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by brandall10 6mo ago
There was a book I read a couple years back called "Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity", by David Bessis. He discussed this topic and how generally it's left to those who are more notable in a field to ask
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by brandall10 6mo ago
> Myopia is thinking “well he did it so it must have been good”. You're writing words that I did not say or imply. The point is going against any (current) admin is almost always bad for a publicly traded company. Any public entity
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by brandall10 6mo ago
Let me be clear - I'm not happy about it. But ignoring such a reality reminds me of that quote comparing Job's best friend to a lawnmower. That said, I'd love to enlightened to how it's myopic, or rather, what course(s)
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by brandall10 6mo ago
Apple is a multi-trillion dollar public company. It would be unusual for a leader of such a thing not act in accordance w/ shareholders' best interests, as well to defy likely board guidance.
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by brandall10 6mo ago
Understood, but to be clear, I felt the same way after I heard how off I was, as if maybe there was something defective with my brain. Just start small, record 4 bars of something, play it back. Use a metronome to gauge the actual amount of
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by brandall10 6mo ago
Until my late 20s, I was bad with both pitch and rhythm despite playing guitar for over a dozen years. Then I took singing lessons with a professional opera singer for 9 months, one hour a week. She stressed how important it was to record m
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by brandall10 6mo ago
In recent years Japan has been cheap due to the weakness of the yen, which has been trending 160/1 USD. Just 10 years ago it was nearly twice as strong. When I visited a couple years ago (2 weeks in Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto), everyt
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by brandall10 7mo ago
My first 'real' machine was a Price Club (now Costco) 386sx for $3800 in late '89, which would be nearly $10k adjusted for inflation. 16 MHz, 1 MB RAM, 40 MB hard disk. That was bargain basement for that era. IBMs, Compaqs an
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by brandall10 7mo ago
I'm assuming he's in some sort of high-end communal housing, a trend that began emerging in SF ~15 years back ... ie. where multi-millionaire startup founders and the like choose it on purpose for the synergistic benefits.
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by brandall10 7mo ago
It could signal potential disruption to the Strait of Hormuz.
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by brandall10 7mo ago
There were definite geopolitical signals of an impending conflict - ie. warships moving into the region, Iran increasing oil exports just days before the attack. I guess what might be more interesting is how many people bet $1000 the day be
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by brandall10 8mo ago
Also it was impressive when someone was good enough to play 40 minutes. Usually a small crowd would gather, which could inspire bad players to plunk in more quarters to improve. I remember beating Zaxxon when I was only 6 years old in &#x27
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by brandall10 8mo ago
When the genius of Upton Sinclair and Russ Hanneman come together so eloquently.
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by brandall10 8mo ago
IME, Claude is more powerful, but Codex follows instructions better. So the more precise the context, the better results you'll get with Codex. Claude OTOH works better with ambiguity, but it also tends to stray a bit off spec in subtl
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by brandall10 8mo ago
- Whenever I have a change to suggest, I ask Gemini to review my docs/specs folder. I then describe the change I'm thinking of and ask it to modify the specs as it sees fit. I review those changes, ask questions or make suggestion
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by brandall10 8mo ago
I go a bit further than this and have had great success with 3 doc types and 2 skills: - Specs: these are generally static, but updatable as the project evolves. And they're broken out to an index file that gives a project overview, a
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by brandall10 8mo ago
Reading Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct", and he has a section that shows how the Lord's Prayer has changed over the ages. What's interesting is the one in use today - from the early 17th century - is not the
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by brandall10 8mo ago
Right, it's clearly aging related deterioration. It's like saying facial wrinkles are an abnormality.
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by brandall10 8mo ago
Low status is underselling it, but it certainly wasn't seen as an alternate path for those those considering medical/law/finance. I started my CS degree in '94, and my junior year was... weird. Suddenly a quarter of the
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by brandall10 8mo ago
60 million SEED round? This is really a thing now?
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by brandall10 8mo ago
This has generally been my experience with most highly acclaimed movies over the past 10 years. Most recently had this w/ Marty Supreme... last year had this w/ The Brutalist and The Substance. The first half has me thinking insta
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by brandall10 9mo ago
I'm more of a 'patient' gamer and this is a criticism I had quite a bit in the past... even GTA5 I lost interest about 25 hours in. A couple years ago I played Stray and was wowed by the art direction and tight if fairly mini
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by brandall10 9mo ago
I find it funny that Take Two is dropping against this news... the company that has taken some 13 years to create a sequel to its primary franchise. Wouldn't tech that could significantly shorten the timeline back to something closer t
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by brandall10 9mo ago
You seem to have some deeper insight into this - in your estimation, how often does tele-operation (even a small correction) take place?
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by brandall10 10mo ago
For sure, but my point is that increased hunger doesn’t automatically negate the benefit via overeating; people often adapt through modest adjustment instead. More generally, it seems inconsistent to assume someone can voluntarily tolerate
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by brandall10 10mo ago
Hunger, like cold exposure, is an uncomfortable but transient signal. In many cases it peaks and subsides without requiring immediate action, especially once the body adapts. Anecdotally, my first 72-hour fast was revealing. Around the 48-h
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by brandall10 10mo ago
Curious, what is your solution to this situation? Imagine all labor has been automated - virtually all facets of life have been commoditized, how does the average person survive in such a society?
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by brandall10 10mo ago
I wouldn't assume. The readership of HN is quite vast. I've never worked at big tech and don't plan to.
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by brandall10 10mo ago
The story about the photography students was conveyed almost verbatim in the book Atomic Habits fwiw. But I think this type of principle has been relayed through many forms. Even Bruce Lee has the famous quote “I fear not the man who has pr
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by brandall10 11mo ago
It's such an interesting arc. I starting university in Sept '94, super excited to try out Mosaic on a T1 class connection after suffering through my 14.4k home modem. And shortly after I arrived, Netscape dropped. He was an absolu

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