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901.
by coldtea 5mo ago
"People are going to be eating a lot fewer foods if the selection criteria include not being ultra-processed unhealthy crap".
902.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Somebody posted today about getting 3-4 pip top-level deps, and they brought in around 400 packages. That's not exactly that different.
903.
by coldtea 5mo ago
When you have infinite LLM coding monkeys, you don't ever feel the practical need to stop. Only the common sensical need, and if you lack that, you just don't stop. You let the code monkeys pile up more output. Points to a badly e
904.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> “What issue did you run into with the Rust rewrite? If there’s something specific I’ll fix” Besides, he doesn't mean he'll fix. He means "I'll let our AI vibe code a fix". We'd rather talk to the AI direc
905.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Too little, too late.
906.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> Plenty of theoretical CS is study of things like algorithms, which looks more like math proofs than code Even those are just going to be outsourced to AI by the "students"
907.
by coldtea 5mo ago
They have a direct link to buy from AliExpress
908.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Nah, most things stay the same withing quite narrow margins. The moon gets hit by a meteor now and then, but it's been essentially the same rock for some billion years.
909.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Of course it is. It abstracts away the code generation to a much more compressed natural language prompt. That's the very definition of a high abstraction...
910.
by coldtea 5mo ago
I don't think you understand how LLMs work. They're not merely re-arranging pre-existing blocks of code. And they have been shown to develop emergent properties that weren't in their training set time and again. They generate
911.
by coldtea 5mo ago
As long as LLMs remains at the same skill level at coding, or better, there's 100% guarantee an MD (a glorified prompt) is gonna work as good as it’s “working” right now.
912.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> I would argue that there is zero guarantees that LLMs are backwards compatible and that the markdown you wrote now will work just as fine in 1,2,3 years That this would be the case is even more guaranteed than some programming languag
913.
by coldtea 5mo ago
And the "wars for oil" is part of that.
914.
by coldtea 5mo ago
That Apple serves as a "Veblen goods" lifestyle brand is well established. Your amusement is what's weird. Of course people show off their iPhone. It's a big reason of owing one, it's also a big reason behind slight
915.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Wasn't it also focused on efficiency way more than the "throw VC money at the issue" Anthropic/OpenAI designs? Don't follow AI close, but I remember DeepSeek being a "much cheaper" to deploy model for clos
916.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> It slightly increased gas mileage and slightly reduced noise. Between the day to day road conditions and different routes noise and the modest effect, I'd say this would be impossible to tell.
917.
by coldtea 5mo ago
However the TFA doesn't make clear that this: "It's long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case" was already known to NOT always be the case
918.
by coldtea 5mo ago
You mean in places where every random without a degree can perform eye surgery, and doesn't matter if one in 5 customers go blind from it? Yes, that sure drops the prices. But they're way cheaper than the US in heavily and properl
919.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> May I suggest finding yourself the socialist paradise where they do as you wish and move there? If you promise not to sanction and bomb it and fund and arm far-right wing dictator thugs there, I'm game! But you got it backwards:
920.
by coldtea 5mo ago
If you can afford less (lesser treatment, drugs, procedures, quality of doctors and hospitals you can pay for), then your chances of survival also got WAY worse. Doesn't matter if the 1% has now access to better versions.
921.
by coldtea 5mo ago
State-run all those things used to be way cheaper and better here than after privatization. So much more, it's not even funny.
922.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> YouTube got massive because it had real creators. Supply and demand. A real marketplace. (...) I was a hardcore Android guy because it felt open. Sideloading, choice, freedom. (...) that toxicity doesn't show up on quarterly earni
923.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> that we can not design and implement a program without any bugs. If we don't include the compiler and runtime, sure we can. Godel's theorem is about formal axiomatic mathematical systems with certain properties like the abil
924.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> That numbers can represent things that are not numbers was (IMO) a revolutionary idea. When it first appeared, sure. But it wasn't with Godel and Turing that this happened.
925.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> First, you might not reload everything in memory, so it will be patched on disk but not in process. You design for this with generational tagged objects or something similar.
926.
by coldtea 5mo ago
I can think of plenty of apps that have perfectly fine non-subscription options, and then turned subscription only. People use them because the products were good or industry standard. They don't prefer them because subscriptions someh
927.
by coldtea 5mo ago
The post is a mix of human and AI writing and the AI-mannerisms get on the nerves. At least it has a clear topic and some actionable insights and code examples.
928.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> AFAIK Commercial is priced at a multiple of rent. So when an owner still has a loan on a building that was based off of multiple of 3000/mo and decides to rent it out for 1500/mo it effectively cuts the value of that building
929.
by coldtea 5mo ago
State run is better than a private for profit monopoly or few-o-poly which is what we get. People all over the world have often revolted to get some enterprises state run (nationalizing) and were often punished or even bombed for it.
930.
by coldtea 5mo ago
No, nothing to do with that. Even Steve Jobs said so back 20+ years ago, about why Apple can't just get out of China manufacturing. He said the labour cost is neghigible and not qualitatively different to the US. It's the availabi

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