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by ericmcer 1y ago
It is nuts, when you think about how much a browser does, it is a crazy feat. Just building a good html/css renderer and a JS engine is crazy, but now you are hooked into the ecosystem and at the mercy of whatever comes next. Chrome ca
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Isn't that just the nature of capitalism? When a need is identified people rush to fill it as cheaply as possible. It sucks that it drains the soul out of things, and that mass produced cheap variants can crush anyone trying to make qu
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It's even worse, I will use my healthcare just because it is free. I would feel like a moron not get my free physical, bloodwork and other labs every year. If it was $20 I wouldn't bother but its almost obligatory to take somethin
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It seems possible for openAI/Anthropic to rework their tools so they discard/add relevant context on the fly, but it might have some unintended behaviors. The main thing is people have already integrated AI into their workflows so
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Good point and it really makes you concerned for the branches your brain will go down when confronted with a problem. I find my first branch more and more being `ask claude`. Having to actually think up organic solutions feels more and more
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This is disingenuous. There has been a strong push back against illegal-immigration in the west. The media has completely reframed the discussion to "How can they be opposed to immigration" because if they said "how can they
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The last one is tricky because who is going to sponsor a worker at the price tag of 100k with no guarantee of performance. That is rife for abuse. You could get google to sponsor you and then hop to your friends startup on day one. It is re
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Is it too complex to just look at the companies taxes and be like... "Hey you are paying H1B workers 25% less than their peers. You get hit with a fine". If you couldn't undercut H1B salaries there is little incentive to use
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Its a toss up between anticompetitive being bad and unified standards being good. Look at the m3/4 macs they are insane machines because even the hardware is unified.
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its CSS
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It makes sense given that we are just receiving light waves instead of sound. Light waves contain way more information but your brain would still come up with some kind of "visualization" based on the info. I didn't listen to
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They aren't replacing people directly though, like an AI can't fill a seat that a person used to. The claim seems to be that individuals are more productive now so less people are needed. Measuring productivity has been attempted
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I wouldn't call them psychedelic per se, or even really a "Jhana" requiring deep concentration. Feeling joy as a result of focusing on something beautiful/interesting is just a fundamental part of being human. I agree wi
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Sharp stick is a better analogy than a nuke for having access to an AI chatbot. A crazy person could use it to hurt themselves or maybe a couple other people. You really think having access to ChatGPT is as dangerous as giving everyone a nu
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Is there something we are all missing? Using Claude feels like magic sometimes, but can't everyone see the limitation now that we are 4 years and 100s of billions down the road? Are they still really hoping that they are gonna tweak a
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Doesn't Amazon have a huge lead just because of AWS? Every other player is scrambling for hardware/electricity while Amazon has been building out data centers for the last 20 years.
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yeh by that justification our technological advancement should have stopped at sharpened sticks. "As a species we aren't ready to have sharp sticks"
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Maybe this is a roundabout weird benefit to income inequality... Like the banks and private equity have so much cash burning that they start taking increasingly risky moonshots that result in actual innovative projects. Normally projects li
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Could they vastly reduce this cost by specializing models? Like is a general know everything model exponentially more expensive than one that deeply understands a single topic (like programming, construction, astrophysics, whatever)? Is the
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by ericmcer 1y ago
We still don't have any 80+ year olds who have been striving for longevity since their 20s. Nutrition labels and ingredient lists on food didn't even exist the 90s. An 80 year old was born into a world of nonstop cigarettes, drink
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The demand for energy will never go down, the more we can produce the more we will use.
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Eh cars are one of the few areas that haven't been crushed by inflation unless you buy some stupid giant SUV. Honda civic costs less than it did in the 90s/00s (adjusted for inflation). Tons of affordable sedans out there, people
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by ericmcer 1y ago
My gf uses my ~10yo air and it is amazing she can stand it. Just website inefficiency creep has made older devices obsolete, I think it has around 4gb of Ram which Chrome can chew through with a few tabs open.
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This is a static blog site with lists about popular Netflix content. Yes many times there are very valid reasons for complexity, but my suspicion is that this is the result of 20+ very talented engineers+designers+pms being put in charge of
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Whats the point of building & caching static pages if every single user gets their own static page... The number of users who will request each page is 1?
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That's a totally valid and useful way to validate an idea. After a few months of manual labor they will have a good idea of how/what to build and if it is even worth building.
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Serverless implementations where lambdas are being used for APIs so +200ms on a single call is not good.
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Worked with many great ones but the one who really stands out seemed levels above everyone in terms of just raw intelligence. When you explain a concept to another human you have to provide context and a certain level of detail. It can be h
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It has actually been kinda nuts seeing the media completely flip. 10 months ago Trump had no power and was catching 24/7 flack from media outlets. Now he has power and the media has shifted their stance very quickly.
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Goddamn that website is terrible. I am trying to read ~200 lines of text and I get: A loading indicator (I guess to compensate for a 5 second initial paint? Maybe just make the site faster?), overridden native behaviors like scroll, select

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