ericmcer

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by ericmcer 7mo ago
They also pay... insane salaries, like double industry average. That coupled with an IPO on the horizon means they probably have their pick of engineers.
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
The further they can get people from the reality of `This just spits out whatever it thinks the next token will be` the more they can push the agenda.
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
You can control your luck a bit though. Granted you could be in perfect health but roll a 1 five times in a row and get a heart attack when you are 40. Or you could be crushing junk food and alcohol but you just keep rolling 6s and make it
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
No one will ever think that lying that AI output is your own unique creation is a good thing.
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Well just have an AI read it for you then! That reminds me of the gmail LLM usage where AI can writes your emails for you and also summarize incoming ones. Maybe we lost the thread somewhere...
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
I agree, 2 days a week in office is optimal. If they could coordinate which days to reduce traffic then... holy cow dream world.
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Seriously you can have a very pure experience interacting with media. I did a mushroom trip ~5 years ago and was having a not great time walking around outside. Cars, other people, sun, bugs etc. were all not sitting right. I went home and
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Did you set up any alternatives? I have a todo to take a day and hook my external SSDs filled with movies/shows up to a plex server, then shutdown all my streaming services.
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
This is what the government should really look into. Are prices being held at inflated levels to sustain profits? And if so why is capitalism not working? Why are competing companies not undercutting each other to bring them back down? Can
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Stardew Valley is a great example of this, and that more is not always better. Specifically he rolled out a "cave" system with procedural dungeon generation where players could mine through walls and other advanced systems, then u
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Both sides are rife with contradiction. Yeah this is one case where the anti-vax party will celebrate how important preventing measles is, but then act like it is not a big deal when it comes time for vaccinations. Anyway sorry you will get
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Generating text & audio is relatively cheap. If users paid a $5/month subscription you could generate a couple hours of dynamic npc audio per month and still make a tidy profit. I have to imagine someone is looking into that, sandb
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Did people only talk about themselves? It is probably a rare trait when someone legitimately cares about other peoples inane daily lives. It would be interesting to actually talk to hundreds of people a week for years, you would probably ge
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
That is a great reminder. I have a note at the beginning of my journal that says: 'Stand up straight, eye contact, smile', because I constantly need to remember that or I will look down, slouch and move through the world barely in
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Talking to strangers is actually kind of nice as an introvert, there is very low pressure as you have no obligation to the person and you can end the conversation at any time. I find it much nicer than talking to friends of friends or the a
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
I am not worried, he is behaving the same way he did in 2020 when he fucked up his reelection by ranting like a dictator. He is gonna get slaughtered in midterms, be hamstrung his last two years and then go away.
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
Agree, LLMs are just another tool. Treating them as chatbots is a very basic way of using them. The future is intelligent engineers embedding them in traditional systems and having them perform specific roles.
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
yeah... maybe he is working alone or bootstrapping a brand new thing? Otherwise his entire team must collectively groan when a Slack message appears: "Got a new PR ready for review everybody!"
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by ericmcer 7mo ago
The point of the pies was the connections it forced her to make with people in her life and then ultimately strangers. Finding 365 people to give pies to is probably harder than baking them all. Taking a walk alone would be missing the main
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
It reminds me of people with big trucks or loud cars. Like "look at what I can do" when someone else engineered, designed and manufactured the entire thing and all they did was step on a pedal.
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
That is one of the big issues with "vibe-coding" right now, it does what you ask it to do. No matter how dumb or how off base your requests are, it will try to write code that does what you ask. They need to add some kind of sanit
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
So if someone emailed Pence and said they would stab him if he certified the election would that be an insurrection? They are attempting to influence him to change the result of the election. Surely the level of organization and possibility
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
The overreach of executive powers is very concerning, but those are more long term attempts to influence the public and policy makers through shady tactics. The insurrection everyone is referring to is definitely Jan 6th, which it is laugha
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Unfortunately the big players are pretty entrenched so the degraded quality that appears once AI fails to replace laid off workers will have minimal impact on their bottom line. And the bar for government is literally as low as "Is thi
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
The military is a huge jobs program though, it does provide a way out if you are low income. Some of my good friends had bad childhoods and 4 years in the military (navy, marines) did work out a lot of their issues, pay for their college an
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
You just get taken in by life though, it isn't even about saving for some idealized retirement to me. As you age and your parents get old and you have kids and a spouse you just live less and less for yourself. You have to adopt a ment
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
I mean literally anything that leverages modern APIs. WYSIWG Site Builders, text Chat bots, audio Transcription, voice synthesis. Yeah building from scratch would take longer, but you can slap a UI, a DB/schema around modern APIs and o
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Seriously you can ship in a week things that FAANGs would have paid billions for 10 years ago. LLMs are just glue between pieces of your code you still need to be able to plug them into a coherent architecture to do something impressive.
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
I wouldn't call it good, but Go was designed for applications performing large numbers of concurrent processes. It is really easy to just wrap a block of imperative code in a try/catch, but it becomes much more difficult when you
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by ericmcer 8mo ago
Why is Vue, Svelte, Qwik etc. faster? React done poorly can be slow. Bad code can just force the virtual DOM to diff unnecessarily 1000s of times and your app will still work fine for the most part. That said, if you are intelligent about w

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