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by apsurd 1y ago
The book is the context! It was published, it has a presumably influential vetted author. Maybe I am coming off too flippant. I'm just trying to say there's a spectrum between fluff and context. If the AI's literally just gav
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by apsurd 1y ago
How do you trust the recipe without context? People say they want one thing but then their actions and money go to another. I do agree there's unnecessary fluff. But "just give me the recipe" isn't really what people wan
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by apsurd 1y ago
I'm no zuck fanboy, but i'm compelled to ask what purpose rejecting the role of a leader serves? HN is "the smart reddit" as my brother coined, and i'm very aware of how much nonsense is on here, but it is in a rela
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by apsurd 1y ago
that's the thing about language. we all kinda gotta agree on the meanings
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by apsurd 1y ago
very anecdotally doubtful. it's why bike shedding is a term. the nerd snipping cat nip of micro optimizations of a dev setup is too great.
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by apsurd 1y ago
you hating your job puts all of this in context.
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by apsurd 1y ago
i didn't read the article but come on riding a horse to get to a destination is not remotely similar to writing an essay. if you say it's a means to an end - to what a good grade? - we've lost the plot long ago. writing is fo
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by apsurd 1y ago
ok then "selfishness" is now the unanswerable topic. it's too complex. Classic "there is no altruism". All acts are selfish if one derives any benefit from them. are there acts that people do by choice that give the
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by apsurd 1y ago
The way I understand your position is "we're wired to do/choose X" The big discussion is why have kids. And your position then is we're wired to, just like taking a dump. It's not a good argument in my mind bec
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by apsurd 1y ago
This sounds like the free will argument. we're just complex receptors to stimuli, we don't choose anything, we receive inputs and react accordingly. "it's just biology" in this sense there's no discussion on wh
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by apsurd 1y ago
news to me buddy. this is perhaps a useless comment but then i think, articles resurface every now and again and it's intentional and welcome for those that missed. and this isn't exactly that of course, rather makes me think it&#
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by apsurd 1y ago
I'm purely going off the homepage examples, I didn't use the app for myself, given I think it'll just be generic stickers. A good example is the Tuxedo cat. The original image of the real cat shows the white fur on the face i
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by apsurd 1y ago
Maybe just me but the resultant generations look like generic animals. I want _my_ special snowflake little snicker doodle. I'm a pet lover, just fostered 3 kittens. My brother makes apple messenger stickers of them and puts them all o
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by apsurd 1y ago
investment banking, private equity, hedge fund. I think
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by apsurd 1y ago
> (2 of them anyway, tbd on #3 :D) LOL; thanks this made my chill Friday very chill. On principle, I don't like feeding into wealth disparity so I don't want to pay for private school. Your perspective is most practical and lik
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by apsurd 1y ago
This is too easily a soundbite. Sounds good so people say it. It's only true at the extreme ends though. Reliable access to food and shelter is a prerequisite so let's get that out of the way. I do worry that "rich people pro
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by apsurd 1y ago
Environmental expectations and accountability is a great point. Hard to deny how wide the gap can be between various groups.
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by apsurd 1y ago
Good speech. It makes me think of why the rich get richer though. More access to more types of people earlier and throughout one's life. The best thing to give kids is access to a very wide—as wide as they can stomach—orientation of al
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by apsurd 1y ago
ooh I like this take. We can change the framing. In the frame of one's livelihood we need to be concerned with economic productively, philosophy be damned.
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by apsurd 1y ago
Interesting, I just replied to this post recommending the exact opposite: to focus on means vs ends. The post laments how everything is useless when any conceivable "end state" a human can do will be inferior to what LLMs can do.
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by apsurd 1y ago
If you are in the camp of "ends justify the means" then it makes sense why all this is scary and nihilistic. What's the point doing anything if the outcome is infinitely better done in some other way by some other thing/
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by apsurd 1y ago
The reason I run into when thinking on late stage capitalism improvements is: "People want the chance to be rich". We vote and support all this private ownership because we want to keep that window open that that owner could be us
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by apsurd 1y ago
Very thought provoking reply. #3 sounds the most sticky to me, in the product sense that you'd build "your own LLM/agent" and plug it other services. I heard this on a product podcast [1], think of it like Okta SSO integ
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by apsurd 1y ago
I can't square how OpenAi can capture users and presumably retain them when the incumbents have been capturing users for multiple decades and why can they not retain them? If every major player had an AI option, i'm just not under
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by apsurd 2y ago
seems pretty reasonable to me. it's not that it's 100% accurate. it's that anything that has higher barrier to entry automatically acts as a filter. complied languages, esoteric languages, i mean it's pretty reasonable.
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by apsurd 2y ago
so having "some protections" like db foreign key scoping that mitigates "well anyone can now bypass auth middleware for any route" makes this… "not that bad on nextjs part" no no, this is absolutely nuts.
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by apsurd 2y ago
your last note that adds not-invented-here abominations… if chasing endless frameworks of the month is bad, and building stuff in house is bad, then what do you propose to avoid making this mess?
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by apsurd 2y ago
name is good ^_^
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by apsurd 2y ago
These are ok. They're great to highlight the surface area of product building. But the list is very biased from an analytics and testing perspective because posthog product is analytics and testing. Capturing analytics is a no brainer.
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by apsurd 2y ago
"being a grand dad" is his answer. and he colored it. it's not that deep so as to upset you. darklake just practicing his creative writing.

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