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by kemiller 2y ago
Short term, I 100% agree, but remains to be seen what "short" means. According to at least some benchmarks, Deepseek is two full orders of magnitude cheaper for comparable performance. Massive. But that opens the door for much m
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by kemiller 2y ago
This only holds water if they are able to retrain frequently, which they haven't demonstrated yet. But if they are as efficient as they seem, then maybe.
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by kemiller 2y ago
I mean, it's good they are doing the right thing here, even if it were only damage control. But doesn't give a lot of confidence they won't harm creators who don't yet have 3b1b's reach.
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by kemiller 2y ago
Is it just me, or is Ruby experiencing a renaissance of sorts? There has been a bunch of positive press, and the community seems more active and vibrant than ever?
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by kemiller 2y ago
This is true, but I look at it differently. It makes it easier to automate the boring or annoying. Gotta throw up an admin interface? Need to write more unit tests? Need a one-off but complicated SQL query? They tend to excel at these thin
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by kemiller 2y ago
Elixir/erlang/gleam also have the advantage that many libraries are written as servers and so automatically gain the benefits and resilience. Something all these actor frameworks can’t give you.
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by kemiller 2y ago
There is truth to that, but it’s also true that cars simply have way more functionality than they did 20 years ago and it’s effectively impossible to assign a button to every thing.
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by kemiller 2y ago
There’s a pre/trans fallacy at work in here. We are not returning to the buttons we had before, we are recreating the role of physical buttons in a world where the long tail of controls has somewhere to go. And I’m all for it.
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by kemiller 2y ago
English takes influence from other languages left and right, but there's always someone salty when it goes the other way.
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by kemiller 2y ago
I don't think it's a content issue as much as a comfort issue. Literally everyone I know who bought a VR headset, high-end or low-end, has said more or less the same thing: It's impressive, but it starts to hurt after an hour
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by kemiller 2y ago
I genuinely wish I liked using emacs.
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by kemiller 2y ago
Yeah, I get that, but it's still not a great experience, and inconsistent. It would be cool to see something that uses iTerm's support for inline images: https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html Not sure how p
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by kemiller 2y ago
I miss using a TUI for mail but it looks like they haven’t really solved the most important reason I don’t, which is rendering HTML emails.
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by kemiller 2y ago
Warning, rambling old man story ahead. I've been a Mac fan since it was released. I was 8. My dad wouldn't let me get one because he disliked them pretty intensely, said you couldn't tell what they were doing and couldn'
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by kemiller 2y ago
How’s the stability on Orion lately? I want to use it be plugin compatible was too dicey.
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by kemiller 2y ago
I like your product but find the inability to set it as default very aggravating. Your plugin has improved a lot but it’s still janky. I blame Apple as much as Google. They could choose to align with users but instead they made Safari a pro
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by kemiller 2y ago
Honestly the big tech tech companies are already captured by their employees. I used to think that would be a good thing but in reality it just means the economic opportunity is limited to a small set of people with highly elite and perform
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by kemiller 2y ago
I dunno — if an open source project required, say, a proprietary compiler, that would diminish its open source-ness. But I agree it's not totally comparable, since the weights are not particularly analogous to machine code. We probably
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by kemiller 2y ago
Sounds like we need a monitoring station on Mars.
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by kemiller 2y ago
Yeah I’m exactly the same. It’s like I can “visualize” my proprioceptive sense for where things are in space but it’s more like a lidar map.
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by kemiller 2y ago
You don’t have to be hypervigilant. And in particular you don’t have to pay attention to basic lane keeping, which frees your attention to scanning ahead for potential issues. Not sure if or when it’ll ever be truly autonomous but it’s st
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by kemiller 2y ago
I think the point is chatgpt as a development partner rather than the core product
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by kemiller 2y ago
The problem is that small organizations cargo cult large organization interviews, when for most small organizations (ones that are not building infrastructure for others) speed of delivery is vastly more important than algorithmic purity. L
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by kemiller 2y ago
Whoa it was still going??
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by kemiller 2y ago
Re: The Expanse. I must have missed that. Maybe that’s the point. People no longer think of a computer as some separate thing that needs to be interacted with.
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by kemiller 2y ago
California is already planning a giant off-river reservoir that will be dependent on pumping to fill. If it could be set up to kick in instead of curtailment it could be a win win.
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by kemiller 2y ago
Yeah. Humans can't count more than ~5 things intuitively; we have to run the "counting algorithm" in our heads. We just learn it so early in life that we don't really think of it as an algorithm. Not surprising at all t
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by kemiller 2y ago
These types of move are sold as empowering workers but they are really about kicking the ladder so there’s no pathway to the executive class. It’s always hard to find leaders who aren’t empire builders, but this makes it impossible.
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by kemiller 3y ago
Welp, someone at a maritime insurance company is having a bad day.
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by kemiller 3y ago
You can self host, yes, though you’ll probably be inventing a lot of wheels.

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