bitzun

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by bitzun 3y ago
I don't understand this take. Can you elaborate?
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by bitzun 3y ago
Massdrop (Drop?) has had filler garbage for quite a while. I think (maybe one) part of the issue is mechanical keyboards got much more popular and drops were less necessary for good stuff.
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by bitzun 3y ago
I've been to dozens of rationalist meetups (I don't know why), people are constantly talking out of their ass while constantly referencing contrived rhetorical devices. A lot of "just asking questions", confidently asser
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by bitzun 3y ago
The time and QoL I save will always beat hypothetical missed promotions at a current employer. For me, I don't think there's an exception to that rule. If I want more money I can ask and if it doesn't show up I can leave.
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by bitzun 3y ago
This is the sort of question I would ask of the export route (vs the much preferable self-host route), thanks for testing it out. If one could export office formats, e.g. docx for docs that'd probably be the best. The more I look at th
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by bitzun 3y ago
This is very impressive, but if I'm going to go through the pain of not using gsuite/O365, I'm not going to consider something I can't self host or export to one of those quickly if your saas fails.
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by bitzun 3y ago
I finished it, now I have depression. But really, it was a great book. Reminded me a bit of The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick.
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by bitzun 3y ago
I can type 100wpm but I want to type faster so I love this kind of thing, but I noticed it stopped responding keyboard input after a minute or so. Thanks anyway!
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by bitzun 3y ago
It's also way harder in the US to go back to school as a working professional. Most people can succeed in university, but the window to do it with the least struggle closes after you're adulting hard, have a family, etc.
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by bitzun 3y ago
I describe it to the youth like this: Getting a degree might not be the fastest way to riches for the exceptionally entrepreneurial/resourceful (who are few,) but it's still by far the most reliable way to reach financially comfor
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by bitzun 3y ago
The drama is mostly because lots of people don't like writing tests, and lots of folks at one point or another have seen unit tests that are questionably valuable or past the point of diminishing returns I think of tests that require a
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by bitzun 3y ago
A developer bemoaned to me the threat of being legally obligated to make major chat apps interoperate because it would be too much effort and would stifle innovation, and I found that rather pathetic. If we couldn't figure out how to c
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by bitzun 3y ago
I understand what you're saying now, my comment was pretty flippant in retrospect. I didn't mean to devalue the NYT's work, my suggestion was hypothetically intended to liberate the free moat OpenAI got from the fruit's
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by bitzun 3y ago
To illustrate, this is one of my favorite (humorous) lines from it, in the introductory chapter: "In the Eastern Empire, Greek civilization, in a desiccated form, survived, as in a museum, till the fall of Constantinople in 1453, _but
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by bitzun 3y ago
Started reading this from your recommendation. Whenever I pick it up I have trouble putting it down. Thanks!
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by bitzun 3y ago
Maybe getting too off topic for the thread, but it feels like equating machine and human output reaches a level of nihilism even I shudder at. I think (hope) there is intrinsic value in something being made by a human being even if a machin
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by bitzun 3y ago
I'm not sure the analogy really fits. As I see it, hypothetical farmers aren't an elite class that gets rich from copying and transforming the communications and creative output of billions(?) of unknowing people.
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by bitzun 3y ago
Me neither, as long as I get to own it along with everyone else!
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by bitzun 3y ago
NYT's ask and my own are never going to happen, but I think forcing the models to be public domain would be the best outcome. It was trained on the creative output of a substantial portion of everyone online going back decades, includi
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by bitzun 3y ago
I haven't seen substantial evidence that he is exceptionally "smart" to the point that we need to utilize his brain in particular while he's in prison.
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by bitzun 3y ago
Dan Simmons' Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion
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by bitzun 3y ago
I hear this refrain a lot, but the reasons I've gotten for native apps vs webapps were not very compelling to me. I'd be interested in a detailed comparison of some real examples of native and web (or react native-like or webview
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by bitzun 3y ago
Mutt is very well known. People are very opinionated about the way they use email. If you want to build an email client, I would go familiarize yourself with the massively popular mail clients like mutt, Thunderbird, Outlook. A lot of effor
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by bitzun 3y ago
You'll need a new theory. I've worked with two late millenial/gen-z developers who couldn't hold up a slack conversation to save their lives, so we went to zoom very quickly when they needed anything.
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by bitzun 3y ago
But it's not a dichotomy between 3 hours or instantaneous. It's a dichotomy between instantaneous and when someone has a break in flow to peek at messages, which IME is more like 15-30 minutes (and i think it's probably fair
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by bitzun 3y ago
"that's just you" is dismissive and inaccurate. I can only listen to music when I'm slacking and if I begin to do real work the music I normally enjoy becomes an annoyance and I have to turn it off.
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by bitzun 3y ago
(Not an ios developer, have worked with ios teams) Swift build times are notoriously awful. I don't know if most developers have much influence over that.
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by bitzun 3y ago
Firefox seems to always display the url after the protocol, even on mobile. I don't like the protocol omission, but I've grown to tolerate it.
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by bitzun 3y ago
Are you using a pinebook pro? I used Manjaro for a while there because I couldn't get OpenBSD working. Eventually I switched to my thinkpad (and frankly I'm using my AMD gaming computer running popOS lately despite the trust issue
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by bitzun 3y ago
And once you have all that (assuming exercise is cardio), weight lifting has great mental health effects IME

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