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by com2kid 6mo ago
Vinyls are sometimes preferred because people like white noise, same as tube amps. Granted some CDs are mastered like garbage, and that led to some bad press for awhile. But you can master a CD so that it sounds exactly, as in mathematicall
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by com2kid 6mo ago
> This applies to almost everyone working on SaaS; The original idea behind SaaS is to align the incentives of the customers and the software company. Historically software companies made money on selling upgrades. This meant bug fixes w
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by com2kid 6mo ago
I grew up in a neighborhood that had a drug den next to the 7-11 that all the kids went to buy slurpees at. The dealers didn't bother the kids, and the kids knew not to go into that yard. There were plenty of street walkers on a partic
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by com2kid 6mo ago
> Your kids are hardly free-range. Let me guess, there's no way for them to actually meaningfully leave the area (no train, bus, etc)? It's like dumping kids on a 5 acre farm and saying they can do whatever they want. hardly fr
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Whenever these conversations come up, I've always noted that they don't really seem to apply to the PNW. My neighborhood (in Seattle proper) has lots of kids running around as well. Neighborhood kids will stop by to pickup my son
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Frontier models from a year ago had issues with consistent tool calling, instruction following was pretty good but could still go off the rails from time to time. Open weight models have those same issues. They are otherwise fine. You can h
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by com2kid 6mo ago
What are you trying to do? Write code? No. Use frontier models. They are subsidized and amazing and they get noticably better ever few months. Literally anything else? Smaller models are fine. Classifiers, sentiment analysis, editing blog p
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by com2kid 6mo ago
This feels like *nix. Developers built themselves really good OSes for doing developer things. Actually using it to do things was secondary. Want to run a web server? Awesome choice. Want to write networking code? Great. Setup a reliable DB
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by com2kid 6mo ago
China already operates like this. Low cost specialized models are the name of the game. Cheaper to train, easy to deploy. The US has a problem of too much money leading to wasteful spending. If we go back to the 80s/90s, remember OS&#x
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by com2kid 6mo ago
To bang on the same damn drum: Open Weight models are 6 months to a year behind SOTA. If you were building a company a year ago based on what AI could do then, you can build a company today with models that run locally on a user's comp
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by com2kid 6mo ago
In the full blog post I actually go into more detail about automatically creating a knowledge graph of what is being worked on throughout the whole company. There are some really powerful transformative efforts that can be accomplished righ
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by com2kid 6mo ago
IMHO no one is really pioneering. A lot more is possible than what is being done. I wrote a blog post about useful agents in a business setting ( https://www.generativestorytelling.ai/blog/posts/useful-corp... ) tha
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by com2kid 6mo ago
I have been annoyed for some time that there doesn't seem to be any mechanism in society by which people who cannot sing are taught en masse how to sing. We spend so much time in school music classes "singing" with no actual
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by com2kid 6mo ago
While working at MS I remember someone in the office team saying that the original version of Excel online spun to the actual Excel backend and had it output HTML instead of the usual win32 UI. Was I misinformed by chance?
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Does Excel for Web still spin up an actual copy of Excel.exe on a machine somewhere? I heard that is how the initial version worked.
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by com2kid 6mo ago
There is an irony here that this would be more performant with a 2002 coding model. A native plugin, COM, OLE, whatever. C++, crash prone, but fast.
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Proposition 1: The majority of a code in a modern app is from shared libraries Proposition 2: The most popular shared libraries are going to be quickly torn apart by LLM security tools to find vulnerabilities Proposition 3: After a brief pe
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by com2kid 6mo ago
There are benefits to having the same type system throughout a code base. Also Typescript is a really nice language. The other issue is, many websites are basically apps. The HTML is a byproduct, it isn't the main event. The template
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by com2kid 6mo ago
For the same reason everything is moving to being ad based - because ads pay more, and because the high income users who are willing to pay to get rid of ads are the most valuable users to show ads to.
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Seconded that I'd love to hear more. A couple years back I bought a "cooking from your garden" book that introduced my family to shrubs, and since then we've been making a lot of home made drinks. We mostly do different
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by com2kid 6mo ago
JS is primarily a functional language, it is built around functions as first class objects and closures. The issue is the bar has been raised for what people call "functional" now. Everyone is picky "OMG not pure so it isn&#x
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Microsoft OneNote had this back in 2007 or so, granted the speech to text model wasn't nearly as advanced as they are now. I was actually on the OneNote team when they were transitioning to an online only transcription model because th
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by com2kid 6mo ago
> "put a computer in every home and every office" That was such an amazing mission statement. It was a real measurable goal, and progress towards it was quantifiable. And Microsoft actually did it! That mission statement drove
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by com2kid 6mo ago
I grew up in Seattle and attended West Seattle High School. The technology teacher (whose name I forget, but I can remember his face and voice!) decided to teach us Rhino3d. That went on to me talking about Rhino on Slashdot one day and a
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by com2kid 6mo ago
I really wish they had a hobbyist license. I'd pay $100 for a non-commercial copy.
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Once we have direct neural inputs VR will explode. Or at least the ability to wire directly into the optic nerves. VR, or at least AR, is obviously the future. But Meta, like so many companies before them, saw the future and tried to jump o
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by com2kid 6mo ago
6 semesters seems like... a lot? IIRC getting a math undergrad at my Uni didn't require that many classes of calc. I think calc 1 and 2 are extremely valuable. The concept of rate of change is fundamental to so many things in life, and
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by com2kid 6mo ago
We actually did this in my highschool genetics class back in 1999! We made bacteria change color by splicing in a gene. Awesome stuff. The (public!) school had a grant from one of Seattle's biotech boom companies.
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Every large company is doing layoffs right now. Getting an interview 10 years was your best bet. Heck even in 2022 I heard they were brining everyone in for interviews.
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by com2kid 6mo ago
I don't know why, aside from pride, every other 3d modeling program doesn't just copy Rhino's UI. EVERYTHING is awful compared to Rhino3d. Viscerally painful to use bad in comparison.

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