jamestimmins

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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Shocking how often I see a seemingly good idea end with "... and it'll all be on chain", causing me to immediately lose faith in the original concept.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Are you open to sharing at a high level what their approach was? I'm quite curious what this kind of thing looks like outside of movies.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Oof. This is incredibly bleak, but also a good insight. Is the "settlement == bribe" comparison yours or did you read it somewhere?
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
I'm so jealous of SF internet options. In LA I pay $105 for "supposedly" 2-300mbit, but this week I've been seeing 30. I keep looking for alternatives but haven't found any in my area.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
That's a good point
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Yeah no shade for someone selling their knowledge; I'm just trying to suss out how useful the book is for learning foundations.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Have you read his book Hands-On Large Language Models? Looks interesting, but I'm skeptical that a book can feasibly stay up to date with the speed of development.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Yeah it's simply an incredibly powerful way to influence US youth in ways that are favorable to the CCP. I don't understand how or why this is hard for people to grasp? It's no different than Radio Free Europe being secretly
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Hah yeah plus it always feels sinister. We don't get nice breezes.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
I've been in LA for 14 years, and I always say LA has great weather in the same way a mall has good weather. It's never unpleasant and is always "perfect", but at some point you miss the feeling of breeze and slight vari
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Respectfully, confidently asserting someone else's mental state or their motives is a mistake. Because there's no way for you to know, it backs you and others into an intellectual corner that is entirely unnecessary and lowers the
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Second this. It do a great job explaining how the WW2 armament buildup required both legislative and mindset changes on behalf of the government about what a good working relationship between business and government looked like. 10/10
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
It's shocking how often the answer to "How come X changed?" is either the creation of the internet or the cost of real estate. Surprisingly often, it's both.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
This is a good point, and the emphasis on belonging aligns with the article. A trope of many action/thriller movies is groups of top-notch professionals becoming disenchanted with democracy and forming terrorist organizations. While mo
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
You bring up some interesting points. The publicizing side of things makes sense. Although given how often you hear about ex-military, police, etc, members in groups like these, I'd still expect that we'd see a handful of criminal
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
This post makes me wonder why videos of militias training always look so farcical. Practically, why are there not militia groups with Navy SEAL/Delta-level tactical abilities? Or at least near to that? Is it personnel selection effects
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
I think this whenever I read a modern detective novel (Bosch). So much of their work seems to be looking up data from different databases and trying to make connections or recognize patterns. I assume the FBI or whomever has automated this
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
There's a valid question to be asked about why the government allows union contracts that seem tailor-made to keep people who don't want to work hard (by making it impossible to get fired and underpaying people) while encouraging
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
This is an almost impossible post to respond to without it become a flame war. But if anyone is curious about the idea that we have too many government bureaucrats, and whether this increases costs, I encourage them to read the findings of
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Oof I can understand this from a purely logical standpoint, but those photos are deeply unsettling.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
It looks like insurance is included in the price.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
It very much came through. Always disappointing when a great product doesn't become a great company, but I hope you get some satisfaction in knowing you built a great product that a lot of people really enjoyed!
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Not that I'm aware of. Google Flights has good data (such as price change data), but it feels like any other search app. Adioso felt more like Pinterest in some ways, where I could have a vague idea of how I wanted to travel, and then
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Adioso was amazing! It was the only flight search engine that let explore possible trips (rather than just looking up flights once you knew where you wanted to go) by searching for regions or "International".
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
That's just for the pro version of the phone though. I plan to get a regular 16, for the reasons you mention. What regular features would you want to see?
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Hey Swyx, I'm a dev who did your (excellent!) email LLM course, so maybe I can give some info. I'm in the Latent Space Discord and have been trying to figure out what's next after the course. The challenge I've found is
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Ah so I couldn't just run this on my laptop for ~48 hours? That's too bad.
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Anyone have an idea if this is feasible to do on a Macbook with a built-in GPU?
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Thanks for looking this up. It's especially interesting bc if I search "golang" on LinkedIn jobs, I see 5,185 results (in the US), but I only get 148 results for "rust". Hardly scientific, but shows the risk of usin
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by jamestimmins 2y ago
Any chance you could run a comparison of the number of Rust vs Golang jobs over time? I seem to have noticed that Rust has gotten more common than golang in the job postings, but it's hard to verify without code because there are so ma

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