jes5199

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   by jes5199 3y ago

   even if, in general, a TOS could be changed without explicit consent, a judge may well decide that agreeing to arbitration requires a higher standard than just ignoring an email
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   I think that beyond some relatively small number, engineering headcount functions as a demonstration of wealth - it doesn't actually make the product better, it doesn't make you ship faster (Brooks's law). but it makes you lo
3. 363.▲
   by jes5199 3y ago

   I'm only into it because I know other people who are into it and it's fun to talk to them about it. It's actually my least favorite kind of programming problem, and the christmas elves conceit is very irritating to me
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   I used "eightwo"
5. 365.▲
   by jes5199 3y ago

   okay that's very clever
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   this sure seems like a symptom of a much larger organizational failure that could mistake "it's not plugged in" for "it's broken"
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   personally I'd be happy with a non-startup "perfectly ok businesses"
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   by jes5199 3y ago

   I mostly watch tiktok
9. 369.▲
   by jes5199 3y ago

   that sounds close, but how much tooling do you have to hand-roll for it?
10. 370.▲
    by jes5199 3y ago

    to second this, I really want an LLM that can call a REST API like ChatGPT plugins can. What is out there? for this use case, it might be okay if it’s not as intelligent as GPT 4
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    and Microsoft the new Google?
12. 372.▲
    by jes5199 3y ago

    I find Zoom so much more exhausting that being in the office, I am way more wiped out by my 2023 job than by my 2019 job
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I’ve definitely been burned by assuming that “no time zone” means UTC when my python environment assumed I wanted it to mean Pacific time - it’s like the APIs all prefer naive datetimes, and I had to learn a new trick for each one to convin
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    OK, you’ve convinced me that having a naive datetime object available makes sense but are there any cases where “now” being naive is useful
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    okay but I personally do want new LLM toys. who is going to provide them, now?
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    you can get a long way just checking the slow query log every few days
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    Tesla has margins on their EVs so they could afford to cut the price. The other Western manufacturers aren't there yet, so there's not sufficient competition. Maybe Chinese manufacturers will get into western markets and we'l
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    6 hours of daylight, then you need to over-provision the solar so you can charge 18 hours worth of batteries in that time. This is still cost competitive with nuclear
19. 379.▲
    by jes5199 3y ago

    by 2035, the solar+battery revolution will be in full swing. I’d be surprised if these reactors are ever switched on.
20. 380.▲
    by jes5199 3y ago

    battery production will keep increasing, and eventually the EV-battery market will be saturated recycled EV batteries could be a major source for cheap grid battery storage
21. 381.▲
    by jes5199 3y ago

    CRDT is a different paradigm. Ideally we'd use it to replace client-server
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I would like to see an actual report on this
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    also, renewables are getting cheaper but gas isn’t. 77% today may be 0% in a couple years
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I do hear about people replacing their furnaces with heat pumps, when the furnace reaches the end of its life span
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    actually I just saw that someone is working on a keyboard mode for Cursorless! https://github.com/cursorless-dev/cursorless/issues?q=is%3Ai...
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    philosophical question: is Cursorless possible because of some difference between speech and typing, or would it be possible to make a vim-mode-but-more-powerful that can do the tree-sitter stuff
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    that may be historically true, but today you can build much more KW of solar+batteries than KW of nuclear for the same price. Continuing to advocate for nuclear is throwing away money that could be spent on the green transition.
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    I think it's time to give up on nuclear. Solar+Wind+Batteries continue to get cheaper. Nuclear doesn't seem to have a detectible learning curve at all
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    that's kinda interesting but I'm not sure it maps well to the value added by a GPT app. Like, I'm imagining that I'll do old fashioned API work and GPT will the UI layer - sure, the tokens are the most expensive part, bu
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    by jes5199 3y ago

    ChatGPT is the new iPhone. Dealing with a walled-garden app store is never a great experience, but we'll do it because that's where the users are