danjl

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by danjl 2y ago
I have often felt that programming would do well to have a guild-like system. Current job titles and years of experience do not really help to differentiate the quality of individuals. There's also the intangible benefits of trust and
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Companies die slowly. It will definitely take longer than two years before the company is gone, but you will know it's on its way out long before it happens.
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Surely nothing like this will happen to the folks that are using LLMs at the core of their app. /s
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Google Slides and Drawings (under + > More...) are great tools. They support the diagramming objects, connectors, shared collaboration, and integration with the other Google Doc tools. They also have great history and diff tools as well
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Most of the time, the remaining assets are lost to the world. Often despite efforts to release the code and other media. Typically, the people involved in the wind down are not people who care about the assets and generally only care about
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I cannot imagine every giving a thumbs-up to hire a programmer who "just follow[s] the template they remember" and doesn't understand CS.
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Assuming that "ordinary" means the same thing to everyone is a bit of a generalization.
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Someone should use generative AI to convert portrait video into landscape by extending the sides (rather than cropping).
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Boothby strikes again!
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Dark kitchens are not designed to scale. In fact, they are the opposite - they only implement part of a company. There is no problem with sass as a business model. It's quite valuable to have a company manage software and data for you.
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One of the nice parts about starting a business is that you get to choose your customers. There is no ethical or moral rule that you must provide access to everyone who wants to use your app. You are even allowed to make decisions that redu
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How about weighting each input training data item using some sort of "accuracy" metric? Rather than treating data from the onion and reddit the same as Wikipedia, we could more accurately emulate what we do as humans. We spend an
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I think the next thing is adding the ability to download all your data, so you could switch to a different service. There are many advantages in having companies manage your data and software over time. The pernicious part is when they make
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If you could watch NBA games from court side seat in VR, they would be flying off the shelves. I'm fairly sure nothing technical is preventing this from happening. Most likely it is blocked by existing media contracts. I.e "non-te
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That's the transitive part. The small companies that are using OpenAI are initially responsible, and it is their job to sue OpenAI. However, they are too small and too afraid so they don't.
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I'm sure his employees love hearing him say these silly things /s
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Whoever got paid is responsible. And the chain of responsibility continues until you hit someone you don't want to sue. Simple.
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Wonderful product design and scope! Great niche.
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The simple development tasks, like building a basic CRUD website will get easier. Companies will want something more sophisticated. Development of anything sophisticated by AI will take much longer. And, by then, everyone will want somethin
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Rather than training another AI network to detect fakes, I think we need to use semantic likelihood. That is, what is the probability of this picture being real based on its content? Low probabilities demand higher proof. I think this is wh
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For AVX instructions, marshalling the data in and out of vectors is usually the biggest overhead. Similarly, if you use openCL,webGPU, webGL, or any other GPU-based language, the biggest performance overhead is generally transferring data d
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GPUs have a 8192 texture resolution limit, which often is the problem for large images. For gigapixel images, you need a viewer which breaks up the image into tiles for rendering.
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I'm a programmer. I've reached this stage. I still write code.
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Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration. Test what the user does and sees. I shoot for 90% coverage with about 100 integration tests using testing-library. https://kentcdodds.com/blog/write-tests
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The magic answer, as the author points out at the end, is to stay small. Growth, and its need for communication, begets managers. Stay small enough and you'll never need them.
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The Stanford startup looks AMAZING for five years, and then, after getting hundreds of millions in investment, they realize they are only making tens of thousands in revenue, everyone starts fighting, friendships and money are lost. Meanwhi
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No, I am not. You are employing a logical fallacy known as "Denying the antecedent". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent
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Placing so much blame on individuals like Zuck and Sandberg is already a stretch. Though leaders have a huge influence, and should bear the responsibility, this piece tries to make it seem like it is those individuals that caused the percei
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The author seems to have deep dislike for Facebook, and specific executives, like Zuck and Sanberg. This historical interpretation would be stronger without all that emotion. Edit: I'm guessing you are the author?
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Would be more interesting without the ginormous chip on the author's shoulders.

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