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by chii 1y ago
> pushing the burden of verification and understanding to other people. Where was the burden prior to LLM's? if a junior cannot prove his/her code as working and have an understanding, how was this "solved" before llm
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by chii 1y ago
> I don't know if that is also the case in China. it is exactly the case in china - just with different numbers. It's why shanghai and beijing has some of the highest property price to income ratios. Just like in san fran. Ther
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by chii 1y ago
The chinese gov't also funds those things - but just not via taxes collected from people's incomes. They collect "profit" off foreign exports, debase the local currency to pay for it.
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by chii 1y ago
> naturally cheap you mean artificially cheap? State subsidized electricity, loans and the ability to hire/fire people flexibly.
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by chii 1y ago
> AI models will never obtain the ability to completely replace “low value work” if this were truly the case, then companies that _didn't_ replace the "low value work" by ai and continued to use people will outperform and
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by chii 1y ago
When you can't write well, you "resort" to using a lot of body language and facial nuances in face-to-face communication, which works acceptably. Unfortunately, this doesn't translate well on zoom. This "writing wel
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by chii 1y ago
> At the junior level, your focus is to learn enough of the fundamentals, patterns and design principles so you reach the senior level and be a net positive in the team. I suspect that juniors will not want to do this, because the end re
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by chii 1y ago
> A much larger percentage will only be able to work on things like CRUD apps and grunt work. which is lower valued, and thus it is economically "correct" to have them be replaced when an appropriate automation method is found.
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by chii 1y ago
More like quitting blacksmithing due to the invention of CNC.
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by chii 1y ago
> large, profitable startups have grown into long term private companies with no need to go public which i think is a real problem - it prevents "mom and dad" investors from partaking in the wealth creation process, as they are
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by chii 1y ago
> percentage of emails composed with its AI tools has increased fivefold in the past year. read: spam has increased 5 fold!
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by chii 1y ago
The grandparent poster used a strange way to word it - you dont normally call it uncooked rice in this context! It's like saying people eat 1kg of raw flour when they're talking about bread consumption.
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by chii 1y ago
might be confusing mushy with sticky - the individual grains of sushi rice is intact and whole. Mushy rice is a grain that has too absorbed too much water, and is burst.
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by chii 1y ago
just in case people dont understand, the dry weight of rice is what gets measured.
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by chii 1y ago
> It’s not much harder to just harden your system 'just' harden the system is not easy. But installing something like a vmware guest driver is easy, as even a non-technical user can do it following some basic instructions.
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by chii 1y ago
cars inflating faster than overall/average inflation of the economy is significant. I suspect the reason is that a car's parts are numerous, and because specific inflation affects different components, there's a good chance t
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by chii 1y ago
install revanced (if you're on android): https://github.com/ReVanced it is something that allows you to make your youtube experience much, much nicer (such as removing shorts off the app).
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by chii 1y ago
> it couldn’t run latest macOS, and software support for the old version it could run was increasingly going away. which is very annoying, as none of the newer OS versions has anything that warrants dumping hardware to buy brand new to r
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by chii 1y ago
Cook is an operations person. He makes the logistics work. He's no visionary. Jobs is a visionary, but is not a logistics person. Apple struck lightning when both existed, to provide complimentary ideas and counterbalances. Lighting do
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by chii 1y ago
i think the tooling improves with popularity, so it's a bit of a chicken/egg problem. But with the recent LSP decoupling of the IDE to the compiler, it is quite possible to make good tooling that is independent of any particular e
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by chii 1y ago
i deleted my facebook account over 15 years ago, and people at the time thought i was weird for doing so. I would feel vindicated today, except i dont, because neither my friends nor coworkers have followed, nor want to despite all evidence
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by chii 1y ago
> the camera would steal their soul. wasn't the camera doing the stealing, but the holder of the photo (facebook in this case)! And it wasn't the soul being stolen, but money!
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by chii 1y ago
> People will go through obscene lengths to recreate what judicious use of absolute positioning can achieve fairly well the web has the requirement that the 'document' look good no matter what device size/dimension, orient
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by chii 1y ago
Those well-developed economies' data is mostly corroborated by proxy measurements (like light levels, copper/electricity consumption etc).
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by chii 1y ago
> It could also indicate that News companies make more money from a tiny number of subscribers than whoever would pay microtransactions which is exactly what "doesn't work" means - not enough revenue from microtransations
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by chii 1y ago
> So how do we know this, empirically? as in, because the microtransactions mechanisms already exist, and has been successfully monetized in other areas. The fact that news publishers don't use it (and opt for subscribers instead) i
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by chii 1y ago
> I'd be far more willing toss you a penny or two to read the content of a single article. yet empirically, most people wont. And a business model require it work for most people, not just a standout few like yourself. This is even
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by chii 1y ago
> there is almost zero demand for private LLM right now. you need some really expensive hardware to run a local LLM, most of which is unavailable to the average user. The demand might just simply be hidden as these users do not know nor
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by chii 1y ago
There are way better ways to squeeze abusers of the H1B program than to roundabout the VISA application like this. This seems to be exclusively targeted at anti-trump people, by punishing them for their free speech.
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by chii 1y ago
to play the devil's advocate, if more people wanted to visit the US than the other way around, then it's not "disadvantageous" for the US to do this.

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