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New comment by snk in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

snk — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:43:58 +0000

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14372

New comment by snk in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

snk — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:18:24 +0000

I'll note that having countless superintelligences handy will accelerate problem-solving e.g. dystopia.

New comment by snk in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

snk — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:41:42 +0000

A couple of possibilities spring to mind. Likelier that Karen lied, but maybe the 512 page fax changed the system.

New comment by snk in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

snk — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:39:33 +0000

You mean, Karen lied?

New comment by snk in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

snk — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:16:57 +0000

I'm old. Back in the olden days - the 1900s - 2-ton cars were not lightweight, the so-called heavy Chevys.

New comment by snk in "Rich Hickey: Thanks AI"

snk — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:23:03 +0000

Writing is used to defraud people, to propagandize them, to steal their intellectual property and livelihoods, to systematically deny their health insurance claims, to dangerously misinform them (e.g. illegitimate legal advice or hallucinated mushroom identification ebooks), to drive people to mental health breakdowns via "internet psychosis" and much more. The harm is real and material, and right now is causing unemployment, physical harm, imprisonment, and in some cases death...

New comment by snk in "Rich Hickey: Thanks AI"

snk — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:19:51 +0000

Small? GPLv3 is ~5644 words, and not particularly long for a license.

New comment by snk in "AI is not our future"

snk — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:06:44 +0000

Sturgeon's Law predates LLMs by decades: 90% of everything is crap.

New comment by snk in "AI is not our future"

snk — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:06:09 +0000

Fair use?

New comment by snk in "AI is not our future"

snk — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:05:38 +0000

No, it isn't, wealth is good. More readily creating and delivering value is good.

New comment by snk in "Dropbox Engineering Career Framework"

snk — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:45:36 +0000

Planning is very useful even though things never go according to plan, honest.

New comment by snk in "My favourite computer ergonomics hack"

snk — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:06:15 +0000

Sitting on a Swiss ball hurts me less than a chair. For the first few days it even enforced perfect posture, but that effect went away pretty quickly.

New comment by snk in "The Right Kind of Stubborn"

snk — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:50:34 +0000

Fixed goals and flexible tactics, I say. PG comes along and says it much better...

New comment by snk in "Primel – guess a 5 digit prime number – each guess must be a prime"

snk — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 20:12:37 +0000

N = 100000 prime = [False, True] * (N // 2) primes = [] for i in range(3, N, 2):

    if prime[i]:
        primes.append(i)
        k = i ** 2
        while k < N:
            prime[k] = False
            k += i * 2

useful = [ str(i) for i in primes ]

# Enter your clues

for i in useful: if i[0] == '6' and ('3' in i) and len(str(i)) == 5: print(i)

New comment by snk in "Primel – guess a 5 digit prime number – each guess must be a prime"

snk — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:59:33 +0000

Or 5.

New comment by snk in "Primel – guess a 5 digit prime number – each guess must be a prime"

snk — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:55:57 +0000

Nice solver! I did optimize the sieve a little...

N = 100000 primes = [False, True] * N // 2 for i in range(3, N, 2):

    if primes[i]:
        k = i ** 2
        while k < N:
            primes[k] = False
            k += i * 2