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by ericmcer 2y ago
Yeah totally agree, the fluff is important. The "fluff" is a careful orchestration driven by our desire to maintain social standing. 5,000 years ago rejection by the tribe meant death, and that fear is subconsciously influencing a
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by ericmcer 2y ago
A 3 minute previewing the technology that shows actual ~4s of "dubbed" footage. Seems legit lol, nothing to brush under the rug definitely.
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The web is just a convention that gained rapid adoption so now browsers dominate software. As far as conventions go, it is not bad compared to some of the stuff humans have landed on. Better than paving over everything so we can drive and p
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by ericmcer 2y ago
There is just no way they count every individual. I live in California and was visiting someone in the central valley. For fun I drove some back dirt roads into some hills and there was a small corrugated sheet metal building style settleme
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Of course it works without frontend frameworks, but if you develop a frontend application using plain JS your core problem is still the one frameworks solve: syncing your application state with the DOM. At first you can do this manually usi
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Same thing with people’s retirement accounts. If everyone’s savings were just in the bank getting 1% interest no one except the wealthy would care if the stock market eats shit. Instead we can’t stop the insanity of individuals with 100s of
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Oh man yeah I hate this trend. It has especially worked its way into popular literature. A books writing is at a 5th grade level, has almost zero depth, but then is full of sex and violence which makes it an "adult" novel. Authors
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by ericmcer 2y ago
AI didn't really mesh seamlessly with my work until I used Claude, I highly recommend it. If your current workflow involves googling, reading documentation and examples on github until you can put together a solution then AI should slo
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Nice summary, this seems like another adaptation that was super useful 10,000 years ago and is less so today. It would be nice if our bodies could adapt to modernity quicker, like don't prioritize blood clotting over immune defenses, I
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by ericmcer 2y ago
The leap from intel to the M series chips really left everyone else behind. I can't even use my 2019 Macbook anymore it feels so sluggish. I have an M3 Pro and it blows all my old computers out of the water. Can handle pretty insane de
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Why was the solution to optimize the animation instead of... using a static asset?
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I just read a great quote about this in an Italo Calvino novel: "If I think I must write `one` book, all the problems of how this book should be and how it should not be block me and keep me from going forward. If, on the contrary, I t
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Same I just was talking with my daughter (16) about this because she hated her intro programming class in high school. No biggie if it isn't for her, slightly disappointing that I can't share knowledge, but she should pursue what
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Does he talk about exercising while in pain at all? This has been something that really worked for me after tearing my achilles. After 8 months it still felt irritated 24/7 and I was terrified of re-injury, but ramping up the intensity
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Agree I am in the same boat as the parent comment and tried going to therapy but I felt foolish talking to the therapist. There wasn't some deep buried traumatic event that was manipulating my behavior in unseen ways, or some chemical
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I really hard relate to this. The most brutal part is that 4+ days off seems to get my brain going again. I get excited about doing things, I start having ideas for writing projects, coding projects, games, etc. Then the 5 day weeks kick in
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by ericmcer 2y ago
That is really interesting, do you mind sharing more info about how you went from a skilled engineer (skilled enough to get a house at 22) to homeless? If you make it back up you will have a pretty fascinating life story.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Does that mean we need some kind of big brother/sister program but for the homeless? Would having one capable volunteer who met with them for an hour a week or something and could advocate and help them navigate the system make a big c
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I don't know if the ease and speed at which government officials fix things is a compelling argument for socialized medicine.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Agreed, good healthcare is a huge part of shackling you to your employer. Every time I think about quitting it gives me pause knowing it means a few risky months until I can get a new job and have coverage again. Insurance has also skyrocke
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by ericmcer 2y ago
A breakthrough is exactly what everyone is banking on. OpenAI was surprised by GPT3, they were just dumping data into an LLM and ended up with something that was way better than they expected. Everyone is hoping (probably delusional) that b
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This implies that you can look back at a product with all its nuance and say "that was done right" or "that was done wrong". Most of the time it is ambiguous as far as if the chosen approach was the right one. You can&#x
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Doing the small incremental tasks is the easiest part of programming. All the complexity lies in taking giant specs and breaking it into manageable goals and then small tasks. AI is still pretty far from doing that, but I agree, I would not
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Pretty standard government worker deal. I am not crying too many tears over government workers facing just a smidge of the uncertainty that everyone else has been living with since Covid. Your salary/promotions/healthcare/re
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by ericmcer 2y ago
That is a softball question for an AI: this block of code is throwing these errors, can you tell me why?
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This happens to engineers too, it sucks. I say throughput way too often in casual conversation.
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What there is 100% a precedent for prohibiting certain activities from minors because their brains are undeveloped. In the future we will view a child spending hours a day on Tiktok how we currently view a kid smoking cigarettes. It is crea
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Exactly, I see all these idealized strategies around social media and children but the reality is nothing is going to overcome the peer pressure of being 12 years old and the only kid at school without a phone. Until schools and government
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by ericmcer 2y ago
It seems like covid let corporations do in 4 years what would normally take 20+. They usually have to slowly boil the frog, but with Covid they had a great excuse to take large actions without consequence. Layoffs, inflating prices, cutting
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by ericmcer 2y ago
They were dedicated to the craft though, there have been countless people who dedicated themselves to pushing the boundaries of their profession and lost their personal lives in the process. Losing yourself to achieve something new in math,

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