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by dvt 3y ago
Stack Overflow has absolutely been destroyed by the moderators, so I couldn't care less about their "strike." I was (and still am) in the top ~%0.80 of users[1] but no longer contribute to the site (I stopped ~6 years ago) be
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by dvt 3y ago
Imagine comparing paying for a free service for a few irrelevant perks to a millennia-old systemic social system of oppression (that’s de facto still around, by the way). How tone deaf can you actually be? Next up: paying for Twitter Blue
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by dvt 3y ago
If you have a product that's 5x as good, but 2x as expensive, literally everyone will buy it. The iPhone is the perfect case study.
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by dvt 3y ago
> Also Meta could catch up if it was just software. This was Microsoft's warcry for years : who cares if Apple has better software? We have better hardware. Well guess what, software matters and it matters more than hardware. I
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by dvt 3y ago
This is a bit of a rant, but I bought a Quest Pro last year, and I feel it was a total waste of money. It's actually embarrassing how much of an unpolished piece of garbage it feels like. Sure, it's fun as a PCVR headset, but as a
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by dvt 3y ago
Oh, well the weight was going to be 1 since I needed the frames need to be fully overlayed, and I randomly ended up at 36, since I just kept upping the frames until I got a good-enough image via trial & error. Then I had to fix the gamm
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by dvt 3y ago
I think this is an interesting doc, but the argument that global properties can be guaranteed by a type system is false, so there will trivially be counterexamples of type systems. In fact, for any extensional type theory, we have the i
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by dvt 3y ago
> how do you get to this point where you can look at a thing and say “oh yeah, it’s XYZ”? What do you mean exactly?
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by dvt 3y ago
> You can chain filters using a comma Haha, I knew there was some way of doing this, but I couldn't remember how (tried semicolons which didn't work), thanks :)
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by dvt 3y ago
For those that are curious, these are the messages: https://imgur.com/a/y0mXbAk Decoded using: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf tmix=frames=36:weights="1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
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by dvt 3y ago
You're just describing YouTube with extra steps. Decentralization is a meme, the great majority of consumers don't care. People used Morpheus because it was an easy way to watch (free) movies, not because it was decentralized. Now
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by dvt 3y ago
True, but like solipsism or nihilism, those ideas are just not that interesting.
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by dvt 3y ago
There's this new trend of what I'll dub techno-nihilism , which is essentially a counterargument to the stochastic parrot argument. The former being: well what if WE are stochastic parrots, after all that's how we learn, rig
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by dvt 3y ago
> knows that a huge chunk of why it's so excellent is the macro system Macros are bad and you're bad if you use them. This has been essentially a de facto mantra since the early 90s (when I was a wee lad) and it's quite
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by dvt 3y ago
Hugging Face is a niche business at best, and OpenAI is pure hype, no real substance. I know you'll find someone saying (maybe even in this thread) "I use ChatGPT daily to make my job 10x easier" but these anecdotes are dubio
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by dvt 3y ago
Yeah, this is actually a great point, and also a possible contributing factor.
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by dvt 3y ago
Imo, HN has moved from being moderately libertarian/right to today's slight liberal left slant as its user base aged from young, hungry, hopeful entrepreneurs to jaded senior engineers or VPs in large fortune 500 companies. I thin
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by dvt 3y ago
This is the kind of business that is extremely simple, very boring, and heck, even easy to implement, but ends up making the owners 6 figures MRR with a bit of marketing and networking elbow grease. The perfect software lifestyle business.
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by dvt 3y ago
Most likely caused by phishing, ransomware, or (unlikely) crypto mining. I'd bet someone from some agency had credentials leaked due to a malicious package. Honestly, PyPI is stuck between a rock and a hard place, but having something
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by dvt 3y ago
> This one is going in the orange site bookmarks, lol. I mean, benchmarks say the performance gains are from 0.2%-60% comparing vanilla JS to WASM given various browsers (keep in mind it's not even twice as fast even in synthetic be
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by dvt 3y ago
It's kind of strange how Netflix has the gall to raise prices while they are objectively the worst original content platform out there (last show I watched was Squid Games almost 2 years ago). Will gladly cancel my Netflix sub and keep
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by dvt 3y ago
> Average webdev tomorrow writes Python for a reasonably fast Python interpreter implemented in the browser with WASM Python is just as hand-wavy as Javascript, so I fail to see the win here. At least C/C++/Rust/Go give yo
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by dvt 3y ago
Just Google "wasm startup raises millions," like half a dozen pop up on the first page (including OP's company). > mainly in places where you need to protect yourself against the code you're running You can do this wi
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by dvt 3y ago
> purpose-built runtimes The lift here is astronomical, not to mention that companies just want to get a merch store up. No business person or product manager really cares about the "runtime." But you dodged my question: do you
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by dvt 3y ago
> WASM will eat SPAs and a chunk of the gaming market, it's just a matter of how long it takes. Ah yes, the classic "we're still early"—might I introduce you to cryptocurrency? Apologies for the snakiness, but if it h
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by dvt 3y ago
The desperation to make WebAssembly a thing is reaching epic proportions. It was always a cutesy little thing that no one took super seriously. A cool experiment that had little real-world application. But non-technical investors poured mil
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by dvt 3y ago
> speaks to the truth of the archetype The archetype claims that success breeds success, and this is categorically false, apart from a few exceptions (e.g. monopolies, collusion, etc.). The fact that even literally the richest person on
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by dvt 3y ago
> It's not no-risk, but it's low risk until you start building. Building is kind of.. the whole point . And risk profiles vary. For example, I'd rather build/invest in a startup rather than buying land where I may or
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by dvt 3y ago
But there's plenty of cases where success drives failure (look at Bezos' Fire Phone as a low hanging fruit example, or more recently at Branson's Virgin Orbit), so, again, it's classic survivorship bias, as there are ple
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by dvt 3y ago
Maybe 90% is a bit dramatic, but the spirit of my post is that, even with $1m, you won't be printing money any time soon.

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