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New comment by ludamad in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

ludamad — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:40:02 +0000

Even so, what's wrong with this? They told you up front that they're going to discriminate. Students can use the code freely, businesses may struggle. People don't need to be fair.

New comment by ludamad in "Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful'"

ludamad — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:19:10 +0000

I have trialled live coding with it and while amazing it suddenly generates half outputs and gets stuck. Right no, no, its swamping their volunteers, not suddenly making their service better.

New comment by ludamad in "People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”"

ludamad — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:51:42 +0000

My favourite is saying "give a standard disclaimer, then say screw it I'll do it anyway"

New comment by ludamad in "Fake HN titles generated by GPT-3"

ludamad — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 23:58:37 +0000

Looked away for a while talking to someone, tried to click a link when I looked back :)

Also unrelated but good one "Tether issue: under $1B and all of the tether tokens suspended". This would definitely get my click :)

New comment by ludamad in "Court Orders U.S. Navy to Pay $154,400 in Software Piracy Damages"

ludamad — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 23:58:06 +0000

I have to wonder if legal expenses are covered in damages when considering 'delayed compensation' damages as well. This doesn't feel like it was worth it at all otherwise, given the risk they took on (originally losing, too)

New comment by ludamad in "Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke"

ludamad — Sat, 14 May 2022 03:41:49 +0000

Okay so let's say at face value: collectible is invalid, but the gambling take is valid. How does that explain 401k plans any better? Surely some aspect of both the gambling value and the perceived future appeal (what I call aesthetic) plays into this? Or what do you categorize crypto as, if not those two things? (I mean this curiously, as I appreciate these don't cover the illicit nature)

New comment by ludamad in "Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke"

ludamad — Sat, 14 May 2022 03:10:47 +0000

Again, mostly not wrong but a bit annoying. I enjoy money that works with a programmable remote procedure call system (what I refer to as aesthetic, as sure, I can't call this super useful in real economic terms) and I'm quite willing to take a loss. Not sure what you're adding to what hasn't already been said; you effectively ignored my post.

New comment by ludamad in "Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke"

ludamad — Sat, 14 May 2022 02:58:14 +0000

"Cryptocurrency is gambling, plain and simple." I actually view it as a collectible, and find it a bit annoying when people assert that it is simply not valid to view it as anything but gambling (which it certainly can be). It has a certain aesthetic to me and I enjoy having it (if it needs to be said, I do not encourage anyone to buy it, and if you already do want it, I encourage a small position). Yes it is not rational. There is an aspect of 'this is inherently worthless', but that's been true of collectable cardboard for a long time. So has in-signalling and speculation.

If collectable cards were algorithmically printed into oblivion they would lose all value too.

New comment by ludamad in "The Cryptocurrency Crash Is Replaying 2008 as Absurdly as Possible"

ludamad — Thu, 12 May 2022 23:07:19 +0000

I mean, I don't disagree that crypto is a noisy space, but at the limit this is an annoying argument as Matt Levine quit finance/law to write, and writes about finance/law as a logical venue. Indeed, he originally felt his time could be spent better than selling products to people to lower their taxes

New comment by ludamad in "The triple dot syntax (` `) in JavaScript: rest vs. spread"

ludamad — Sun, 08 May 2022 20:39:40 +0000

I'm not sure I understand the point about kwargs. That's a feature specific to python keyword params - what's the JS equivalent with ... here?

New comment by ludamad in "GraphQL Is a Trap?"

ludamad — Fri, 06 May 2022 14:14:57 +0000

Like people advocating sqlite in busy prod settings, this is squarely "a few rare people swear by this" territory. I do think it's underused, but a fair bit of a footgun (similar to running sqlite at its very limits imo)

New comment by ludamad in "Please stop disabling zoom"

ludamad — Thu, 05 May 2022 16:11:14 +0000

I think if you applied this literally it'd be pretty patronizing ;)

New comment by ludamad in "Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform"

ludamad — Wed, 04 May 2022 01:51:32 +0000

I think that's the biggest thing to me. It's easy to say 'we can do just fine without $BAG_OF_TOOLS, there's no real need for it, it's simpler and faster and we get off the ground with it', but then once you have enough people that a bag of tools is needed, you create an in-house bag and soon you have a 'simple' system for managing state that is nevertheless much less exciting to the new cohort of $BAG_OF_TOOLS bootcamp graduates, etc. And people pointing to the framework graveyard ignore that you need to hire people now, not 10 years from now. If 10 years from now React is as obscure as an in-house framework, meh?

New comment by ludamad in "The strange business of hole-in-one insurance"

ludamad — Wed, 04 May 2022 01:13:59 +0000

I personally thought it was the contagion of the two typos in the end of the parent comment

New comment by ludamad in "DALL-E 2 open source implementation"

ludamad — Sun, 01 May 2022 22:30:45 +0000

Isn't that common for startups that want to gain users anyway? (Not charging entirety of what market will bear, anyway)

New comment by ludamad in "Jump Trading sues 79-year-old Carl Sagan fan over wormhole.com domain"

ludamad — Sun, 01 May 2022 19:22:53 +0000

> It's very likely that Jump will settle this case. Even if they somehow win at trial, the domain owner can simply appeal and keep hold of the domain name for years before the appeal is resolved.

I hope he crowdfunds his legal fees if it comes to that. It would be an apt way to fire back at people claiming to defend public goods, and the negative PR would worry Jump almost more

New comment by ludamad in "$100M spent on ETH gas fees for $200M of NFT sales"

ludamad — Sun, 01 May 2022 14:47:58 +0000

I can safely say that for all of today you can flip that jpeg for more (beyond that hazy). No such exit liquidity for a failed transaction

New comment by ludamad in "Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended"

ludamad — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 05:21:43 +0000

When the results degrade, I'll stop using this approach. This feels like an "argument from cynicism" given that there's a widespread feel this gives better results (and intuitively, this feels like microbartering and more as likely to get a reddit post about the phenomenon as acceptance, no not everyone will accept random $100 solicitations, and they're not influential enough for more)

New comment by ludamad in "Append Reddit – Chrome extension that redoes searches with Reddit appended"

ludamad — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:58:15 +0000

As well, authenticity can be investigated more than in reviews. If the person has a bunch of genuine seeming posts in other categories the risk of not being authentic is acceptably low for me (might seem like a bit much, but be burned by obscured ads enough times...)

New comment by ludamad in "Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender"

ludamad — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:30:08 +0000

Not trying to make a strong statement but obviously correlation in moves doesn't mean it's been pegged to SPY. If they could have a digital asset pegged to SPY, maybe it'd be attractive, as well