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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
https://procgenzoo.com/ (currently not deployed) Elevator pitch is: A simple searchable directory of various procedurally generated toys. Think Boids, Game of life, Maze generation, terrain generation, etc. written in Ts&#x
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Can someone TLDR why I should care as someone who doesn't directly get into the weeds of this type of things? Is this written exactly for (1) people who implement/maintain this and, I say this with love, (2) nerds. Or will there b
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Yes. He self-published a lot of material under various pseudonyms / sponsored others to write biographies that painted him as a Tony Stark adjacent character. A lot of Iron Man comics are based on exaggerated version of Feynman stories
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
$3 sure but you're already paying $XX for the service in the first place.
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
The new age version of cabs are over fit, people take them for many things they don't need. Me included; I no longer ask my siblings/friends/spouse to take me to the airport, I just order a lyft/uber where as I wasn&#x27
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
So true, just like this one: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
I'm interested how an innovation like this affects the business prospects. Let's assume this is a paradigm shift on the scale of Transformers / `Attention is all you need`. Companies build out new models and pump another $100
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Exactly. The specific properties that make plastic useful in industry are the exact same properties that make it an ecological problem. You cannot realistically replace plastic without first accepting an inferior product, trying to make an
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Low carbon emissions, but what about cost? This product seems to solve for a lot of things that have nothing to do with why we use plastic. Plastic is everywhere because it is durable & cheap, that's about it got 80% of application
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Neat little thing. Feels like a great learning tool for kids, like a new age pygame. Scratch and the others in that style always felt like it went one step too far. It's designed for 5 yearolds, and 5 yearolds don't need to be lea
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
The blameless aspect of post mortem's is paradoxical. I agree with the sentiment but at the end of the day, somewhere in there, the blame is placed on one or two human made oversights or errors. If the conclusion of the PM is "Thi
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
This delivers on the title but I wonder if you could tweak it to make it an actual game without wildly overcomplicating it. Maybe make the string much longer, like 10 bits, and the game only matches on substrings longer than 3. 000...000 wo
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
>Ok, you're describing some kind of scam Yes, exactly. I'm not accusing them per se, I'm just saying the info you provided does not declare itself to not be a scam. It's like if you asked if killed someone and I repli
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
That's nice but it doesn't really refute my extreme counter example. Maybe all that plastic is shipped off, the recycling plant collects a bunch of state/federal grants (e.g. CRV), and the plants in BC or Alberta convert all
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
> ‘recovery’ means any operation the principal result of which is waste serving a useful purpose by replacing other materials which would otherwise have been used By the definition, 75% seems very good. I'm not sure if that definiti
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
> Comparing an LLM to a Junior Dev is like comparing a Secretary to an Answering Machine The number of secretaries declines after answering machines became more prevalent. You can keep throwing ad hominin if you think it's helping c
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
I'm not saying that is a typical workflow. I'm saying A ~= B, and B ~= C. A - normal, conventional senior dev work flow B - A non-traditional but plausible senior dev workflow C - Senior dev with LLM I'm not claiming A = B =
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
I stick with the dog walker analogy. A man walks down the street at a steady pace, and the dog on the leash runs back and forth and side ways and sits and jumps. The man is the economy, the dog is the market. Unless you have access to HFT s
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
For HFT - yes, and that has been the case since before the .com bubble. Trading on news is what fuels HFT. And value trading is primarily based on insider trading / corruption. What's left over is ETF's or luck.
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
With cutting edge stuff you cannot say statements like "I tried X and found that it is not good at Y". You could not get X to be good at Y, but it's not impossible someone else can.
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
I disagree that they are so different you can't compare them. Imagine a senior IC staffed with 4 juniors, and they spend 2 hours with each every day. Then the junior is left with 6 hours to think through what they were taught/told
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
The author's central argument seems to be that the current state of LLM development is such that 1 Senior + LLM === 1 Senior + 4 juniors With that as a metric, 1 Senior + 4 juniors cannot build the company with the scope you are descri
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
1) Not relevant to my argument. My commentary is focussed on eng IC's, and I'm picking that subset due to my other comment about these articles always being super popular in eng circles 2) Yes, which is a separate issue. 1) Nearly
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
I'm not an advocate of 4-day work week, but this argument always makes me laugh. What is it you think happens on Saturday? Do you think those baristas are working 7 days/week?
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Pay walled, so won't read the actual article. That said, I'm not sure why this is always so popularly discussed in Eng forums. The reality is, our work is inherently async, and 90% of IC's could work 1 days/week if we ma
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
A standalone server feels very excessive. This is static data that only needs to be updated once or twice a year. Why not just make this an npm or py module
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
I half-typed a longer message but when it came time to actually do math assuming some averages for annual saving, interest, google stock growth, etc. I decided it wasn't worth the effort. You wrote me original message with less words
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
Whenever I read these "I was at <faang> for 20 years and am now leaving" it always translates to "I have become unreasonably wealthy, mostly due to the company itself N-tuppling in value. And now after 20 years I don&#x
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
My take is the 2005 google does not and cannot exist again because it was born in an era where the underlying tech became so much more powerful. Any company that happened to invest creatively in tech during that era became unfathomably weal
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by NotAnOtter 1y ago
This article seems to be resonating with a lot of people so I guess I'm just the outlier rather than OP being wrong. But I cannot express how absolutely pedantic and melodramatic this comes off to me.

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