Barrin92

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by Barrin92 1y ago
Sorry what? You can go out clubbing and drinking and meet 50 new people in Berlin every night. Pretty cheap too, even these days.
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by Barrin92 1y ago
In some sense blog posts like this shouldn't even need to exist, or the doubt you can read between the lines. At 37 you're a decade and a half into adult life, you probably got like 50 years left or who knows how much with what th
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by Barrin92 1y ago
I'm in an equal to equal position to not sign any contract I don't like. What is it with this whiny attitude in this industry? We're talking specifically about software engineers. The guy worked four six figure jobs raking i
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>What is the difference between this and leadership being in the committees That this involved lying to your employers. There is no social expectation that you only work one job, plenty of people work multiple jobs, but there is a social
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>but almost every single job posting in ML is about LLMs not in the defense sector, or aviation, or UAVS, automotive, etc. Any proper real-time vision task where you have to computationally interact with visual data is unsuited for LLMs.
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>your "tribe" won't be around long enough to have this belief "reproduce" and be passed on. This is an atheistic understanding of the world that a Quaker obviously wouldn't share. Self-sacrifice aren't
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Ukraine losing the war will be a massive blow for Europe There is no such thing. Even if Ukraine cannot recapture all of the lost territory, it's Russia who has already lost. That a country four times the population, ten times as r
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>How is that that different than working in a large codebase with 25+ other devs. Who says it is? The arguably most famous book in the history of software engineering makes that point and precedes LLMs by half a century
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>Did Americans have an impoverished standard of living in the 1980s? Yes. Ask some of your older relatives who remember that time how often they got hand-me-downs or patched old clothes up and compare it to the wardrobe of an average inc
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>breaking license will do what? The same thing breaking any license does. If you do it in your basement, nothing by definition. If you incorporate it in a service or distribute it as part of a project, well then you're on the hook.
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>This is an observational study there is no way to pinpoint causation. Given that AI tools are only really used for white collar work, but white collar professions have not been declining faster than entry level jobs in hospitality, vo
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Why not go to the gym instead or something? Why not read 20 classics instead of 2? Because as Nabokov said, what a scholar one could be if one could only read five or six books. Real knowledge lies in depth, full exploration, individuat
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>I think “design” is the wrong word. it's exactly the right word. Taylor Swift herself is a product. No less artificial than Boy bands and Kpop idol groups. These aren't hit or miss businesses, they're scientifically engin
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>All of the author's concerns could've been solved or greatly mitigated by loading her PKM into a model as context No, because the correctly identified concern by the author is much deeper. Knowledge isn't some repository
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>While in the West people have no respect to other people Big overgeneralization. Here in Germany the "Recht am Eigenen Bild" (literally right to your own image) has existed for decades, and similar to Japan publishing images
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by Barrin92 1y ago
it's not even about intelligence as much as it is about the background of these people. A lot of them are gifted kids coming out of academic households, prep schools and ivy league colleges and quite a few are on the spectrum. When peo
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>but from what I heard startups are moving away from Europe pretty much the other way around. Europe's startup base is still smaller than the US but has been growing faster. It's now 20% or so of global VC capital compared to a
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>That it's considered an investment vehicle is downstream from the rising markets That's not what its downstream from, that's restating the same thing in financial terms. What it's actually downstream from is that Jap
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>Those feel like very distinct categories. They aren't. In the sense that, while a lot of Iranians are exasperated with their clerical elite under normal conditions and abscence of external threats, even domestic regime opponents te
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> founders in the EU can chime in on some of the challenges they face when building within the EU versus the US. the answer is very simple, raising capital. It has nothing to do with regulations, filling out paperwork in Germany is annoy
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the entire point is that in this analogy youtube is quite literally the mega chain self serving restaurant on the most decrepit corner, somehow charging you premium prices despite you having to refill your own water. They're curating n
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I assume with the same amount of magic as they do at all the other streaming platforms, but they still manage to serve up original content. Hence, as a consumer, this seems like a shoddy deal. You're basically paying for ad-free slop,
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Paying 13 bucks per month, which is a non trivial amount for a lot of people if it competes with other subcription services, merely to block ads on a website that doesn't even produce its own content is in my opinion one of the worst
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>"frankly, that they gave off some (not all) of the vibes of a cult, with Eliezer as guru. Eliezer writes in parables and koans. He teaches that the fate of life on earth hangs in the balance, that the select few who understand the
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by Barrin92 1y ago
It would be of great use if it did that. Technology can roughly be grouped in two categories. One that enhances, amplifies and develops innate human capacity, and tools that diminish it. Using a bow engages more faculties, both physical and
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>A lot of the time it feels flat and dull in comparison to other large cities [...] My personal theory is that it’s just too rich and developed; you need cheap ‘edgy’ areas As someone hailing from Cologne but with lots of friends in Muni
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> Brownian motion until you do or get tired The point of movement for npcs in a videogame isn't to behave realistically (or to be simulated fully), it's to produce engaging and challenging behavior to the player. In 99% of case
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I remember one of the Advent of Code challenges had a hex grid puzzle on it, and Red Blob Games hex grid guide was so good the site got hugged to death because of it for a while. Used that later when I built a civ clone too, it's a fan
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but you don't blame gravity when someone pushes you off your bike. The point isn't that it's not real, it is that you decided the rules of the game when you built a protocol. It's like publishing something under a permis
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can people stop bringing up this thought terminating cliche every five minutes, it's like the HN version of that quip about Rudy Guliani, "everything he says is a verb a noun and 9/11." Any open protocol will always be s

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