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by anonyfox 2y ago
Not to disagree with your post, but I'd *love* to support a renaissance of RSS. It was/is essentially peak distribution of content in a proper decentralized manner, putting users first and letting providers use whatever they want
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by anonyfox 2y ago
A thing that took me several years to agree to is that almost everything can be coded within 24 hours if really needed - gun to the head situation. Will it be perfect/efficient/beautiful/... probably not. But it should roug
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by anonyfox 2y ago
Nowadays i come to my conclusion that "ease of maintenance" is the most important feature to have in a project. More critical is only that the project in itself is valuable enough, so many engineers optimize things that shouldn&
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by anonyfox 2y ago
Personal observation from a heavy LLM codegen user: The sweet spot seems to be bootstrapping something new from scratch and get all the boilerplate done in seconds. This is probably also where the hype comes from, feels like magic. But the
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by anonyfox 2y ago
The most important signal of a degree is a written proof that a person somehow managed to show up to something for a longer timespan without being physically forced to constantly. Basically a minimum baseline of reliability and self-organiz
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by anonyfox 2y ago
the concept of freedom itself kind of is hard even in a stricter context like politics. like, I cannot freely choose to do X today, because (iE: capitalism environment) demands me to do certain other things that bring in money to live comfo
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by anonyfox 2y ago
Currently I'd flat out refuse to give any sort of prize to musk, that could be a tipping point for his mental "stability" completely breaking down. The last few years really had a toll on him. Fallen from idol to conspiracy r
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by anonyfox 2y ago
I think money is simply like mass: it has some kind of gravitational force, so people are drawn to it (the more money the stronger the pull), and it attracts itself (money tends to accumulate like a black hole), if left unchecked. The only
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by anonyfox 2y ago
I jump between ChatGPT, Claude 3.5 and Grok2 on a regular basis, and I'd say its not "worse" in the general sense. I find it much better on anything sentiment-analysis related or for shortcutting customer research, and image
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AI Alignment Problem: a fresh perspective(anonyfox.com)
2 points by anonyfox 2y ago|0 comments
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by anonyfox 2y ago
You should really have a look at Marx. He literally predicted what will happen when we reach the state of "let machines do all work", and also how this is exactly the way that finally implodes capitalism as a concept. The major pr
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by anonyfox 2y ago
Biological Jackpot advantages, or: sheer luck. 1. we do not live underwater, so lots of tools and stuff possible (iE: fire). 2. we have usable hands with thumbs. This allows much better tooling. Ravens only have their beak and are comparati
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by anonyfox 2y ago
It struggles mostly because it’s far too expensive, which also prevents bootstrapping some ecosystem of usecases.
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by anonyfox 2y ago
thats not always the right thing to do. drugs can mess with what you feel/want for example. we meatbags do have really bad sensors at times.
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by anonyfox 2y ago
indeed, but prices have been falling dramatically in the last 2 years, and I think the latest smallest gpt4o-mini is already in the "mostly don't care" ballpark. I am happy if we somehow get this down even more orders of magn
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by anonyfox 2y ago
The sweet spot of the current LLMs (not whatever the next gen might or might not improve on) for me is similar to suddenly having an army of idiots at my fingertips. There are a lot of smallish tasks/problems people/systems ne
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by anonyfox 2y ago
> But the obstinates are mostly failing I believe there is a "trying too hard". Solving a worthwhile problem itself might be difficult enough to begin with, but trying to map out a solution plan and stubbornly make every checkp
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by anonyfox 2y ago
if you want to achieve some greater good, capitalism is not the ideal model to begin with. it creates a lot of wealth, but needs strong external forces to not only focus on profits or destroy everything in the process.
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by anonyfox 2y ago
Thanks for those kind words, much appreciated! Personally I am like 9 years away from FIRE, so there is some light at the end of the tunnel, but still bitter about the whole system, especially when thinking about the future for my kids.
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by anonyfox 2y ago
Definitely, quite a few things, especially related to career. Which then would change subsequent things I did and had to make decisions that might be rational today but still feel wrong. Basically I played the current game with the hand g
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by anonyfox 2y ago
agreed in general! however, thats the crucial point for me. example: time with kids. when there are tradeoffs everywhere, and assume I am in the more money/less time spectrum, there are situations where I simply have to kill time with
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by anonyfox 2y ago
while I do agree with the reasoning, this _still_ is a matter of justification after the fact for me. Aka: here is the stuff you need to do in order to get to X. Who defines that path/checkpoints? Its mandated by the system we operate
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by anonyfox 2y ago
well the first thing is that having to earn an income is not something that was optional really. Sure you can decide to not do it, but then you have tradeoffs in how comfortable your life situation is. its kind of a free time XOR money situ
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by anonyfox 2y ago
Personally I chase being in a bored state. Adult life with all the duties is exhausting and drains mental/physical energy every day, to the point that nothing _meaningful_ can be achieved really. No, usually work is pointless exchange
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by anonyfox 2y ago
social media bubbles are working here. especially right wingers (fuelled by russian money, as confirmed more and more) need a doom&gloom environment + some targets to direct the anger/fear to. there is a lot of misinformation spr
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by anonyfox 2y ago
no, more like ideal lunch time temp, lower is okay, above 20 and I start to feel miserable. Yes very cold is also okay :-) The only thing that sucks is hovering around 0C for a long time, since this means oscillating between frozen/mud
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by anonyfox 2y ago
> where very few people want to live just as a sole data point: been there a few times, and my personal ideal weather _is_ cool/gray/wet with ideal outside temperature of 15C. I can withstand the cold, but find it hard to toler
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by anonyfox 2y ago
not every developer knows how exactly his modern CPU oder memory layers work, or how electromagnetic waves are building up a signal. people use tools to make things. Its okay. Some "hardcore folks" advance the "lower level&qu
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by anonyfox 2y ago
Location: Hamburg, Germany Remote: yes when timezone is reasonable Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Rust, Elixir, Go, JS Résumé/CV: https://anonyfox.com/cv Email: max@anonyfox.com —- Either Fullstack (senior/
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The Solopreneur and AI Assistants(anonyfox.com)
1 points by anonyfox 2y ago|0 comments

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