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by bentt 11mo ago
Thanks yeah thats a fair point. I just get a sense that incentives are misaligned. I pay $30/mo for family premium primarily to keep my kids away from ads, but Youtube still finds more ways to squeeze us by steering us around for reten
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by bentt 11mo ago
I really don't understand why there are not sites that curate Youtube videos? Like, present basically the same recommendation UI, but just hand pick cool videos around different topics? Hell, it could even be like Reddit with voting...
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by bentt 11mo ago
Is this like if everyone suddenly got 1gb fiber connections in 1996? We put money into the thing we know (infra), but there's no youtube, netflix, dropbox, etc etc etc. Instead we're still loading static webpages with progressive
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by bentt 11mo ago
Meta is Zuck. Zuck is bad. Accept it everyone. Why people hate Elon Musk but not Zuck is beyond me. Zuck has done real harm as well, some of it worse than Musk.
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by bentt 11mo ago
Everyone wants to make generalizations, but all this really means is lots of families find homeschooling to be the best choice. What factors into that can vary wildly.
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by bentt 11mo ago
I have been using Unity professionally since 2009 and I agree with you. Very stable now. Other competitors are good. Real code good. I just hope they sort out the render pipeline mess.
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by bentt 11mo ago
It took over 10 seconds to add a To-Do item to my Microsoft To-Do app. Apparently an item cannot be added until the server responds?
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by bentt 11mo ago
Hey I just want to respond to this because I didn't mean to say what you heard. What I meant was that I think we're going through an extinction event for programmers of adaptability below a certain threshold. What will get a progr
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by bentt 11mo ago
Nope. Is this the same crash that happened when tariffs were announced? What about the 2022 crash? What sort of crash are we talking about? IMO the AI incumbents want to provoke smaller pullbacks on the way up to A) kill competitors who can
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by bentt 11mo ago
There's a lot of manipulation going on. Attempts to pop the bubble artificially, prematurely. There's a lot of impatience and illusion of control out there. You can bet that when a real bubble bursts, we won't be seeing artic
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by bentt 11mo ago
if you never programmed before college and you chose CS because it was a good job then you should change. If you got into programming when you were a kid, can’t stay away from programming because you love it, and pursuing CS was an expressi
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by bentt 11mo ago
So what you're telling me is that pennies are the new bitcoin. Fixed supply.
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by bentt 11mo ago
I'm happy he won. It's symbolic of voter dissatisfaction. Someone's got to take billionaires on and it might as well be a 34 year old mayor of NYC. Why not? It's honestly staggering how much older Trump is than this guy.
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by bentt 11mo ago
The era of cheap money led to a lot of mergers and acquisitions, which incentivized companies large and small to bloat to increase their value to prospective buyers. I really don’t think this is AI causing all these layoffs. It’s just a ret
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by bentt 1y ago
We just paid $18k out of pocket for outpatient (not overnight) surgery. $6k to the surgeon, $2.5k to anesthesiologist, the rest to… I dunno, the hospital.
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by bentt 1y ago
There’s no more The Man.
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by bentt 1y ago
Some people code to talk and don't want anything said for them. That's okay. Photography and paintings landed in different places with different purposes. But all of Programming isn't the same thing. We just need new names fo
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by bentt 1y ago
I have a feeling engineers said the same about going to the moon under Kennedy.
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by bentt 1y ago
Seems like even before we do an elevator, we should get _something_ tethered to the ground to be in space. Like... anything! That'd be a huge accomplishment.
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by bentt 1y ago
I think this a useful challenge to our normal way of thinking. At the same time, "the world" exists only in our imagination (per our brain). Therefore, if LLMs need a model of a world, and they're trained on the corpus of hum
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by bentt 1y ago
Yeah interestingly, Hyundai recently cut prices on their EVs in anticipation of this. To me, it was confirmation that they had inflated prices in recent years.
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by bentt 1y ago
Let's do a thought experiment. Say the govt wanted everyone to buy more Rubik's Cubes (cause they help you become smarter). Their plan to do this is not to pay the Rubik's company to make them cheaper, but instead to give eve
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by bentt 1y ago
It was Bernie. He's had enough of this horseshit.
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by bentt 1y ago
Yes this post-Jobs era smells just like the Scully + Amelio era, just with a stronger start. iOS was a massive tee-up for Cook and he's done everything possible to leverage it. Now it's time for a new visionary to step in. Unfortu
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by bentt 1y ago
Good. It was at best the Newton of this era. At worst, a waste of time and focus. And they do need to maintain focus. Apple can’t even get a local LLM to back Siri and control our phones reliably. They have way bigger opportunities than a h
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by bentt 1y ago
I have confidence that Meta will find a way to make this user experience horrible and exploitative.
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by bentt 1y ago
Sports gambling is perverting sports. When ESPN has special segments on good bets you know we have lost our way.
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by bentt 1y ago
I applaud Meta's efforts here. If they spearhead Camera/AI glasses, then nobody will trust the product and it will die.
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by bentt 1y ago
I’ve had a rough week. Clicked on this from the couch while screwing off work, Game of Thrones on the TV. Had to laugh.
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by bentt 1y ago
Yeah the HIGH FIDELITY FLIGHT MODEL required that math co processor. When you turned it on it felt like you had tapped into the WOPR from Wargames!

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