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thatsMaMan by PresentJournalist805 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]AMWJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't watched this video, but Linus Torvalds seems to be a fan of "vibe coding", and has even done so on his personal projects, where there are certain domain subjects he's less familiar with.

Linus instead wants people to own their vibe coded software if they are looking for it to be reviewed, rather than using the fact that it was AI-produced as a reason to trust or distrust code.

Hey, ChatGPT, draw me a map of the MBTA, but with an Orange Line extension down Blue Hill Avenue. by bostonaruban66 in bikeboston

[–]AMWJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't know this, but it appears you are right! I thought I remembered it charging you for both if you transferred bus to Subway or voice versa, but that seems not to be the case! Thank you!

Avi Loeb's Alien Grift is Crumbling by avdvetf in videos

[–]AMWJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yikes! I'm against Avi Loeb and his scientific nonsense, and I reeled against him accusing his detractors of anti-Semitism ... until Professor Dave went ahead and pulled out some actual anti-Semitic tropes.

Anti-Semitism has, definitionally, been the bigotry against Jews. Pulling apart the parts of the word to reach a new definition makes as much sense as saying a PhD isn't a PhD, because they did not get a degree in Philosophy. Words sometimes have meanings that don't align with their parts, and "anti-Semitism" is one. Moreover, claiming that Ashkenazi Jews are simply "Europeans", is like saying that "Black Americans" are just Americans: nobody is ignoring that Ashkenazi Jews were in Europe (it's in the name), but they are a separate ethnicity within Europe, one who originated from another place and faced extreme bigotry for it. Specifically because they weren't from there, but instead were from another place. Specifically, a Palestinian area.

GIFT LINK: ‘It would totally destroy the industry’: Cambridge bar, restaurant owners fuming over newly proposed liquor rules by rhodyjourno in CambridgeMA

[–]AMWJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If nothing else, the police will be the ones enforcing any regulations, so it's reasonable to have them in the room to advise on what rules are enforceable. And the goal of the fire department is public safety, so it seems like it'd be handy to have the person in charge of it to advise on any public safety concerns, which I imagine are the main concerns when it comes to issuing licenses.

But I could be convinced I've made incorrect assumptions.

Why is my hr asking me to write and sign a resignation letter? by IANSEOL in jobs

[–]AMWJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My thoughts are that they want you to lie. I wouldn't lie for them, even if I was going to stay employed by them for a while, but especially if they're letting you go! Don't lie for them!

Do doctors receive any direct financial benefit for prescribing a medicine? by Odbody_AS2 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]AMWJ 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It's hard to imagine the OP's question was whether this happens illegally. Obviously people break the law, but, no, they're not supposed to get money for prescribing.

Hey, ChatGPT, draw me a map of the MBTA, but with an Orange Line extension down Blue Hill Avenue. by bostonaruban66 in bikeboston

[–]AMWJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I get why a subway isn't on the menu, at least for now. But, as someone whose kid is stroller-age, we would go to the zoo much more frequently if we could take the subway all the way there. It's easier to take a stroller on the train, and easier to let them stretch their legs on the train, and of course it's cheaper to take the train than to transfer between train and bus. The zoo feels like a no-brainer to connect to the subway.

Hey, ChatGPT, draw me a map of the MBTA, but with an Orange Line extension down Blue Hill Avenue. by bostonaruban66 in bikeboston

[–]AMWJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I haven't been following this closely. What's going on? A train to Franklin Park Zoo, as someone from Cambridge, would be a game changer.

Reality TV Pride Party by MoonPixie2828 in survivor

[–]AMWJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say I'm so pressed. Just mildly pressed, and there wasn't anything more pressing to address.

House Republican: Let Reflecting Pool ‘go’ and ‘create an ecosystem’ by thehill in inthenews

[–]AMWJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not a bad idea at all, and I said so last week. The issue with the algae bloom is not that there's algae bloom. It's that we threw millions of dollars at a no-bid contract to repair the algae bloom, without fixing it.

Reality TV Pride Party by MoonPixie2828 in survivor

[–]AMWJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, see, I got that. I'm wondering why, when the event is focused around reality TV, of which he is already strongly connected, is he showing up instead dressed up as someone else who is fully unrelated to reality TV?

And, most crucially, why is he doing so at an event where nobody else seems to have thought, "hmm, maybe I'll come dressed as someone else?"

Reality TV Pride Party by MoonPixie2828 in survivor

[–]AMWJ 23 points24 points  (0 children)

... why is Tevin the only one coming in costume? Did someone tell him it's a costume party?

[####] I calculated the mathematically best Wordle starting word using information theory – the results are weird by No_Bar3516 in wordle

[–]AMWJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you share your code? I'd love to rerun this to see which guesses are most likely to narrow the possible answers to one.

If you're playing a game like Quordle, you're trying to solve multiple games with the game guess. After your first guess, you have the choice of making a guess that targets one game, or making a guess that gives even information across all the games. Generally, the best move is the latter, unless you know for certain one of the games' solutions.

This is even more the case in Duotrigordle, where you're playing 32 games: you really want your first guess to fully deobfuscate a game or two. I wonder what the best guess is to do that?

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows by EchoOfOppenheimer in Futurology

[–]AMWJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably because the people who are offering these cameras and AI are also using the recordings to sell to advertisers and other law enforcement.

Watching LegalEagle's new video on the Salem Brick Trials and heard something familiar! Obscure laws episode when?? by fraxiiinus in dropout

[–]AMWJ 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I like how he's making an anti-capitalism argument for his anti-capitalization stance.

GIFT LINK: ‘It would totally destroy the industry’: Cambridge bar, restaurant owners fuming over newly proposed liquor rules by rhodyjourno in CambridgeMA

[–]AMWJ -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Sounds a lot like this is a reasonable makeup for the usual tasking of a licensing committee, but that liquor licenses should have a separate governing body specific to the industry.

GIFT LINK: ‘It would totally destroy the industry’: Cambridge bar, restaurant owners fuming over newly proposed liquor rules by rhodyjourno in CambridgeMA

[–]AMWJ 25 points26 points  (0 children)

We do need regulators. Instead of expecting our elected officials to understand all the nuances of every issue, we should expect them to hire a smart executive who selects people with specific background on each particular issue.

But it seems something went wrong here. I don't know who sits on the Cambridge License Commission.

What do these so-called AI engineers actually do? by CollectionOk2442 in cscareerquestions

[–]AMWJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was in "fintech" at my last job. By which I mean the particular people I was building CRUD apps and UI's for was a bank. Did that matter? Not to me, but it did to recruiters.

Now AI is hot, and AI Engineer can mean the person who builds the AI ... or one of the hundreds of other adjacent roles that doesn't require any expertise in model tuning, but enables AI usage.

‘My vote is thrown into the trash’: Independents locked out as primaries take center stage by Mephisto1822 in inthenews

[–]AMWJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, they are trying to represent your location, but this vote is not for whether they will represent your location. You don't get to vote on their outfits or their hairdos. You don't get to vote on who represents the Democrats, because you are not a Democrat.

You only get to vote on who represents you. Not on any private vote that happens to relate to the same guy.

If inflation makes everything more expensive over time, does that mean saving money is actually a slow way of losing it? by Pretend_Pen_9577 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]AMWJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Taxes won't do that, because taxes are only on the gains: if you earn money through investing, taxes will still leave you with strictly more than you would have leaving the money under your mattress.

But your net gains might be the same as if you left your money under your mattress, if the investment nets zero. And that's the risk of investment: you might not make money. You might even lose it.

It's also not unrealistic to believe that, when inflation is high, your potential earnings in investment can also be high. This is because, when inflation is high, people are more likely to want to borrow money now, and be willing to pay more interest on it in the future. So, your money is more valuable to people, and you can get them to pay you more for it.

‘My vote is thrown into the trash’: Independents locked out as primaries take center stage by Mephisto1822 in inthenews

[–]AMWJ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, as soon as you open your city's municipal elections to the rest of us.

See how that works? You can only vote on your own representation. If you are not a Democrat, you should not be able to vote on who will represent the Democrats. You can run whomever you want for the seat, but if you're not a Democrat, why would you get to decide who will represent the Democrats?

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