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by apsurd 10mo ago
I agree so much with this. And I immediately think about how I have an ongoing Netflix subscription and I have it because after having cancelled due to the complete shit trash they produce, my dad asked me about how to see the Tyson vs Jake
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by apsurd 11mo ago
No, because pairing with AI is not the same as how we've come to define coding/programming. It's something different. To say that it'll be _better_ relative to some stated measurement is fine. Let's use a driving an
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by apsurd 11mo ago
I support this view, though in my own deep thinking about it all, I've come to see that all things are leased. Life itself is leased. We are all on borrowed time with borrowed resources and social contracts. This affects me because the
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by apsurd 11mo ago
I enjoyed the linked post overall, but want to highlight one thing: >The real insight: paying down your mortgage reduces your monthly burn, which reduces the chance you’ll need to sell stocks in a downturn. It’s not about math, it’s abou
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by apsurd 11mo ago
C. it's the only one that has you in the arena. There's no guaranteed outcome, but money itself is a team-sport. I'm a simple man myself, so I'm answering in order to verify my own reasoning. A. will have negative return
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by apsurd 11mo ago
As devil's advocate, the innovator's dilemma is said to be the cause of incumbent disruption. But in the case of AI, we're seeing incumbents over-correct into rapid AI adoption. It is a mess, but I wouldn't then use hist
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by apsurd 11mo ago
My comment was too snarky. I take your point. Based on the discussion this capability is closer to a really cool automated asset pack than "building 3D worlds". My understanding of world modeling is towards AGI, and you're sa
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by apsurd 11mo ago
It's called world gen. I know nothing about games and game development, but comments INSTA-sticking up for bigCo is increasingly hilarious to me.
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by apsurd 11mo ago
Information for its own sake to obtain doesn't have any lasting effect, it makes sense why you forget. Try to intake the information and have it cue a relation to your life, have it spark some internal thought. I'm struggling to a
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by apsurd 11mo ago
Yes that's just it though, it's a logic argument. "Tell me why we aren't just stochastic parrots!" is more logically sound than "God made us", but that doesn't defacto make it "The correct model
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by apsurd 11mo ago
This means to me AI is rocket fuel for our post-truth reality. Post-truth is a big deal and it was already happening pre-AI. AGI, post-scarcity, post-humanity are nerd snipes. Post-truth on the other hand is just a mundane and nasty sociolo
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by apsurd 11mo ago
yep just investigated and seems I got in at a good time. i paid exactly on Jan 1st 2025. Yes, the auto model is good enough for me especially with well documented frameworks (rails, frontend madness). Thanks for the response, looks like i&#
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by apsurd 11mo ago
speaking of paying for LLMs, am i doing something wrong? i paid cursor $192 for a year of their entry level plan and i never run out of anything. I code professionally, albeit i'm at the stage where it's 80% product dev in finding
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by apsurd 11mo ago
when you write it out like that, it sounds unfathomably… silly. I'm not a tinfoil hat skeptic, and i'd like to think i can accept the rationale behind the possibility. But I don't think we're remotely close as people see
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by apsurd 11mo ago
You're both right. I take your point to mean similar to the disastrous outcome of "no child left behind" act. I do agree with you, but people didn't seriously _intend_ for the result to be everyone lowers to a shit posit
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by apsurd 11mo ago
I originally upvoted the parent comment. But I changed it. "The good ol' days" ... yeah, but good for who?
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by apsurd 11mo ago
automated commit message will tell you the "what" not the "why". In any circle of "what makes a good commit message and why even do it" discussions, invariably the recommendation is to explain the "why&quo
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by apsurd 11mo ago
Software for evolving business-needs is the same for me. What's insightful is that we (I) take continuously evolving software as just that: evolving. It's a defacto virtue to continuously tinker. Doing away with check-ins entirely
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by apsurd 11mo ago
Counter argument to living software is that it treats "never done" products as a virtue instead of a failure of design. Here's a thread where the person replying to me makes this case: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by apsurd 11mo ago
just keep in mind you weren't in the pitch room. I'm old enough now to realize that not everything we see in public is the full story. It may be all a pipe dream and not pan out, but I bet they pitched a path to more broader optio
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by apsurd 11mo ago
Came here to say something critical because modern front-end dev is a self-inflicted hellscape. I watched the video and "deving from the UI" makes sense! Instantly get the value. Pretty cool! It's another hurdle as to whether
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by apsurd 11mo ago
I used to think the democratization of content creation and reach was an obvious virtue. Now I think instead of massive corporations making shit up to sell stuff as some great way of life, we have every single Susan and Billy doing it const
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by apsurd 11mo ago
even better!
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by apsurd 11mo ago
The messages are for other people, also it's like any type of writing: tremendous value in the process of writing. in that way, i'm agreeing with the parent, it is for yourself. The process of writing commit messages is useful to
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by apsurd 11mo ago
my first thought too, as a rubyist. Yes, "everything is an object" is an essential insight to understanding ruby.
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by apsurd 11mo ago
Very true. Many comments in this overall post arrive at the nuanced stance that it's the effort that is key to focus on and relate. Everything else there is no way to connect to causality. I want to add that "belief" in yours
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by apsurd 11mo ago
Human | AI toggle is cool. Obligatory: information-dense format is valuable for humans too! But the entire Internet is propped up by ads so seems we can't have nice things.
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by apsurd 11mo ago
I used to really have a problem understanding why people hold peace as some ideal. It's not that i want violence, it's that if i expand on the idea of peace, I always end at "nothing". Like the idea of heaven, it's
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by apsurd 11mo ago
I'm 1.5 minutes in and I already learned to purge cold water from the pipes before running the dishwasher. Assuming this is evidence based and true, I mean come on! Is it really so alarming to see someone deep dive hard and do the work
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by apsurd 11mo ago
I like your idea of robust happiness and it being robust against comparison.

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