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by ericmcer 9mo ago
It's a "meme" that sugar is worse for you than fat?
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
What? Africa will dominate Silicon Valley using... SSR? lol Even if SSR somehow was the key to taking over tech scenes in developing nations, it just results in faster initial paint but can often involve more data moving over the wire. I wo
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
> DatoCMS started in 2015 as an internal tool for our italian web agency. Just trying to sit down and come up with a successful business is really hard. The few friends I have who have made it are engineers who left a company to do somet
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Starting in 2015 it makes more sense why a big win for them this year was getting typescript setup.
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They would probably be enraged that we pay 50% income tax and use a central bank to fund all this bs more than anything.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
No way, it would be such a humongous quality of life improvement for humanity. I don't think we will just give up on it. Car interiors could be reworked once all the controls were gone, throughput on freeways/roads could be optimi
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
That still feels a bit off, as you are "having fun" because it ultimately is the road to success. There is a deeper hurt in the tech world, which is that we have all been conditioned to crave greatness. Every employer tries to sel
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
The rules to being good at something will never change. I like the (overused) Bruce Lee quote "Once you see the way you see it in all things". I always interpreted that as just looping over: Do something mindfully, reflect on your
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
seriously, I stopped agent mode altogether. I hit it with very specific like: write a function that takes an array of X and returns y. It almost never fails and usually does it in a neat way, plus its ~50 lines of code so I can copy and pas
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Modernity has also made life really fucking complicated. A 16 year old could walk to the factory, get some paper money and then do what they wanted with it. Nowadays lets say your 16 year old wants a car and a job. To do that they need to s
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
I imagine it would involve 1000s of LLMs outputting a judgement and then if there were significant disparities it would get flagged in some manner. That's actually the plot of Minority Report, a lot of people think it is about "wh
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
What do you mean by "a slaver nation"?
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
I am not excited about any of it, but like... Corporations in America can still refuse/fight government requests for data, they can disclose how many requests they get for the year, and there is judicial oversight on the requests. In C
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Jesus lol, is this sarcasm? I thought the first part was a bit unhinged but then I read the second one.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
The requirements in this article are... the bare minimum for a PR. Like yeah it needs to work is the no duh requirement. I have seen tons of PRs that work but defy conventions or add a bunch of useless cruft that we can rip out once I sit d
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
really? My very first interaction was it prompted me for my company name, and the basic html text <input/> didn't behave correctly. It had no highlight styling so if you wanted to highlight a portion of your input it would b
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
jokes on you I read this and am replying. But yeah it is an unhealthy way to scratch the itch.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
It's more like Thin is when the consumption is one directional. Like when you browse social media it is one directional. Social media goes towards you and you just experience it, everything is dumbed down into bites that require 0 effo
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
No I was just skeptical of the GPs assertion that tech hasn't produced anything "cool" in the last 5 years when it has been a nonstop barrage of insane shit that people are achieving with LLMs. Like the ability for computers
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Are you piping the audio buffers straight to the transcriber as they come in? Or capturing the entire recording and then processing it at the end?
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Whoa cool, so all the transcription is done locally? Have you done any perf monitoring around that on iOS? I have been using the iOS built in speechTranscriber and it is... not great, was gonna use a whisper API but running it on device wou
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Uhhh, LLMs? The shit computers can do now is absurd compared to 2020. If you showed engineers from 2020 Claude, Cursor, and Stable Diffusion and didn't tell them how they worked their minds would be fucking exploding.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
That reminds me of water use in California. We frequently have droughts, and the messaging is always to reduce water usage. I have friends who turn the shower off while soaping up just to save a few gallons out of civic duty. Meanwhile a fe
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
There is also something personally ego-shattering about getting destroyed by another human. If I died 10 times trying to beat a boss in a game I wouldn't care much, but if someone beat me 10 times in a row at a multiplayer game I would
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
We lost that like 100 years ago. Sitting and watching someone perform music in an intimate setting rarely happens anymore. If you listen to an album by your favorite band, it is highly unlikely that your feelings/emotions and interpret
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
It is a good way to burn out high performers haha.
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It is annoying when it is dogmatically followed, but for certain things it makes sense to have a generic interface between your business logic and specific library/service code. Being all or nothing with it can be tedious though. Like
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or like, are people going to wonder why we dropped the ball so hard, or are they going to be impressed by what the attackers pulled off.
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I am pretty sure 90% of playlists you hear when out and about are generated by spotify algorithms at this point. I would more be concerned because it seems like a weird use for LLM when recommendation engines are probably better than it? I
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Still very early stages, just put the site together a few days ago: Veform https://veform.co/ iOS/JS/Android Libraries for turning traditional inputs/forms into audio conversations. Have everything working an

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