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by dehrmann 1y ago
Interesting that if you train AI on human writing, it does the very human thing of trying to find meaning in existence.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Hope they got the intern of the year award.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Upvoted for a different perspective. The thing to remember about the HN crowd is it can be a bit cynical. At the same time, realize that everyone's judging AI progress not on headroom and synthetic data usage, but on how well it feels
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> One of our classes being thrown in limbo for several months after we found out that a bunch of foundational research underpinning it was entirely made up (See: Diederik Stapel). I wonder if you can sue for fraud over this. The research
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by dehrmann 1y ago
It would have been more effective to pay Micron to build up the capabilities to be a general-purpose fab to compete with TSMC.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> dealer markups on cars Cars are special. They have some of the same issues other high-priced items that you buy occasionally and are a pain to shop for. Think mattresses, tires, and homes. There's information asymmetry, and actual
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Haven't seen this much interest in XML/XSLT in 20 years.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
FAANG manages the machines. Setting aside the ethics of this level of monitoring, I'd be curious to validate this by soft-limiting OS memory usage and tracking metrics like number of PRs and time someone is actively on the keyboard.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Take a look at SureFlap and OnlyCat. They use RFID chips in the cats.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Those are the same as fancy rugs. A machine will make better rugs, but you're paying for the artisanal story, or whatever your abstract value is.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I used to work on FAANG-scale optimizations. Generally, the only code-level optimizations worth bothering with are ones with inefficient (think O(n^2) vs O(n) and caching) algorithms. Those get you because they work during testing, but fall
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> My forum traffic... > Why did you bring up static pages served by a CDN... This is easier said than done, but pushing the latest topic snapshot to the CDN whenever a post is made is doable.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Enshitification. It's where the price goes up, but the quality actually goes down.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> With a P/E of 530 its hard to imagine a better short opportunity in the market Bitcoin has an infinite P/E. Edit: P/E is also goofy for barely profitable companies. If you plot earnings on the x axis, P/E on the y
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Architect -level is complaining about language quirks? That's low on my priorities for languages. I'd worry more about maturity, tooling support, library support, ease of learning, and availability of developers.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Java etc need external libraries to implement threading which cant be reasoned with in the context of the language itself. What do you mean by this for Java? The library is the runtime that ships with Java, and while they're OS th
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Does anyone know if Amazon still comingles when Amazon in the seller? I've only seen mixed, dated info on this.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
They weren't wrong. Its core business in what is still a viable-enough sector collapsed. Or if it were truly well-managed, running an ISP and a retailer should have been enough insight to be Amazon.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> As for who makes the best RAM, it changes from one generation to the next This reminds me of HDDs and SSDs, though I've always found RAM to be generally reliable or obviously bad, while storage can look ok for a while before it fa
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by dehrmann 1y ago
What I'm hearing is we need to invent LLM-based compilers.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> It's seemed obvious that he's an incredible CEO given the growth we saw with Facebook Some of what you're remembering was Sheryl Sandberg's doing.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Emacs is the WeChat of Gnu/Linux.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Why should the browser contain a specific template engine, like XSLT, and not Jinja for example? Historic reasons, and it sounds like they want it to contain zero template engines. You could transpile a subset of Jinja or Mustache to
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by dehrmann 1y ago
That's the standard narrative, but it could work out in unexpected ways because of who has time to vote and the ability to get to polling places.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Manufacturing defects happen, trees fall, and panels get dusty. They don't merely "sit on a roof." They're anchored, the anchors have spacing and a form factor, and the anchors pierce the roof's waterproofness. They
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by dehrmann 1y ago
It's not just the generation; it's also the maintenance. If you own your own rooftop panels and a few go out, it's relatively expensive to bring someone out to replace them...if a mechanically and electrically equivalent repl
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by dehrmann 1y ago
PG&E is passing the cost of wildfire upgrades to customers. I'm not sure if they're hitting risky areas harder than low-risk areas, but my bill makes it look like I'm subsidizing people's cabins.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Could also mean gray market.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I recently bought some 8TB SSDs that were obviously Samsungs, but had no serial or capacity label. They came at a steep discount, so some shenanigans were expected, and they're in a mirrored setup, so my data is safe-ish. I just have n
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> With $10 million in the bank, earning 4%, you'll see $400,000 a year, less taxes. This isn't your point, but $400k puts you in a top tax bracket, so figure 30% of that goes to taxes. that brings your return down to 2.8%. The

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