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by keeda 1y ago
Wait hold on, let's put some numbers on this. Please correct my calculations if I'm wrong. 1. The human brain draws 12 - 20 watts [1, 2]. So, taking the lower end, a task taking one hour of our time costs 12 Wh. 2. An average Chat
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by keeda 1y ago
Oooh, that's interesting, I was not aware of that!
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by keeda 1y ago
Oh in terms of coding, definitely other simple options existed. But you still had to go through the work of provisioning a server, deploying your code to it, and then getting a public IP address and a domain name before you could access it.
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by keeda 1y ago
I don't know if this is why, but: he's in a unique position of having an article on himself on Grokipedia, and thus being able and willing to compare it with the reality as he remembers it. That's in contrast to other topics,
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by keeda 1y ago
It's not even H1Bs and not just Amazon. Amazon and most Big Tech companies have been shifting jobs overseas (via hiring freezes in the US and open headcount in India) for almost 4 years now.
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by keeda 1y ago
> But I can tell you with fair certainty that Amazon's high turnover rate is NOT happening in their engineering departments, though. Maybe you mean there hasn't been any change in their turnover recently, but the numbers (not
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by keeda 1y ago
Ditto. These days those are the only cases where I use "let" in JS. The thing I miss most from Kotlin is the ability to return values from blocks, e.g. val result = if (condition) { val x = foo() y = bar(x) y + k /&#x2
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by keeda 1y ago
We are still living with the hangover of C, which was designed for the resource-starved machines of eons ago, and whose style later languages felt they had to copy to get any kind of adoption. (And as you point out, that is how things turne
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by keeda 1y ago
Wework's CEO was not hobnobbing with the leaders of sovereign nations.
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by keeda 1y ago
I used to think that made sense (as sibling mentions, Spolsky's "fire and motion" thesis)... until I worked at large-ish tech company whose internal platforms also kept doing this. Heck, the platform I owned also underwent
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by keeda 1y ago
App Engine was the OG serverless before "serverless" was even a term: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=s...
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by keeda 1y ago
There wasn't much foresight required on his part because companies were already doing things like this way back when. As a trivial example, patents on DRM predate the oft-cited "Right To Read" by a decade or more. Stallman ju
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by keeda 1y ago
Fascinating to watch Tailscale evolve from what was (at least in my mind) a consumer / home-lab / small-business client networking product into an enterprise server-networking product.
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by keeda 1y ago
I think it said "send me a newt" (hence the lizard reference.) I am extremely curious about this. Did it think it was a convincing lie? Like, when other models dissemble, they seem to come up with much more sophisticated methods.
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by keeda 1y ago
My understanding is that the only thing keeping this from happening is that the data is far more valuable for traffic monitoring than law enforcement. As a trivial example, these cameras can already determine is a vehicle is speeding based
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by keeda 1y ago
I was thinking more about cases where consumers are ripped off by the weaponization of complicated contracts, regulations, and bureaucracies (which is what I interpreted TFA to be about). E.g. your health insurance, your medical bill (and t
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by keeda 1y ago
Won't the final arbiter of any transaction be the established ground rules, such as the contracts agreed to by the parties and the relevant industry regulations? I would assume those are set in stone and cannot be gamed. If so, without
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by keeda 1y ago
I realized this last year when ChatGPT helped me get $500 in compensation after a delayed flight turned a layover into an impromptu overnight stay in a foreign country. It was even more impressive because the situation involved two airlines
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by keeda 1y ago
This article is right, but I think it may underplay the changes that could be coming soon. For instance, as the top comment here about TDD points out, the actual code does not matter anymore. This is an astounding claim! And it has naturall
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by keeda 1y ago
Thanks for the helpful context. Google being risk averse is definitely a common criticism I've heard. I can't think of what previous problematic launches could have been, but ironically all the ones I remember offhand were after t
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by keeda 1y ago
It is entirely consistent to defend somebody's freedom of speech but then wish to dissociate from that person if their speech offends your sensibilities. This is just a variation on the old "freedom of speech" vs "freedo
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by keeda 1y ago
Fair enough, maybe a better way to put it is: why was the current AI boom sparked by ChatGPT and not something from Google? It's clear in retrospect that Google had similar capabilities in LaMDA, the precursor to Gemini. As I recall it
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by keeda 1y ago
I think the point is that they hoarded the technology for internal use instead of opening it up to the public, like OpenAI did with ChatGPT, thus kicking off the current AI revolution. As sibling comments indicate, reasons may range from in
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by keeda 1y ago
> To the point where people are quitting over other peoples opinions. Isn't that rational? If you found that a colleague had views you found personally abhorrent AND you had the luxury of being able to walk away from the job, woul
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by keeda 1y ago
An MBA, an engineer and a quantum computing physicist check into a hotel. Middle of the night, a small fire starts up on their floor. The MBA wakes up, sees the fire, sees a fire extinguisher in the corner of the room, empties the fire exti
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by keeda 1y ago
You can spend as much time as you want on "configuration of our editor, tinkering with dot files, and dev environments" and otherwise honing your craft, the business machine will still look at you as cogs. May seem depressing, but
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by keeda 1y ago
Huh, I'm surprised that he goes from "No AI" to "AI autocomplete" to "Vibecoding / Agents" (which I assume means no human review per his original coinage of the term.) This seems to preclude the chat-
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by keeda 1y ago
This is actually discussed in the interview: https://www.dwarkesh.com/i/176425744/llm-cognitive-deficits It seems to be more nuanced than what people have assumed. The best I can summarize it as is that he was doi
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by keeda 1y ago
Also: - Not having to perform the repetitive, mind-numbingly-dull-yet-somehow-simultaneously-stressful cognitive task of driving. - Instead, having the freedom to engage in more relaxing, productive or creative pursuits in this era of smart
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by keeda 1y ago
Interesting that there's no mention in TFA or the comments about DoorDash's ground-based delivery "drones": https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-unveils-dot -- I've seen them tes

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