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Lol thats brave on your part, given that a mistake can cost thousands and you have no accountability (punch!) from an LLM

In the US, all you need to work in tax prep is a high school diploma and most individuals are not worth the cost of an audit.

I wouldn't say it's particularly brave, in fact LLMs are probably better at identifying mistakes than most tax payers. The % of Americans using a CPA to file taxes is fairly small.


you know i had a tax accountant that said i dont have to cap gains on iso exercise . i checked it with ai that gave me all the detailed info that i took back to accountant who then agreed that they made a mistake. Even if you dont feel comfortable using ai for taxes. you can atleast understand your situation better. And go to accountant for final 10percent. It is not really that hard.

If you go by percentage of Americans, well consider the percentage of Americans that are actually net taxpayers.

Your account has no accountability. Do your taxes wrong and the tax payer is liable.

Ask me how I know.


At least he has a reputational/commercial risk. LLM has none

I ve had exactly same idea for many years now, but apparently that's not as obvisous to others

Developing new software? Universities! Maintaining/migrating old software? Universities! IT counseling and advise? You won't believe it ... Unive okey i stop here you got the point


SV VCs have been Stanford's biz dev team. Every country should use that as a template.

So they are buying another 32GB RAM stick, interesting


What could I read in order to understand different tradeoffs between types of missiles and the interceptors? It's just curiosity, i dont need hard math, but let's say i d like to implement a somewhat realistic system for real time strategy game


I practically never watch any movies because they are almost always trash, but decided to go watch Obsession after seeing a youtuber (penguinZ) talking positively about it

Yeah it's pretty good. I am in my late 30. Excited for Backrooms which isnt yet available


I wanted to try zig, but the language still moves way, way too fast, they break API for every release, so i simply couldbt keep up, while learning the language/debugging the build system/trying to actually implement what i wanted

After watching the Jetbrains interview, I still want to try again but maybe i ll wait till the 1.0 is out


You can still use the old version if you don't have the time to update your code.

"Surely the last time after handing out carrots long enough to kill all competition, they switched from carrots to sticks, that sucks; but look? now they started giving out carrots again!! It will be such a sad day when no more carrots"


“Someone’s handing out free carrots but it may be sticks someday so I’m gonna be mad about it today and grow my own carrots. That’ll show ‘em! My neighbor’s roasted carrots sure do smell good though.”


"I took their free carrots and now several years later, their carrots are a global ~monoculture that have been modified to grow faster but taste much worse. I don't like their carrots anymore but most other carrots are grown by small-scale local farms and can't be bought for cheap because the farmers never managed to get competitive economies of scale."

"I wish I'd supported the crazy folks who did carrot science in public and distributed seeds and allowed everyone to breed them so that we could all find better varieties for the common good! They still seem to be eating well."

(I see your very practical point, but I do think making the locally suboptimal choice in the hope of better long-term outcomes is a valid philosophical position.)


I also see the other side. I wish it wasn’t Google that currently has the best free product, because their well-oiled ad machine is going to inevitably turn the crank to find that sweet spot where the product is barely tolerable due to ads. But if I want free, fast, mostly correct lookups to plain English questions, what’s my alternative? Paying OpenAI or anthropic doesn’t seem to really change much. They’re going to do ads too. Abstain from AI entirely and continue to use non-AI Google search and take 10x as long to learn? Google still wins and I lose.


By which measure is the Google's free AI better than the one at DuckDuckGo? Happy user of the latter.


The website crashed my firefox (149.0.2 android) 3 times in a row. How to reproduce: open the website, start scrolling


It locked up my whole phone. It's becoming increasingly common to see websites that are just text with the odd image that are too heavy for mobile!


Firefox 150 android w/ ublock: images don't load, rest of page works fine.

I'd guess I'm probably more aggressive in what I block?


Huh, so it's not just me. Got a few crashes on android Firefox 150.0, couldn't read anything


I doubt so, because i need to type god-knows-how-many characters by hand, while visually separating them into chunks by 4, then explicitly authorize the receiver. Oh, and explicitly authorise the country


> then explicitly authorize the receiver. Oh, and explicitly authorise the country

I've never had to do any of this, and I quire frequently send SEPA payments from Latvia.


Well i am in France, and what I said is factually true for some banks; at least mine (LCL)


While your complaint is valid, no need to separate in chunks, there's a checksum.


TIL gnome-lib has a meaning outside of programming


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