Considering it was under Mao that Xi’s family was exiled it is a rather salient comparison.

Edit: and we can know how much power Mao had by how big of a power vacuum he left. The fact of the matter is it is a single party republic, and that’s why Mao was replaced with someone more sensible. If there was a sizable power vacuum things would not have turned out this way.

I mean at least 1/3 of Americans say it’s why we have the 2nd amendment. And 2/3 of the Supreme Court would likely agree, just they wouldn’t admit we are at that point where it is necessary. It’s ingrained in our culture down to the American revolution. But yeah, whenever leftist groups arm themselves they get wiped out, see the Black Panthers as an example.

Xi has no more absolute power over the government than Mao had (who was forced to step aside). And saying it is in no way democratic is patently false considering all their politicians need to be elected in at the local level. Lastly, Xi’s family was exiled from Beijing and they survived only to have Xi become the leader.

Cops in my town arrested parents that were handing out water to the students that walked out.

Exhibit A on gallows humor that works in this situation: https://youtu.be/m1r9VtdIMDM

I agree I don’t care much for the jokes from Colbert and Stewart, but I wouldn’t say comedy is the problem. These c9medians seem to think making jokes about hypocrisy is pushing the envelope when its not even the minimum.

Absolutely. It’s amazing how many articles showcasing vibe coding is just people reinventing things like a password generator.

If it gets it wrong the first time I rarely reprompt. I know I can get it to fix it, but it’s usually faster for me to do it because I already figured out where and what to do the fix. Low key think it’s just a ploy to get us to burn more tokens. Sure correcting it means it writes a few lines to the memory file, but it’s only a matter of time before it trips over that context as well.

I have similar problems whenever I send it to investigate a bug and the local runtime is inside a container. It cannot reliably translate paths without the help of an IDE. Hell, it even occasionally mangles API paths if I have it prefixed elsewhere in the codebase (despite having Claude.md etc, your context needs to be pure for it to be reliable). Having it fix a Dockerfile is comically bad.

Any luck with integrating platform.io? Have a esp32 project but VSCode can’t provide type hinting with it’s main c++ extension that is used by platform.io.

Everything listed should be done before ever getting into code along with business and product partners.

Ehh, it really depends on where the risk is and the problem is LLMs can’t evaluate for that unless you feed it everything. Some projects need code experiments before you settle on an architecture, but that’s only if you’re a pioneer (which frankly is where the money is at).

In my experience there are three ways to be successful with this tool:

• write something that already exists so it doesn’t need to think
• do all the thinking for it upfront (hello waterfall development)
• work in very small iterations that doesn’t require any leaps of logic. Don’t reprompt when it gets something wrong, instead reshape the code so it can only get it right

The issue with debugging is that it doesn’t actually think. LLMs pattern match to a chain of thought based on signals, not reasoning. For it to debug you need good signals in your code that explicitly tell what it is doing and the LLMs do not write code with that level of observability by default.

Edit: one of my workflows that I had success with is as follows:

• write a gherkin feature file describing desired functionality, maybe have the LLM create multiple scenarios after I defined one to copy from
• tell the LLM to write tests using those feature files, does an okay job but needs help making tests run in parallel.
• if the feature is simple, ask the LLM to make a plan and review it
• if the feature is complex then stub out the implementation in code and add TODOs, then direct the LLM to plan. Giving explicit goals in the code itself reduces token consumption and yield better plans

The CCP says the same in regards to how it’s equipment does against American planes. The key factor is which side is more capable of adapting.

Fewer cars does not mean fewer cars on the road. Autonomous cars means more cars driving on the road at any given time as now you have empty cars going from person to person. It’s less safe from a total VMT perspective. And they sure as hell will use this as an excuse to not give us mass transit.

Not necessarily. Same number of people are doing the same amount of travel by car, but now instead of the car sitting at parking lot it is driving off to do another errand. More efficient in terms of fewer cars needed, but overall it’s more vehicle miles and more congestion.

More modern democracies like Taiwan have 5 branches of government because thing like the DoJ is just too powerful to be part of another branch.

I blame Chappelle Roan for not being more clear on who we should vote for /s

It’s an analogy that illustrates that you are doing his PR work in order to serve an unrelated cause. Is that clear enough to understand or do you want to send people with butterfly nets after me?

You have two masters and one is problematic. It’s nice that your master said kind things about the other, but you still have two masters.

Edit: I don’t follow the guy, I only know that this is a good thing only IF y’all convince others PewDiePie is a good guy actually.

I think you make a better point than I did. I am responding to someone looking at a racist act and insisting it wasn’t racist but stupid.

He’s too dumb to be intentionally racist but he’s a great spoke person for your cause. 🙄