endymi0n

11 ms·

91.
by endymi0n 4y ago
It was more of a philosophical than a political support of free speech, minted by the same forces of the early internet (in a time of true single-channel mainstream media) that a lot of us older hackers experienced. It‘s just that over time
92.
by endymi0n 4y ago
Getting one of my comments banned by dang in his calm and substantiated manner was a wakeup moment for me. I like my discussions hot, but this was the time where I realized that keeping a discussion valuable and on point is probably more im
93.
by endymi0n 4y ago
You both have a point. For my own career I found the advice of Oliver Burkeman helpful, who put it in a very apt and actionable sentence: > When stumped by a life choice, choose “enlargement” over happiness. The good part is that there‘
94.
by endymi0n 4y ago
„If being rich is outlawed, only outlaws will be rich.“ – roughly after Phil Zimmerman Thanks, I don‘t like that future. Don‘t get me wrong, I‘m all for progressive and _way_ higher taxes, but this extreme would do the opposite of what you
95.
by endymi0n 4y ago
[citation needed]
96.
by endymi0n 4y ago
> pro-labor True that, mate. In no developed country you can do more unskilled labor for the same money.
97.
by endymi0n 4y ago
If you look at how the predecessor InstructGPT is trained, this doesn't look like a bias in political viewpoint, but rather a bias in the truthfulness of that very position. The fine-tuning step basically ensembles answer possibilities
98.
by endymi0n 4y ago
Does anyone have good examples of pre-product, pre-revenue companies going public actually working out, especially more recently? I know access to capital is a big factor in this decision, but especially post Sarbanes-Oxley I have the feeli
99.
by endymi0n 4y ago
[citation needed] Just looking at any of the commonly cited reasons to prep (unrest, natural disasters) especially in developed countries and how they played out in the end, what you see is neighbors banding together, volunteers arriving fr
100.
by endymi0n 4y ago
Looking back, I guess the main point of why the early internet was so special wasn‘t because of cool new communications technology, but because of the self selection. In order to use BBSes or the early Internet, by definition you had to be
101.
by endymi0n 4y ago
I‘ve been an Elon fanboy since pre-Falcon 1 times and all the time I could simply follow his first principles to the core, be it the switch to electric cars, flight control using a quorum cluster of non-space-rated processors or the viabili
102.
by endymi0n 4y ago
It was decried and ridiculed equally at the time, but I doubt the LED revolution would have happened half as fast without the massive artificial demand created by the incandescent bulb ban of the EU. Next Up: Fossils…
103.
by endymi0n 4y ago
True that. > there's no way of our GDP keeps growing indefinitely while reducing our ecological footprint. This is at its core not a truth, but really an unsound belief system that could have been phrased the same about water qualit
104.
by endymi0n 4y ago
Fun technical challenges. Predictable, steady work schedule. Nice compensation package. Pick two (at most). Sometimes you‘re really lucky, but it won‘t stay forever as the organization will drift into one of the corners naturally. Note it‘s
105.
by endymi0n 4y ago
Pretty ingenious, reminds me a bit about how Elite double used its own program code as a lookup table for building a procedurally generated universe in order to conserve memory. I figured it was ingenious back then but I had no clue it‘s bi
106.
Study: Wikipedia as Accurate as Britannica(cnet.com)
2 points by endymi0n 4y ago|0 comments
107.
by endymi0n 4y ago
I‘ve noticed this happening not just with characters, but with narratives as well. Mythbusters used to be my all time favorite TV show for almost a decade. They had such interesting myths (lead balloon!), authentic characters and real build
108.
by endymi0n 4y ago
This. If there would have been any Alpha to gain by dead simple, well known pattern recognition, it would have been exploited very long ago already. By now Technical Analysis is all about reading meaning into white noise (that’s overlaying
109.
by endymi0n 4y ago
So even if it was this easy and logical, the only logical consequence would be scrapping SLS right now. Artemis 3 isn‘t just depending on one, but two super heavy launchers that haven‘t even left the ground yet. And if you put Starship in t
110.
by endymi0n 4y ago
That‘s exactly what I mean. In their newest plan, they don’t. Someone else does.
111.
by endymi0n 4y ago
Does anyone get the point with Artemis? Because I really don‘t. To my untrained eye the current outlook on the program looks like that rocket is right now only supposed to make two roundtrips along the moon — and then in that third „Starshi
112.
by endymi0n 4y ago
Nice! I used to love AHK to death, incidentally it also got me my first paid programming job. It‘s about the only software I dearly missed after switching to Mac, but recently I found Hammerspoon and couldn‘t have been happier. Yep, Lua is
113.
by endymi0n 4y ago
As this category used to exist (and partly still does in my country with Miele, but is considered niche), I doubt you‘ll get much product market fit there. Total Adressable Market is the nerds who care, i.e. barely anybody.
114.
by endymi0n 4y ago
But trust me on the sunscreen!
115.
by endymi0n 4y ago
„Dr. Martin Seligman, past president of the American Psychological Association, believes there are five factors that contribute to our happiness: positive emotion and pleasure, achievement, relationships, engagement, and meaning. Of these,
116.
by endymi0n 4y ago
I‘m pretty sure Matthew 5:38 was written before the advent of corporations, much less the completely deregulated capitalism of 2022 corporate America. So if you insist applying 2 millenia old wisdoms to your everyday life, consider adding s
117.
by endymi0n 4y ago
Sounds like still too many techies believe a technical solution is automatically a great business case.
118.
by endymi0n 4y ago
I have observed over the years a tendency of people leaving software for something completely different (often something much more tangible). Maybe that’s your beef, maybe not. My take on it is slightly different: It could very well be that
119.
by endymi0n 4y ago
I think that hits home. A lot of people would just answer something to the likes of "Well, they made The Matrix with a computer 20 years ago", and technically that's just as true. From their remote viewpoint on what's ha
120.
by endymi0n 4y ago
I think the success really got to him. As a (cured) ex Elon fanboy who used to like him way before he was widely known to a non-nerd community, I distinctively remember this interview around the pre-Falcon 9 times with him which is like Int

More ›