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speff commented on Where I'm at with AI paulosman.me/2026/01/18/w... · Posted by u/crashwhip

rootnod3 · 2 months ago

for<TAB>….

Yeh, you are right. A snippet for they would have taken longer than booting an agent and let it hallucinate for—loop parameters that didn’t even exist.

speff · 2 months ago

This hasn't been the case in my experience, but I don't doubt it can happen.

speff commented on Where I'm at with AI paulosman.me/2026/01/18/w... · Posted by u/crashwhip

bandrami · 2 months ago

> I use it for routine coding tasks like generating scaffolding or writing tests

IDK this sounds a whole lot like paying for snippets

speff · 2 months ago

Framed this way, it's useful for saving time creating or finding those snippets at least.

speff commented on We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable eclypsium.com/blog/xray-c... · Posted by u/aa_is_op

sidewndr46 · 2 months ago

I felt the same way reading this. A fake FTDI cable? I mean there's no way right? I've never bothered to verify but I'm pretty sure I don't actually even have a single authentic one. I wouldn't know where to order from if I wanted an authentic one.

speff · 2 months ago

I'd think the usual trusted sources for an authentic one - digikey, mouser, sparkfun.

Amazon, ebay, and similar others for the (cheaper) counterfeits.

speff commented on U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us... · Posted by u/reaperducer

Nursie · 2 months ago

China is likely to use its influence to push "TCM" further into the narrative. Not that the US national health agenda is exemplary in its use of evidence and scientific knowledge at the moment either.

Sad all round.

(Edit - downvoters, do you not agree that this is likely, or do you think that it's OK?

If the former, it's been done before so it seems very likely to me. If the latter then I have to say I agree with this take in scientific american - "To include TCM in the ICD is an egregious lapse in evidence-based thinking and practice."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-health-...)

speff · 2 months ago

Traditional Chinese Medicine and International Classification of Diseases - for people who didn't click the link

speff commented on Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 openculture.com/2026/01/d... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

MontyCarloHall · 2 months ago

I very much doubt the majority of adults with sufficient practice could do this level of work. I can say with 100% certainty that an infinitesimal minority of 12 year olds with sufficient practice could do this level of work.

speff · 2 months ago

What are you basing this off of? Do you actually have any experience making art? Or is this just learned helplessness talking?

Also please stop implying I said any 12 year old can do this. I didn't. Once again, I said anyone who puts in the time can do what 12-year old Michelangelo did.

speff commented on Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 openculture.com/2026/01/d... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

MontyCarloHall · 2 months ago

>Anyone can do this level of work - they just need to actually learn it.

Sorry, that's like saying with enough math practice, any kid could perform at the level of young Terry Tao (e.g. teaching himself calculus at 8, winning a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad at 12). Some people are just intrinsically talented at certain things, and no amount of hard work in people lacking those intrinsic talents will get them to that level. This is indisputable when it comes to athletic talent; everyone would agree that no matter how much an average tall person practices basketball, they will never play at the level of Michael Jordan, LeBron James, or even the lowest ranked NBA player [0], for that matter. Artistic and intellectual talent is no different.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1oxpng5/til_...

speff · 2 months ago

I didn't say anyone can become Michelangelo. I said anyone can do this level of work.

That is, the exact same thing he did when he was 12, which is a master study. He didn't create the design - he copied a previous work and added color to find out what Schongauer's thought process was when making the original piece.

speff commented on Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 openculture.com/2026/01/d... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

LegitShady · 2 months ago

Not his first painting. Nobody picks up a brush for the first time and paints like that. Not an original work either. Just a practice masterstudy, one of many many many he'd made up to that point I'm sure.

speff · 2 months ago

It's impressive that he did it at 12, but like you said, he had years of focused practice under his belt before he did this one. Anyone can do this level of work - they just need to actually learn it. It doesn't require someone be born with talent.

Articles like this contribute towards the gatekeeping feeling people get about the arts in my opinion.

speff commented on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis 404media.co/elite-the-pal... · Posted by u/fajmccain

no-dr-onboard · 2 months ago

I'd like to invite you to prove any three of your points.

speff · 2 months ago

It’s hard to prove without knowing the app devs, but for points 1 & maybe 2, we can look at whether Americans think the raids are justified.

28% of them think they are [0]. It wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility that the devs would be part of that number

Edit: it looks like the poll it’s for the recent incident of the woman who was shot - my mistake. Then I would assume the number for the raids themselves is higher

[0]: https://x.com/YouGovAmerica/status/2010853750618063016

speff commented on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines twitter.com/eastdakota/st... · Posted by u/sidcool

speff · 2 months ago

Google and Verizon were under fire recently from the DOJ for not complying with the govt's anti-DEI stance quickly enough[0]. If these policies truly aren't in the companies best interests, they would've dropped the policies on Jan 20th. Instead, they chose to continue them. I don't see how this squares with your assertion that they don't want to continue following DEI in staffing.

[0]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/doj-targets-google...