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by intrasight 2mo ago
I've done PowerPoint automation on and off for at least 20 years. Between services and consulting, I've accrued $2m in revenue from that work. There's definitely a market for tools and services around PowerPoint still because
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by intrasight 2mo ago
Yup. Microsoft loves mutating GUIDs.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
That's basically the situation for me in Saltsburg PA. But it's just 30 mins from bigger suburbs with good employment opportunities. I'd retire there. The folks are super nice. For now it's a "therapy project"
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by intrasight 2mo ago
Like many non-natives, I moved back because spouses parents were here. It is a very friendly city and I have like a dozen close friends and we go and explore regularly. Bike and brews is a favorite. Or run then coffee. Is much less affordab
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by intrasight 2mo ago
Pittsburgh's distinct neighborhoods are truly its greatest asset.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
Can't get flood insurance. Nor can I get a mortgage. But there's been no flood since the big one in 1936. They built 2 dams.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
I live in Pittsburgh and I can tell you it's still like that - which is convenient when you want to get rid of things. I had some scrap aluminum that I put out with the trash the night before pick up and it was gone before I had walke
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by intrasight 2mo ago
The difference is that the LLM never sees your keys/secrets. My understanding is that can make a big difference.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
Count me as not on board
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by intrasight 2mo ago
In my case neither Andy nor Bill was involved. For that project we used Sun 3 workstations which were powered by Motorola 68020 I believe. So a more fair comparison would be that 1988 workstation against a modern Unix workstation. I bet the
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by intrasight 2mo ago
I've been using computers for 4 decades. They have gotten no faster. The nuclear plant computer system we built in 1989 had to present selected screens in 1 second. I don't think any apps I use today can do that.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
Yeah - came to say the same. I've had the good fortune to grow up with several geniuses. But we've lost a few of them to suicide.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
Very thought provoking list. The kind of thing I am glad to find on HN!
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by intrasight 2mo ago
I went back to graduate school - where you get paid to be a student
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by intrasight 2mo ago
I realized after getting a degree in engineering from CMU that I should've loved biology so I went back to school after working as a software engineer for a year and studied neurobiology. And since then, I've suggested that people
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by intrasight 2mo ago
I read it shortly after it came out when I was in high school and it was sort of a mind blow - perhaps just because in the early 80s we didn't really get exposed to so many interesting ideas.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
This is a message that should be conveyed to kids. It's one that I didn't get. I wore blinders and prejudged that basically all the humanities was a waste of time. The guidance counselor would sign me up for history classes and I
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by intrasight 2mo ago
I doubt that NYT, WaPo, or any other mainstream journalist would do that.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
Not that long ago that I used a local CVS server for SCCS. OK, almost 40 years - but still.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
I could be wrong but I assume that Apple very rigorously tests any new code added to their devices.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
I don't understand "first do the move"
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by intrasight 2mo ago
I do think it's a bad thing and I believe the EU regulators agree. There are whole classes of applications that are not possible unless low level device data is exposed via APIs. And since Apple doesn't provide the apps, the apps
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by intrasight 2mo ago
Thank you for stating clearly situation. I fully agree with your assessment. For almost 10 years now I have been saying that we need to virtually watermark reality. By "virtual" I mean store the metadata about the digital capture
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by intrasight 2mo ago
LOL - then they would get the shitty results that they deserve. Hope that's not what you have to deal with. The spec would be written and reviewed by a team of stakeholders.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
Tell it to write like an engineer and comment like a programmer;) But for the life of me, I don't get why anyone would care about the comments. All code is "machine language" now. The only document you should be reading is yo
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by intrasight 2mo ago
I agree and disagree. When I run the Turing test, it's me testing the computer. I don't care if anyone else isn't able to discriminate. Of course there is no "standard Turing test" as that would imply that it's
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by intrasight 2mo ago
LOL
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by intrasight 2mo ago
So many people I know believe that AI has already passed the Turing test. What's weird is that a lot of them are managers and should understand that never getting an "I don't know" means something ain't right.
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by intrasight 2mo ago
Yesterday's data is much cheaper and often free ;)
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by intrasight 2mo ago
It only avoids the confusion if you're specifying for whom it's getting cheaper or more expensive

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