entropicdrifter

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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
A gargantuan "everything company" like Amazon is the very definition of a monopoly. In any functional society this beast would have long since been broken up before becoming dominant in multiple industries. At this point, they&#x2
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
For real. My dad got his MBA and proceeded to lose his job within 4 months and never got another one in the tech field again thereafter. Everyone said they couldn't afford him. He went on to do SAT test prep, blackjack dealing, and now
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
https://thecodelesscode.com/case/234
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
Agreed. "complexity is" as a full sentence followed by "not what you believe it is" has a fundamentally different meaning. Very cool
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
Looks like the link got fixed. I'm really enjoying reddit just completely roasting the entire concept in the comments.
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
My P1S has a camera built into it. If the print begins to fail, I can stop the printer and turn off the heat immediately before anything spirals. Very easy and convenient to remote control from my phone.
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
Not to mention it's about as easy to use without a license as WinRAR, so you can trial it indefinitely and then pay the mere $60 for it when you're ready to release some music commercially
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
>But if you read their actual financial reports they have never indicated in any way that their hardware is a loss leader. Right, I'm just saying they could afford it if it came down to that. They also have enormous margins on their
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
This seems like it could become a fairly big deal
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
Because Apple has the capital to take a loss on hardware indefinitely due to the App Store being their primary source of revenue?
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
Per user
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
Ollama merged a PR for MTP about 2 hours ago, as well: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/15980 Edit: Seems they also have a pre-release version out with the functionality added: https://github.
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
It's kind of a six-of-one half-a-dozen-of-the-other situation IMO. Modern society does tend to have extreme social bubbles, but those are also a product of market forces, which in turn were influenced by previous states of society, etc
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
On the other hand, ancient societies had more in-person community and common free third-spaces for people to congregate, socialize, and otherwise involve themselves with their communities
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
A lot of people use Leaf batteries/powertrains for this type of conversion. Probably would be cheaper than using Tesla parts if you don't need as much range.
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
This. LLMs are terrible at planning/architecture and maintaining clarity of vision across a project. There are lots of tools that mitigate these issues but they're going to keep coming up regardless because of the fundamental natu
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
It's bizarre to me that people being paid to use their brains with a job title including the word "engineer", which essentially means "clever thought thinker" in Latin, just offloading all of their thinking to a bot
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by entropicdrifter 5mo ago
I'm on the same page. Do people not analyze the problems themselves? Are they just copy/pasting their entire ticket description into Claude Code and having it iterate until they land on something that works? I don't get it.
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
Yeah, but how many played your entire PC game library? This is like saying that the iPhone wasn't a big deal because we already had palm pilots and blackberries.
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
Just one?
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
Yeah, I'm a musician and a certified audio engineer. I'd rather be writing and recording music than working for healthcare/mortgage costs
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
I'm on the same page, personally, but what I was trying to emphasize with my previous comment is that the non-tech people only want Star Trek
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
Programmers mostly don't. Ordinary people see figuring out how to use the computer as a hindrance rather than empowering, they want Star Trek. They want "computer, plan my next vacation to XYZ for me" to lay out a full itiner
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
If it keeps bipolar people on their meds, it will make the world better and safer, but also, those meds should just be able to be setup as "always fill this" in a saner system.
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
I'm personally convinced that the road systems of New England were of some influence on Lovecraft in his conception of cosmic horror. A map of Boston roads does tend to evoke the concepts of non-Euclidean geometry and tentacle monsters
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
You can do that in Polars, too
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
Adventure is the OG, the genre-namer. If there's only one adventure game, it's either this or Zork.
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
That game is so mind-bending
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
Yeah, agreed. It's a lot easier to be empirical when the scale of the requirements is quite literally unimaginable without just dealing with raw numbers.
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by entropicdrifter 6mo ago
I have a friend who is a Microsoft stan who feels this way about LLMs too. He's convinced he'll become the most powerful, creative and productive genius of all time if he just manages to master the LLM workflow just right. He&#x27

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