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by brap 10mo ago
>My business now employs 250 full time people You sure about that?
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by brap 10mo ago
I’m naturally pretty pale and don’t get much sunlight, I feel like I look like shit unless I get just a little bit of tan. What most people would consider just a healthy looking “baseline”. It also puts me in a better mood although that may
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by brap 10mo ago
I think the underlying assumption is that we are “real”, meaning our existence is grounded in some undisputed “reality”. So if what we perceive as the universe isn’t real, then there has to be some other real universe that is simulating it
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by brap 10mo ago
Is there no way to tell the browser “hey this URL is using the same domain but please isolate it from the rest”?
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by brap 10mo ago
Give this man a Turing Award
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by brap 10mo ago
Nations that keep placing obstacles in the path of AI (e.g. taxes) will lose to nations that don't. Ask yourself if this is a race you're willing to lose
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by brap 10mo ago
>Think deeply about it and tell me if it is not or or not even I think I just experienced a segfault
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by brap 10mo ago
Leadership roles, especially in large corporations, often favor people who are opportunistic. They don’t care about the product, they want that promo. And to win that promo you have to ship big and ship fast. So often times what you see is
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by brap 10mo ago
Citizens of those same rich countries will often say with a straight face that rich people need to pay more to support the poor. How about rich counties paying more to support the poor counties? Should we all pay 90% tax to support the bill
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by brap 10mo ago
The usual first-world disapproval over wealth disparity... often oblivious to the fact that you, the reader, were the global 1% all along
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by brap 10mo ago
For programmers I would say graphs or at least thinking in graphs is a common one. Some would say SAT is also a handy trick but I’ve personally never used it.
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by brap 11mo ago
Bailouts are not capitalism
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by brap 11mo ago
That’s a very clean API.
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by brap 11mo ago
Cheap in the sense that most target users don’t have to worry about allocating it
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by brap 11mo ago
How expensive is it? Is it expensive enough to suffer a month of feature lag? A year of feature lag? A decade of feature lag? Probably not. Regardless, we’re talking about the average user. As the article implies, on average, users’ time i
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by brap 11mo ago
>warmer I actually wish they’d make it colder. Matter of fact, my ideal “assistant” is not an assistant. It doesn’t pretend to be a human, it doesn’t even use the word “I”, it just answers my fucking question in the coldest most succinct
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by brap 11mo ago
When I buy a refrigerator, if a model has insane power consumption that makes me think about my electric bill, I’d be less inclined to buy it. The refrigerator manufacturer is going to sell less. So in a way, you can say that they’re defini
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by brap 11mo ago
Yeah, I kinda agree with that reluctantly. As much as I like super snappy and efficient native apps, we just gotta accept that no sane company is going to invest significant resources in something that isn’t used 99%+ of the time. WhatsApp
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by brap 11mo ago
I read 2-3 sentences and then immediately decided to check the author’s credentials. Fashion designer. That’s a hard no from me.
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by brap 11mo ago
Asking as someone who is really out of the loop: how much of ML development these days touches these “lower level” parts of the stack? I’d expect that by now most of the work would be high level, and the infra would be mostly commoditized.
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by brap 11mo ago
I feel like sometimes it’s a form of procrastination. There are things we don’t want to do (talk to costumers, investors, legal, etc.), so instead we do the fun things (fun for engineers). It’s a convenient arrangement because we can easily
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by brap 11mo ago
It absolutely drives me nuts when people spend so much time building something but make it difficult to show you what they’ve built. A short code snippet (with syntax highlighting thank you) should be the first thing on your page. I do not
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by brap 11mo ago
How about we treat people like adults?
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by brap 11mo ago
You will need a formal language first. Take this statement for example: >ChatGPT knows WebPPL really well What formal language can express this statement? What will the text be parsed into? Which transformations can you use to produce ot
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by brap 11mo ago
I think trying to accurately express natural language statements as values and logical steps as operators is going to be very difficult. You also need to take into account ambiguity and subtext and things like that. I actually believe it is
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by brap 11mo ago
What is to reason, if not to generate a seeming of reasoning? (tips fedora)
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by brap 11mo ago
I wonder if we can get models to reason in a structured and verifiable way, like we have formal logic in math.
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by brap 11mo ago
For sure, I was referring to the state of python before uv. Specifically projects not being self-contained, easily portable, etc
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by brap 11mo ago
While I don’t do frontend and don’t want to defend that mess, I think that locking a specific version for each dependency would solve this
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by brap 11mo ago
My sentiment coming to Python after getting used to the DX of Node https://uploads.dailydot.com/2024/04/damn-bitch-you-live-lik...

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