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by groby_b 6mo ago
Probably. Hey, you picked a risky thesis heading into large uncertainty, that's not free. But for the folks who are dead convinced it's all just a scam and it will quickly collapse, that's a way to put their money where their
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by groby_b 6mo ago
> When studying, going over the notes, you'll hear the lecture again in your head. That is a) a BS claim and b) wouldn't be a feature, on average, given the quality of college lectures. It seems fairly clear that manual note ta
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by groby_b 7mo ago
6 km ([slide show]( https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20250009875/downloads/Op... ) with data points and the worst slides government agencies were able to create)
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by groby_b 7mo ago
Did they also shut down the bathrooms? You know, to focus the mind? That is the worst possible take. The people launching the rocket and the people filming the launch are not actually the same people, nor do they take the same resources. &g
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by groby_b 7mo ago
You can post-IPO - depending on liquidity. I don't think that'll be an issue here. And if the thesis of "it's going to look good for the first 15 days" holds, you can indeed be very profitable by e.g. buying ATM put
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by groby_b 7mo ago
This is neat in theory, but unworkable in practice. The hard line trigger almost always happens in a wider context. You often want the wider context, but it's impossible to fully define. Let's try a few examples from the article:
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by groby_b 7mo ago
> When you're building your business from $0 in revenue, you don't know what will work! When you announce a post money valuation of $852 billion, you should probably be a bit better at figuring out what works, though. You'
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by groby_b 7mo ago
I mean, sure. But that's like equipping a sub with a screen door and claiming that in the grand scheme of things, it's a slightly different door with slightly different permeability characteristics.
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by groby_b 7mo ago
Because the original post was noisy and lacked a concise summary of findings. Or, more simply: Because folks wanted it enough to upvote it.
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by groby_b 7mo ago
Pardon me if I misread, but wouldn't that be better served by a ready-made library (with, if you must AI, some futzing to account for call signature)? What is the value add of having the AI rebuild code over and over, individually for
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by groby_b 7mo ago
If you didn't have the "random" buffers, you'd complain how slow it is. Syntax highlighting? Needs a boatload of caching to be efficient. Code search? Hey, you want a cached code index. Plugins? Gotta run your python cod
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by groby_b 7mo ago
Github's enterprise version "starts at" $21.99/seat, and requires you to "contact sales". And I don't see any mention that that exempts you from being trained on. (Yes, the blog says you're still cove
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by groby_b 7mo ago
You can certainly sign a contract for five nines SLA with cloud providers. You just won't like the price.
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by groby_b 7mo ago
100% AI slop. All the way to "The Key Insight".
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by groby_b 7mo ago
Honestly: The people who buy stock because a product says "AGI" in the name deserve to lose their shirt. And no, it's not "a lie", because only an utter idiot would consider a product name an actual fact. It'
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by groby_b 7mo ago
> Given Curry-Howard isomorphism, couldn't we ask AI to directly prove the property of the binary executable under the assumption of the HW model, instead of running PBTs? Yes, in principle. Given unlimited time and a plentiful supp
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by groby_b 7mo ago
> But once you buy a car, the metric completely decouples, and no longer points towards your original fitness goals even a tiny bit. True, but if what you care about is "how quickly and safely can I reach a given goal", distanc
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by groby_b 7mo ago
"All else equal" means that PR volume is a signal that needs to be read in context a number of other metrics, as well as qualitative feedback. You're absolutely right that PRs fixing things that a previous PR broke is a negat
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by groby_b 7mo ago
You're about one step away from sending an email to ask if you can send a text to ask if you can make a phone call. It's not "more considerate" - you can ignore a phone call the same you can ignore a text. It's mere
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by groby_b 7mo ago
Here's the thing every discussion around this tries to weasel around: All else being equal, yes, more PRs is a signal of productivity. It's not the only metric. But I'm more and more convinced that the people protesting any
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by groby_b 7mo ago
For small values of "running". Don't get me wrong, it's an awesome achievement, but 0.6s token/s at presumably fairly heavy compute (and battery), on a mobile device? There aren't too many use cases for that :)
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by groby_b 7mo ago
Sure. And so it depends on how many people you need to talk to on a daily basis, and how often the interruption is worth your time. It's recall vs. precision in an org-shaped trenchcoat.
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by groby_b 7mo ago
The most straightforward one: They run a lot of computational sandboxes that need fast setup. Making sure you can shape the package manager to your needs is a pretty straightforward desire.
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by groby_b 7mo ago
Is there anything in the research space that doesn't fit "brute-force search, but guided"? All of science is "gather inputs, make hypothesis, test, analyse" on repeat. There's plenty to critique in the particul
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by groby_b 7mo ago
I'm not sure you can describe somebody who supports ICE in its current incarnation, who profits from surveillance of vulnerable populations, who believes in revenge (cf Gawker), who abuses wealth (NZ citizenship shenanigans) as "a
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by groby_b 7mo ago
> but an interruption can be a lot less disruptive compared to getting nerd sniped. Theoretically yes. Practically, folks who avoid small talk deliberately usually have enough awareness to not interrupt unless they need your time. But ye
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by groby_b 7mo ago
Depends on the size you want to tackle. Let's shoot for MIT licensed or similar, so we don't have to do the unethical thing. ESLint or Webpack would probably be attempts that are decently sized for a challenge. Cheerio would be a
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by groby_b 7mo ago
That's the target group for the feature. You're right. You got me.
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by groby_b 7mo ago
I wish we'd distinguish between bullshit and clearly identified things that _may_ be future threats. The linked post contains a whopping lie - "What does it mean for the open source ecosystem that 90% of our open source supply cha
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by groby_b 7mo ago
Aaand all the way at the bottom, there it is. The first glimpse of what will be an ad carousel. (Literally nobody needs an image of a cake when asking for a cake recipe)

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