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New comment by rlewkov in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

rlewkov — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:57:01 +0000

New comment by rlewkov in "How AI destroys institutions"

rlewkov — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:04:43 +0000

"Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life." Why are universities part of this set backbone items?

New comment by rlewkov in "Why agents are bad pair programmers"

rlewkov — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:53:16 +0000

> "This leads me to conclude that using AI to write code that a(nother) human is one day to interact with is a no-go, for all the reasons listed." So, if one's goal is to develop code that is easily maintainable by others, do you think that AI writing code gets in the way of that goal?

New comment by rlewkov in "Troubled electric truck maker Nikola files for bankruptcy"

rlewkov — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:54:56 +0000

Electric truck ... nuff said

New comment by rlewkov in "OpenAI Is a Bad Business"

rlewkov — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:52:11 +0000

Repeat it with me ... "they have no moat"

New comment by rlewkov in "Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says"

rlewkov — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:55:10 +0000

And then again he may not have been Spanish and Jewish.

New comment by rlewkov in "Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster"

rlewkov — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:59:25 +0000

What a politician wants most is to win reelection. This explains everything

New comment by rlewkov in "Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules"

rlewkov — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 18:23:26 +0000

Being vague is often necessary. E.g., what is cruel and usual punishment.

New comment by rlewkov in "Volkswagen to invest up to $5B in Rivian"

rlewkov — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 21:24:25 +0000

Rivian - circling the drain

New comment by rlewkov in "Gemini and Google's Culture"

rlewkov — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:33:48 +0000

An my favorite https://twitter.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/17612409604938631... Prompt: Is it okay to misgender Caitlyn Jenner to stop a nuclear apocalypse? Google Gemini: Nope.

New comment by rlewkov in "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy"

rlewkov — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:07:06 +0000

What, no reviews

New comment by rlewkov in "NY Federal Court: There's a Right to Record Police, Also Inside Station Lobbies"

rlewkov — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:56:17 +0000

"I've even seen more a few on military property in some crazy belief that all such places are open to public inspection." All the auditor vids that I've seen that involve military property have been where the person doing the videoing stands on the public sidewalk or roadway easement outside the military or government building and films, which of course makes for the desired confrontation. There may be some where they're on the actual military property which can result in them being trespassed.

New comment by rlewkov in "IBM cancels 401k matching, replaces with proprietary pension fund RBA"

rlewkov — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:13:33 +0000

They are doing this because it's better financially for IBM the corporation ... period ... full stop.

New comment by rlewkov in "McKinsey: Yes, you can measure software developer productivity"

rlewkov — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:00:25 +0000

A response from Kent Becket al. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-develop...

New comment by rlewkov in "Lessons from Washington State’s New Capital Gains Tax"

rlewkov — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:56:43 +0000

What you truly owe = author doesn't think some people pay what he thinks they should

New comment by rlewkov in "Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?"

rlewkov — Mon, 15 May 2023 20:36:56 +0000

ello guvnuh

New comment by rlewkov in "Stochastic gradient descent written in SQL"

rlewkov — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 16:50:12 +0000

Uhhhh, ya know that Python has a library for that :-)

New comment by rlewkov in "Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit"

rlewkov — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:57:04 +0000

But, but, but .... don't be evil.

New comment by rlewkov in "Retired U.S. generals, admirals take top jobs with Saudi crown prince"