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by YZF 3mo ago
In my domain since circa Opus 4.5 LLMs write code as good as most engineers given well defined small enough chunk of work. They refactor. They write tests. These days LLM also debug/troubleshoot better than most engineers. Are they as
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by YZF 3mo ago
If the pie is valuable enough then competition can get money. We have competition in AI. You can't build big things without investment.
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by YZF 3mo ago
Nobody knows. It's not a zero sum game. You can have AI "senior engineers" working under humans building bigger things than we've been able to. We also don't know where the capabilities of current AIs will plateau.
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by YZF 3mo ago
As the proud owner of a ZX-81 I remember staring at the Z80 instruction reference at the end of the user's manual without the faintest clue of what any of that meant. It took me some while before I managed to wrap my head around how CP
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by YZF 3mo ago
DigiKey used to be a good place to get. Also design for parts you can get... In the old days you could also get samples from chip companies if you asked nicely. No idea if anyone still does that.
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by YZF 3mo ago
I used to do this at home. Either thermal transfer or also used a flat bed plotter with an adapter for a Staedler permanent market to draw directly on the PCB. Fun times. Ferric Choride IIRC for etching or you could also use hydrogen peroxi
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by YZF 3mo ago
Right. There is no way a drone can dodge a stream of bullets. They essentially arrive instantaneously at the drone from its perspective. A bullet from these flies at 1km/s and there are a lot of bullets. The bigger problem is getting a
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by YZF 3mo ago
Python just interprets and blows up in production more like it ;) Also so slow. But bad Golang is full of `any` and turns into a Python in disguise.
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by YZF 3mo ago
My intuition is that you don't want to touch your gains/tuning for external disturbance. The tuning should be the most aggressive that maintains stability margins. The external input doesn't matter because you're looking
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by YZF 4mo ago
Pushed me to buy a Macbook Air in Costco today. I was on the fence for replacing my really old MBP for a while.
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by YZF 4mo ago
For me in large tech: - Humans still own the code - All code reviewed by humans - LLM adoption varies across the org. Some are heavy users and some less. Some suspicious some less. Where are we heading? Depends on model/harness capabil
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by YZF 4mo ago
I have no experience with VR boxing but I can tell you there's no comparison between e.g. a tournament Karate match and first person shooters. I never heard about this idea that studying under stress can help you perform in a test...
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by YZF 4mo ago
Judo isn't that healthy either. Many Judo-ka have hurt their backs from the damage accumulated from falls and there are other ways to injure yourself in Judo. If you're looking for those sorts of high stress combat situations you
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by YZF 4mo ago
I didn't pay any capital gains on stock I did not sell.
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by YZF 4mo ago
The problem isn't that AI can't give good service. The problem is it's going to be intentionally limited in the service it gives and its ability to make decisions. Every automated service I ever interacted with was built in a
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by YZF 4mo ago
For what purpose exactly? So I am a rich AI owner and my goal is to get more land to build another AI data center? And my robots will combat the other AI owner's robot of that land and resources? What sort of trade am I going to be doi
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by YZF 4mo ago
How about this trend? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre... There is growth, it might not be where you are, or it might be superimposed with other effects for you.
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by YZF 4mo ago
Why should someone richer pay more tax? We all get the same services from the state. So in practice he's probably paying x100 the median but you're saying he should pay x10,000,000. If you include the taxes his companies are payin
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by YZF 4mo ago
I am almost certain (not sure how we can check) that Elon is paying a lot more taxes than the average person. He doesn't get more services for that money. The top 1% income earners pay something like 50% of the total individual's
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by YZF 4mo ago
There is no economy without customers/consumption. Elon Musk's SPCX are worth zero if nobody wants to send anything to space and nobody can send anything to space if nobody has any money. Debt can fuel consumption to some degree b
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by YZF 4mo ago
Presumably Elon can borrow a lot of money against his paper money. That would be more typical than trying to liquidate. But yes, there is no way he can actually fully cash out on his net wealth, and he probably wouldn't even know what
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by YZF 4mo ago
What matters isn't Elon Musk (or any other person's) net worth. What matters is how this money is being deployed. If Elon has $1T in his basement and he's not doing things with this money then the net outcome is the removal o
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by YZF 4mo ago
Clearly my example didn't resonate but in my mind there is no difference between me using my capital in my business and me using my capital in other people's business. A passive index investment is me using my capital in the broad
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by YZF 4mo ago
So if I'm a brick layer and I decide to innovate and build a machine that can lay bricks faster and cheaper, and I hire people to help me do that, suddenly I've not actually earned anything? If I'm a farmer and I use a horse
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by YZF 4mo ago
There is a real shift I think plus maybe a new generation. I blame the pandemic and social media.
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by YZF 4mo ago
I completely agree but cost conversations are difficult to have in most orgs especially when some of the costs are hard to measure (e.g. hiring, future time investments etc.). The goal of every (commercial anyways) software is to deliver ma
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by YZF 4mo ago
In an existing system some combination of these attributes: - High quality (e.g. low number of issues hit by customers, resilient to failures, efficient, secure etc.) - Easy to maintain (well organized, broken down in a sensible way into co
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by YZF 4mo ago
The problem is that bad architecture can be carried forward for a very long time at increasing cost. The ability to differentiate good and bad architectures seems to be a lost art because to build this ability you need to have enough experi
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by YZF 4mo ago
It all used to be smoking and there are still places in the world where trains and busses have seats facing each other. Having sat in those seats in the past I can tell you that people can still perfectly well not talk to each other ;) Ther
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by YZF 4mo ago
I got a job first and my degree later. At work nobody knows what degree you've got. I mean some people insist to be called Dr. X if they have a Ph.D. (and in some cultures that's more common). You can have a B.Sc. in biology, or a

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