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by fny 11mo ago
This isn't about WWIII. This is about influence, dominance, and independence. The US domestic industrial base is tightly coupled to a China. You need to bite the bullet if you want independence from an adversary and if you want to pres
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by fny 11mo ago
I'm honored to have you of all people make that comment. But with all due respect the excitement and job market for Ruby isn't anything close to what it used to be: [0]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explor
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by fny 11mo ago
The reality is most companies and products never blow bast the point of needed to ditch Rails. The argument made at the time was scaling horizontally is cheaper than hiring new devs, and you probably will never need to scale that much horiz
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by fny 11mo ago
The difference is people don't put "electrical engineer" on their resume because they can turn on a TV. A lot of people are tempted to call themselves "Python programmers" because ChatGPT spits out Python that they
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by fny 11mo ago
People don't talk about "backfilling trenches", they talk about "backfilling pipes" which is precisely the problem. They also will say things like "when you backfill a pipe, use sand or granite." It pretty
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by fny 11mo ago
I mean... you do have to backfill around your drainage pipe, so it's not too far off. Frankly, if you Google the subject people misspeak about "backfilling pipes" too as if the target of the backfill is the pipe itself too
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by fny 1y ago
You're assertion that consciousness, chemistry, and biology can be reduced to matrix computations requires justification. For one, chemistry, biology, and physics are models of reality. Secondly, reality is far, far messier and more
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by fny 1y ago
(1) I'm not convinced books and the in the world are sufficient to replicate consciousness. We're not training on sentience. We're training on information. In other words, the input is an artifact of consciousness which is th
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by fny 1y ago
The example is also unrepresentative of anything meaningful. TodoMVC[0] is the classic point of comparison, and the Backbone version is a nightmare to grok compared to React[2]. Who wants to maintain this nightmare? https://githu
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by fny 1y ago
I've been using Happy Coder[0] for some time now on web and mobile. I run it `--yolo` mode on an isolated VM across multiple projects. With Happy, I managed to turn one of these Claude Code instances into a replacement for Claude that
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by fny 1y ago
I don't understand why tool calling isn't the primitive. A "skill" could have easily just been a tool that an agent can build an execute in its own compute space. I really don't see why we need two forms of RCP...
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by fny 1y ago
I fear the conceptual churn we're going to endure in the coming years will rival frontend dev. Across ChatGPT and Claude we now have tools, functions, skills, agents, subagents, commands, and apps, and there's a metastasizing comp
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by fny 1y ago
Gitbook is not a simple static site generator. There are a also ton of outbound requests for JS on first load. [0]: view-source: https://http3-explained.haxx.se/
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by fny 1y ago
This doesn't mean a lot. People made bets on lower rates which drove money into junk. Those prices renormalized to levels seen over the past year. In fact, lots of business had the opportunity to roll their debt over the past year, so
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by fny 1y ago
The only equivalent to this for iOS is Orion by Kagi. I'm not sure how, but they've managed to avoid drawing apples ire while providing access to both Chrome and Firefox's plugin ecosystems.
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AI: Mad Maths? [PDF](thecapitalcycle.co.uk)
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by fny 1y ago
If you really cared, this should have started with: "I am stepping down as the moderator..." Even though you have counter claims, you moderating the forum for your industry is problematic. You also seem keen to chime in about a
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by fny 1y ago
It’s remarkable that will inevitably rush to build free apps that only reinforce OpenAI’s moat while cannibilizing their own opportunities.
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by fny 1y ago
I'm going to give a very concrete example of this so people can understand. I built a fitness product eons ago where there a million rules that determined what should happen for prescribing exercises to athletes (college/pro teams
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by fny 1y ago
Which is why I said "authorities they trust."
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by fny 1y ago
In the long run, the internet will be so riddled with trash that no one will trust it. Instead people will turn to authorities they trust for the truth the same way they did with encyclopedias and local papers. Information provenance will
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by fny 1y ago
It's a bad blog post for sure. However, I've a few smart people say that lower cholesterol may not be what makes statins powerful: it's the anti-inflammatory properties. I'm too lazy to find papers right now.
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by fny 1y ago
But statins are incredibly good at reducing inflammation anyway. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5633715/
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by fny 1y ago
Duolingo and many other apps avoid the hardest and most essential skill: translating from your language to the other. It's often easy to guess what words mean especially with the help of cognates and other similarities between language
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by fny 1y ago
My point was that what's happening now is akin to the Roman empires beginnings not its end.
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by fny 1y ago
They are absolutely this hospitable to each other all the time. Willingness to be hospitable to foreigners obviously depends on war. But I'm sure Iran would love to have Americans over for tea as a hostages anyway. ;)
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by fny 1y ago
As a Persian, I feel compelled explain. The entire of the Middle East operates on a principle of magnanimous hospitality. The Arabs call this karam, for example, which is considered to even be a religious obligation. So if you're a str
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by fny 1y ago
It's dangerous to make sloppy comparisons like that. Augustus seized all the levers of power to create the Roman Empire and even developed a cult-like following. Similarly, claiming there aren't two political camps is sloppy in th
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by fny 1y ago
You can give them a series of questions from hardest to easiest and based on where they fail according to your metric you place them.
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by fny 1y ago
But why wouldn't you just use any old window tiling manager?

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