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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
the human touch from human curation of the ai output, which tends to be sorely lacking.
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
this is what the salesforces of the world do to startups every day. it is so painful to watch. billions upon billions wasted for just the stupidest possible reasons.
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
cannot wait for this book. it is insane that steve jobs has somehow become underrated because the lesson has become “sometimes assholes are geniuses”… that is such a painfully reductive narrative it beggars belief. there is a reason he is i
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
as would be a million things that don’t involve using uuids at all. it literally means nothing to say “this can be handled by centralizing your uuid store”… if you do that, you DON’T NEED UUIDS. THAT IS THE POINT!
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
i find it hilarious how desperate people are to cope that this can’t possibly work, must be horrible, etc. for all i know, it is. but let’s just see how well it works, rather than “no true scotsman” grouse about it. it is so sad. it reeks o
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
i find it hilarious how desperate people are to cope that this can’t possibly work, must be horrible, etc. for all i know, it is. but let’s just see how well it works, rather than “no true scotsman” grouse about it. it is so sad. it reeks o
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
nah facebook definitely was not hated on since the beginning… if you mean “meta” specifically, then yes, i actually agree. kinda like a “prince turning his name into a symbol” jump-discontinuous moment that marked the changing of the tides.
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
yeah somehow it is a minority opinion to shout “this is obviously stupid” from the rooftops… i guess meta has gone from startup to … utility(?) over the course of the last decade, but i have yet to see anything in this equivalence class of
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
wow. oddly that seems like an easier problem, despite the solution space being smaller. not saying i woulda solved that, because i doubt it, but it’s much closer to what my raw intuition woulda spit out as a solutuon to the OG problem.
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
yeah i had that same intuition and then realized that you _have_ to have pieces that overlap responsibility to fully “cover”. amazing puzzle. i can’t claim i solved it, because i didn’t, but i did give it 15 minutes of focused time, which i
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
could not agree with this take more. it feels like a bait and switch, but not the kind that makes me want to take sharpie to cardboard. it’s just… weird. and i don’t even necessarily think it’s “bad”… it’s just a weird unforced error becaus
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
damn that is hard
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by keeganpoppen 5mo ago
this might be true, but certainly isn't/shouldn't be true for MIT graduates. if you own a business of any kind, hiring an MIT grad is basically never a bad decision.
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
exactly lmao. that is exactly what is being presented as "scalable <full stop>". sigh .
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
literally the whole point of randomly generating UUIDs is that you don't need to check for collision. that's what the "U"s are for. that is the abstraction that is supposedly being provided. "using <insert Amazon
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
anecdotally (well, more "second-hand-ly i heard that..." it sounds like there were some carry-on effects on us-east-2 as a result of people migrating over from us-east-1, so, yeah... kinda hilarious how the multiple region /
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
some of these were actually pretty fun... i can't remember any of the names, but there were a few that were like pretty big adventure games that took like a couple hours to get through that i remember enjoying as a kid. and the best pa
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
this is what got me into programming, before i even knew i was a programmer
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
it’s sad that i had to triple-read this to determine you weren’t being sarcastic. sad for whom? i don’t know. but the amplifier take is exactly the right one.
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
when the iphone originally came out, this was absolutely true. the way it handled rendering the desktop versions of pages alone, w/ the double-tap-to-zoom put it in its own tier beyond the blackberries / n-gages / etc. contem
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
everyone seems to unconditionally love anthropic, but openai has always had the best models… it just requires a bit more effort on behalf of the user to actually leverage it.
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
codex low-key seems to be better than claude. and i say this as an 18-hour-a-day user of both (mostly claude)
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
iono if “steal” has the right valence here
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
i respect the author of this post wayyyy too much to ever imply that i know more than them, or that i even have proprietary knowledge that they, themselves do not possess. i admire aphyr, and i aesthetically agree with many of the arguments
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
just work backward from the moves it allows you to make— it tells you when it’s hopeless, so thus if it lets you move, you’re onto something. took me like 9 or 10 tries easily.
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by keeganpoppen 6mo ago
that took me way longer than i thought it would, but made me all the happier for it
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by keeganpoppen 7mo ago
i absolutely love the sentiment from this closing sentence: > “One of the reasons Joe is so insistent that every single building is here is because he would never want someone to come and see it and not be able to find where they live an
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by keeganpoppen 7mo ago
exactly. it is something you genuinely never need to think about, except for once in a blue moon. or, more like once in a leap year. and completely unmeasured by the "we will update it when our [horrific] business processes say it&#x27
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by keeganpoppen 7mo ago
but this simply isn't true. everyone thinks "oh well my use cases will never hit any of those bugs", but then there is one person in your org who hits that particular bug and it drives them batty. it is a retro-justification
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by keeganpoppen 7mo ago
i do prefer neon and argon to the rest, though i see the place for all of them to exist

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