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by huijzer 2y ago
I suspect that Microsoft has just accepted losses year after year after year. That’s what they do. They are very willing to invest heavily in projects that they think will work out in the long-run, see also their OpenAI investements.
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by huijzer 2y ago
> So, contrary to this report, I think that if experienced developers use AI well, they could benefit MORE than inexperienced developers. A psychology professor I know says this holds in general. For any new tool, who will be able to get
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by huijzer 2y ago
Ah yes you’re right. Thanks.
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by huijzer 2y ago
> We've tried a lot of things to change that. We've spoken to hundreds of funders and companies, The goal isn’t to get investors! It is to get money from customers. A lot of startups seem to get this wrong.
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by huijzer 2y ago
Yes! And Christianity to this day is still very and subtly misogynistic. For example, why does a woman need to give up her last name when marrying?
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by huijzer 2y ago
> Putting profits first I don’t know whether this is still about the buildings from Charlie Munger, but I don’t think the aim was solely profits.* One positive side-effect was that people would socialize more, so Charlie thought. Guess h
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by huijzer 2y ago
I agree. It can definitely be useful, but not if I'm stressing too much about it. Then, waking up feels like I was hit by a bus in the night.
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by huijzer 2y ago
From what I've read (but note that a Japanese could answer this much better), honor is an extremely important aspect of Japanese culture. As Karen Ma put it on a Quora answer: > In some odd ways, you can view many of Japan's fa
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by huijzer 2y ago
“We’re now at what will be the largest industry of the united states.” (at 4:50) That aged pretty well.
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by huijzer 2y ago
I completely agree. If correctness matters, then it’s probably better to use LLMs to write the code than to let LLMs be the code.
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by huijzer 2y ago
Yes I couldn’t agree more. I wish there was more support for this; like for example a system where users can be sure that the key cannot be stolen by the app.
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by huijzer 2y ago
Very true. My favorite example of this is academia. When you do a MSc everything seems nice and some things feel a bit weird but it is what it is. Then over time you realize how misaligned the incentives are with what is actually useful for
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by huijzer 2y ago
That’s not true. Exponentials are everywhere. They can often go for a long time. Even silicon is still going strong if you focus on FLOPS per dollar. Other examples are cruise ship sizes, US GDP per capita, or Microsoft stock price. The poi
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by huijzer 2y ago
What makes you think we're in the later stages of the battery S-curve currently? More generally technology-wise, what makes you think energy technology in general is an S-curve? Many situations are stacked S-curves. Global energy consu
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by huijzer 2y ago
Don’t underestimate exponentials. Tesla produced 6.5 GWh of battery storage in 2022, 14.7 GWh in 2023, and will probably double again in 2024. And other battery manufacturers such as BYD grow fast too.
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by huijzer 2y ago
That doesn’t necessarily lead to a failure. In Texas a nuclear plant went down. About 1.2 (or 4 times that) GW ( https://www.keranews.org/news/2023-06-22/with-temperatures-s... ). The grid stayed online. Likely than
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by huijzer 2y ago
From my experience in the Netherlands and Germany: chargers basically always work. The question is whether you pay a normal price or double (or even triple!) the normal price. Fastned in the Netherlands is for example about 3 times as expen
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by huijzer 2y ago
1. Buy .intern TLD 2. Sell to scammers. 3. Profit. (I want to appreciate how hard it probably is for ICANN to figure out proper TLDs.)
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by huijzer 2y ago
I also think it’s probably more effective. Every time hand-crafted tools are better than AI but then the model becomes bigger and AI wins. Think hand crafted image classification to full model or hand crafted language translation to full mo
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by huijzer 2y ago
I have not navigated a similar transition, but I have studied CS and read tons of business books. I think if you do this and take the development seriously, it will be a ridiculous good return on investment. The success to Tencent according
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Forgejo/forgejo: Beyond coding. We forge(codeberg.org)
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by huijzer 2y ago
Although there are inline hints, I agree with you that auto makes readability worse. Especially in situations like PRs and Git forges where inline hints are not always available. LLVM has a well thought out stance on auto too: https:/
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by huijzer 2y ago
> Most software out there is incurably infected by incentives to serve lots of people in the short term. Great quote! You can even replace “software” with “businesses” and the quote still works.
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by huijzer 2y ago
Doesn't it depend on the book? Some captivating "hard to put down" detective could work. I agree on thought provoking books that they can be tiring (but worth it of course).
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by huijzer 2y ago
> while the EU education is demolished This is very black and white. There are definitely some great schools and universities in Europe. > So in the very probable III world war Although we should we alert, let's not consider worl
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by huijzer 2y ago
I’ve read the book and found it convincing upon first read. Upon some more research however, it’s not so much. The book looks like an artifact that was created to convince the reader than China will be the new superpower and soon. So conclu
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by huijzer 2y ago
An individual inverter can usually switch in about 4 ms. A Tesla Megapack can go from 0% output to max output in 100 ms. Conversely, gas turbines (the fastest type of traditional power plant) takes about a minute to go from say 40% to 60%.
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by huijzer 2y ago
Still, don’t get high on your own supply.
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by huijzer 2y ago
Well what's stopping you? According to the book The Most Fun I Never Want To Have Again: A Mid-Life Crisis in Community Banking, it is not that hard to get a bank off the ground. I would have expected that it would take millions, but i
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by huijzer 2y ago
Yes I agree with you, the article and Taleb. These corporations which the whole West depends on sound nice in theory but cause the system as a whole to be brittle. I think there is definitely a market for writing software for very specific

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