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by jongjong 8mo ago
Making music with AI is a new hobby of mine. My journey started after my wife found a Ukulele on the side of the road near where I lived a few years ago and took it home. Then often when I had a short break, I started just tugging at string
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I hate how developers are often very skeptical but all the skepticism goes out the window if the tech is sufficiently hyped up. And TBH, developers are pretty dumb not to realize that the tech tools monoculture is a way for business folks t
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Whenever some website asks me to use specific weird characters in my password. I have to write it down on a post-it note and put it in the top drawer of my desk. The irony is that the websites which require such passwords are often low-impo
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Well the article starts out with a suggestion that we should all get a data center... It's quite a jump to assume that everyone reading this article needs to train their own LLMs.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
We haven't yet lost the war against complexity. We would know if we had, because all software would grind to a halt due to errors. We're getting close though; some aspects of software feels deeply dysfunctional; like 2FA and Captc
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Or better; write your software such that you can scale to tens of thousands of concurrent users on a single machine. This can really put the savings into perspective.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Whenever a government offers loans at an interest rate which is below the risk premium, that difference essentially represents the government giving the borrower free money paid for by all citizens through loss of buying power. So when Japa
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Japan is interesting because it has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio of any developed country and most other countries in the world are increasing their debt-to-GDP ratio; in effect, they're all moving towards a Japanese reality due to th
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by jongjong 8mo ago
This is like communism in the sense that it's sold as one thing, but serves another purpose for a different set of people than those it was marketed to. Having worked as a software engineer in the industry for almost 15 years, my exper
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Just because it's possible to build equivalent software by vibe coding doesn't necessarily mean that companies will stop using SaaS. There are multiple reasons why... First of all, many big companies pay a fortune to use inferior
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Clearly the desire to have data centers in space is so that AI can control humans remotely without having to worry about backlash and potential dismantling. Besides this, it's concerning how much stuff we're sending to space. One
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Clearly, if politicians are afraid of the people, it's a sign that the people aren't happy with the work they're doing. Maybe the solution is to start delivering the results that people want.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Once you've worked long enough in the software industry, you start to understand it's all just a fully planned economy.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Geology is fascinating. When geologists describe effects over long periods of time, it's like they're describing liquids, not solid matter. It's interesting to think about the fact that on a long enough timeline, all the matt
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I feel like this should have been the responsibility of investors and venture capitalists. In a normal society, the moneyed folks should give special treatment to the folks who have proven themselves to be effective givers. Unfortunately, i
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Depends on the company. In most companies, you MUST be an asshole to get promoted.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Founding is a lie.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Yes, Apple's "1984" advertisement is looking extremely ironic nowadays. Reality is stranger than fiction.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Yes, I tend to write as free-form notes. I don't bother adding a checkbox. It's not really a major problem. Usually what happens is I notice a note which was implemented and then I may start checking other, lower-priority items; s
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I do keep notes and I turn them into action though sometimes I forget to clear my notes and when I read them a few months later, I'm like "I already implemented this 3 months ago."
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by jongjong 8mo ago
My perspective is that AI is a multiplier if existing skill (both positive and negative aspects). A bad developer can now produce bad code at 10x the rate and a good developer can produce good code at 10x the rate. There is a net positive g
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by jongjong 8mo ago
The resistance seems to be the result of certain more privileged people being out of touch with the situation. They don't understand how hard some people are struggling now. This is bad because they won't notice it until it turns
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by jongjong 8mo ago
The headline is incorrect. It's Silver ETFs that tumbled, not silver. The event I'm betting on is Silver shortage and the removal of ETFs from chart price calculations. Though this price drop may be a delay... Or maybe lower price
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by jongjong 9mo ago
Great point. The people who popularized 'the end of history' were right about it from the PoV of innovation benefiting humans. It's been marginal gains since. Any appearance of significant gains (in the eyes of a minority of
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by jongjong 9mo ago
It seems like a lot. It's not like they were in court full time.
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by jongjong 9mo ago
Nowadays there are a lot of contrarian ideas which are correct. Some such ideas I've had for maybe 10 years; started out as speculative thoughts that I dismissed initially but the evidence kept piling up. At first, it was just my perso
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by jongjong 9mo ago
I think the most valuable intellectual skill remaining is contrarian thinking which happens to be correct. LLMs are naive and have a very mainstream view on things; this often leads them down suboptimal paths. If you can see through some of
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by jongjong 9mo ago
He and his son should be in jail. This is criminal; whether it's theft or criminal negligence.
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by jongjong 9mo ago
My view is that they never brought any balance. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Global institutions, especially NGOs, wrecked havoc. My view is that the nexus of power is guaranteed to be corrupt. Inescapably so. It's j
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by jongjong 9mo ago
The difference is that opposition brings balance. Any great power, unopposed, is bound to turn into tyranny sooner or later.

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