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by huijzer 2y ago
I guess power demands will slowly grow. The same happened with compute in general. Compared to 1960, we have several orders of magnitude more compute but also several orders of magnitude more efficient compute. Data centers are currently ab
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by huijzer 2y ago
Costco is probably a counterexample. But yes counterexamples are hard to find so I agree with you.
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by huijzer 2y ago
What you get as an employee is certainty that your compensation will only increase in the single digits per year and that the pension fund will compound a part of your income in single digits as well (pension funds typically underperform th
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by huijzer 2y ago
> In NL the regulations for false self-employment (enforcement kicks in January 1st) is primarily aimed at low-wage jobs like meal delivery etc. High paid professionals with multiple clients per week (like most fractionals are) are not t
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by huijzer 2y ago
Well.. history tells that people usually sell shares too early. It’s hard to not sell if they increased a lot in value.
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by huijzer 2y ago
Yes I have to second that. MLJ.jl is also written by a mathematician and the API is excellent. Truly well thought-out. (If you think “why does MLJ.jl have so few stars?” please keep in mind that this library was written for the Julia langua
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by huijzer 2y ago
Get a few YubiKeys (or similar) and also link them. You only need one of the 2FA and can link multiple.
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by huijzer 2y ago
We got to the point that AI CEOs pretend AI can make a Tarantino movie and get away with it.
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by huijzer 2y ago
> On a long enough timeline Microsoft wins this battle. I don't think you appreciate the inertia of market dominance and a massive existing user base. So Cursor shouldn't even have tried? It is pointless what they have achieved
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by huijzer 2y ago
Relatedly, I think many people overestimate how hard it is to compete with the big players. People think that because they earn billions, they are unbeatable. But this is untrue! Scrappy, creative people who just go for it can often beat th
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by huijzer 2y ago
Relatedly, I start to think more and more the AI is great for mediocre stuff. If you just need to do the 1000th website, it can do that. Do you want to build a new framework? Then there will probably be less many useful suggestions. (Still
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by huijzer 2y ago
Put more weight on your subscriptions. I don’t have much AI content in my YouTube suggestions. (Good luck AI generating an interview with Chris Lattner or Stephen Kotkin for example. It won’t work.)
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by huijzer 2y ago
> In a bombshell accusation, This accusation is only a bombshell if you lived under a rock for the past decades. I have to admit that I have never been to Japan nor that I am a Japan or China expert, but I don’t read much positive things
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by huijzer 2y ago
Makes sense. I always intuitively understood that going from for example electronic engineering to computer science is probably easier than the other way around, but this article makes a great point. Without some low-level knowledge, you do
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by huijzer 2y ago
In response to Wikipedia being “relatively neutral”: “Multiple studies have found a left-wing bias at Wikipedia in both article content and editor sanctioning.” [1] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_
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A New Compiler for the Arnold Schwarzenegger Language(xrcf.org)
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by huijzer 2y ago
I already was thinking for a while what the business model of open source was exactly. Why does Google spend money on Chrome also? After Zuckerberg’s comments it hit me: Open source is useful for a business if it can either increase revenue
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by huijzer 2y ago
Could you give a clear example from history? Usually it isn’t clear. For example, historians are still not in agreement about when the Roman empire ended [1]. [1]: https://www.thoughtco.com/fall-of-rome-short-timeline-121196
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by huijzer 2y ago
I would politely argue against the word “collapse”. It’s overly dramatic. It makes no sense when talking about societies. Peter Zeihan uses the word a lot but that doesn’t mean it’s correct. Peter just knows that fear sells. But what does i
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by huijzer 2y ago
> it is a speculative investment and nothing more. Mostly yes. The only true value I see is that Bitcoin is the new Swiss banking. So if you don’t trust your government then you get yourself some Bitcoins. I realized this while reading a
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by huijzer 2y ago
> inconsequential $100k bonus in my portfolio It seems we are truly ducking poor here in the EU. My parents have been running a farm for 40 years in the Netherlands and they’re doing well financially. Still, $100k is not inconsequential
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by huijzer 2y ago
I have Open WebUI on a Hetzner instance connected to Deep Infra. Works on mobile by turning the web page into an app. I find the web framework that WebUI uses quite bloated/slow, but apart from that it does work reliably. Price at Deep
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by huijzer 2y ago
He didn't mention a timescale. Maybe it's a difference between 4 hours and 1 day? I would agree that if someone takes longer than a day to respond, then it's going to be hard to work with this person. 4 hours is fine.
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by huijzer 2y ago
> Your argument is the same as those who argue "our country shouldn't care about emissions when China is the biggest emitter". China and the US are in the same order of magnitude in emissions. So NO that's absolutely
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by huijzer 2y ago
Data centers used 460 TWh, or about 2% of total worldwide electricity use, according to IEA in 2022. In comparison, 30% of total energy (energy! Not electricity) goes to transport! As another point of comparison, transport in Sweden in 2022
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by huijzer 2y ago
I’m currently working on an open source project and AI is amazing for me. Cursor/Copilot saves me a lot of typing. I use the word typing deliberately here since AI doesn’t really produce much new code in my case. Just the simple stuff
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by huijzer 2y ago
> The Tyranny of Metrics For people interested in this, I can recommend Tory Sutherland's book or interviews with him on YouTube. Tory is also consistently arguing that businesses and governments are too focused on metrics.
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by huijzer 2y ago
Yes probably a bit like chess masters. They surely know theory and theory can surely help, but often they just “feel” that one way is more right than another way. How does this “feeling” arise? Tons and tons of deliberate practice.
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by huijzer 2y ago
> As for NuScale being a scam, it would be probably the most elaborate scam in the history of financial scams. They were founded in 2007 and went public in 2022. People don't spend 15 years to run a scam, especially if this involves
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by huijzer 2y ago
Yes I learned that too a while ago. If you say anything slightly positive about Tesla, you'll be downvoted into oblivion. I can't wait for the day for this US/Western tribalism to cool down and we can have substantive discuss

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