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by goalieca 3mo ago
Mars is more of a cost thing than a technology problem. We could definitely make it work if we dared.
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by goalieca 3mo ago
You’re absolutely right! And after reading the story, I now have the complete picture. I verified rather than assumed.
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by goalieca 3mo ago
The USA can make anything if there’s money in it. Right now, I just don’t think there’s any.
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by goalieca 4mo ago
It seems to me that compaction is not unlike sleep
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by goalieca 4mo ago
Not a power user but compatibility has been excellent.
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by goalieca 4mo ago
> the liveliness of the discussions have a shelf life of a day. Perhaps even worse. It’s really whatever was posted at that moment you loaded the page unless you are actively responding. There are features to show unread messages only bu
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by goalieca 4mo ago
On one of my first jobs, I had printed off change packages which had to be reviewed and signed. There was even a person owning the final copies in filing cabinets. This was more like traditional engineering and everyone had to think of soft
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by goalieca 4mo ago
That’s not even close to true. Unless you’re vibe coding trash that a better model might catch.
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by goalieca 4mo ago
I remember the patriot act.
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by goalieca 4mo ago
Central planning in China is leading to many terrible problems from a collapsed real estate market to a debt that’s 300% of GDP and accelerating. Yes, they often deliver with focus and determination but this can work sideways too. FWIW, we
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by goalieca 4mo ago
> Imo, the proved theorem is the API. And that's really all it has to be. The novel approaches to solving challenging proofs is very useful.
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by goalieca 4mo ago
VPNs are great and all but many that are well advertised here in North America are a huge source of attacks, abuse, etc. so it’s pretty desirable just to block them. They sometimes have agreements with residential ISPs to get around the ban
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by goalieca 4mo ago
That does not seem to ring true. 175k people die annually of heat in Europe. https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/01-08-2024-statement--h...
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by goalieca 4mo ago
Apple is obsoleting the 8 series and earlier of watches because they can't deliver on the "AI" features that product so wants to push. This is really sad.
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by goalieca 4mo ago
You should find out during the screener what kinds of view the executives have on LLMs. don’t wait until you’re midway through the third round.
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by goalieca 4mo ago
The younger generation seems to love listening at 1.2x or faster. I think it’s a preference for a fast information dopamine hit. I may argue it’s even a shallow approach that prefers against pausing and time for careful reflection. Meanwhil
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Everything You Wanted to Know About a Kids' Social Media Ban(michaelgeist.ca)
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by goalieca 4mo ago
That’s an old trick I learned when I googled “my furnace won’t start” back in the day. Didn’t have to make videos. Just scrolled a few handyman sites.
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by goalieca 5mo ago
I’d like to understand what you were doing at figma that was so damn important for your boss to ask this of you. I’ve used figma, it’s definitely not critical software product that people place their lives on.
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by goalieca 5mo ago
Yes and no. ie6 couldn’t render anything near the full specification so tables and other tricks were used where css couldn’t cut it. I’d still that that over JavaScript “apps”
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by goalieca 5mo ago
I don't think self-driving is remotely close to working at any scale. I also don't think it's the killer-app. Right now, cheap electrics and moreso cheap hybrids are the killer.
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by goalieca 5mo ago
What do you think about MCP security being limited as it is. Frankly, it seems mathematically impossible.
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by goalieca 5mo ago
This is the most infuriating part of dealing with support engineers at companies i've paid giant bills with. They didn't answer my question, i get a wall of text that i read 4 times before i figure out it says nothing, and nothing
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by goalieca 5mo ago
And this is yet another problem, it's stochastic. And often it's self-contradicting even within the same response. What else do you expect from a language model which essentially predicts tokens.
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by goalieca 5mo ago
> It doesn't answer the question of "what do we do about parents that don't do their job properly." Define “properly” and how often do the self-righteous themselves cause harm. I see a strong desire for people to want
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by goalieca 5mo ago
Datacenters.
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by goalieca 5mo ago
The bots spam even when there's no bug bounty program. The emails start out with "I received $500 for a similar reported on another site"
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by goalieca 5mo ago
Very likely humans wont actually understand how the thing we designed works other than in some hand-wavvy statistical way. It'll be a race to whatever works first. There won't be some intentional intelligent design.
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by goalieca 5mo ago
GM needs to focus on making better, safer, cheaper cars.
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by goalieca 5mo ago
Ironically, the AI datacenter boom is also buying up all the storage.

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