The topic at hand seems to shift the quality of the discussion greatly these days. Many people have thoughts on coding agents because they are aimed at the lower quartiles of coders. Far less have detailed opinions on other ways they could wield a Markov model.

I believe the person you're replying to meant local inferencing. The tool you shared, like most (all?) LLM utilities, is wrapping API calls.

https://github.com/theJayTea/WritingTools/blob/main/Windows_...

You took a presumption and ran with it into baseless vitriol

>either I nor most the people I know will ever vote R again

This statement shows that the person has voted Trump in the past election, not sure how thats a presumption.

The deposing of the Shah only took three days. Three days to create half-a-century of turmoil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

The Shah and the current state of Iran comes to mind.

No. The most similar precedent was the Panama invasion and arrest of Noriega.

..."first with Bitcoin"? Is that the narrative we're buying now? That this problem starts at Bitcoin? Not the coal-fired electrical grid fueling it?

Any proof-of-work cryptocurrency is literally a system that incentivizes runaway, self-reinforcing energy consumption like no other product in human history. Bringing it into the world is the dumbest idea that any human has ever had. I hope Satoshi is ashamed of his mental lapse.

Just purchased it. I never would have read it otherwise.

Seems like the marketing strategy for the book worked.

I don't even frame my requests conversationally. They usually read like brief demands, sometimes just comma delimited technologies followed by a goal. Works fine for me, but I also never prompt anything that I don't already understand how to do myself. Keeps the cart behind the horse.

I've started putting in my system prompt "keep answers brief and don't talk in the first/second person". Gets rid of all the annoying sycophancy and stops it from going on for ten paragraphs. I can ask for more details when I need it.

Wherein the assertion was made (by exclusion) that wind and solar are not energy sources. It seems the real intention really was to cull renewables after all, though I doubt anyone is surprised.

Think this is a natural extension of the commodification of SWEs over the last 10-20 years as the newest easy way to make six figures

Indeed. I can't fault people for wanting to give their careers a boost in these increasingly trying times. As someone who stepped into analytics just in time to catch the wave (10 years ago), I can understand why someone would want to hop aboard.

That said, I at least took the time to learn the maths.