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Comment Re: AI is just an untrained novice! (Score 1) 63

I've found that, in general, they don't need to be walked through like a child. They're smarter than that.
If one is seeming anomalously stupid, most likely, there's a divergence between what you think is in the LLMs context, and what really is. This is very common for code-assistance agents.

i.e., all the coaxing in the world won't get that agent to put your helpful hints into the context- you're fighting the agent, not the LLM.

Comment Re:Spaces in filenames (Score 1) 63

You didn't read the fucking article, or even the comment thread that led us here, did you shit-for-brains?

Try run that command on your home directory (along with a recursive) and let me know if you still think permissions are there to save you.

And still it didn't click for you.
The sandbox is the permissions for your home directory.
The demonstration is that prevention is better than "making sure you don't use a space in your command".

Crawl back into your fucking hole.

Comment Re:Just shoddy... (Score 1) 63

Well, for one, they did. Their claim is it was called "Turbo mode".
The "vast majority of users" are well aware what the word "dangerous" means. That isn't a fucking UAC prompt, no matter how badly you try to conflate the two.

And you've just hit an understanding problem. User: "Dangerously bypass approvals and sandbox? What are approvals? Why do I need approval to use this software. And what even is a sandbox?" *proceeds to hit enter to see what will happen*.

Those kinds of people will always exist- and that's their problem.
Perhaps we should remove the file deletion tool on whatever_your_os_is, next.

Comment Why fire people immediately? (Score 1) 63

Look, if someone makes a mistake abd owns it. We learn from it and move on. If your business is destroyed by a single person's slip up, then perhaps you are not that serious of a business.

The absolutely toxic corporate culture that firing someone is a reasonable first step is why millions of office workers are paralyzed with fear over losing their job. You are not trash to throw away, you're a person that society has invested thousands of dollars and hours into childhood and education.

In reality, people should be let go if there is a pattern of behavior that other measures have failed to correct. Like if they aren't completing tasks, behaving in an unprofessional way, making costly mistakes frequently, etc.

Comment Re: AI is just an untrained novice! (Score 1) 63

It most certainly does.

I cannot speak for whatever platform you're using, but LLM contexts are absolutely self-referential.
It's called In-Context Learning, and it's the very base of what makes these things useful as a chat bot.

I suspect your issue probably lies in whatever is managing the LLM's context for you.

Comment Re:Total ham! (Score 1) 72

but the wealthy in my extended family bootstrapped from poverty

And the only reasons they were able to do that was the productive society that they, you, me and everyone else plays a hand in creating

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.

Comment Re:Welp (Score 1) 72

Well first it was just a figure of speech but second I have no particular issue with Dell hardware. I'm not a fan but they've been perfectly cromulent systems when I've used them (i'm a Thinkpad fan myself)

But with something like this much like many have done with Target this year it's just a little nudge from "ambivalent" to "actively avoid"

Comment Re:Serious question (Score 3, Informative) 72

Meanwhile Biden actually reduced childhood poverty and Republicans stripped this program away are when replacing it with something of 1/8 the dollars and claiming a victory lap:

The expanded child tax credit briefly slashed child poverty. Here's what else it did

In July 2021, for example, with the first monthly payment, Parolin and Curran write that "the monthly child poverty rate fell from 15.8 percent to 11.9 percent. The first Child Tax Credit payment in July 2021, on its own, reduced the monthly child poverty rate by... 26 percent."

Comment Re:AI is just an untrained novice! (Score 1) 63

lol- that's pretty insane behavior.

Were you using some kind of agent/tool managing the context (I think Claude users generally use Claude Code?) or were you using a direct chat interface?
Errors like that generally smell like compressed/missing context. This happens a lot in cases where there's a divergence between what you think should be in the context, and whatever application is front-ending the LLM decides actually goes in the context.

Comment Re:More like Biden (Score 1) 72

Also hold on, this is even more ridiculous then at first glance. You lead off with talking about the "balance of power" then complain about court orders *from the Judicial Branch* and pretend like these are court orders from the Democratic party. We truly are cooked.

Comment Re:More like Biden (Score 1) 72

Republicans didn't weaponize the courts and start firing off 100 court orders a week by judges using clown logic either

Uhhh James Comey, Hunter Biden, Ann Selzer and I could rattle off another dozen or two that might have a disagreement with that statement. Biden also didn't weaponize the DoJ like this you silly goose, this should have be grounds for removal alone, the fact you won't even acknowledge what a miscarriage of our justice system this is par for the course, but uhhhh, "both sides"

Trump accidentally posted message pressuring Pam Bondi to charge his enemies, source says

I'm starting to wonder how much longer this can go before we end up like the UK.

I wonder how the UK got into their mess? Could it have been giving the keys to dumbass Tories and folks like Boris Johnson for 15 years? They let a huckster like Farage dupe them into Brexit? You're one the ones pushing us there.

The point is that both sides ignore the rule of law.

One side tried to rig the election and when it didn't work tried to interrupt the transfer of power and threatened to kill the VP. These are not the same. I'm not gonna get pretend centrists crazy-make me and pretend all these things didnt happen.

Comment Re:Serious question (Score 1) 72

Why listen to an AC who can't even be assed to reply to the right comment? Open the schools!!!

But its also important to realize the tax money spent is coming out of the budget somewhere else that might benefit them even more.

Me when I totally understand how government budgets and taxes work. Open the schools!!!

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