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by Taek 1y ago
I avoided a career in codecs after spending about a year in college learning about them. The patent minefield meant I couldn't meaningfully build incremental improvements on what existed, and the idea of dilligently dancing around exis
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by Taek 1y ago
The presented solution has invisible UX via layering it into existing metered billing. And, the whole internet is already micro-transactioned! Every page with ads is doing a bidding war and spending money on your attention. The only person
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by Taek 1y ago
That's already a deep problem for all of society. If we don't want that to be an ongoing issue, we need to make sure money is a neutral infrastructure. It doesn't just apply to the web, it applies to literally everything that
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by Taek 1y ago
We're moving progressively in the direction of "pages can't be served for free anymore". Which, I don't think is a problem, and in fact I think it's something we should have addressed a long time ago. Cloudflar
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by Taek 1y ago
That's horrible. That's basically saying "let's make sure a ton of people are dying early so that some percentage of them can be used to save lives" Nobody should ever, ever be in favor of putting people in harms wa
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by Taek 1y ago
There's a striking lack of accountability in politics. You don't really need evidence that a policy is going to accomplish it's stated goals, you just need the monkey brain narrative to resonate with voters (and the other ele
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by Taek 1y ago
It only shows the most recent 50 fish. Your fish got bumped by a newer fish.
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by Taek 1y ago
Cryptographic components in cameras have roots of trust that can be compromised as well. Also, photos can be staged (many famous examples of this). The only real solution is to build social infrastructure that helps people identify the trus
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by Taek 1y ago
It's weird to hear Sam Altman call the employees of OpenAI 'missionaries' based on their intense policies that seem determined to control how people think and act. Imagine if in 2001 Google had said "I'm sorry, I ca
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by Taek 1y ago
In the movies, it's $100 bills, which are considerably more portable than $1 bills.
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by Taek 1y ago
I don't find it to be that way at all. I've used Debian as my daily driver for almost 10 years and I spend maybe... 30 minutes per year dealing with setup and configuration and stuff? Much less than I needed to back when I mainly
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by Taek 1y ago
Javascript is a platform that gave developers the ability to modify the core UX of web browsers. That's a platform problem, not a builders problem - if you don't want crappy apps on the web that break things, then don't give
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by Taek 1y ago
The GameCube was released 24 years ago. Its hardly fair to hold Nintendo accountable to a direction they haven't moved in for two and a half decades. The visual difference between the N64 and GC was enough that it made sense to focus o
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by Taek 1y ago
I tried to read the book and to me it came off as little more than doomer and disaster pornography. I found a lot of the situations to be far fetched and didn't feel like it portrayed a realistic image of how the world works.
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by Taek 1y ago
This comment appears insightful but I have no idea what it means. Can someone elaborate?
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by Taek 1y ago
Its made a little bit better by the fact that there's something like a dozen different prompts. Across all of the prompts each model had a fair number of opportunities to show off.
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by Taek 1y ago
Anecedotally, this has not been my experience at all. Several of the strongest coders I know use cursor and love it. (coders who have been top of their field since before ChatGPT was a thing)
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by Taek 1y ago
Usually 2 weeks.
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by Taek 1y ago
I don't find walking to be boring at all! Especially when I'm working on something new, I will walk as many as 10 miles a day while thinking through all of the design corners. Even when I'm not working, I like taking long wal
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by Taek 1y ago
Smart contracts give you a lot of financial automation and guarantees that regular courts do not. Furthermore, any litigation or arbitration in court is very expensive. If you can use smart contracts to simultaneously increase the complexit
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by Taek 1y ago
Just because some subsets of the crypto industry want to operate entirely outside the law doesn't mean the whole industry wants to operate outside the law. As evidenced by anyone who pays taxes on their crypto. Saying "he used the
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by Taek 2y ago
I don't understand this comment. Like yes, 3000 stars per second, cool fact. But why would that fact make sense in the article? The article was about being surprised by the name "SN 2021 afdx", which has nothing to do with st
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by Taek 2y ago
Uh, they are selling compute below cost. They are losing money on every subscription.
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by Taek 2y ago
Elaborating on this, it's almost certainly a civil case that goes to arbitration, which really means that the arbitrator has to feel like Adobe is in the right. It's quite informal relative to typical legal settings, and if the ar
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by Taek 2y ago
Spotify only has about half of the music that I like. A lot of it is remixes and jams from Japan that can only be found on youtube, soundcloud, or in some cases it's actually only available on private trackers.
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by Taek 2y ago
The root problem seems to be monopoly and fragmentation. When Ford was working on a car, people who wanted a faster horse could go to the horse store. There were reasonable alternatives to Ford's new method of transportation. But here,
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by Taek 2y ago
There's a couple of things at play here (renewable energy is my industry). 1. Renewable energy, especially solar, is cheaper *sometimes*. How much sunlight is there in that area? The difference between New Mexico and Illinois for examp
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by Taek 2y ago
I always get a lot of pushback for avoiding frameworks and libraries, and rolling most things by hand. But, most frameworks and libraries aren't built to be audit-grade robust, don't have enterprise level compatibility promises, c
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by Taek 2y ago
How is "movies and other great works of art that used to cost tens of millions of dollars to make now cost tens of dollars to make" a bad thing? It means art can get more ambitious. Ghibli made their mark, and made their money. No
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by Taek 2y ago
Exposure has value! The meme around trying to pay artists with exposure is because some people think their "exposure" has meaningful value when they are offering to expose the artist to 100 people, 99 of whom aren't likely ev

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