SanderNL

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by SanderNL 3y ago
I understand and am close to agreeing with you, but I feel an obligation to be difficult. It’s HN (and the internet) after all. Plato and others famously pondered over “why be good?”. If nobody sees you, if you get away with everything, why
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Oh, I believe you. Thanks for the references.
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Alright, I see. Reddit is not my thing, but I can see how this gets complex (and costly) fast.
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Wouldn’t a properly prompted LLM be an OK mod?
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It’s interesting to look up the etymology of “paradise”. Hint: walled garden.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> I'm pretty sure he knew that Socrates didn't literally say "Mo money mo problems" This is cracking me up, thanks.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification. I was going for “less capable at X”, but an emperor is quite a big job so he’s better at 75% of things that actually matter in practical life: planning, strategizing, managing, coercing, negotiating.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
While I believe in equal value of human life, I don't think we are in any way equal in abilities both inborn and acquired. People like Aurelius are rare and dismissing him and his accomplishments as "rich people have it easy"
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I don't think "modern" stacks are sane enough to "handroll" anymore. Sure, you can do it, but look at the poster in this thread that details the setup of a debian server. Kubernetes, "Argo CD", zero-trus
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Makes me think of the Freud/Jungian notions of personas in us that are in various degrees semi-autonomously looking out for themselves. The “angry” agent, the “child” agent, so on.
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I was hoping for some sort of audio stream to listen to my database changes. High notes for inserts, low rumbles for reads or something. That could be pretty interesting actually.
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No, because I am less capable. It’s sometimes simple like that. He wasn’t “rich people” like some Russian oligarch. He had shit to do and deep moral obligations. Millions of lives depended on it. Things of vast strategic importance stretchi
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That sounds like it would complicate life, not make it easier? His wealth and power is predicated on him being the leader of the friggin’ Roman Empire. I don’t see that as an easy life. Being an emperor and even trying to do a good job is d
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Structure in the “world”? You mean the stream of “tokens” we ingest? This just comes down to giving transformers more modalities, not just text tokens. There is nothing about “2” that conveys any “twoness”, this is true of all symbols. The
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Libraries are also easy. Books are done, one dimensional pieces of linear writing. The text itself is the thing you care about. Companies run on mental models that are occasionally partly solidified (and ultimately ossified) in a textual
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Man: We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We're taking turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week-- Arthur: (uninterested) Yes... Man: But all the decisions of that officer 'ave to be ratified at a special bi-w
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by SanderNL 3y ago
QEMU images? I don’t know, maybe I am oldschool myself but I immediately found my way around. It’s a big, hairy project that is not easily reduced to a simple feature list. Also consider the audience. This project is not meant to attract us
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I came off like an annoying neckbeard. I guess that’s expected of me and my type, but sorry for that. You hit a nerve because software development is also art and highly creative. I have given a significant part of my life - basically my yo
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Education, apparently.
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Why? It’s text with some images. Even Word could do this better. Frontpage would be a massive improvement.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Instead of turning to pre-made corporate software, you could just hire me or one of my developer friends? We’ll crank out something fine for you in no time flat. All you have to do is just: - Find me, which is easy, just become an amateur d
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by SanderNL 3y ago
“But when it came to remembering details that did not relate to her personally, Price proved no better than average. […] School, she says, was “torture” for her – she couldn’t remember facts and figures – but she’s unbelievably good at triv
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Using this logic, flexible, self-healing, marathon running, juggling and childbearing robots that run on the occasional pizza are just around the corner, because, nature. It might us a thousand years to get anywhere close? I don’t see the g
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That’s so interesting. Thanks for the book recommendation.
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Even in the Netherlands it’s not that rare especially outside the metropolitan areas. It’s just cold here so we do different things with the space.
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It’s interesting they have time for this, but going after the big fish is too much. In the Netherlands we lack the capacity to go after tax evasion using non profits. Untold millions go to waste every year, but they have enough capacity to
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I understand and I too have clients. This feels completely different indeed, but that is exactly why I came to think of these things: the power structure is not fundamentally different. If anything, it’s more volatile and I need to watch wh
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You're of course right, it's not the proper word. In a broad sense you are both actively working on, let's hope, a shared vision and you need eachother. I'm not interested in the power symmetry of the relation in this
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Their business revolves around ads. I don’t know where that’s going, but I’m not betting the house on it. Their AI strategy has been a joke as far as I can tell. That’s not helping. Their “regular” services are ok, but nothing I would pay f
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I’m afraid dumping your partners whenever is most convenient for you and your family, while understandable because they will do the same to you, is not what I understand to be virtuous. You may be spiteful, and perhaps rightfully so, agains

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