AaronAPU

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by AaronAPU 4mo ago
That’s too strong of an assertion. Local models aren’t deterministically equivalent in capabilities to foundation models. Home computers are turing complete; just like a mainframe. They are just slower. Often not slower enough to matter.
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by AaronAPU 4mo ago
I would imagine nearly every programmer who has ever used a DAW has thought “this would be cool to have its own scripting language.” They already had Python. Mentioning an architecturally obvious idea in a job application is likely to read
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by AaronAPU 4mo ago
It is definitely a different type of stress. I used to lock in on one problem in deep work. Now it’s a constant juggling of 7 problems. It feels good to close one out, but your other 6 keep you perpetually locked in the stress loop.
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by AaronAPU 10mo ago
You know nothing about my metabolism.
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by AaronAPU 10mo ago
My hunger feels 8 trillion times worse than an obese person’s. Since I am making the claim, everyone else has to affirm it now.
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by AaronAPU 10mo ago
But it is factually true that it’s a matter of willpower, no amount of reframing it is going to change that. It’s not like others like myself, currently on a cut cycle, don’t experience hunger. The idea that we are just “lucky” ignores all
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by AaronAPU 10mo ago
Interesting read. In modern life almost everyone experiences at least a brief if perhaps isolated/niche version of fame. We are just so heavily connected in so many different networks, it just statistically is likely to happen at some
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by AaronAPU 10mo ago
Not a single person “knows” the bubble will pop. Many think it will.
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by AaronAPU 10mo ago
I think the agent mode stuff only works well on trivial projects. But the top tier models can be very productive with carefully constructed prompts and manually curated contexts for large mono repos.
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by AaronAPU 10mo ago
Even never touching or being in the same room as cannabis does not per se prevent psychosis
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by AaronAPU 10mo ago
Theres this pattern where you make your wealth off dubious means, then one day become born again and start a new life where you gain more popularity and influence by speaking out against the reason you have a megaphone at all. These people
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by AaronAPU 10mo ago
Social media is becoming less a place to communicate with people and more just a place to navigate the hierarchy of potential conversations.
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
I think it is reasonable to expect privacy when reading social media. Not so much when posting routinely to millions of people while claiming to be some non-anonymous person you aren’t. Does the distinction not make sense from your perspect
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
If you disagree with my opinions, it means you aren’t as smart as me.
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
It is exhausting deciding which model to use on any given day.
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
Everything good enough to become popular gets swarmed by the teeming masses and then exploited and destroyed. The only solution seems to be to constantly abandon those things and move on to new frontiers to enjoy until the cycle repeats.
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
It sounds patronizing to me. But Gemini also likes to say things like “as a fellow programmer, I also like beef stew”
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
The only really incredible VR experience I have had so far was Half-life Alyx. Is there anything that tier or even better these days?
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
Got any idea what sort of tech you’ll mess around with?
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
Is this a digital reader? My readings were always high both at the doctors and at home. Bought an old school analog cuff and stethoscope, now it’s like 120/70 almost every time. It was apparently the lack of control and the whizzing mo
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
I’m mid 40s and took the other route. I was self-taught and decide long ago that I never wanted to manage other people. So instead now I run a small solo audio company. Never have to deal with anyone but my own customers. I consider it a cr
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
LLMs basically act as defense attorneys for all your dumbest ideas. It is very easy to assume their confidence in you is justified, especially if you already lean narcissistic. You now see threads on X of famous people using Grok to explain
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
Finding enjoyment in things that are difficult or painful is the probably highest impact quality of life lesson you can learn.
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
I’ve been hesitant for fear of injury harming the ability to type, but might give it a go in the spring. Thanks for mentioning this I’m inspired to try it finally.
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
Well “fortunately” I’m forced to have a strict diet due to some sort of IBS issues. For that, I use the MacroFactor app and talk through my daily recipes with ChatGPT, making sure to hit the macros and calories targets while also optimizing
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
They have me on blood pressure meds and do the usual blood tests, the tests I considered have been elective and I requested them explicitly. Just haven’t followed through due to aforementioned hesitations. I’m very much aware heart issues r
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
I was planning to start getting scans ordered for specific risks like aneurysm or heart attack but what holds me back is the idea the scans will harm me worse than those things. It is very difficult to have any level of confidence with the
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
Reading this, I have no idea which of the thousands of new media silos you inhabit. But they all tell different mutually exclusive narratives. So statistically, even if one is purely honest and accurate, most likely you aren’t in that one p
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
Yeah, and I don’t mean to be complaining. I made the choice to move to the middle of nowhere and change industries. None of my contacts have relevance in this one and there is no presence in my area for networking. In any case, I can’t comp
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by AaronAPU 11mo ago
YouTubers and other social media influencers are a sort of royalty now, getting to decide by fiat which companies live or die. But you can’t really even make the case to them anymore because like you said they can’t/won’t even read you

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