Insanity

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by Insanity 7mo ago
I love my Kindle, I think it's Amazon's best product. But even so I'm not sure who the target audience is here. It's an already pretty saturated market for Android devices, and I don't think Amazon has any 'edg
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Lol yeah, that's fair. Either way it's hard to take an article seriously when it starts off like that.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
It's a geopolitical reality. Not liking the 'us against them' mentality is fair enough, I agree with that, but we can't be blind to what's happening around us. Also, I do think that there's benefit to opting fo
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Ah, I did not know that. I thought it was more Electron-like.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Captain Steve breakdown: https://youtu.be/Hx-GFeErXD8?si=iND_BkDrtGNapB7Q His videos are pretty insightful and always respectful. Highly recommended. Expect him to have new videos as more information becomes available.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Speculating - but an iOS app that's build on React Native is not really a 'native iOS app'. Which might have some performance implications etc. Just speculating, I've not done mobile development since before RN was even
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by Insanity 7mo ago
When they claimed "Gödel’s findings may seem rather obvious" that kinda put me off of the article. Obvious to whom? It wasn't obvious at the time and I'm sure _most_ people haven't even heard or thought about the pr
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by Insanity 7mo ago
The 'B' in 400B is billion, not bytes. And the quote '640k ought to be enough for everyone' doesn't have evidence supporting Bill G said it: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1563853/th
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Thanks for the heads up. For the most part he interviews people with hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers on social media. So not random nobodies, and at least some of the names I’d at least heard of (like the Tate brothers).
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I think it’s more than just translating to a non-understanding audience. I think it’s their point of view being tainted by the technology of their age, so the firmly believe it’s true. But I agree, it’s not a compelling argument especially
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by Insanity 7mo ago
The way we humans see ourselves depends a lot on the technology of the time. An example I quite like is that when steam engines were all the rage, Freud compared the brain to a steam engine. Now that computers are all the hype, we compare t
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Only recently learned about the 'red pill' thing by watching the 'manosphere' documentary by Louis Theroux. For others unaware how it relates to the above comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manos
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I'm a SWE manager as well. I always tell my team that learning is part of the job, and so it can happen on the job. To be honest, it worked out pretty well. and I lead by example, I'll read something interesting during work and sh
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by Insanity 7mo ago
While I agree with everything you said, Amazon’s problems aren’t just Kiro messing up. It’s a brain drain due to layoffs, and then people quitting because of the continuous layoff culture. While publicly they might say this is AI driven, I
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Sounds like an extension of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect , but sub newspaper for large language model.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Not mutually exclusive, but I thought your initial post painted an overly rosy picture with the sentence "[..] allowing millions of people to finally use the devices they've been sitting in front of all these years". I don&#x
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I disagree. There's definitely _some_ who will use these tools to build systems for themselves. But do you think the chef who's been pulling insane hours in the restaurant wants to come home and build his own software? Or the teac
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by Insanity 7mo ago
My SO is now using it. I’m waiting for her impressions to decide if I want to do so. The dentist told me I’d only need it for like 3-4 months, minor corrections. But it seems like such a hassle. Always having to remove it before eating anyw
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Oh wow, coincidentally I watched a Chuck Norris film recently with my (90 year old) grandmother, which resulted in me diving down a bunch of Chuck Norris memes for the first time in more than a decade. RIP
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Or just give them access to “tokens” as needed by business use-case? Doesn’t make sense to see this as a salary/benefit and then also expect them to use it for work related tasks.
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Micronation(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Insanity 7mo ago
And even if they did go back to normal for the next presidency - why trust it? Their entire political system is set up so that the winds can change entirely every 4 years. If the people voted Trump in to office twice, it’ll happen again. I
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I was writing it somewhat tongue-in-cheek and not as a serious suggestion. But thanks for adding the disclaimer, that's good advice!
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Extend your VRAM using RAM, then extend your RAM using Swap.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
That's a positive interpretation. You might be right, either way that's what I pointed them to. I don't think the LLMs will really replace engineers in the foreseeable future, and so learning the languages and the fundamental
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Didn't pick up on that when I was there. But I'll say that Chichen is definitely worth a visit and only about a 2h drive from Cancun! You can do a tour with a group like Xcaret so you don't even have to drive there yourself.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
This gave me a good laugh. I think you got auto-corrected from 'Chichén Itzá', to 'Chicken'.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
That's just gambling without any basis for reality though. Not sure if you're actually attributing any weight to random gamblers lol.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Yeah, but I doubt many of the newer generation are going to read this. I manage a team of engineers, and one of the recent-ish graduates asked me in our 1-on-1 if it's still worth learning Python given that he can just write prompts. (
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by Insanity 7mo ago
It's easy to see this outside of the perspective of a solo game developer. We all have deadlines to manage even in the regular 'corporate world'. And engineering time spent on a problem also translates to an actual cost. It&#

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