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by julianeon 6mo ago
We would have no book if the author was a hero: they would say "I'm not doing this," quit, and that would be the end of it. By this definition, only an unheroic person could've written it. By the same definition, an firs
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by julianeon 7mo ago
I think self-driving cars are inevitable: I agree with that statement. And once they are here and cheap and safer than humans, they'll become universal. I don't know when that is, but it's less than 100 years from now. Howeve
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by julianeon 7mo ago
Something I don't understand: Why don't you buy used books? Plenty of supply for a book like the one he mentions, Knut Hamsun's "Growth of the Soil." No question that it was made to the quality level of the time whe
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by julianeon 7mo ago
Tech companies are less receptive to alcohol than they used to be. There was a post (can't find it now) from a VC firm saying something like, "We encourage our companies to throw no alcohol parties; there's less risk of all k
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by julianeon 8mo ago
I hear people say this, but I also see announcements from Chinese carmakers like this: "NEW: Latest EV model boasts full charge (200 miles) in only ~5 minutes" To me, that seems like a leaps & bounds improvement.
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by julianeon 8mo ago
The intention of my comment (possibly unclear) was to say: I know we can do self-driving very well very expensively. But what can we do extremely cheaply? Like the difference between "what can do we with an LLM on my maxxed-out laptop
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by julianeon 8mo ago
I was using cruise control on the highway yesterday and thinking: this is like very cheap very crude self-driving. And you know what? In its limited UNIX-like way, it's great: the car does a much better job of gradually injecting fuel
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by julianeon 8mo ago
This post has convinced me to give Mastodon another try.
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by julianeon 8mo ago
This is me w Google Gemini. And you're right: it does change your outlook on micropayments, which in my case, are API calls. My costs for the last few days: 3 cents, 2 cents, 46 cents. Believe it or not, every one of those calls was sc
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by julianeon 8mo ago
This is my take. First: the audience is NOT software devs. Because as you've surely noticed if you are a software dev, you can do most of the things that OpenClaw can do; if it offers improvements, they seem very marginal. You know, &q
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by julianeon 8mo ago
I think in a hand-wavey sense people understand that $PROFIT means $INCOME here.
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by julianeon 8mo ago
We should be friends. I got 47. In my defense, I was tired.
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by julianeon 9mo ago
This was true when Tesla was primarily in the market of making electric cars. It is not true if their business is humanoid robots: that's squarely meme stock territory.
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by julianeon 9mo ago
This article is just a slightly upscale version of the million "YouTube hooks" videos you can find on, well, you know. Down to the "create a gap" advice. Once upon a time "one weird trick" was good advice too,
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by julianeon 9mo ago
This is awesome. I hope this technology continues to advance and decrease in price - but it's already a great value at this one.
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by julianeon 9mo ago
As far as I can tell, there are exactly 3 use cases that have demonstrably worked with AI, in the sense that their stakeholders (not the AI companies, the users) swear it works. 1. training a RAG on support questions for chat or documentati
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by julianeon 9mo ago
I also can't help but think but the decade over decade improvement in EV goodies is going to be steep: more sensors, more ability if not to fully self-drive then to take over this aspect of driving (like backing up), etc.
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by julianeon 10mo ago
If you go on YouTube you can find a lot of vibe coders doing interviews where they drop a brief mention of their SaaS products. I think the main reason they are not well publicized is because they obviously have no moat. If I speak to a rea
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by julianeon 1y ago
This is pretty low on information but maybe that's how it has to be, since there probably is a tradeoff between covering the investigation & revealing investigative methods that should be kept private.
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by julianeon 1y ago
This is the age of social media. This person has hit the front page of HN twice now. That's a commercially valuable skill. At this point, having proved that can do something commercially valuable a couple times now, I think they should
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by julianeon 1y ago
This title may make Murdoch sound more didactic than she really was; her novels don't feature any traditional lovey-dovey happy endings.
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by julianeon 1y ago
It will probably result from a leverage buyout of a monopolistic industry: they'll keep prices so low no one else can compete, then cost-cut so much it's effectively one person making strategic decisions.
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by julianeon 1y ago
If we're being fair here then this must be the place to list the problems with the note card/pad system. For me, I ultimately settled on using a GitHub repo of todo lists w markdown as my solution, viewable on desktop & mobile
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by julianeon 1y ago
I don't think there's any conflict here. The article is saying something is lost when the algorithm becomes the teacher, as when the AI is the instructor. 1-on-1 teaching (with the parent as teacher) is not that; whatever problems
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by julianeon 1y ago
When I think of who's carrying the genre today, in books, I think of Cameron Hurley (God's War) and K.C. Alexander (Necrotech). Hurley's books capture its spirit especially well.
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by julianeon 1y ago
It's important from a supply chain perspective, but not in the getting-rich-off-of-this sense anymore. The analogy I use is Apple in the USA (Mexico) and Foxconn in China (Colombia).
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by julianeon 1y ago
Colombia produces the raw materials, so it is "essential" in that sense, but that is not where the money and power is now (that's Mexico). Kind of like how your iPhone is manufactured in China, but the world's-richest-co
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by julianeon 1y ago
I'm kind of curious how much this matters to Colombia now. For this who haven't been following the drug wars, most of the action, and money, has moved to Mexico. If you only know this stuff through pop culture, Mexico today is wha
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by julianeon 1y ago
I suspect there's a problem with 20th century materials underlying this. There's no particular reason why running on asphalt, or even running on a treadmill, shouldn't hurt. It might! It's not a natural surface. And hard
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by julianeon 1y ago
I can give one. As far as I can tell, as far as your entertainment options go, literary fiction is THE best option to exercise your mind. Ranked, in order, it's: literary fiction, nonfiction, computer games, movies, TV. "Meta-anal

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