PraetorianGourd

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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
We are certainly at the “throw money at the buzzwords” stage of ML, especially LLMs. And while this is certainly caused by the gold-rush mentality hype cycle, there is an issue of those in this field wildly over-promising what this tech ca
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
After reading the article, I am more against the “but they mean well!” argument than ever. I agree that there are multiple ways to confront a bully (which is essentially what Putin’s Russia is, a bully who uses the assumption of strength to
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
There is so much overlap between “brain fog” and “clinical depression”. I am not saying one is real and the other isn’t. What I am saying is you can call it “rainbow puppy sadness time” and I won’t care as long as there is progress.
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
You seem to be expressing a very narrowly defined view of what makes someone "smart". To take the other perspective, Zuck grew a hobby college-dorm project into one of the richest companies in the world, by taking advantage of hum
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
I think the big key in your comment is "As a kid,..". Maybe you think this is the easiest to learn/discover UI because it is the UI that you used to learn and discover. I see "kids these days" navigating around flat
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
The real reason is that there are free alternatives. For many people, “free and open source” is the same as just “free”. Again, I can fix most things on my car. I can afford the tools needed. But I don’t want to because opportunity cost. On
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
Some do. Probably over-represented on HN. Others want to work their hours and spend the rest of their time with non-technical hobbies, or with family, or literally anything else. If that isn’t you, no big deal. But we should not paint all d
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
> I believed the OP was reacting to the "it's Musk's money he can treat his employees as he likes" — by way of an analogy that you thought too extreme. That is exactly the problem. The analogy was that Musk akin to a
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
I would be all for cocaine-based panaceas.
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
First of all, that isn't the word that racist, slave-owning, plantation-owning population would use. If you are going to make a reference to our sad history in the United States of chattel slavery, use the accurate word. It doesn'
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
4/8 is still impressive. It is telling that you don’t realize that.
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I respect that, but you still distilled an entire discipline to a couple semesters of course work. It is as absurd as an MBA saying they could be engineers because they took a few CS classes. It is incredibly valuable to understand the big
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
But that just is not true. A very small team with a very focused codebase perhaps. But when you are balancing 40 competing issues that are impacting a wide range of cusromers, where each issue has the potential for downstream impact on all
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
Do you want to put your career on the line deciding which features or bug-fixes to prioritize by the next release? If the stakes were that high, wouldn’t you rather have an ally who has done at least a minimal amount of analysis to determin
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
Awesome. A once-in-a-lifetime product was created without a incredibly narrowly focused definition of a product manager. The benefit of a product manager isn’t realized when you have that rare, world-changing product. A PM is useful when yo
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
Part of me can’t wait until you all are outsourced to a team in Lima for 25% of the cost. Everyone here seems to think they are so special. I am warning you, someone who is 75% as talented as you that will work for 50% the salary is a fucki
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
I think its symbiotic. Israel get weapons and support, the United States gets an ally in the Middle East.
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
> 2. with the "help" of US, some kind of revolution which will topple the government etc. which ultimately will make things worse for the people of Iran but will be a win for the US I don't believe the result of a coup is
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
“Channels” are not uniformly priced. Some, like ESPN, are very expensive for the cable providers while others are cheap. But, those expensive (and popular) channels subsidizes smaller or niche channels.
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
I am curious. And I am curious precisely because I do not know. Apart from a strategic reserve of N95 and a somehow predictive vaccine, I genuinely don’t see how we can prepare for bespoke virus unexpectedly crossing species to humans. Cons
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
Humor me. What would “prepared” have looked like, in your opinion? I am legitimately curious what, functionally, would have been different had we had decades of impeccable political decisions?
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
This one? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27909165/ Terminal cancer patients, those expecting to die and “meet God” soon, are a very, very niche audience compared to a general population with non-specific major depress
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
The author is writing specifically about children’s books, which have been a thing for far less time that what has elapsed since Benny Franklin printed.
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
I am confident the OP meant “meet God” as short-hand for “a spiritual and transcendental experience wherein the ego is destroyed and rebuilt anew with a profoundly different perspective”. I don’t think anyone would earnestly claim that ther
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your perspective, “kids these days” are not reading on thin slices of trees marked with chemicals. They are reading on iPads, Samsung Galaxies. Whatever their parents hand them while they are cooki
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
You could both ne right. G rated films generally use no-name or d-list actors and aren’t trying to impress for awards in almost any category. They tend to be low-budget/high-profit. If we are talking revenue, PG-13 for sure. Profit? I
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I rarely leave the city, and when I do, it is to the suburbs.
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But those are relatively niche. A majority of people in the United States probably do not remember the last time they were entirely out of cell range. Not to say that the SOS feature isn't great, just it won't resonate with a lot
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
To me, this comes down to two key points: 1. The new iPhone is not different enough from the previous two generations. Even for the Pro, with the screen off, it is hard to tell the difference. Things loose their status symbol symbolism when
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by PraetorianGourd 4y ago
In person or via videos online? I have to imagine a video, where you know ahead of time what the topic content are, is different than mowing the lawn one evening and seeing an explosion with no context or immediate explanation.

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