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by dvt 1y ago
Yeah, I'm a huge fan of rmarkdown & knitr, not sure if that's Positron compatible—I know that I get RStudio menus/dropdowns that come with those integrations.
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by dvt 1y ago
I have a feeling that hardcore data scientists will continue to use RStudio because of the huge ecosystem there, while data engineers will continue to use VSCode which is, at least for me, good enough with a few extensions that let me run n
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by dvt 1y ago
Have you ever been to DC? National Guard is literally constantly all over the city. The headlines are a bit sensationalized and even DC's mayor on MSNBC earlier today was cautiously optimistic about more law enforcement on the streets.
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And, imo key, is the fact that this goes both ways. I've had conversations with both blue-collar types as well as white-collar types where both groups fail to grasp nuances and economonico-historic context. It's TikTok turtles a
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by dvt 1y ago
I think Adobe is also very careful with copyrighted content not being a part of their models, which inherently makes them of lower quality.
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by dvt 1y ago
> making employment more attractive than company-building This is decidedly untrue. You can make a few clever(er) points here: VC meddling is rotting at the core of ingenuity (which I happen to agree with) or even that large companies (G
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by dvt 1y ago
Antifragile means that whenever something bad happens to the system (i.e. an airplane crash), the system gets stronger by design . A robust system is just a system that is resistant to bad stuff happening (but does not necessarily improve
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by dvt 1y ago
I think there are two differences: urgency and immediacy. A checklist is urgent in a way a to-do list isn't. The sky will fall if a checklist is not followed when X happens, whereas a to-do list is kind of a nebulous list of nondescr
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by dvt 1y ago
> None of those contexts are anti-fragile. Nassim Taleb (who coined the term), literally uses the aviation industry as a prime example of antifragility in his book[1], so I think our wires are getting crossed somewhere. [1] https:/
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by dvt 1y ago
> Where are these CEO convictions then? Not sure if this is rhetorical, but there are Wiki entries, investigative articles, documentaries, and even entire books dedicated to corporate malpractice and its consequences over the past centur
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by dvt 1y ago
What do you mean by "material" difference? The stock literally went up 25%+, so of course every SBUX employee got to share in that rise. Or are you asking if it minted any new millionaires? Maybe a few, who knows.
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by dvt 1y ago
I don't necessarily mean financial risk (though tbh, even the golden parachutes you cite are often a drop in the bucket compared to the market cap of these companies), but there's a lot of legal risk involved: think testifying to
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by dvt 1y ago
> So the $98m per year compensation is a great bargain for Starbucks and all their shareholders. And their employees, too, actually, since they have something called the Bean Stock[1] program. But citing this wouldn't fit the articl
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by dvt 1y ago
I don't think the number of the gear ratio really matters, what matters is that you know what it actually is (since every IK calc depends on said ratio); 8:1 is probably arbitrary and/or looks nice & might simplify some st
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by dvt 1y ago
Likely makes more money, too!
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by dvt 1y ago
Checklists are criminally underused in most industries. It's a testament to how great they work when looking at highly-antifragile contexts: aviation, military, etc., where a mistake can (and often does) cost lives. The problem is that
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by dvt 1y ago
Is it just me, or have a lot of modern startups lost the plot? Imagine doing all this work for an element of your app which has nothing to do with its feature set. No one cares (certainly no customer) about an audio visualizer bar animation
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by dvt 1y ago
You can prove three-term commutativity from two-term (I did it years ago, I think it looked something like this[1]), so the ordering doesn't matter. [1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/785576/prove-th
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by dvt 1y ago
Commutative operations (all of them I think?) are trivially generalized to n-ary operations (in fact, we do this via ∑ and ∏, in the case of addition and multiplication, respectively). You're right that the question of what "opera
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by dvt 1y ago
"Asynchrony" is a very bad word for this and we already have a very well-defined mathematical one: commutativity. Some operations are commutative (order does not matter: addition, multiplication, etc.), while others are non-commut
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by dvt 1y ago
> Or to put it simply, to argue that the border is synonymous with the law, that a violation of it is a violation of law and order, is to ultimately posit that law and order is inseparable from a hierarchy decided by birth. It is an iden
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by dvt 1y ago
Amazing story and huge congrats! It's funny how the tool itself seems quite niche-y, but bootstrapping to 1M ARR in 4 years definitely proves that hypothesis wrong; fantastic job :)
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by dvt 1y ago
Why are you being such a stick-in-the-mud? It's an interesting and inspiration post on HN about a successfull bootstrapped indie startup. HN is primarily a startup & tech-driven community, so obviously we're all interested in
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by dvt 1y ago
Average startup success rate is 1/10 at best. The "90% of startups fail" metric that's often cited is likely inflated by B2B companies which find significantly more success (like, an order of magnitude more) than B2C.
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by dvt 1y ago
> Electron Performance Crisis: Modern email clients built with Electron and React Native suffer from severe memory bloat and performance issues. These cross-platform frameworks, while convenient for developers, create resource-heavy appl
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by dvt 1y ago
Yes, it involves "recipes" for different "action types" based on a few things (past behavior, sensible "default" behavior, the context, etc.). For example, when looking at a storefront, the agent might want to
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by dvt 1y ago
This is simply not true in the productivity space (which is the context here). People just want to get shit done.
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by dvt 1y ago
Suffers from the same problem as all other AI "workflows"--no one wants to fucking chat with a computer (Brave sort-of does this, and it's god-awful). A chat interface should only be used as a fallback if the agent is too d

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