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by homefree 2y ago
I visited lisbon last year and was kind of shocked how similar to SF it was, weather, hills, general feel - that it has its own golden gate bridge really just sealed it.
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by homefree 2y ago
This blog post is wrong, it also just doesn't matter in practice. Nobody who is making this sort of decision is going to give this kind of obviously false argument a second thought. When you're the one that actually has to make de
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by homefree 2y ago
Yes! This generally rings true to me. The other thing I see trip people up is being unwilling to make a fast hypothesis that can be easily tested to narrow scope. Instead they’ll often try to look at the code to understand but that’s usuall
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by homefree 2y ago
I think it’s another example of vertical integration making it better. Apple making the hardware plus OS gives them an advantage, making the trackpad experience great is hard if you don’t control both. Apple has also learned a ton about how
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by homefree 2y ago
It's not a Veblen good.
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by homefree 2y ago
My argument is they were able to develop the chip because of their control. The constraints allowed them that freedom and the constraints come from the top down integration and control. I'll bow out here because I can just tell this wo
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by homefree 2y ago
They have superior technology because they control the full stack and have taken more and more ownership of it over the years (most recently building their own modem in the iPhone 16e). They could design chips for an exact set of constraint
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by homefree 2y ago
There's nothing close, Apple has better talent and the vertical integration gives them an edge (especially on performance per watt on their chip designs). Since the M series chips, there's been no other option if you care about qu
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by homefree 2y ago
Usually it’s best in an operational type role, can be support, sre, tpm, etc. depending on your strengths. It’s best when paired with good comms and somewhat good social skills. You build credibility by jumping in and doing a lot of support
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by homefree 2y ago
Troubleshooting is one of my main comparative advantages - I'm better at it than I am at programming and I enjoy it more. It's also a relatively independent skill, not everyone is good at it or likes it. It reminds me of the later
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by homefree 2y ago
Food motivated is also observable in people imo. I'm pretty food motivated - I'm a lot more interested in doing something if there's a meal associated with it than if there's not. I've definitely observed this varia
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by homefree 2y ago
I also broke mine in a crash, had surgery, but have not bothered to get the plate removed and it's fine? The only time I really notice it is if someone pushes on it or if I'm doing front squats with a bar.
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by homefree 2y ago
A lot of psych research is bullshit that doesn't replicate - it's the dark ages over there, medicine before germ theory.
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by homefree 2y ago
Yeah it’s pretty wild, feels modern. For a more recent recommendation - I also loved permutation city which was written in 1994 and pretty prescient about cloud computing.
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by homefree 2y ago
The other posts on her substack are also worth reading (and the earlier ones from his perspective) - I read through a bunch of them last August when one was posted. A tragic story well told, something that waits for all of us.
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by homefree 2y ago
That isn't what I said, but likely it won't matter. People will be denying it up until the end. I don't prefer LLMs to humans, but I don't pretend biological minds contain some magical essence that separates us from sili
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by homefree 2y ago
The Asimov story it reminded me of was The Profession, though that one is not really about AI - but it is about original ideas and the kinds of people that have them. I find the LLM dismissals somewhat tedious for most of the people making
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by homefree 2y ago
The Machine Stops also touches on a lot of these ideas and was written in 1909! -- "The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives i
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by homefree 2y ago
Maybe USG will now stand behind American companies and push back on this sort of thing? Enough of the EU or UK fining US companies over bullshit. In this case it's also better for the UK consumers too.
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by homefree 2y ago
I find it a little hard to believe that people were earnestly confused and not just being pedantic. Yes minidv/dv are digital, but they look like tapes and require something that can read them to get them on to a computer.
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by homefree 2y ago
I was hoping for some simple option to put the minidv in a reader that would let me download its content to a mac. I don't a camera anymore and finding an old mac and camera is what I was trying to avoid.
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by homefree 2y ago
Yeah that’s a huge pain in the ass, I was hoping there would just be some mini dv to thunderbolt adapter. Oh well, probably won’t bother.
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by homefree 2y ago
Too late to edit, but I was specifically thinking of mini dv -> computer. Digital as a shorthand for file on computer.
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by homefree 2y ago
Does anyone have a solution for reading these to convert to digital? My family has some and if I don't convert them soon I think they'll be lost.
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by homefree 2y ago
Not really - entrapment is narrower. If someone comes to you and offers you a fictional job to illegally move a lot of drugs for cash and you agree - that's not entrapment, you agreed of your own accord. That the whole thing was a fake
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by homefree 2y ago
It's still pretty hard to find fiber in the bay for decent prices. I have 1gb symmetric in SF, but that's pretty uncommon. The 10gb sonic is only in some neighborhoods. I lived in Palo Alto for a long time and the options there we
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by homefree 2y ago
There's something off about the post that I'm not sure I can pin point, but it's there. What are these oft referenced insecurities? It's hard to get a read on this without details, but dumping your girlfriend to do rando
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by homefree 2y ago
I think the jargon makes it seem scarier/less approachable than it is. There's tons of jargon in every new branch of anything interesting that you first notice, but it's not as impenetrable as it appears (at least for a high
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by homefree 2y ago
I love his science fiction but he was wrong on AI in 2017 and is even more wrong on today.
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by homefree 2y ago
It's also odd that there seems to be a large overlap of autistic, disabled, queer or trans, anime fans with far left politics (add in the requisite bluesky/mastodon account). It doesn't necessarily mean anything - but that ki

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