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New comment by marxplank in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

marxplank — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:13:18 +0000

Indian Americans make the most money in America, I’m sure immigrants can be capable

New comment by marxplank in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

marxplank — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:09:49 +0000

this has to be one of the most illogical hedges

New comment by marxplank in "Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings"

marxplank — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 19:59:47 +0000

on the Israeli side I’m guessing

New comment by marxplank in "AI 2027"

marxplank — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 06:08:33 +0000

for better or worse, decisions with great impact are taken by people in power. this view of history as a pachinko ball may numb us to not question the people in power.

New comment by marxplank in "What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test"

marxplank — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:40:29 +0000

the LLM does have the ability to send garbage output in protest

New comment by marxplank in "I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts"

marxplank — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:54:04 +0000

they are just a language model generating text which happens to be code, ASTs are not used afaik

New comment by marxplank in "Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks"

marxplank — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 15:15:04 +0000

that would help with decidable problems but would still be not generalisable for problems with non trivial rewards, or ones with none.

New comment by marxplank in "Life without Aadhaar"

marxplank — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:18:54 +0000

the errant ideology being “caring about your privacy”?

New comment by marxplank in "Sunsetting Atom"

marxplank — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:24:47 +0000

why isn't emacs an option? It's the longest continuously maintained open source code editor there ever has been and still outperforms electron editors half a century after it first appeared

New comment by marxplank in "Sunsetting Atom"

marxplank — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:15:11 +0000

nope, Emacs has an existing package installer and several packages in itself which make package installation easier than even VSCode or Atom