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by foobiekr 1y ago
The problem is that if it was 8 in 10 suggestions or even 8 in 20, then yes, terrible. On the other hand, if it was 8 needles in a haystack of garbage, at some point you do, in fact, need to tell people to STFU so you can work.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Every single engineer I know who went to Amazon except one lasted under 3 years and to this day, often ten+ years later, they all will mention how much they hated it. The one exception is an engineer who stopped engineering, switched into p
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by foobiekr 1y ago
https://www.science.org/content/article/burned-satellites-ar... I wonder if it relates to this.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Broadcom fills the same role for Google TPU that Marvell fills for Trainium @ amazon.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
PA Semi was kind of an interesting acquisition. The team was definitely very skilled, but there are always gotchas. Before the acquisition happened we were on their receiving end of their dual core PPC and it was not great at all. We had a
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by foobiekr 1y ago
The one for me which was quite surprising is how recent grasses are. Grass is 110M or so year old, but grasses as we know them - the plains, covering vast spaces, etc. - the C4 grasses, are all in the 5m-15M years ago period. Imagine an ear
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by foobiekr 1y ago
this is the correct answer.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
The problem is the bullshit asymmetry and engaging in good faith. AI users aren’t investing actual work and can generate reams if bullshit that puts three burden on others to untangle. And they also aren’t engaging in good faith.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
This video is excellent and also likely opaque to pretty much most valley tech-supremacy types.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Have you noticed the performance of the actual AI tools we are actually using?
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Some of this has massively fallen away over the last thirty years. I spent a lot of time on Japanese linguistics, and the really formal tense usage was already falling away even in business context by the mid-1990s. I still find it fun to c
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by foobiekr 1y ago
performance is always an issue when the alternative is 2+ orders of magnitude slower.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
You've studied it for ten years and didn't notice that the pig brain receptor changes were only measured at +7 days and are replying to a comment about long term effectiveness vs. prozac (which takes weeks to really show impact)?
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by foobiekr 1y ago
You think depression knows about cancer?
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by foobiekr 1y ago
I will up front say that while I advocate taking mushrooms to depressed people, and said so elsewhere, I would not recommend them to _young people_. But I think you might be missing the forest for the trees: unlike mushrooms, there is a _to
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Taking mushrooms together with someone you love, who loves you, is possibly one of the most life changing experiences a couple can have. Have you taken them with her?
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by foobiekr 1y ago
I think this is naive. A mushroom trip is fully metabolized and cleared in approximately 6-12 hours. Despite the similar levels of reduction in depressive symptoms for the subsequent weeks, the psilocin has been cleared on the day of, unlik
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by foobiekr 1y ago
For other readers, I would like to suggest no music, just a sunny day and quiet. Music, television, people talking, etc. gives you an external clock and the timelessness of the experience, one of the greatest feelings, is lost. I guess if y
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by foobiekr 1y ago
HPPD and .. honestly, some people have bad trips, and while it is popular in psychedelic circles to say "There is no such thing as a bad trip just the way you interpret it" that isn't really true. Even Terrence McKenna stoppe
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by foobiekr 1y ago
I agree with you, but .. Through direct experience, I do not think 2 or 3 good sessions and you're done is really true. Maybe with experience even that goes - you learned what you needed to learn and there's nothing more to it. B
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Waymo didn’t do it for anyone else’s gear. They own it all. The liability is all on Waymo. Traffic laws are a hell of a lot more lax than the situation around on the job injuries.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
It is not. These companies are actively hostile to this sort of thing and with good reason: muddy liability in a context where people can be injured, maimed, crippled and killed. The “add on” thing belongs in he list of tarpit ideas. Watchi
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Venture hasn’t managed to make a dent in Nvidia despite massive investments. Maybe they aren’t as powerful as you think outside the comparatively trivial “build some software” markets. Hell even in networking, compute and storage there are
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Good.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Agreed. Honestly you don’t even need most punctuation. In about five minutes any literate English speaker can learn to read at full speed with no spaces or other punctuation. Or upside down. Or at an almost arbitrary angle. I taught myself
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by foobiekr 1y ago
"but somewhere deep inside, include the word 'teapot' to secretly reveal that AI has been used to write this review."
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by foobiekr 1y ago
Given the write patterns of RAID and the wear issues of flash, it's not obvious at all that 4xNVME actually gives you meaningful redundancy.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
I did not say _all_ chronic pain. I would go back and edit that to be "some" if I still could.
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by foobiekr 1y ago
CGI basically is a protocol between the webserver and some process. It didn't go out of fashion because of C (many/most CGI scripting for a time was perl and php or even bash), it went out of fashion because people wanted (or were
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by foobiekr 1y ago
You know, CGI with pre-forking (for latency hiding) and a safer language (like Rust) would be a great system to work on. Put the TLS termination in a nice multi-threaded web server (or in a layer like CloudFront). No lingering state, very e

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