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by gavinray 1y ago
I have the opposite experience. Company offered Copilot subscriptions org-wide early, as well as Augment, and Slack integration for LLM's with internal docs and discussion contexts. Copilot has been useful (I was part of the early acce
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by gavinray 1y ago
> But does anyone have stories of the actual results or impact? I'll be intentionally vague here, but there are companies which are attempting to identify members whose output is quantifiably improved and retain + compensate
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by gavinray 1y ago
> I would be interested to hear about your experiences. Sure, I've written a bit about one of the more damaging trips I've had before on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22993060
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by gavinray 1y ago
Maybe I'm slow, but for some reason I'm having trouble deciphering the meaning of the graph on page 1968, "Figure 1: Distribution of Extensibility Types – The number of extensions using each extensibility type, grouped by nu
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by gavinray 1y ago
> "First off, where is the code and how do you build it? This requires you to have all the relevant dependencies. Much of my work is on a Postgres extension. This meant having a local Postgres development environment, having gc
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by gavinray 1y ago
Thanks -- though I'm not sure I fully grok how this is different than something like Firecracker?
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by gavinray 1y ago
Can someone explain the usecase for this? Is this for people who want to run their own cloud provider, or that need to manage the infrastructure of org-owned VM's? When would you use this over k8s or serverless container runtimes like
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Psychedelics as Tools: Reflections After 20 Compounds and Decade of Experiments(gavinray97.github.io)
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by gavinray 1y ago
It'll be significantly cheaper, and assuming you purchase the Ketamine from a reputable source/vendor and use a test kit on it, the risk is comparatively "minimal". Not necessarily "condoning" the behavior, so
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by gavinray 1y ago
I'd done multiple hard drugs well before I had sex for the first time, in the USA. I guess that speaks a bit to the culture and availability of both things here in the States.
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by gavinray 1y ago
I've had remarkably similar bad trips, unfortunately I didn't make it out as unscathed. I tell people: I had both the best day of my life, and the worst day of my life on psychedelics.
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by gavinray 1y ago
The Human-Equivalent Dose for IV administration is roughly ~300mg for a 100kg human.
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by gavinray 1y ago
Tell me you never studied basic med chem or pharmacology without telling me... You can't use animal models for dose, you have to convert to hED (Human-Equivalent Dosage). You can estimate this generally with allometric scaling: https:
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by gavinray 1y ago
You're much safer and cheaper buying Ketamine from the darknet via a reputable vendor. You get to decide whether you want racemic or S-Ketamine, and your money is held in escrow until you've got the product and release the funds t
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by gavinray 1y ago
I had a Ketamine infusion done at a clinic in Miami. It was $600 (discounted) for the first infusion. You go through a pre-evaluation with the doctor, where they determine a dosage for you based on prior experience and bodyweight. My clinic
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by gavinray 1y ago
You want to find psychedelic users? Go hang out on TripSit IRC. Go to music shows that draw that sort of crowd, like Phish and Co or EDM shows. Check out any of the psychedelics subreddits. Some cities have public psychedelics meetups. This
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by gavinray 1y ago
Well, don't join any of those discords lest your imagination be disappointed I suppose. Most of the world is not so paranoid. Particularly psychedelic users who don't see the substances as a problem.
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by gavinray 1y ago
Well, to be pendantic, you can't "regularly" (depending on your definition) consume LSD or any psychedelic. The 5HT2A tolerance is acute such that you need exponential dosing on consecutive days to achieve equivalent effects.
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by gavinray 1y ago
Gems of computing history like this are what keep me on HN. Thanks, Don.
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by gavinray 1y ago
I don't have the mental energy to review every line of code and argue with co-workers that they're "using it the wrong way" unfortunately. Maybe in my younger years, but not after the first decade... This is why Rob Pike
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by gavinray 1y ago
Np, good luck on your journeys!
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by gavinray 1y ago
For reference, 20-25mg of oral 4-Aco-DMT feels identical to 3.5g of standard potency cubensis. But 4-AcO has much less body load and no nausea from the organic matter that'd usually be sitting in your stomach, I think it's better
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by gavinray 1y ago
I dissolved 20mg of 4-AcO-DMT in 1mL of bacteriostatic water in a sealed, sterile vial and then injected it intramuscularly into my glute. (If you do this, make sure you inject the upper-outer quadrant. The closer to your midline you go, th
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by gavinray 1y ago
I'd generally agree with you, but: > substantially longer duration of the former When time stops until the end of this universe gives way to the beginning of this universe and the snake eats it's tail, "longer"
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by gavinray 1y ago
Ah, a fellow "I've IM'ed tryptamines" person. I made this mistake exactly once, with 4-AcO-DMT. That was the last time I ever did such a thing.
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by gavinray 1y ago
I've done it a few times. Unlike DMT, you don't have to vaporize it. It's active intranasally and well as buccally/sublingually. Effects-wise, it feels roughly identical to DMT but with a longer duration.
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by gavinray 1y ago
This is a huge thing already, though? The JVM is a virtual machine for which Java/Kotlin/Scala/Groovy/Clojure/Flix and a dozen others are front end syntax for. Same with the CLR and C#, F#, Visual Basic, and technic
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by gavinray 1y ago
This a genuine and major reason why I stick to popular languages and tools now. With how increasingly automated my code authorship is, reliability and training data matter a LOT.
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by gavinray 1y ago
I fully agree with you here. I primarily write JVM applications these days, and my go-to is Kotlin. Not because I think it's the "best" JVM language -- quite the opposite, I think Scala 3 is potentially the best-designed prag
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by gavinray 1y ago
> "The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated." Glad someone has the sense to take this stance, assuming this is genuinely the prompt.

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