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by flatline 11mo ago
I definitely hit my coding peak somewhere in my late 30s. I don’t know how much slower I actually am, vs how much less I care. For one, I care to not write code that I’m not going to use. I spend way more time planning, talking about, and m
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by flatline 11mo ago
There’s certainly a difference with AI. Not only can it reproduce exactly the same characters - in fact I doubt you can train the style without this ability - it puts those characters in reach of crayon-age children at a professional capaci
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by flatline 11mo ago
I think this is a salient counterpoint. While I value online interactions, I also don’t want them to be my predominant form of socialization. That works well for some people, less well for others, but it’s increasingly becoming the de facto
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by flatline 11mo ago
The conclusion I’ve come to from works like Flatland, 4D toys, etc., is that we simply don’t have the neural circuitry to grasp anything beyond three dimensions. We can reason about them, we can make inferences about the whole from partial
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by flatline 11mo ago
In the middle of Albuquerque. Rural areas offer hardship pay to attract medical professionals, but it’s really touch and go. IHS has its own host of issues.
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by flatline 11mo ago
I waited over three years to get a routine colonoscopy in New Mexico and finally just got one after moving out of state. More standard waits for a specialist there are 9-18 months, if you can even find someone competent in the specialty. Ma
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by flatline 11mo ago
The Post is a plaything to him that has a disproportionate impact on the rest of the world. We’ve created systems that allow a few individuals to control resources beyond the wildest dreams of the monarchs of days past. Whether it is about
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by flatline 11mo ago
That seems like an obvious problem. Less obvious is, how many people does it meaningfully help, and how big is the impact of redirecting people to a crisis hotline? I’m legitimately unsure. I have talked to the chatbot about psychological i
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by flatline 1y ago
I’m not sure that it’s masculinity per se that is a sticking point on the Left, it’s the other thing you pointed to, the culture around how we address these things. So-called “cancel culture” is actually a very masculine and conservative ac
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by flatline 1y ago
I don’t even know what AGI is, and neither does anyone else as far as I can tell. In the parts of the video I watched, he cites several things missing which all have to do with autonomy: continual automated updates of internal state, fully
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by flatline 1y ago
The content was good for me up till “The Operation.” Typical of AI output in my experience - some solid parts then verbose, monotonous text that fits one of a handful of genai patterns. “Sloppified” is a good term, once I realize I’m in the
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by flatline 1y ago
The narrative around AI taking all the jobs, causing layoffs, etc. is certainly about power. The stock prices are about sentiment. When that sentiment evaporates because AI cannot in fact replace the workforce, the stock prices will fall, m
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by flatline 1y ago
The normal simulator is the negative space in this game. The people on the party committee. The networking event. Your mom who has called three times. Just imagine those activities boosting all of your stats.
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by flatline 1y ago
To pile on to the litany of complaints, I think PRs are a rather poor abstraction. It’s not a good way to review code. If I’m doing an actual review of anything complex, I’ll check out the branch, step through the code, jump around in the I
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by flatline 1y ago
It’s pretty typical of corporations, the cult surrounding its leader notwithstanding. Not even just US corporations - the VW emissions scandal was huge, and today they are doing as well as ever. That was a big shakeup; the kind of stuff we
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by flatline 1y ago
Acetaminophen is not an anti-inflammatory.
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by flatline 1y ago
How much of the code do you review in a third party package installed through npm, pip, etc.? How many eyes other than the author’s have ever even looked at that code? I bet the answers have been “none” and “zero” for many HN readers at som
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by flatline 1y ago
If it passes the unit tests I make it write and works for my sample manual cases I absolutely will not spend time reading the implementation details unless and until something comes up. Sometimes garbage makes its way into git but working c
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by flatline 1y ago
I certainly didn’t mean to imply otherwise. I do think that hiring solely or even principally based on superficial status indicators can lead to systemic problems, especially when those indicators may not be good reciprocal proxies for re
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by flatline 1y ago
I’d make an even broader generalization, which is that all of these attributes are proxies for status. Graduated from a top school? Live in the Bay Area or NYC? Did well in High School (I guess?) These are all status indicators in the mind
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by flatline 1y ago
Crypto moves the problem from payment providers like Visa to central exchanges like Coinbase. Until you have a completely decentralized ecosystem built around crypto, you run into trouble when offramping to fiat. If I recall, backpage accep
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by flatline 1y ago
Note that pornography is not banned here in Texas at least. You just have to provide age verification, and PH elected not to participate in that process. It doesn’t seem like that wild a thing at face value.
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by flatline 1y ago
It would take a lot of power to send even a radio signal that could be picked out from the noise at a few light years. Add a requirement for that signal to be more or less continuous over geologic timescales - we’ve only been able to emit a
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by flatline 1y ago
This was the standard advice 2-3 years ago when the market was hot, I can’t imagine this being feasible for most people right now.
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by flatline 1y ago
What's up with the typescript rant? Don't we have decades of research about the improvements in productivity and correctness brought by static type checking? It starts out strong but stuff like this really detracts from the overal
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by flatline 1y ago
Just because they weren’t born into the owner class (or “capital class”) doesn’t mean they didn’t work their way into it. That’s kind of the American dream.
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by flatline 1y ago
I have not seen a clip of a young Bill Burr in ages! Now that he is bald, he is my doppelgänger. Viktor Frankl also claimed that staying clean-shaven made you look younger, and attributed it as one factor in his survival of the concentratio
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by flatline 1y ago
I agree about the clickbait. As I come up on 50, however, I think there are a number of axes on which we can analyze aging. Chronological age: there is no getting past getting older, you will age and it will be increasingly apparent with ti
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by flatline 2y ago
Degenerate amateurish quantitative analysis modeling copy-trading on the Solana network.
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by flatline 2y ago
If you watched the video, you would have the answer. Well, an answer. Which is that there does not need to be a cause! Even in an idealized dome with no air, friction, or external forces. As it does for you for different reasons, this also

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