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by jamil7 2y ago
Agree 100%, this was also bound to happen eventually, OpenAI could have just remained more "open" from the beginning and embraced the inevitable commoditization of these models. What did delaying this buy them?
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by jamil7 2y ago
Shouldn't this news be bullish long-term for them?
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by jamil7 2y ago
Put the no procrastination setting on to short value with a long interval and take a break for a few months. I do the same from time to time and it stops the muscle memory of hitting compile in my IDE and then opening a tab with hn.
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by jamil7 2y ago
> Or dedicated lanes for busses could work and may be drastically cheaper This is discussed a bit in urban planning circles, one of the reasons trams or light rail is preferred is political, it's much harder for some austerity gover
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by jamil7 2y ago
Cursed. I had a coworker once would commit diffs like that but always with the message "Cleanup". The git history was littered with "Cleanup" commits that actually hid all kinds of stuff in them. If you pulled them up on
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by jamil7 2y ago
I just witnessed an example of more or less this at a startup I’ve been contracting at. The engineering team on the core product is tiny with no slack for extra projects. One non-technical founder and a few other non-technical people build
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by jamil7 2y ago
Was it ever a good place to work? When they opened their Berlin office the word was the mobile team was a revolving door of contractors doing append-only development on a monolithic RN app. It already seemed dysfunctional then.
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by jamil7 2y ago
They used to be really good, independent registrar from New Zealand but I think got acquired sometime a few years ago and went down hill.
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by jamil7 2y ago
It’s an old one but I think Joel Spolsky‘s take on leaky abstractions is relevant again in this discussion as we add another abstraction layer with LLM assisted coding. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11&#x2
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by jamil7 2y ago
I didn’t downvote but I think it’s because the post feels like it’s using the article headline as an awkward segue to complain about dog shit in Austin. Which doesn’t seem relevant to anything in the article.
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by jamil7 2y ago
It’s mentioned in the article and the referenced document from Mario Draghi a few months ago on the plan for EU reforms.
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by jamil7 2y ago
I guess you need to put automation in-place that interrupts these people when they're trying to deploy something broken. Tests, linters, static analysis etc.
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by jamil7 2y ago
Software is currently extremely inefficient, driven by years of increasingly powerful cheap hardware. Once that starts to slow it makes sense that we start squeezing efficiency out of software again. We’ve also seen in the last 20 years the
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by jamil7 2y ago
I’m trying to relaunch my indie app which did have success getting a lot of users. But I failed to properly monetise it and the support burden and stress on top of a full time job drove me to pull it from the store. I’m attempting to relaun
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by jamil7 2y ago
Good.
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by jamil7 2y ago
Cows still need water from somewhere in those areas you’re talking about. If the land is particularly poor it also won’t produce enough feed and will have to be supplemented with feed that requires water and energy to grow somewhere else.
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by jamil7 2y ago
> This mirrors my experience using LLMs on personal projects. They can provide good advice only to the extent that your project stays within the bounds of well-known patterns. I agree but I find its still a great productivity boost for
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by jamil7 2y ago
Apple's frameworks, especially in betas, often have memory leaks.
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by jamil7 2y ago
I don't feel like China operates under the same geopolitical philosophy as Russia, they have other ambitions that I think are better served by avoiding wars. But who knows given the way things are going.
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by jamil7 2y ago
An active society reduces the burden on public health care, take a look at the obesity rates in Australia, especially childhood obesity, shouldn't we also regulate lifestyle choices that contribute to this? How about the explosion of m
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by jamil7 2y ago
In Australia this is not just for minors, you can be fined as an adult for cycling without a helmet which is even more absurd when you look at the lack of cycling infrastructure in Australian cities and the general cultural distain towards
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by jamil7 2y ago
I can't stand induction stove tops, partially for this reason and opted to put a gas stovetop in our kitchen with an electric oven. I cook a lot and trying to quickly adjust the heat when you have something on your hands makes them com
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by jamil7 2y ago
I'm a mobile developer but work on iOS, from what I see and hear from my colleagues, the Android stack has gone through a bit of upheaval in the last year or so. Maybe, like someone else here said it could make sense to build a small a
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by jamil7 2y ago
Well it’s bolted on for a start so introduces overhead from the get go. Its type system is also severely hamstrung and complicated by JS compatibility. It doesn’t really compare to Rust, Swift, OCaml etc. I do think it’s a huge improvement
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by jamil7 2y ago
You already see this if you use a language outside of Python, JS or SQL.
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by jamil7 2y ago
What I mean is, I doubt you could roll the exact people they fired into some new product or service and have it correctly staffed.
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by jamil7 2y ago
It might be 500 middle managers which you can't do much with.
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by jamil7 2y ago
I built and ran a read it later app in the iOS app store for a few years as a side project. I found it pretty difficult to monetise and the support burden got to me. I eventually just pulled it from the store as I was getting emails and rev
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by jamil7 2y ago
The industry is sensitive to interest rates, it will likely recover. More people might be trying to enter but the demand for experienced people remains high. I’m also not sure if it’s still true but I remember years ago reading that despite
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by jamil7 2y ago
Ah gotcha, I thought it was papered over a bit more with Flutter's tooling. Good to know.

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