are totally unproductive by their nature, then the fact that they collect a tax on consumption of a good they did not create makes them a negative-productivity component.
If you remove landlords (but keep property managers, developers, etc, which are all different jobs sometimes played by the same people), it would be a strict improvement to everything about our economy.
There's risk in owning housing and so we should make sure people get rewarded for that instead of rewarded for owning land.