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by Benjammer 2y ago
I think the only reason that demand is endless is due to how profitable it is to sell that attention to advertisers...
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by Benjammer 2y ago
If the influencer is actually giving good advice because it's illegal to pay them to promote a product, is that such a bad thing? What sci fi are you talking about?
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by Benjammer 2y ago
I mean I was just trying to have a conversation you don't have to try and roast me with quote-quips and absurdist comparisons... What is happening to this platform these days?
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by Benjammer 2y ago
Often, imo, this depends on where you want to put the validation complexity. You can move validation to the front end and "prevent constructing bad states" through a combination of good UI and front end data validation, i.e. valid
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by Benjammer 2y ago
non c'est un pipe Ability to generate words describing emotions are not the same thing as the LLM having real emotions
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by Benjammer 2y ago
One thing with a space elevator that makes it so much more efficient than rockets is precisely because you don't necessarily need the payload itself to supply this horizontal acceleration. The space elevator is attached to the ground a
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by Benjammer 2y ago
1. I’ve worked at multiple companies that absolutely have expert interviewers who design the interview questions and then teach mid-level engineers how to proctor them correctly. It’s like one 30 minute meeting, it’s not that big a deal. 2.
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by Benjammer 2y ago
So are we just going with a base assumption that interviewers can NEVER be trusted with anti-bias training and learning how evaluate people fairly? The examples mentioned in this comment section are all blatantly intentional biases that peo
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by Benjammer 2y ago
The way I think about it is LLMs are good at DOING for you, and poor at THINKING for you.
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by Benjammer 2y ago
Why would it be a prudent move to take on the corporate real estate costs associated with RS if it was already a profitable retail channel? What does that change other than increasing overhead for Sprint? And if RS was working, why would co
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by Benjammer 2y ago
They want to spend whatever billions it costs to consolidate the industry and then reap the monopolized profits down the road.
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by Benjammer 2y ago
>before Softbank bought Sprint, they didn't have the capital to upgrade their 2G/3G network to LTE, much less consider a merger with T-Mobile. I think both of us can be right at the same time though. Just because they had probl
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by Benjammer 2y ago
>Sprint's goose was most definitely cooked The reason their goose was cooked is because they previously were planning to acquire T Mobile, but SoftBank got back-channel info that it would never be approved by the anti-trust regulato
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by Benjammer 3y ago
We need O'Reilly: The Good Parts for books...
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by Benjammer 3y ago
The problem is that people like this author are trying to literally treat it like a person instead of an LLM. Like honestly if you look at the linked chat convo early in the article, this person kind of just sucks at prompt engineering, imo
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by Benjammer 3y ago
Have you heard the rule where, if a headline has a question, the answer is ALWAYS "no," because if the answer was "yes," then the article would simply be reporting on a fact and would assert it as a true fact and it woul
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by Benjammer 3y ago
What this post says: "throw away the first draft of your code" What every HN commenter is replying to: "throw away your code" -- I've written software professionally for 14 years and just last week I wrote code for
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by Benjammer 3y ago
I came out of college with a (not computer) engineering degree, and went into software. I totally flunked a software interview one time early in my career because they asked me how to implement "a real-time clock UI," and I spent
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by Benjammer 3y ago
It's along the same lines as Fred Brooks' "Second system effect," although not quite the same.
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by Benjammer 3y ago
"We must respond to defensive fortifications that put missile batteries up outside our sovereign borders with extremely violent, extremely aggressive, expansionary excursions to conquer territory and move our border CLOSER to said miss
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by Benjammer 3y ago
"If you would just do what I told you, you wouldn't get hit!" Big yikes here...
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by Benjammer 3y ago
It's driven purely by jealousy and an intrinsic sense of "fairness" that isn't very logical when you step back and think for a second. I've met plenty of people like this. They aren't thinking about how it&#x27
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by Benjammer 3y ago
Just repeat after me: "We don't have the resources for that"
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by Benjammer 4y ago
There are many types of therapy (CBT, DBT, etc.) where the focus is absolutely not on "just talking" or "just letting it out." Therapy can give you a structured toolbox of exactly those "healthy ways" to deal w
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by Benjammer 4y ago
How is the HQ selection process and surrounding drama related to customer obsession?
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by Benjammer 4y ago
Does this show a random flag each time? You could use a spaced-repitition algorithm to pick which flag to show based on correct/incorrect previous answers.
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by Benjammer 4y ago
If you don't want to actually write the code and deal with the browser webstores, you can also use an "extension builder" tool like https://www.pixiebrix.com/ to call APIs, move data around, and build simple
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by Benjammer 4y ago
Do you say this about the road crews who build and maintain public streets and highways? What about the parks department? Should I pay a fee to enter Central Park for the day? Why can't public transit be a government service? Does ever
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by Benjammer 4y ago
A large chunk of people think that every product should be certified as 100% effective and that just being able to read two numbers and see which one is the smaller number is the absolute maximum amount of work that should be required to be
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by Benjammer 4y ago
It’s fairly trivial to have a virtual camera source and point Zoom to that as it’s input. It has nothing to do with integrating deeply with Zoom or getting “into” your Zoom. Check out Snap Camera[0] for an example. [0] https://sn

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