barrkel

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   by barrkel 3y ago

   What makes you think he has no technical ability? It seems more likely to me, given his background (programming from 8, accepted to Stanford CS) that he has technical aptitude, but he has even more dealmaking ability. https://www
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   by barrkel 3y ago

   Indeed. The only way to retain control of the leading ship in the race is to keep it together as you steer it. If the ship disintegrates, then you're no longer in control of the leading ship, and someone else will win the race.
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   by barrkel 3y ago

   hg split is a lot more tedious to do in git.
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   by barrkel 3y ago

   https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor... is a public reference for Mercurial front-ending Piper.
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   by barrkel 3y ago

   Twitter is a feed of what's getting attention right now, a cresting wave of what people are talking about. If you have to make an analogy with food, it's like ice cream from a street vendor on a hot day. It's not food, its va
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   by barrkel 3y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38350698
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   by barrkel 3y ago

   Fair enough, I removed it, though I believe leaders > thinkers on the status scale.
8. 638.▲
   by barrkel 3y ago

   LINQ expression trees can be serialized with a custom serializer, but it's a mistake to do so for a different reason: deserializers which materialize code or substitutes for code are major vulnerability vectors. Anyone who has had to u
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   by barrkel 3y ago

   People like conspiracy theories because it simplifies the world, aligns things into easy to understand Big Bad actions that they can understand. But conspiracies don't work because the world isn't that predictable. The real world
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    It doesn't add up because there's multiple actors with different motives. - At least two members of the board probably were genuinely more concerned about AI alignment - Ilya may have been partially motivated by ego, Altman being
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    It's commoditization again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25765864
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    That is not a sound deduction.
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    You aren't going to get 20W of fast phone charging power out of USB 2; you get 2.5W tops. USB 3 gets you to about 5W. Meanwhile USB C goes up to 240W. You're probably never going to get that directly out of a motherboard.
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    Phone, tablet, laptop, tyre pump, MiFi 5G hotspot, VPN router, portable monitor... most of my devices are USB C, except for my car (2019 - recent rentals are USB C), desktop PC, keyboard and mouse. I think it's great for travel, combin
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    The big upgrade in USB-C for mobile devices is power delivery; a secondary benefit is video output for laptops, enabling docking using a single cable instead of an old-fashioned dock. PCs aren't in the power delivery game and don'
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    Hand and finger privilege. It's much harder to play if you don't have hands or fingers!
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    This would be like 50x more cool if that example UI you scroll down to was real and live and embedded on the page.
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    If I thought it was worthwhile, maybe that would patch that specific hole. The other problem I get when trying to make it write code is that it gets kinda slippery with iterated refinements. In the back and forth dialog, addressing issues 1
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    FWIW I didn't wave away the entire concept. LLMs definitely have uses.
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    ChatGPT goes from zero to maybe 65th percentile? There or thereabouts. It's excellent if you know nothing. It's mediocre and super buggy if you're an expert. A big difference is that the expert asks different questions, off i
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    I got my kid a tablet and reckoned the iPad mini was a better choice, and I wanted to call him, read books and play games with him remotely, and the highest recommended app for this (Caribu) worked best on iOS. I don't really recommend
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    I'll believe it when I see it. I'm a recent returner to Apple software and mostly only use Facetime / Messenger or whatever it is, and parental controls, but those alone mess up a couple of times a week.
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    Contractors are not normally cheaper than employees. All the overheads of an employee need to be paid for in the contract, plus profit, so if it comes out less than an employee, something isn't right. Contractors offer flexibility. Con
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    What if a private organization set up cameras observing everyone walking every street and avenue, and stored facial eigenvectors of all the people walking there. It could then set up shop as a service, and given a picture of someone's
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    To house is pronounced "to howz", house is pronounced "howce".
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    And the answer is because originally house was neuter and mouse & louse were feminine, in previous iterations of the language. Slightly buried in there. And Haus is still neuter in German, while Maus and Laus are feminine.
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    Ceramic that works with induction doesn't seem that common. Non-induction electric sucks (inefficient, slow response) and gas spews out indoor pollution.
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    Rules are slightly different in Europe. It's recommended not to pack them in checked luggage, and battery banks and e-cigarettes can't be checked in. https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/domains/passengers/
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    Lifting off the throttle and on to the brakes quickly but gently is a natural safety decision if your going fast on a motorway and someone slower changes into your lane up ahead. This is the primary reason for emergency brake assist kicking
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    by barrkel 3y ago

    Have sufficient credibility to move me.