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dhork

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  • Yes Obviously the Senate Should be Abolished

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  • There can be a reason to leave two different legislative bodies both agree on legislation before it advances, with different rules, as it ensures more deliberation before new laws are sent to the President for signature.

    And as I mentioned in another post, there can be value in having an entire state vote for a Senate seat, because then that seat is not so easy to gerrymander.

    Perhaps we need a different system than "2 Senators for each state, regardless of size". But then in order to get that, the current States need to mostly agree, and there are enough small states which will lose too much power.

  • Yes Obviously the Senate Should be Abolished

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  • Ironically, though, Senate seats are more often in play than House seats, because their borders are set, and they can't be gerrymandered to advantage one side or the other. Yes, the population of a state can lean one way or the other, but thatis much harder to game.

    I would be in favor of keeping the Senate, but balancing out the seats a bit, and removing the requirement that 2 seats go to every state. Large states might get 3 or 4 Senators. Small states may have to share one. You may have some "redistricting" where which state is assigned to which seat changes, but there would no longer be such a discrepancy between Senators and how many people they represent.

  • 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

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  • I can believe that an agent can do 80% of a competent job. But the 80/20 rule posits that the 20% is the hard part, the part that actually justifies your salary. If a human is not going to go in and do that 20% (which might be 80% of the effort), then having the AI do the easiest 80% doesn't gain you anything at all.

  • 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

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  • In fairness, this was all on a switch, where the commands are very tightly tied to the vendor and their underlying in-house shell. So commands may vary by release greatly. I was already explicitly telling the bot what software version and licenses I had, but ultimately I had to resort to the CLI's help function at times and tell the bot "The command you gave me didn't work. Here's where it broke, and here's the commands it will accept". Given that information, it could (generally) figure it all out.

  • 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

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  • I have serious issues with being fed confidently incorrect answers.

    Except I have plenty of experience dealing with this from humans. (Mainly from the aforementioned new managers, because being wrong with confidence seems to be a key trait to get promoted.) It's been my experience that when you tell an AI "I just tried that and it didn't work", it will accept that more readily than a human would.

    Every bit of AI-generated code that I use, even in the smallest and most meaningless context, has to pass my own review first. I have to understand every line, and if I don't I will ask the bot to explain what it did. By the time I am done with it, I can stand behind it just as if I wrote it all myself. I might note that I got AI help, but if my name is on the commit I will not pass the buck on any errors.

  • 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

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  • I had this experience once. We have a ChatGPT license where I work, and I asked it to configure a switch that I wasn't familiar with. I simply described in words what network architecture I wanted and it did it! It even made some nice-looking documentation.

    But, then I tried the new configs, and they didn't work. It turns out there were some key syntax things it got wrong. And the documentation was wrong on top of that, with incorrect diagrams, and when I asked it to fix it it made different errors I the diagrams in different places. On balance, I still saved some time over reading all the manuals and figuring out the syntaxes myself, but only because I made my own documentation with the results that worked. If I had trusted the AI I would be sunk.

    I've concluded that AI gives the illusion of competence, like a overly confident new manager. This can be very attractive to a less experienced person. But it's really guessing, just like we all are. It can just guess after actually "reading" all the manuals. I haven't used AI to write anything more than simple configurations and helper scripts. If I did want to use AI for more it would be in more of a pair-programming context. I might have a window open where I describe some things and ask for analysis, but I wouldn't just run anything it does blindly.

  • Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump

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  • Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump

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  • If the army ever commissions a golf cart, maybe that would be appropriate.

  • Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump

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  • Orange is the new Black

  • Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump

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  • USS Shitzenpantz

  • 'Darth Vader' Wants Flock in San Diego

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  • Many Bothans died to bring us this video

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    White House says Trump tariffs are driving automakers to expand U.S. production

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  • You forgot the link

  • Crypto bank part-owned by Trump family offers depositors way to ‘gain favor’ with White House, experts say

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  • The first distinctive feature of this bank – and stablecoin operations like it – is that there is almost no risk that it can lose money.

    Nice try, AI. There have been a ton of stablecoins that have lost their peg: https://www.chainsec.io/failed-stablecoins

    This man has bankrupted casinos, not because the casinos themselves were unprofitable, but because he loaded them up with debt and then was able to evade responsibility for paying it off via bankruptcy. He is the last person I would trust to run a bank. (Or a country, but that ship has already sailed....)

  • US, Canada agree deal that pauses 50% tariffs, Trump says

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  • "I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the USA, subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

    Did he really announce this first on Truth Social? The platform where he sells advance access to his posts? How much money did he just make by giving his paying customers advanced notice of US Government trade policy?

  • Majority of Americans say corruption influences decisions of the federal government

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  • Republicans run for office by complaining about how corrupt Government is, then get elected and prove it.

  • The AI Bubble Warning Just Came From Europe’s Central Bank

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  • Euro-area households hold approximately €440 billion in exposure to the Magnificent Seven — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and Tesla

    That article is using a bit of AI math there. Or are they overweighting Amazon on purpose?

  • We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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  • Interesting that the buyers are willing to pay "top prices" and yet unwilling to spend the money to scan these books non-destructively.

  • Polling putting Democratic Socialist in the lead was fake, admits firm

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  • It “was not funded, commissioned, or directed by any candidate, campaign, political party, PAC, media organisation, or other outside entity”, it added.

    I bet it was Elon

  • Blanche: Congress has already approved White House ballroom project

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