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by dosinga 7mo ago
Employers and landlords do that sort of thing all the time. Rent goes up, job descriptions change, return to office is suddenly required. And yeah, you can get a different job or a different home if you don't like it.
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by dosinga 7mo ago
> if you exclude the enslaved, the south had a higher GDP per capita than the north. In other words, if you remove the people that earned the least (close to nothing) the overall income per capita goes up? If you exclude the non nobles I
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by dosinga 7mo ago
you can run https://block.github.io/goose/ in headless mode (I work on goose)
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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either(newyorker.com)
5 points by dosinga 7mo ago|0 comments
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by dosinga 8mo ago
ah, but you can always just ask the LLM questions about how it works. it's much easier to understand complex code these days than before. and also much easier to not take the time to do it and just race to the next feature
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by dosinga 8mo ago
I have looked but I can't find out if it actually means something. Does 89 seconds before midnight mean we have a 50% chance to survive the next N years somehow?
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by dosinga 9mo ago
this is cool. not sure it is the first claude code style coding agent that runs against Ollama models though. goose, opencode and others have been able to do that a while no?
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Wanting to be an astronaut turned me into a Software Engineer(blog.douwe.com)
2 points by dosinga 9mo ago|0 comments
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by dosinga 9mo ago
> Who hasn’t turned in a paper on a broken floppy disk, with the excuse ready that the floppy must have broken when the teacher asks a few days later? I feel seen
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by dosinga 9mo ago
One thing that seems missing from a lot of these comparisons is the base rate of success for dieting itself. Most people who “start a diet” never meaningfully lose weight in the first place, or lose a small amount and plateau quickly. The c
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by dosinga 9mo ago
Google-as-the-new-Microsoft feels about right. Windows 1 was a curiosity, 2 was “ok”, and 3.x is where it started to really win. Same story with IE: early versions were a joke, then it became “good enough” + distribution did the rest. Gemin
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by dosinga 9mo ago
eh, maybe. Sure Google bought Youtube, but the whole making it social came later. Apple spending a lot of time refining them is exactly the point. They did go up in the stack (given that they started out as home computer builder quite a bit
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by dosinga 9mo ago
This doesn’t sound very convincing, mostly because the examples don’t really line up with the claim. Apple supposedly struggles “up the stack,” yet many of the best and most-used iPhone apps are built by Apple itself. Google is held up as f
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The High Cost of Tree Testing(engineering.block.xyz)
3 points by dosinga 9mo ago|0 comments
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by dosinga 10mo ago
I don't know. The World Happiness Report relies on one simple question, which is easy to criticise but at least it applies a clear and consistent method. The paper referred to does not. It uses a special US dataset for states and a muc
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by dosinga 10mo ago
If there are no free alternatives, yes. 100 USD a month for ChatGPT seems great value
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by dosinga 10mo ago
Also: Recency & survival bias. We remember what became the classics from the 90s and also what came out this year and was available on our last flight
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by dosinga 11mo ago
At first sight I read Minimal Viable Army - would be a good read for an aspiring evil mastermind
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by dosinga 11mo ago
900k is a large plane flying from Dallas to Sydney and back
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by dosinga 11mo ago
This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop
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by dosinga 11mo ago
Ideally you have a document in place saying this is how we handle vibe coding, something like: if you have the AI write the first version, it is your responsibility to make it reviewable. The you can say (and this is hard), this looks like
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by dosinga 1y ago
I mean, sure we're in a bubble, but the trick is to call it, with that old Keynes quote about the market staying irrational longer than you can stay liquid. But also: > "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tie
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by dosinga 1y ago
"In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down Und I'm learning Chinese!" - as relevant as ever. Maybe less so German and more matrix multiplication
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by dosinga 1y ago
I think it is perfectly reasonable to ask for a summary before committing to reading a book. There are just too many books. In fact this article mentions a bunch of books and summarizes them inline. Good. Gives me more information on whethe
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by dosinga 1y ago
If you zoom out to say the last 10 years you can see that those graphs go up and down like crazy. The error bars on these numbers must be huge.
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by dosinga 1y ago
Am I missing something, the article randomly says: "For context, the US federal government spent $53 million on public education in 2022." and links to: https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti.
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We're all idiots and that's fine(blog.douwe.com)
3 points by dosinga 1y ago|2 comments
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by dosinga 1y ago
Really what it seems to say is that LLMs are pretty good at identifying underlying causes and recommending medical actions but if you let humans use LLMs to self diagnose the whole thing falls apart, if I read this correctly
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by dosinga 1y ago
This is true. Then again Google used to power Yahoo!'s search and then ended up replacing Yahoo! as the default web destination
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by dosinga 1y ago
> Like in Europe Like in the US you have a choice of which jurisdiction you want to start your company. Not all require a notary

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