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by aworks 7mo ago
The Google founders did ok.
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by aworks 7mo ago
Foreign Affairs suggests Iran would rather fight a protacted war with the US than repeated wars with Israel. And in either case, they would continue to attack US regional interests. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-stat
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by aworks 7mo ago
FWIW, I'm typing this on my sub-$500 HP laptop and it's fine. I would only call for support as a last resort, and I haven't needed to do that.
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by aworks 7mo ago
Or that a taxi driver in Wuhan could answer his phone while shifting his manual transmission and smoking a cigarette.
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by aworks 7mo ago
I mostly listen to minimalism but I wouldn't call 12-tone/serialism "dire." Like all periods, there's good and bad. On the other hand, I've lost my taste for Germanic 19th century music.
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by aworks 7mo ago
Manager of managers. Some engineers get promoted to first-line managemen t and some outsiders are brought in as the team grows. And some of each of those don't succeed.
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by aworks 7mo ago
For my classical music use case, listening to new releases, Spotify works very well, particularly with the help of 3rd-party services. I follow several thousand composers and musicians. I then get daily playlist creation by crabhands.com of
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by aworks 7mo ago
Including paying poets and other experts by the hour to improve the models https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/brendan-foody/
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by aworks 8mo ago
This reminds me of the time I was distantly following a Waymo car at speed on 101 in Mountain View during rush hour. The Waymo brake lights came on first followed a second or two later by the rest of the traffic.
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by aworks 8mo ago
Hmm, just tried the non-personalized option for the first time. Is it a reflection on me that I may prefer it over "personalized"?
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by aworks 8mo ago
I found 2) amazing. Then I realized I'm an old person...
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by aworks 8mo ago
"Working with Claude and Codex has been exhilarating. Being able to code up ideas quickly and effectively opens up wide vistas for everyone. This is already resulting in a deluge of publications..."
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by aworks 8mo ago
+1 for mentioning Christensen & Trout and Reis.
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by aworks 8mo ago
I've had three failures in the last week. I had the "thought my bag was product" problem, the "I somehow double scanned" problem and the "need a reset but no one can explain why." The first and third were
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by aworks 9mo ago
"Inevitability is lazy thinking'
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by aworks 9mo ago
I don't know if it is diagnosable dementia. Senior disinhibition on the other hand...
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by aworks 9mo ago
I was roaming around the rural Western US last year. If I saw that there was a Walmart in town, I perked up. Consistent, low-priced and large number of grocery items. Likely better than an unknown, variable, often poorly stocked local groc
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by aworks 9mo ago
I'm half content. I don't have issues for the most part with Windows annoyances, am ok streaming movies with ads, shrug when Spotify changes their UI yet again, and browse on my laptop without adblock. On the other hand, I had to
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by aworks 9mo ago
Stephen Kotkin suggests that the US share of nominal global GDP remains roughly constant, at around 25% regardless of political and policy changes. I don't know if that's right but any real change in the trend might require even m
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by aworks 9mo ago
I worked for a large Silicon Valley company that took the exact opposite approach. They didnt think they had expertise to strategically manage real estate. So the company leased their facilities (and moved twice while I was there). They wer
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by aworks 10mo ago
I'm a retired software manager. Email was inherent to the job as the primary way to communicate with people in far-flung countries. I'm guessing I spent 20% of my time in my inbox. Unfortunately, it wasn't in consecutive, la
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by aworks 10mo ago
With your app, it seems daylight today in Chicago is the same length as yesterday's solstice, although it starts and ends 30 seconds later. today - 07:18:59 → 16:24:29 = 9:5:30. yesterday - 7:18:23 → 16:23:53 = 9:5:30
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by aworks 10mo ago
And I'm the "The Compiler Historian." "A veteran systems developer who cross-references modern AI token costs against the FORTRAN 66 spec..." https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/aworks
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by aworks 10mo ago
"If you treat a prompt as an algorithm, this tracks. Vague prompts expand the solution space and force corrective passes. Precise prompts narrow it and converge faster. Over time, the difference shows up in total token consumption.My s
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by aworks 10mo ago
Good discussion of tactical vs. strategic firefighting
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by aworks 10mo ago
Did he design the yellow pedestrian/biker bridge connecting Facebook to the the Bayfront? I recently drove underneath it and it's quite interesting.
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by aworks 10mo ago
"the naive approach to moats focuses on the cost of switching; in fact, however, the more important correlation to the strength of a moat is the number of unique purchasers/users."
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The axis: the left-right spectrum has a non-ideology problem(gelliottmorris.com)
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Technical point: "While LLMs/AI fall short of many promises made by enthusiasts over the last couple years, we are relying on them for the one thing they are good at: summarizing and analyzing text...The full prompt used in this a
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by aworks 10mo ago
Yes, thanks for the identification.

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