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481.
by herval 3y ago
I just wanted opinions from folks in this community, that’s all…
482.
by herval 3y ago
You said you edit text for a living, so I was curious if you ever tried one. They're easier on the eyes, I've been looking to buy one but don't know anyone who tried them firsthand
483.
by herval 3y ago
have u used or considered an eink display?
484.
by herval 3y ago
Pedantic much? It worked on any GSM network. Tmobile for instance. Verizon and Sprint were the exceptions in the US, since they weren’t GSM.
485.
by herval 3y ago
I definitely did not use AT&T :) (in fact I didn’t even use my iPhone in the US)
486.
by herval 3y ago
Isn’t that what people are saying about the Vision Pro too? Clunky and sorta useless, but “a new class of device”… eventually
487.
by herval 3y ago
It was usable on any other network, I had one and it wasn’t AT&T locked Compared to all the smartphones of the time, it was a slow toy with no apps and a 2G connection that was completely worthless It looked nice though, and eventually
488.
by herval 3y ago
Watch v1 was just awful. Those laptops with butterfly keyboards and the first gen Air were also completely broken in their own ways. If Apple manages to keep iterating on this device, they might eventually have a winner Or maybe it’ll be an
489.
by herval 3y ago
engineers will do anything except actually talking to people who'll actually buy their product :-)
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by herval 3y ago
Just because you want things to mean something doesn’t make them mean that.
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by herval 3y ago
no, that's not faith, by any definition of the word (religious, secular or etymological). You _can_ have non-religious faith on _people or institutions_ (not necessarily religious, but faith isn't the same as _any set of arbitrary
492.
by herval 3y ago
Faith has specific meaning, so does belief. You might go a bit longer if you try to understand the words you’re erroneously signifying
493.
by herval 3y ago
You sure invented a funny definition for faith, that you seem to conveniently fit anything to. Things are much simpler than you imagine - maybe in your mental framework, life is impossible without superstition. Doesn’t mean it is - it certa
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by herval 3y ago
“Arbitrary values” are a far, far concept from “faith”. One can absolutely live a life without superstitions. As for the “god said so” argument, that just demonstrates lack of understanding of the basic tenets of whatever culture or religio
495.
by herval 3y ago
Why not? Why would one require faith at all to define themselves in life?
496.
by herval 3y ago
I haven't looked for research tbh, just personal experience. It's kinda hard to prove a negative tbh (how do you organize a research that can measure if something subjectively "bad" made people subjectively less effectiv
497.
by herval 3y ago
when applied as a metric, yes - so is any metric that becomes a goal (goodhart's law?). To _assess_ an organization, they're pretty solid
498.
by herval 3y ago
> Good developer experience increases self-reported productivity. So do ineffective DX, most times. There's "proper" way to assess productivity gains that don't rely on subjective self-reporting (eg the DORA metrics).
499.
by herval 3y ago
LLMs were very much engineered... the exact results they yield are hard to determine since they're large statistical models, but I don't think that categorizes the LLMs themselves as a 'discovery' (like say Penicilin)
500.
by herval 3y ago
You mean the cops. Yes, police force has a large number of sociopaths and psychopaths: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1... Government official roles likely tend to attract those types too, a
501.
by herval 3y ago
Erhn… you’re saying the government of Vietnam has more psychopaths than a big corporation? I sincerely doubt it. No upside for them.
502.
by herval 3y ago
Rule number one: never emulate anything google does
503.
by herval 3y ago
That was quoted from the article. I think they mistook the words
504.
by herval 3y ago
Maybe I lucked out, but I found perhaps one or two psychopaths in two decades working tech, before big tech, and both were VP-level and non technical. But yes, I guess corporate ladders tend to reward psychopaths and narcissists by design
505.
by herval 3y ago
> "Larry and Sergey were smart guys who recognized they didn’t know shit about corporateness and quickly got into a pattern of hiring and empowering psychotic pricks who were presumably “good at business”. Not gonna talk about some
506.
by herval 3y ago
> Working there carried this huge cachet that few tech companies can compare to today It also was allegedly a "special" place, where you had autonomy as an engineer, yada yada. From what I hear about openai, that doesn't
507.
by herval 3y ago
I wouldn't say creating something like Google search is purely _luck_, but having the right skill and hitting it at the right timing_is indeed a big component of success
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by herval 3y ago
Can anyone explain what’s Stability’s business model (or plan for one)? I get why Meta releases tons of models, but still can’t quite understand what stability is trying to achieve
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by herval 3y ago
most of the people in powerful position at big companies (including the FAANG) are there because they got there early - not because they're good. That includes a ton of management & ICs. It's eye-opening, once you see it
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by herval 3y ago
Which one is able to deliver a web app faster? Lots of people here completely missing the point - understanding assembly in the age of infinite cloud computing resources is equivalent to saying a guy who can build a wood hut on his own is m

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