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by jmathai 2y ago
Craftsmanship. You can have it with elaborate roman or colonial architecture or minimalist design. It needs to be present every step along the way from design, to building, to installation. But it starts with design and needs to be intentio
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As a parent today, I often wonder if my concerns are the same as every parent of prior generations and that things will turn out just fine. But I can’t shake the thought that the impact of social media and addictive games for some kids can’
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by jmathai 3y ago
> get bored We really underestimate how negatively it's impacting our quality of life that we don't let ourselves get bored anymore. My kids liked to listen to the radio while in the car. We stopped doing that - they fight it b
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by jmathai 3y ago
More than Python versions, I use pyenv to keep from polluting the system’s site-packages. It also ensures that my requirements.txt is sufficient for the code to run.
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I clean up thoroughly before any guests come. Not because I don’t want them to see a mess. But rather because I feel a lot better when things are tidy and clean and being in a better mood means more enjoyment when friends or family come. My
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by jmathai 3y ago
It’s unfortunate, if companies are okay not tracking you, that they care little enough about their user experience to use cookie banners.
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by jmathai 3y ago
The article is light on details but it's important to differentiate between two kinds of AI. 1) Deeply integrated into the product. This is what we've mostly seen to date. Google Search, Facebook's feed, Amazon results, etc.
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Open Letter: Build AI for a Better Future(twitter.com)
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Separate from billing, the product-native cost controls which prevent over-consumption is configured at the resource level. gcloud run deploy ..... --max-instances=N
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by jmathai 3y ago
Lambda and GCP Cloud Functions do have cost controls. You can specify the maximum number of instances that can be spun up at any given point. I think the UX can make it more friendly to specify the types of traffic and cost you’re expecting
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by jmathai 3y ago
> Take on projects that you have no idea about. The idea of high correlation between predictability and time flying is interesting. I'm working on patenting an idea and have filed the provisional. This gives me exactly 1 year to fil
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by jmathai 3y ago
My older kids are 11 and 13. My experience differs. My wife and I moved away from family before having children. Our kids had plenty of friends they could play with. It felt transient though - perhaps because we lived in a transient area (S
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by jmathai 3y ago
I’ve trended in the opposite direction. I don’t particularly enjoy taking about any successes I may have had and I don’t care to make sure others (including in the company I work at) are aware. It’s not great for career progression. But I a
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by jmathai 3y ago
I am trying to build a hardware prototype which expands beyond my experience in software. There’s no way I would try and hire someone with lots of experience and credentials. There’s too much risk. Instead, I found a recent college grad who
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by jmathai 3y ago
Doesn't seem like the author of the post is supportive of the proposal - but I'm also unsure if it's all parody. The renderings in this and a couple other articles look silly.
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by jmathai 3y ago
With age, I've realized that new shiny things don't do much for me. The opposite has become apparent, in fact. The value I derive from using something increases over time as it ages. This works better with some things than others.
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I hope you're right and that Firefox gets enough investment to be a viable alternative at the right moment.
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Personally agree. We moved back to the city we grew up after having been away for 20 years. The reason was family and it turned out to be much more worth it than we expected. For us, family proved to be a much tighter bond than our best of
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by jmathai 3y ago
I did this and went to take a shower. Needs a timer so I know how long it took :) https://imgur.com/a/QjoBw4h
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This is one of the big 5 personality traits (agreeableness). I found that these cover most everything and the combinations are the most interesting and useful. As I get older, I find that people closer to the middle across these traits are
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facepalm
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That example seems a bit hyperbolic. Do you think lawyers who leverage ChatGPT will take the made up cases and present them to a judge without doing some additional research? What I'm saying is that the tolerance for mistakes is strong
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by jmathai 3y ago
> The whole world has demanded absolute precision from computers for decades. Computer engineers maybe. I think the general population is quite tolerant of mistakes as long as the general value is high. People generally assign very high
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by jmathai 3y ago
> it rarely happens that it just finds stuff that's flat out wrong "Flat out wrong" implies determinism. For answers which are deterministic such as "syntax checking" and "correctness of code" - this al
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by jmathai 3y ago
Are you suggesting that failure cases are lower when interacting with humans? I don't think that's my experience at all. Maybe I've only ever seen terrible doctors but I always cross reference what doctors say with reputabl
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This seems to be a common view among some folks. Personally, I'm impartial. Search or even asking other expert human beings are prone to provide incorrect results. I'm unsure where this expectation of 100% absolute correctness com
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One challenge will be similar to self driving cars. The error / fatality rates need to be several orders of magnitude lower than for human operators for it to be acceptable.
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Faster, but probably less reliable and more inconsistent. For this reason, I wire my TVs into the network :)
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This is a comment for folks in homes with coax run for cable TV. Ethernet is great. I wired ethernet to most rooms in our remodel and set up wired access points or jacks in the office to connect directly to my computer. The speeds and consi
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by jmathai 3y ago
The older I get, the more I appreciate craftsmanship. Applies to nearly everything. Lately, I’ve been sitting in a chair and listening to records - not doing anything else. There’s a connection to myself, the music and the artist that’s dif

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