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by Swizec 2y ago
> And realism can range from "users don't want to troubleshoot" to "some users are near-violently anti-tech and won't read errors", depending on context. No dude, I have things to do and your little software
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Fiber optic drones are changing combat operations(youtube.com)
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> I suspect that it wasn’t trained well enough on your art No no, it’s not that the style wasn’t mine, the subject was generic. ChatGPT did the typical thing that messes people up when they draw: It was drawing a representation of the
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> Of course, everyone creates things from their own perspective and context, but it kind of feels like a trap that somehow suffering is essential to the artistic process, which I personally don't feel would be a healthy perspective
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> What's to stop someone within an advertisement company from reaching out to someone in healthcare IT, and offering a large amount of money for this information? Trying to link this physical data to an online presence is probably n
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by Swizec 2y ago
Wow I am the 511th top blog :O No author, bio, or tags though. Sad. Honestly HackerNews has been a great place to grow up. Started posting here back in college when I was 21 or so. Now here we still are at 37. I credit hacker news with gett
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> Ever since LLM showed up there has been a noticeable urge to redefine the value proposition of software work to be less about what LLMs can do (write code) and more about what humans can do (write programs). We’ve been having this deba
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Yes there is lots to do! And I’m working on it all. But it doesn’t hit the same as when success felt like life or death. My actual needs are met. The rest is gravy. It helps that my dayjob feels like the most effective vehicle for big ambit
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> I can't imagine how anyone could even achieve such state. There will always be that skill I do not yet have, that book I haven't read yet, that hobby I haven't tried yet, that place I haven't yet traveled to, etc. e
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> Broad automation of tasks can be great for society if and only if the product of that automation is not treated as some kind of private property. Star Trek or Bladerunner? That’s a choice we can make.
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We millenials ruined the doorbell industry by texting “here”. (Always connected) Gen Z just sends you a picture of your door. (Mobile broadband) What we perceive as the best way is often just driven by the technology available when we learn
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by Swizec 2y ago
Alternatively: you can listen to audio while commuting or driving or cleaning or working out. I love audio for higher level things and to get an overview of the topic. Then text to dive into the details.
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It gets better! He has learned that when he is naughty we will tell him to stop. If he doesn’t, we will eventually get up to come over and make him stop (shoo him away). So now he uses that when he needs us to open a door. Threatening to be
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by Swizec 2y ago
> I believe all birds and mammals have a pretty good "theory of mind", it's just hard to do an experiment to prove it Our pet bird (sun conure) actively tries to lie and mislead when he's doing something naughty. Like
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by Swizec 2y ago
> By natural selection, anything that survived the good old days is either obvious or well documented Or so much better than the competition that people use it in spite of poor documentation. Many things like that also grow a cottage ind
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by Swizec 2y ago
Thanks! Knew I was missing something. I guess in my mind tutorials and howtos merged :D
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There are 3 types of documentation: 1. Why/what 2. API spec 3. Tutorial You need all 3. They are distinct, use different styles, and exist for different purposes and audiences.
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I don’t know dude, this one time I wrote a LOLCODE compiler into a Babel macro. https://swizec.com/blog/lolcodetojavascript-compiler-babel-m... It was pretty fun. Also this other time I wrote a nodejs script to keep my
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Funfact: The reason Hollywood is in California is because Edison’s camera patents didn’t apply there. Altman might actually have a good point – if your competition doesn’t care about your laws, you’re in trouble. https://www.ment
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by Swizec 2y ago
Speaking as an old school basement nerd (coding since middle school, 90’s): If I can do cool things with code _and_ get paid, I’m gonna go do that. Business constraints make it feel much more interesting than writing code in a vacuum. Also
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> Data analysts are fine with SQL though. Yes! I haven’t seen startups hiring these though. Somehow I always end up doing this as a side-gig on my engineering job.
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> use read replicas for BI with a good visualization tool Put up 2 or 3 read replicas, split your queries so writes happen to main and reads come from replicas (supported out of the box by many modern ORMs), and you can scale to millions
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by Swizec 2y ago
> reduce the present value of future cash flows > Deep cuts of 50% of more to government employment, selective default on government obligations, convert formerly independent institutions to ideological organs, devaluation of the doll
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> And Gandalf, who is not a man, but rather an angelic being (Maiar) sent to Middle Earth to sort out Sauron But that’s just what all wizards are and always have been. It’s the only way to be a wizard. It isn’t, like, a hidden fact or an
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> Maybe Bell Labs was lucky to be the right place and right time for a lot of briliant people. High corporate profit taxes lead to lots of innovation because what else are you gonna do with all that money? Give it to the govt? No no, bet
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> Turns out there are faster kids, they just aren’t at your school Moving from Slovenia to SFBA in my mid 20's (~2015) was ... super fun like that. Sooo many people here are that most brilliant super talented engineer/founder&#
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> Wait, you had to call service to "get out"? In my SF experience, the car got stuck. Trying to leave my pickup spot into rush hour traffic and nobody would let it in. The car then called support and had a human driver do s
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> "the entire concept of time is manmade [...]" they take that as kind of an abstract philosophy. The kind where someone might chuckle, roll their eyes, and say "yeah, sure thing man". Probably every teenager with eno
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> Are you willing to elaborate about how they can accelerate you? A few examples from my experience: - Here is a SQL query. Translate this back into our janky ORM - Write tests that cover cases X, Y, Z - Wtf is this code tr
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> Bookmarks and tab URLs don’t contain porn, generally? Do URL stubs of porn titles count as explicitly sexual? They can get pretty raunchy

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