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by jshen 3y ago
Why? What are the use cases? I honestly can't think of any. If you are making a web app, you can use those cores just fine. If you are doing ML you will be calling into native code which can also do it just fine. If you are trying to m
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by jshen 3y ago
My view is based on the science. Regarding the research that supports my claim, studies have been done to isolate the different parts of the brain where they tell one part to do something like get water, then they ask the other part of the
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by jshen 3y ago
"[humans] are optimized to survive and reproduce ... in the real world." I think about this difference a lot, and a fair bit of AI/ML attempts to reproduce this process to some degree.
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by jshen 3y ago
Have you read social media? I see an overwhelming volume of "not-even-wrong" nonsense from humans all the time.
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by jshen 3y ago
I'd ask this question the other way. What research indicates that humans care primarily, or even to a high degree, about being objectively right versus deluding ourselves into believing we're right regardless of whether we are or
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by jshen 3y ago
I'm not sure I'd frame it that way. We seem to make decisions with our subconscious brains and our "rational" brains primarily rationalize a justification for that decision. Our brains are less concerned with being right
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by jshen 3y ago
I'm talking about all of the cognitive science which seems to point to the fact that we often care more about fitting in with our group that being correct. Group cohesion seems to have been selected for. Edit: there is also loads of ev
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by jshen 3y ago
> "The LLM AI technology generation is optimized to be fluently conversational and not to be factually correct all the time." I always find this point a bit odd because humans aren't "optimized" to be correct eit
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by jshen 3y ago
Yes! See my reply to the commenter above you.
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by jshen 3y ago
That's a really interesting observation. Having been in enterprise for a long time I think there are 3 things that I've seen make a big improvement on the health of a system after a decade or more. 1. Longevity of Engineers: Attri
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by jshen 3y ago
Thanks! Sounds like it's improved a lot since I tried it years ago.
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by jshen 3y ago
How do you install it? Do the fonts look good?
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by jshen 3y ago
I've worked on tons of old code bases over decades. I've never seen a library based one that's in good shape either. They usually evolve into some half baked homegrown framework that no one understands.
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by jshen 3y ago
Can I install Firefox without jumping through a bunch of hoops and without it feeling like a second class experience?
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by jshen 3y ago
I went to college in CA and took a couple classes on it. That was over 20 years ago so I don't remember what the books were.
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by jshen 3y ago
That's not an accurate description of the history of this issue. There's a ton of crazy stuff in the actual history, no need to make stuff up.
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by jshen 3y ago
The author's talked about their pain points, but they didn't really outline the downside of going to this approach in a comprehensive way. What I've found with event based systems is that they are much worse if your operation
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by jshen 3y ago
I agree completely. Kafka, and event based architectures, are highly overused, but are also the right thing sometimes. It's FAR easier to manage an architecture where systems call into the source of truth for a given piece of data via
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by jshen 3y ago
In many languages "if x = 3" is perfectly valid code, but almost certainly not what the person intended "if x == 3". It's very smart to warn someone in a scenario like this.
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by jshen 3y ago
Doesn’t go vet complain about your code? I’m not at my computer right now so can’t check.
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by jshen 3y ago
I'm curious what type of job you have. I felt the same as you the entire time I was an individual coder. Once I got into management that all changed, and the higher I climbed the tougher it was. I never felt like I needed a vacation wh
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by jshen 3y ago
Yeah, I wish the mobile OSes cared more about backwards compatibility
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by jshen 3y ago
Here’s a very balanced view with good data https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/our-climate-chang...
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by jshen 3y ago
I don’t like Java, but you are completely wrong.
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by jshen 3y ago
That leaves out a lot of the story. Those purchased packages often went out of date after a couple years, I remember being stuck on a different version of omnigraffle than other people I worked with because it was a pain to go through procu
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by jshen 3y ago
This is a really bad idea. I’m the long run your network and relationships are the most important thing for your career. What you are saying will burn all the bridges to many of the people you worked with. Also, most big companies give a 60
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by jshen 3y ago
> You don't think we need to, or you hope we don't need to? I'm researching this to have some concrete data, but I doubt I'll have it together soon enough to share in this thread. Will definitely share on HN when this
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by jshen 3y ago
"Aviation has to mostly go away. Most meat, most fishing too. Individual cars in cities need to completely go away" First, I don't think we need to go that far. Second, I don't see how you will ever achieve this without
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by jshen 3y ago
When I propose living in urban areas and eating a lot less meat that sounds like "doing less with less" to me at some level. It typically means having a much smaller place and not eating what you might want to eat. Your idea of &q
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by jshen 3y ago
How do you define degrowth?

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