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soperj commented on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler   anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/modeless
qarl · 3 days ago
> Still a really cool project!

Yeah. This test sorta definitely proves that AI is legit. Despite the millions of people still insisting it's a hoax.

The fact that the optimizations aren't as good as the 40 year gcc project? Eh - I think people who focus on that are probably still in some serious denial.

soperj · 3 days ago
Only if we take them at their word. I remember thinking things were in a completely different state when Amazon had their shop and go stores, but then finding out it was 1000s of people in Pakistan just watching you via camera.
soperj commented on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein   scottaaronson.blog/?p=953... · Posted by u/pfdietz
Insanity · 4 days ago
Interesting. Honestly I don't know as much about his philanthropy, which ideology does he push? How did it make lives worse?
soperj · 4 days ago
Common Core for one.
soperj commented on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein   scottaaronson.blog/?p=953... · Posted by u/pfdietz
decimalenough · 4 days ago
The kind of piece of shit who donates basically his entire fortune to charity? And actual charity at that, not Ellison style "Larry Ellison Research Foundation for Prolonging the Life of Larry Ellison and Getting Some Tax Breaks Along the Way".
soperj · 4 days ago
You'll have to prove the "an actual charity" at that. It's literally in his name, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, and Melinda had enough of Bill that she nixed their relationship.

Bill and Melinda Gates foundation are also behind Common Core and basically ruined public education in the US.

The foundation is a way for Bill to keep doing what he likes without having to pay taxes on it, he's just done a better job of repairing his image than Larry.

soperj commented on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein   scottaaronson.blog/?p=953... · Posted by u/pfdietz
soperj · 4 days ago
> If only Bill Gates and Larry Summers had had my mom to go to for advice, they could’ve saved themselves a lot of grief.

Doubt it would have changed anything for Bill. There's a pattern there and this is just a piece of that pattern.

soperj commented on Ardour 9.0   ardour.org/whatsnew.html... · Posted by u/PaulDavisThe1st
miggol · 4 days ago
Just wanting to say thanks to the whole team for creating such an inspiring and useful creative tool!

I'm most excited to try the perceptual analizer, which was something I found always had disappointing performance in plugins.

Which of the new features would you say posed the most interesting engineering challenge?

soperj · 4 days ago
> analizer

analyzer. I think analizer has a different meaning.

soperj commented on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams   euractiv.com/news/commiss... · Posted by u/Arathorn
simianwords · 4 days ago
I don’t know how Teams even got the approval to be released. It must be so embarrassing to be Satya and be forced to use this shitty piece of software.

I can’t believe that software of this quality is used so widely. Market competitive forces are not able to do their thing unfortunately.

soperj · 4 days ago
I felt the same way when I was forced to use Word over Wordperfect, and Powerpoint over Harvard Graphics
soperj commented on The Great Unwind   occupywallst.com/yen... · Posted by u/jart
elaida73 · 5 days ago
>By anchoring borrowing costs at or near zero, the BOJ enabled Wall Street to borrow Yen cheaply and invest it with leverage into higher yielding instruments globally, such as U.S. treasuries, equities, and cryptography

Think you mean crypto currency here?

soperj · 5 days ago
No, they've got into cartography now. Have you never heard of a bitmap?
soperj commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair   attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox
cfiggers · 5 days ago
I have proven it to my own satisfaction. It's a pretty trivial proof. I'm sure you could derive your own, if you tried.

How's this: if, at some point, it seems to me that your agreement would benefit me or advance something I care about, I promise I'll consider trying to convince you.

soperj · 5 days ago
"trust me bro"
soperj commented on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US   apnews.com/article/europe... · Posted by u/AareyBaba
TulliusCicero · 6 days ago
The risk is of course that the new thing might be worse than Teams somehow.
soperj · 6 days ago
The only possibility is if you get it from Oracle instead.
soperj commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair   attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox
cfiggers · 6 days ago
In my opinion it is obvious and should be uncontroversial that some environmental regulations work and are great and should if anything be reinforced, while other environmental regulations do more harm than good and need to be reigned in or eliminated.

Turning "environmental regulation" into a unified bloc that must be either supported or opposed in totality is a manipulative political maneuver and it should be forcefully rejected.

Regulations are not people, and they don't have rights. It is fair and reasonable to demand that environmental regulation justify its existence with hard, scientifically verifiable data or else get chopped. Clearly, banning leaded gasoline has that kind of justification, and therefore I'm strongly in favor of maintaining that ban and extending it wherever it isn't in place yet. The same reasonable standard should be applied to other regulations across the board.

soperj · 6 days ago
> while other environmental regulations do more harm than good and need to be reigned in or eliminated.

Prove it.

u/soperj

KarmaCake day7783May 29, 2012View Original