AstroBen

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by AstroBen 1y ago
good point on the memory feature. Wow that sounds terrible
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by AstroBen 1y ago
not everyone is american
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Even if that's true I imagine there's a huge correlation between not trying on other challenging things and using LLMs for papers
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by AstroBen 1y ago
this immediately comes to mind https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/04/29/supplied_can_ai_change_you... A study on whether LLMs can influence people on r/changemymind
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Not much. Whole grains, frozen veg, nuts, legumes, fruit, the occasional meat.. all these are cheap. You don't need the highest quality organic foods
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> a lot of coding is delving into nuance this is the core issue. The best language we have for specifying this nuance is still programming languages, not English Moving up from ASM -> C -> Python we're mainly abstracting over
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by AstroBen 1y ago
What the end product is depends on the specific parts chosen and the way they're put together Just because the parts are available doesn't mean every possible combination of them has already been made
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Yeah unfair was the wrong word. I mean just to focus on exploitation in the Marxist sense suddenlybananas was using it The economics are the same for a startup and established company, no? I was just talking about that because that's w
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by AstroBen 1y ago
No I had no idea. Thanks
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> Startup investors often treat this like an odds game Yeah, it's not free profit though. If you're not good at choosing investments you end up with 9 out of 10 failing, and 1 only making 2x. That's what I mean by there ar
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by AstroBen 1y ago
The vast majority of startups lose money for their founders. So if that happens the founders should have been paid? The workers were the exploiters? I've hired people first hand for projects that ended up being a flop. They made out mu
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by AstroBen 1y ago
no one will stop me from being sad! How dare they!
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> i have always maintained a slightly underweight body, well into my 30s, despite limited exercise and unrestricted eating I'm the same, but not because my bodies special. I can very easily gain weight and actually have really bad s
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Are we in agreement that for someone without specific medical issues, gaining weight is caused by eating excess calories? What other factors influence that outside of you making the choice to eat something?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Your weight is 100% within your control. There is no luck like there is in business, a career, investments or overall health Survivorship bias is irrelevant
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I've spent years at a healthy BMI when the pandemic was ongoing while getting no exercise. Didn't gain a pound. Weight is all diet. You don't need free time, energy, or money to fix it
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Any tips on coming up with good private evals?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Reminded me of your comment: https://habr.com/en/articles/905812/ "I used technologies and tools I was already very well familiar with: Node.js + Express for the backend and React for the frontend."
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Magic isn't just abstractions. Ruby magic tends towards meta-programming and making as much behavior implicit as possible (a lot of this is cultural). Things that tend to make it fun to write but hell to debug
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I get the most value from it when it comes to refactoring
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by AstroBen 1y ago
"i made that up" ...so they can have a clickbaity title. Guess what - writers just don't care either
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Because I would prefer the Rails side to have good support for static typing
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by AstroBen 1y ago
of course not. I mean the surrounding ecosystems
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Since when? If they're writing online content then that was wiped out somewhat recently by Google changing their search algorithm and killing a huge amount of content based sites
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Developer experience and the choice to keep complexity low make a much bigger difference. The things Rails solves for you are, these days, solved problems in all mature languages that are used in web development (coming from close to a deca
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Yeah I just can't go back. How fast you can confidently refactor and the improved tooling is the biggest thing for me You can do fine without them - Basecamp proved that. There's a good reason basically every other Rails company e
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I just wish Ruby had something with the widespread adoption of TypeScript. Once a project gets large enough it's really painful not having types Sorbet and RBS are okay but they don't really compare
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I think it'll mostly still be centralized around providers I don't see good local models happening on mobile devices anytime soon, and the majority of desktop users will use whatever is the best + most convenient. Competitive open
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Are they not competing with every other massive tech company to acquire the best app layers? I don't think OpenAI has a moat here at all. Their brand advantage is very temporary
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Screenshot / save photo -> add to chatgpt chat -> "where is this taken?" There couldn't possibly be a lower barrier to doing that ChatGPT is also currently the #1 free app on ios and android in the US. Hardly a nic

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