jonahx

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by jonahx 1mo ago
Many of the screenshots from twitter are negative.
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by jonahx 1mo ago
Per the article, in exchange for that goodwill they get a billion dollars per week. Do we need more explanation? To be clear, it's gross, but they are doing it just enough that their convenience and average sufficient product qualit
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by jonahx 1mo ago
Quick intro for this method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuIdBfjL62s
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by jonahx 1mo ago
> CV driven development is just as well guarded against by asking someone to justify their technical decisions based on the requirements and how the solution meets them. So "boring" does nothing to further that. It doesn't
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by jonahx 1mo ago
> I'm reminded of my father in law, who when asked what superpower he'd want, it was flight, so he could get to work without waiting in traffic. That is tragically sad.
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by jonahx 2mo ago
> it's much, much easier to get devices to work when you control at least one side of the server with skilled professionals rather then your average home user. No, practicality is not the main reason these unnecessary connections
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by jonahx 2mo ago
There was some learning, but also a lot of waste. As a self-learner, I've never been able to learn so fast as I can now with an LLM to instantly answer my specific questions, and incrementally correct and grow my mental model. And wh
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by jonahx 2mo ago
Depends on a number of factors, but the majority of people with a 2k word vocabulary would not understand much of a Spanish television show or news cast at native speed. If you were reading the script, it might be different.
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by jonahx 2mo ago
> This is good news - you can be proficient in a foreign language by learning only 2,000 words! Depends what you mean by "proficient". I currently know ~6k Spanish words and would hesitate to self-apply that word. Others migh
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by jonahx 2mo ago
> Americans tend to overload the same word with a different meaning depending on the context. They also often resort to idioms and cultural references. This is not specific to "Americans". Learn any language and you will have
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by jonahx 2mo ago
I agree the phrase "culture fit" is weasel-wordy, but... > You can say if something fits only if you either can describe both sides in sufficient detail and where it wouldn't fit Many human dynamics, including sexual attra
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by jonahx 2mo ago
We are probably coming at this from different angles. I don't deny those things but they're also not a counter-argument to the point I'm intending to make. As an overly dramatic example, a slave might fall in love with the
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by jonahx 2mo ago
> The social networks are big because they have genuine utility. I think this is mostly wrong, and that the social networks are big primarily because they spent money at the right time to create entrenched network effects that allow th
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by jonahx 2mo ago
If the server is using gzip, it feels like the difference in sending back json vs the larger (but compressible) html wouldn't be that much?
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by jonahx 2mo ago
Norman Wildberger is a required mention on this topic. Here's a great discussion on Curt Jaimungal's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7LvgvunVCM And a good debate on the topic with Daniel Rubin, who takes
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by jonahx 2mo ago
Looking at chrome dev tools, it looks like it might be the custom font causing the delay. I'm not sure exactly why though.
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by jonahx 2mo ago
I love plain text services. One of their benefits is near instant load time. A nitpick, but this takes a few seconds to load on a fast broadband connection for me. I get the delay even refreshing the same page, where I'd expect the
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by jonahx 2mo ago
I'm not sure how this would "ruled on", but my take is that the website itself has enough functionality, enough ways to view and slice and dice the info, so to speak, that it can be tried out, and is not merely a "list
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by jonahx 2mo ago
> Imagine approaching fundamental scientific research like that. "Welp, it can't make money, so it won't happen." > There is more to society than capitalism. I don't read GP like that. I read it as "we s
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by jonahx 2mo ago
It unequivocally is AI. It's just not LLM-powered. The rising LLM = AI equivalency is unfortunate.
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by jonahx 2mo ago
I'll say that first code snippet is a fantastic TLDR.
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by jonahx 2mo ago
Any one off event is an example. But I assume you know that, so can you clarify what you mean by "a probability that can not be analyzed in terms of frequencies or other proportions"?
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by jonahx 2mo ago
That's clever rhetoric, but for most use cases it's just not true, and that's the point of the original article. There are legitimate use cases for native apps, but many of them could be converted to an instantly loading, 50
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by jonahx 2mo ago
Historically true, but the original intent quickly dissolved once they app store took off and they realized the cash cow they had on their hands.
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by jonahx 2mo ago
> We take tech literacy for granted, because it's like a dozen levels down fundamental to our entire field. But the tech illiterati exist, and they love apps. They "love apps" because apple and android have spent billions
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by jonahx 2mo ago
This affinity for verbal tics, too, seems learned from humans... See, for example, "synergy", "proactive", "in the loop," and hundreds more that proliferate in corporate jargon with even more senselessness than
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by jonahx 2mo ago
If phone companies' geofence info requires a warrant, it makes zero sense that flock info does not.
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by jonahx 3mo ago
Is there any realistic road to having them outlawed nationwide? Eg, ignoring probabilities here, could a wildly successful grassroots program where it became an issue as politically salient as immigration or abortion eventually lead to leg
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by jonahx 3mo ago
> Until people believe, nothing will change. I'm with you here. > When they believe, everything will change. Taken literally, this is absurd. Belief might be necessary for change, but it's not sufficient! > That's w
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by jonahx 3mo ago
> Antidotically, Anecdotally

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