JohnBooty

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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
The people are not fine with bad strawberries but they don't know good strawberries You most definitely get this phenomenon with tomatoes. There’s little demand for actually good tomatoes, because most people don’t even kno
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
I have a friend who works in the flavor and fragrance industry and one of the things strawberry fragrance is used for is… (drum roll) actual strawberries. Yep, a light spritz of strawberry scent on actual fucking strawberries apparently m
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
I’m maybe going to blow some fucking minds here — learning this certainly blew my own mind —- BUT I have a friend who works in the “fragrance and flavor” industry. (Which is actually pretty fascinating, mostly in the sense that there are
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
You're correct about some things but mostly wrong. Yes, a Mac with 128GB+ will let you load some pretty big models. However, you're still not going to be able to run them at usable speeds. Here are some M5 Max benchmarks on a Qwen
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I wholeheartedly agree with them... Quick background: doing AI inference requires three things. Lots of memory, lots of memory bandwidth, and of course plenty of compute that has access t
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
would you be dissatisfied by Opus-4.6-level open-weight models, just because Opus 4.8 will be out? Well, I see what you mean, but two big concepts... 1A. Models get stale pretty quickly w.r.t. new developments that occur past
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
Those concepts still exist and I'd highly recommend them when possible. We also had, and still have, concepts called "time" and "money" and perhaps you've heard that they're finite and often in short suppl
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by JohnBooty 4mo ago
You'll surely understand if you ever take the plunge and run your own business. You're going to have to spend quite a bit of time and/or money doing things unrelated to the actual product and CX. Taxes, marketing, etc. The mo
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
Do you think that AI could actually free up time in your life in other areas, so that you could spend more time doing the things you love like making furniture? Or maybe help you directly in your furniture-making, by perhaps helping you t
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
This dichotomy is so false. However else you feel, AI is a force multiplier, and that can also REALLY benefit "Artisanal work + Small Business" I feel like the "one person app creator" business is so much more viable t
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
The other driving variable, which I left to implication, was inertia. Right. That's pretty orthogonal to "how many laptop models is enough laptop models?" though. No, there's really not. I've already
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
Given a choice between good/better/best We're not on the same page at all. I don't think anybody is doubting the tried-and-true good/better/best split. What I and others have always questioned is how
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
If you want a PC and your favorite brand is missing something that a competitor has, it's easy to switch Yeah. Although, there's no "logical" reason for their for their psychedelically large laptop li
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
I agree with the agency aspect. But... as team size grows, LLMs can be more valuable in other ways. Larger teams typically have larger codebases to comprehend, more users, more bug reports to triage, etc. It's SO much easier to get up
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
For sure, the red pill is a direct reference to the Matrix. I think previous poster was asking if the Matrix took that idea from somewhere. Its kind of weird they have such degratory views on sex and gender, given the directors o
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
Truthfully (IIRC) the book is more about "Influencing People" than "Making Friends." But, it's about doing it in a genuine way. I think it's puzzling that so many people here attach such a negative connotatio
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
"Influence" is a perfectly neutral term. Martin Luther King Jr. influenced people. Gandhi influenced people. Mozart influenced people. Your favorite teacher influenced you.
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
Yeah. It's only wrong if there's deception involved, or a failure to care about the needs of the other.
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
Like other skills it can absolutely be cultivated. Even if one doesn't "naturally" care about others, it's also true that even from a totally selfish perspective it still kind of pays dividends to be a good person, be
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
Don't be silly. Influencing somebody is only wrong if you fail to care about their needs in a reciprocal way... the line you quoted specifically addresses that.
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
No, The Prince is very literal. Inspiration for the red pill (which represents choosing knowledge, however ugly, over pleasant ignorance) would be more like... the apple in the Garden of Eden. Or the Allegory of the Cave maybe. Or Alice in
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
I got it in my head that it's a sort of red pilled book that teaches you how to manipulate people. You're not totally wrong. It's been ages since I read it, but there are parts that feel a little transact
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
Either decision is kind of rough, artistically. Ditching existing canon often kind of sucks for all the reasons you said. On the other hand, when you have reams and reams and reams of existing canon you kind of write yourself into a corner.
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
Whatever the artistic merits, shitcanning the Expanded Universe had a colossal level of practical utility -- the enormous quantity of material surely made it extremely difficult to add new material that didn't contradict the existing E
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
Yes, and also the "we're not actually hiring, but we're leaving the listing up anyway incase we get an application from some rockstar/unicorn/whatever candidate" ghost jobs
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
No degree seems to be a bigger gate now than it was the last time I was searching Anecdotally during late '25/early '26, I didn't seem to see an increase in sr. engineer roles with explicit requirements. I did
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
This matches my experience as well as a sr. Ruby/Python engineer (NE USA based) The market was pretty barren in late 2025, but wasn't too terrible in Jan 2026 and I progressed nicely through two interview processes. Got an offer f
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by JohnBooty 5mo ago
In HS, teachers hadn't even caught on to that possibility yet. I programmed quite a cheat sheet worth of formulae etc into my calc. Right before the test, I dropped it onto the floor. The battery cover popped off and the AA batteries p
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by JohnBooty 7mo ago
Windows 10+ and Linux also have memory compression, though I don't know how the implementations compare. Although, I guess Windows 3.1 and 95 users enjoyed it first thanks to this extremely high quality third-party implementation! htt
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by JohnBooty 7mo ago
Right, I mean even a fast SSD has an order of magnitude less throughput, and 2-3 orders of magnitude higher latency from RAM. No dispute there. If you are doing random access across 16GB of data and your machine only has 8GB of physical RAM

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