andrewmutz

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by andrewmutz 10mo ago
These days the policy positions of each party are hashed out on social media by non-experts. For both the democrats and the republicans, instead of any sort of research or experts driving public policy decisions, it's instead the thin
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by andrewmutz 10mo ago
Needing to upgrade a library everywhere isn’t necessarily a sign of inappropriate coupling. For example, a library with a security vulnerability would need to be upgraded everywhere regardless of how well you’ve designed your system. In tha
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by andrewmutz 10mo ago
I don't think we should allow the government to ban political agitation, but I do think its fine to allow the government to ban children using social media
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by andrewmutz 10mo ago
Social media is full of extremist and untrue content of all types. Antivax or free birth content are just two small examples of viral content that is untrue and kills people. It has a very negative effect on adults, and adults at least hav
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by andrewmutz 10mo ago
Someone really needs to do a meta-analysis of these results because a paper from a few years ago showed that members of congress underperform at stock picking: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
They could do that: hire juniors, lose money while you train them, and give them aggressive raises. Or they could just do what they are doing: skip the juniors and just hire the people who've got experience.
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
It's not helping that in the last 10 years a culture of job-hopping has taken over the tech industry. Average tenure at tech companies is often ~2 years and after that people job hop to increase compensation. It's clear why peopl
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
People only want privacy if it doesn’t come at the cost of a good product. It’s not enough on its own.
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
Why is it a societal issue rather than just a parenting issue? Just don't let your kids play roblox. It's what I do and it works fine.
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
I use bazzite linux for gaming full time and can't say enough good things about it. You don't need to do anything at all to maintain it. Every Windows game I've ever tried just works perfectly out of the box. Sometimes I w
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
The web is extremely user-hostile. The necessity of ad blockers is just one example of this. Social Media feed algorithms that maximize engagement at the cost of mental health and political unrest are another I think there is a ton of pot
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
There is a wide variety of form factors available in the android ecosystem. Whether or not they fit your definition of "decent" just depends on how much you prioritize size: https://www.samsung.com/us/smartph
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
It's a poor example because laser headlights don't have network effects.
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
Does Apple allow non-Apple devices to send and receive messages from the iMessage network? Under any conditions?
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
If Apple didn't run such a closed ecosystem, other hardware vendors would step in and be happy to sell a form factor that 3% of the market uses. I keep trying to use Andriod to get more choice on form factor, but one thing always bring
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
Steven Blank (the author) is a respected member of the startup community and is not partisan. He's been working with the defense department for 10 years (across both administrations) to modernize the way the military buys technology.
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
I clicked on the link ready to invest in this ETF but was disappointed
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by andrewmutz 11mo ago
Culture isn't getting worse, it's getting further and further towards what the masses want. Throughout history very few people got a voice about what culture was created or offered. In the 1700s, the culture that was created targ
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by andrewmutz 1y ago
Completely agree. Consumers won’t pay for anything online, which means every business model is user-hostile. Use the web for five minutes without an ad blocker and it’s obvious. Atlas may not be the solution but I love the idea of an LLM
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by andrewmutz 1y ago
It depends completely on the term. You can make a great case that we've already reached AGI. You can also make a great case that we are decades away from it.
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by andrewmutz 1y ago
> Given the power dynamics, the burden of proof is on Shopify to prooave it wasn't retaliating at the behest of, or in a misguided attempt to defend DHH's honor. That’s just a way of saying “I don’t have any evidence of what I’
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by andrewmutz 1y ago
> Charts like this are misleading because they don't take age into account. It's not really noteworthy that old people die of heart disease and cancer. I think this is the whole point of the article. The news does not cover re
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by andrewmutz 1y ago
Tremendous alpha right now in making scary posts about AI. Fear drives clicks. You don't even need to point to current problems, all you have to do is say we can't be sure they won't happen in the future.
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by andrewmutz 1y ago
I don’t think it does stand. During the Industrial Revolution, automated production replaced craftsmen and often produced a better product. Specifically, interchangeable parts were a product of industrial automation. Craftsmen were not a
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by andrewmutz 1y ago
Building software extremely expensive and slow. All of us are balancing quality and speed. The ultimate goal of building software isnt quality, its aggregate customer value delivered over time, and poor quality undermines customer value.
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Move Fast and Break Nothing(theatlantic.com)
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by andrewmutz 1y ago
Is anyone hooking up RSS feeds to some cheap LLMs to do personalized content algorithms? Seems like a useful open source project
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by andrewmutz 1y ago
I'm not saying that all bubbles build real businesses that have a big impact on the world, I am saying specifically this AI bubble will do so. I've already seen enough significant, real-world value being created by AI technology t
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by andrewmutz 1y ago
The AI bubble will be like the dot com bubble. There is too much hype and lots of investors will lose money. But at the same time, lots of successful and world-changing businesses will be created. Does that mean the AI emperor has no clot
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by andrewmutz 1y ago
I'm not sure, I've never done it, but I think the idea is to have many tiny customer-specific databases and move them to be powered by sqlite very close to the customer. But I'd love to hear more from someone more well-versed

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