ericmcer

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by ericmcer 2y ago
I think you are right that it is a small number of people committing these low level crimes repeatedly and they are causing huge amounts of unrest and unhappiness. In the Bay Area I bet arresting ~100 individuals would send the number of ca
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Everyone knows how environmentally friendly shipping everything 8000 miles is. Climate policy just makes stuff nicer for people who live in rich countries because the pollution is further away from their personal bubble.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
That makes sense, LLM training data probably has tons of common problems in it, but maybe only a few or no instances of really niche, difficult ones. So it just comes up with a bunch of garbage. My experience has been similar, it is amazing
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by ericmcer 2y ago
If you work on a team of suitable size I would hesitate to not leverage a VDom. I trust myself to not trigger dumb reflows, but the way I see a lot of people using React this could be a perf nightmare.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I legitimately cant tell who you are referring too, politics is so muddled now that both sides believe wholeheartedly that their side is the one with the correct plan to fix the economy.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
So tech lets one person do the work of many, what is your endgame here as more and more people become “deadweight”? I don’t totally disagree with you but if our stance towards workers is “figure out how to create value or get left behind” w
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Man corporations have really used AI to justify shredding their workforce. Something needs to happen to protect workers at some point. MBAs are going to keep doing everything they can to optimize earnings, and firing 5k is a great way to in
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This could be a really cool use for AI. We have so many rules and systems in place to protect normal people from professionals that we have to blindly trust. If I had a reliable AI in my pocket I could be in charge of my own safety again. I
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Betting against the market just hasn’t worked since 2008. Outside of the first two months of the pandemic it has steadily climbed regardless of a “recession” coming every year. I don’t think the economy is healthy, I don’t think what we are
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Definitely could attract talent, not only is stable job but it is green fields with flexibility to choose your own technologies and build something ground up. Most engineers don't love joining a giant co. and using tech we are not fond
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Customer service jobs are great because you feel useful and you never wake up stressed wondering if you will be able to do your work well that day. I did 5 years at Trader Joe’s, would easily do it for 30 if they paid 150k lol.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Sorry for the cynical take. I really want to believe in something after death, but watching my Grandma die of Alzheimers makes me skeptical. She was completely gone before her body died. She did not remember her name, or any of us. Whatever
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Totally different. When someone performs a piece by Beethoven everyone knows they are performing his work. Very few Beyonce/Taylor Swift/Nsync/whatever fans could name the people who actually write the songs. Classical compos
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I really doubt he will die young, people who die in their 40s usually have something they don't notice until it is too late (heart disease, cancer). There is no way he would not notice something like that lol. The amount of testing he
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Caloric restriction thing is true, but is also what he advocates. He always says if you are not sleeping well or eating right don't worry about anything else. Red light therapy, supplements, stem cells and all the other expensive exper
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by ericmcer 2y ago
He was already famous. It isn't interesting it is almost step 1 in marketing. Tie your product to some celebrity or influencer to get exposure and credibility.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Have you seen the artists who are celebrated today? I stayed for the credits of a movie the other day and they listed all the musicians at the end. ~80% song attributions were formatted like: `Song written by "unknown person". Pe
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Memories are also highly fallible, there are many experiments that prove people will rewrite what they did and why they did it and believe the new version of reality fully. I remember reading somewhere that consciousness is like a public re
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by ericmcer 2y ago
If we get to that point we will probably have such deeper understanding of time and space that things like time travel and FTL travel don’t even make sense as objectives anymore.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Agree, they used AI but then didn't even read the first word the generated response? Even if you accidentally glanced at the text you would see it. That BANANA check would be way more effective if they placed it in the middle of a rand
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I wish that show had focused a bit more on technique/training and less on personality, but it was super entertaining regardless.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This really hit home when I started swapping caffeine out for Adderall on work days. Literal amphetamines have a more mild effect on me than a strong coffee.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
It's crazy how all the records are him and people who competed against him. Really shows how strong competition can bring out the best in you.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
So our immigration policy is you can either do all the work migrate legally or you can sneak in and we will legalize you. Congress should make that our official immigration policy?
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I thought the republicans wanted stronger border control. Border control and immigration policy are different things. If anyone can just hop the border and walk in and we don’t deport them then our immigration policy is irrelevant because w
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Agree this seems like basic things you would figure out doing anything uncertain. The first blocked out quote of the article is: “If an experiment doesn’t go as expected, it doesn’t necessarily mean you did something wrong.” That’s why it&#
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Yeah the market has been brutal since interest rates went up. anecdotally: I applied lazily around in late 2020 and was drowning in offers from big names. In mid 2023 I started applying again and it was absolute silence. I was a much strong
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by ericmcer 2y ago
What has it helped you automate? Copilot was cool to use for a bit but I ultimately stopped paying for it. ChatGPT was exciting to play around with but it never became a core part of my workflow. We are 2+ years from GPT 3.5 but AI still h
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by ericmcer 2y ago
It’s not even a tech thing, there has always been a distinction between a leader who climbed the ranks and someone who jumped directly into leadership (whether from education, nepotism, whatever). It is important to know which kind you are
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Nature is brutal, we should all be really thankful that we get to die in a bed being made as comfortable as possible. For every other animal in history death was almost guaranteed to be something scary and painful.

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