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New comment by smegma2 in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

smegma2 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:27:08 +0000

Seems like an ok solution, but what about doing something like the opposite? Write out the scaffolding and general shape of the code (classes, interfaces, function signatures), and have the LLM fill it in. That seems more important for understanding.

New comment by smegma2 in "Deflock Casa Grande"

smegma2 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:29:17 +0000

I do actually

New comment by smegma2 in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

smegma2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:53:31 +0000

> let them get used to using it every day for 18 months, then pressure the EU to let it continue or you rip the feature away and anger users (who you then point to the EU as the problem)

And you’re saying that consumers would be incorrect in thinking that?

New comment by smegma2 in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

smegma2 — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:44:00 +0000

What ecosystem is it endangering? Is using the land a problem? Utah has 10.5 million acres of farmland that I would think has some impact on the ecosystem too, should we stop doing that too?

New comment by smegma2 in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

smegma2 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:45:02 +0000

Why not find out and let us know? You’re implying an answer without knowing what it is

New comment by smegma2 in "'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images"

smegma2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:58:47 +0000

The article doesn’t say when this collection happens but there is some part of the game the involves photographing specific landmarks which does involve pressing a shutter. I’m guessing that’s where this comes from but would be great to hear from a better source.

New comment by smegma2 in "Palantir defends its role in the kill chain"

smegma2 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:52:13 +0000

Not trying to be contrarian here, but I don’t get the problem. What’s wrong with Palantir producing weapons or military intelligence? How is it different from making guns?

Is the problem what those things are used for, or is it the way Palantir does it?

New comment by smegma2 in "US Government demands access to European police databases and biometrics [video]"

smegma2 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:19:04 +0000

Is there a link to a primary source with more details? I skimmed the video and see some quotes but couldn’t find the policy that they come from

New comment by smegma2 in "Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position"

smegma2 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:43:48 +0000

I think comments on pretty much everything skew negative. There’s not much to say if you support the fine.

New comment by smegma2 in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

smegma2 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:48:06 +0000

Yes, but people who lie are also at fault

New comment by smegma2 in "Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?"

smegma2 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:39:16 +0000

No? He’s talking about rendered text

New comment by smegma2 in "Everything you need to know about California’s SB 79"

smegma2 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:17:49 +0000

A large majority of SF residents support upzoning: https://growsf.org/pulse/growsf-pulse-october-2024/#allowing...

New comment by smegma2 in "Tests suggest clues of whose content was used to train OpenAI’s Sora"

smegma2 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:39:48 +0000

I’m normally skeptical of claims like this, but looking at the examples it seems that Sora is reproducing some of its training data verbatim. I guess it’s a case of overfitting? In particular the Civ example seems like it must have been copied almost verbatim.

New comment by smegma2 in "Find SF parking cops"

smegma2 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:36:38 +0000

I agree with the sentiment but I want to point out that a car is not essential for most people living in SF, although many people outside the city think this. Around 35% of households don’t have a car: https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-docume...

New comment by smegma2 in "Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates"

smegma2 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:40:17 +0000

Why the scare quotes? What else is supposed to be done when every other remedy is either illegal or too expensive!

New comment by smegma2 in "Find SF parking cops"

smegma2 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:30:14 +0000

It exists: https://www.sfmta.com/media/9654/download?inline

New comment by smegma2 in "U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China"

smegma2 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:59:51 +0000

Honestly I do wonder the same thing.

New comment by smegma2 in "When the job search becomes impossible"

smegma2 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:07:12 +0000

Everything you listed is liquid. CDs can be withdrawn early for a small penalty, and most likely without even losing any of your principal.

New comment by smegma2 in "When the job search becomes impossible"

smegma2 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:02:56 +0000

Sure, I couldn’t find a better data source than that. If you find a better source that includes liquid assets specifically that would be helpful. I am skeptical that of the 39k in assets listed there, there isn’t a substantial amount that can be used to pay the bills (i.e. who has $39k in their 401k but $0 anywhere else?).

New comment by smegma2 in "U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China"

smegma2 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:55:12 +0000

Yes, in 2020 Grindr was forced to sell for similar reasons.