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by brudgers 1y ago
I'm writing this on a four-year-old Macbook Pro and it only has 16 GB of RAM. Server-class machines would still need to address more memory than that, but they're usually running specialized software or virtualizing; databases an
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by brudgers 1y ago
Both. It is not xor.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Through a friend of a friend, I found out that Anthropic had an open position "Coffee" with the friend of a friend would he better strategy than a cover letter in that case...more work, but better strategy. Because logically, ge
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by brudgers 1y ago
1. Both tools are good enough. Source control is an engineering practice. Good enough is the core of engineering. 2. Source control was and is an expanding market. Beginners don't have the experience to make informed decisions about
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by brudgers 1y ago
The teacher is asking a rhetorical question and getting an et cum spiritu tuo response. am I right? Of course not...and did-you-read-the-article comments are contrary to HN community standards. Such comments wallow in lameness.
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by brudgers 1y ago
I both agree and disagree. In the early days, Coursera was transformative. I took some amazing courses and learned a lot. ...but the vision was always automation and as courses were rerun, the instructors were more likely to be disengaged,
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by brudgers 1y ago
I mentioned the continued ban on programmable calculators in many academic contexts. Those contexts still include some portions of undergraduate education. This is fifty years after the introduction of programmable calculators. Realistical
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by brudgers 1y ago
LLM’s have been widely available for approximately five years. Five years into the availability of a calculator with an arbitrary advanced feature, it was controversial in academic contexts. Some of the author’s students could be grand-chil
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by brudgers 1y ago
If your projecct meets the guidelines, it might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by brudgers 1y ago
In my experience, it wasn’t bad. It was just fine. I ran AutoCad Architectural Desktop on a Toshiba Satellite under it… But my guess is that most people ran worse software, had less experience with computers, had lots of shovelware sludge r
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by brudgers 1y ago
Enough to buy a workstation class machine. Alternatively, a scope that matches your budget.
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by brudgers 1y ago
That’s limited for the workload you describe.
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by brudgers 1y ago
You get what you pay for.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Workstation laptops can be specified with powerful GPU’s. You can spend $10k on a Dell with 4 drive capability, 128gb of ram and 24gb of gpu.
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by brudgers 1y ago
What is your budget?
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by brudgers 1y ago
Altman’s analogy didn’t hold up. Calculators were uncontroversial Calculators are uncontroversial now. But when they first became cheap and widely available, they were not allowed in math classes. Then only four function calculators, then
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by brudgers 1y ago
Some previous comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44026335
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Glossary of Studio Neologisms (2018)(miltonline.com)
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by brudgers 1y ago
I had to ultimately reach out to connections from old jobs That’s usually the best place to start.
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by brudgers 1y ago
related? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44763224
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by brudgers 1y ago
On youtube I watched a recent PBS documentary on Funk. It concludes by segments on Elton John and David Bowie. Again, it was a documentary on Funk. Now I realize the writers probably used an LLM to get to Benny and the Jets as a Funk song
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by brudgers 1y ago
Thinkpad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8
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by brudgers 1y ago
It is kind of why I believe in commercial software. [1] Because it is ok to get paid so you can buy beans, shoes, and even nice things. And it is ok not to give away the fruits of your labor. [2] [1] I also believe in free software. GNU is
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by brudgers 1y ago
Curious why you are building?
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by brudgers 1y ago
Keep in mind that the most famous democracy tried Socrates, found him guilty, and sentenced him to social death. That he chose fast social death suggests how serious the trial was. The internet has sovereigns. At best it is a republic. At t
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by brudgers 1y ago
I think HN benefits more from curiosity than agendas. And I think commercial agendas are usually more likely to be intellectually interesting than ideological ones. But that's me. YMMV, and probably does.
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by brudgers 1y ago
If I were a VC (I am not) my concerns would be: “Why is nobody working with this solo founder? Is it bcause they are difficult to work with, greedy, or unable to sell their vision to other people?” Each of those make rocket ship growth less
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by brudgers 1y ago
Neither did Stockhausen, Schaffer, Les Paul or the Tape Music Lab.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Unlike most of the list items or a dictionary, Knuth’s work is an ongoing personal creative process rather than an independent mechanism or a collection of data.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Might as well use Ableton.

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