ericmcer

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by ericmcer 4y ago
You have expert friends who will spend an hour tutoring you on demand? Are you a celebrity or something?
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by ericmcer 4y ago
This was the killer feature to me. It is an amazing teacher, it’s like having an infinitely patient mentor who can answer all your questions. I feel way more confident about being able to onboard with unfamiliar tech and be able to become p
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by ericmcer 4y ago
The positive here is you are going to learn to hustle. Anyone who entered the market in 2020 probably lazily sent out a few applications via job boards and had a position in a month. You will have it way harder, but stay positive and keep a
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I’m amazed they are willing to charge for their abomination of an API. The search functionality is terrible, returns unreliable results, and can only return 100 at once. I would happily pay for a great version of the Reddit API. I doubt any
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by ericmcer 4y ago
That would be a hilarious future if humanities job was to upload our creative offerings to AI and it dispenses some trivial amount of crypto based on how much it learned. Your 8 year olds cat drawing has been subsumed for 25c. Your essay on
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by ericmcer 4y ago
For a big company that is nothing but if you are bootstrapping and trying to acquire customers with an MVP racking up a $500 bill is frightening. What if you offer a free trial and blow up and end up with 5k+ bill.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
It was super applicable just 3 years ago, anyone who hopped into zoom/snowflake/mongodb had a nice few years.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah I am noticing this as well. GPT enables you to do difficult things really easily, but then it is so expensive you would need to replace it with custom code for any long term solution. For example: you could use GPT to parse a resume fi
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Was the transition from 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s normal and what we should expect? Or was it an exception and a "stuck" culture is just a return to reality where fashion and music don't change dramatically every 10 years.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Wow that is like three steps ahead of where we are at. I would be content with people not driving giant lifted trucks with modified exhausts and cars with huge subwoofers. People who just drive SUVs seem like angels in comparison.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Can't they just jump into one of the thousands of new high paying jobs that have been created for their specific niche in the last few months? I am having trouble being sympathetic to AI researchers that AI is exploding.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
It’s totally possible right now but at .002c for 750 words it could easily cost 10c for a single search.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Chatting with GPT is definitely not engineering. Writing a prompt that runs thousands of times a day in a production setting, where extra words result in unnecessary spending? Closer to engineering.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Totally agree, the defining characteristic of engineering is precision and reliability. LLMs can do amazing things but they are not absolute sources of precision and truth in the way we are used to computers being. They are a totally differ
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Seriously their release cycle has been so rapid that I am building stuff with the idea that AI will be better and cheaper by the time I am ready to release it. Right now it is a bit of a blocker because you can easily get a single prompt to
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by ericmcer 4y ago
My friend had that surgery, it also gave him a more robust jawline which was a bonus. He used to snore shockingly loud. It sounded like a jet taking off, if I tried to mimic it intentionally I was unable to get as loud.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Anyone want to join me in making a dating app for people who need CPAP machines to sleep? I am semi-serious haha
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah it will ultimately lead to a better life for everyone but technological disruption has always been totally destructive to the generation it is replacing. Like the coal miners who Obama said should “learn to code”. Getting rid of coal i
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by ericmcer 4y ago
A junior recruiter makes 190k? That’s in the middle of the senior engineer band.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I read it but was possessed by a certain motivation that I have never had for another book. Ulysses and Infinite Jest have both beaten me multiple times and I doubt I could finish GR again. It was just a stars aligning moment where headspac
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by ericmcer 4y ago
The police will not pick up the phone for homeless people fighting or a car break in. If you are advocating physically intervening then that is terrible terrible advice. Keep your head down and don't walk around in certain areas or at
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by ericmcer 4y ago
It is just in cities, and specifically in SF/Oakland. Smashing a car window is not really going to be punished in any way in those cities, at most they will take you in and release you within 24 hours. Most likely police will not bothe
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Agreed, article was about the emotional impacts of working for yourself vs someone else. GP warped that into some metaphor about classism. Cool but unrelated.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
A career change is really attractive but adjusting salary expectations is brutal. Skilled jobs I was interested in and assumed were making $30+ an hour I looked into and found they are closer to $18-20/hr. After tech gigs making 250k+
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I thought the same thing and researched how NPM packages get deleted. They need to be manually deleted by the owner and the safeguards are all to protect dependents. There is no incentive to maintain or cleanup old npm packages you have pub
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by ericmcer 4y ago
The most direct example of this to me is in video games, there are 10s of thousands of failed games with amazing art and coding behind them, but then weekend projects like Flappy bird, Vampire Survivors and Wordle make it big. They just wer
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by ericmcer 4y ago
My friend did part of her residency at an ER in Los Angeles. She went from being generally upbeat but overworked to being a full on misanthrope in 6 months. I am not sure what the solution is but we should recognize that our healthcare work
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah totally agree with this, right now in CA we say "the homeless" as one homogenous group. The reality is there are a bunch who could probably get back on their feet for just a few a thousand dollars. There are others who will n
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by ericmcer 4y ago
It's just a hot marketing strategy, it has a totally different reception outside of HN. There are already people making 5k+ MRR with apps that are just a chatGPT wrapper that passes user input with some additional context and prompts.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
That behavior is what people dislike about Google though. Filtering and biasing search returns is a huge area of mistrust for them. OpenAI's fix to this is an even more restrictive and opinionated version? That is a total nightmare onc

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