TheGRS

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by TheGRS 6mo ago
Yep, actively suppressing renewable efforts all the way down to shaming on a cultural level. It should be a net positive for Americans to adopt renewables - cheaper energy, more independence, good for the environment - but instead its viewe
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
I think the lack of concentration in some areas, particularly hubs in Texas and Florida, is actually pretty eye-opening. To me these areas should be very dense with panels from the cost/benefit alone.
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
My initial thought was that was a weird choice in this article, but I wouldn't fault someone for being thorough. Probably a better choice as an appendix, move the good stuff up to the top. But overall its NBD.
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
One is one. Two is a coincidence. And three is a trend. That's my personal head canon.
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
You know, I mention this stuff all the time in various meetings and discussions. I read a lot of stuff on Hacker News and just have years of accumulated knowledge from the various colleagues I've worked with. Its nice to have a little
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
Our visits to Uniqlo would say differently!
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
I'm kind of surprised that C-suite folks fall for this marketing ploy when many of them are typically very close to the sales process in very high stakes areas. I guess it just shows you that anyone is susceptible to a well done grift.
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
IIRC Uber employees would jump into taxis and offer them money on the spot to drive for them. Its priming the pump, I agree there's probably no way around it. Once you get some adoption you can use that experience to go to other cities
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
I mean more like, I'd look for the stuff that's like $300-$400 in the US at various places that would sell it in Japan and generally speaking it was more expensive in the stores in Japan after conversion. I was expecting it'd
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
My take at this point is that everything is still too fresh to really settle on some new paradigm for working. Yegge is clearly very passionate about this, and that's what got me to try his book. I just don't think he can really a
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
If you've been to Japan any time recently you'd probably know that just about everything is cheaper in Japan, especially food and drink. I've been twice, most recently back in October, and I'm blown away by how relativel
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
I just had to post this somewhere in this thread, but I bought his Vibe Coding book after listening to him talk through it. I figured it would help me understand his approach and therefore help me get into the same mindset for vibe coding o
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
One explanation is that some think we might be getting to the limits of what an LLM can reasonably do. There's a lot of functions of any job that are not easily translated to an LLM and are much more about interacting with people or cr
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
Its always been a momentum thing for me, grew up on Windows, esp in my LAN party days. The guys running linux couldn't play 90% of the games the rest of us were. When dev became more important to me I would typically reach for somethin
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
The points brought up are all great. I'm in a lower management position and I've wondered for a decade why the budget, cost, and return on work (i.e. revenue) were never divulged or connected to the work at hand. So kudos for faci
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
Did Iran as a country participate in the global economy outside of trading their commodities? Commodity trading existed well before the global economy and was often a cause for wars. I was under the impression Iran was fairly shut down from
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
How'd you get that from what I wrote? I literally said the problem is that the wealth created was not redistributed. The issue is that the masses suffer and elect people who are ill-suited to solve their problems.
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
Globalization offered the model for this. When the economy is globally linked there is more pressure for stability than conflict. I think that theory still holds. The fallout of the last 10 years is that the distribution of the wealth creat
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
You might be right, but that's an awfully risky bet for such a new company in a tight race with their competitors. I'm sure a modestly staffed support team could get to these requests, especially if they put some AI resources into
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
That was a very interesting read. I appreciate when anyone tries to dig into the actual why of culture instead of just leaving it at face value. I get the impression this is more of a working theory than factual on the sociological side, be
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
In all seriousness, shouldn't Anthropic be heavily dogfooding this sort of use case? I'm also not a huge fan of Amazon's support system, but they at least seem to be using their AI tools a lot for support responses (which has
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
I'm also disappointed by the decision, but I get the argument made from the business perspective. I'm required to dispose my waste properly and its reflected in my prices, my competitor is not doing these practices and they should
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
They also mentioned that invasive grass species were suppressed by the orange peels which likely contributed to native plants thriving better.
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
The joke is that all of the engineers that came before AI were also just following established patterns, right down to everyone wearing the same outfit to work despite our tech workplaces usually being very business casual. Implication that
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by TheGRS 6mo ago
Looks neat, kind of an early stage of what you're building? I see a lot of room for features to make goldfishing do-able.
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by TheGRS 7mo ago
A past company I worked for made SaaS and On-prem and we supported Oracle with the on-prem. The simple act of supporting and testing that option was enormous for our company, but the customers we had that needed it were highly lucrative.
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by TheGRS 7mo ago
Totally agreed looking at them from a development and cutting-edge viewpoint. They own what was once very competitive platforms and languages, which they still support. They have largely transitioned into rent seekers. From the investment s
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by TheGRS 7mo ago
Boards aren't exactly dummies either. If they can see their exec isn't necessary I think they'd make moves to eliminate the positions. But that's in a world where reality meets the hype, and I don't think we're
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by TheGRS 7mo ago
Validation efforts likely become more necessary, so costs rise in another area. And product managers find they still need someone to translate the requirements well because LLMs are too agreeable. Cost optimization still needs someone to in
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by TheGRS 7mo ago
Gone only because current leadership kicked them all to the curb and told them to get out of Washington. Only loyal talking heads are wanted there now.

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