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by kirse 4y ago
consider every single little micro-scenario for a proposal That does sound like a lot of effort to clone the branch from the F# team.
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by kirse 4y ago
5yrs ago I was roughly the same, depends how much you commit up front. I had minimal FP experience, so I bought "Domain Modeling Made Functional" [1] by Scott Wlaschin and used it for side projects / class libs first. Took
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by kirse 4y ago
I enjoyed Scala, but I enjoy F# much more. .NET Core is a healthy cross-plat ecosystem, many of the VSCode/F# tooling issues have been eliminated over the past few years (IntelliJ was really one of the core reasons I preferred Scala),
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by kirse 4y ago
Not really prompt injection, but I tried to corner GPT-3 into coughing up PII in a few different ways. I noticed if you seed the prompts with a topic it tends to take on a persona, I'm not sure if that's a result of the learning
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by kirse 4y ago
Well then, I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids.
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by kirse 4y ago
I don't know about TV Tropes "coining" the concept, I had already discussed this 5+ years ago wrt to computers and we even had a pitch for the "Flanders Threshold" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by kirse 4y ago
I was recently in one of these hot climates at peak times and did a lot of research on this while pushing my limits as an athlete. So many factors play into human adaptability to heat even including things like how exposed your veins are (
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by kirse 4y ago
All of these AI image-algorithm furnaces are ultimately powered by the raw material shoveled in by humans. If we stop providing the algorithms with unique material the capabilities will decrease. Further, when you automate one portion of t
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by kirse 4y ago
Yea, 43 -> 45 minutes is a 5% decrease in performance, which sounds small but actually is pretty significant for any trained athlete. That's 15 seconds if you're running a 5:00 mile. In cycling particularly you have all sorts
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by kirse 4y ago
the issue with a god is "who created god, and who created that who created god..." It is if you assume God is bound to the chain of causation, but obviously any creator is likely unbound by the system of laws in which his creati
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by kirse 4y ago
experience an extremely honest perception of your own mind. Is it though? Does walking into the fun-house mirror room really produce an accurate reflection of who you are? An altered perspective accompanied by an intense emotional experi
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by kirse 4y ago
psychedelics really help tear down the justifications we put up for the BS we tolerate in our daily lives Thing is you can do that with an extended weekend of fasting/meditation and solitude in the woods. Bring a notepad and pencil
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by kirse 4y ago
it describes how individuals can cycle through absorbing worldviews, philosophies, causes and projects across the arc of their lives That is pretty much the theme of the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes, written many a moon before War and Pe
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by kirse 4y ago
If you're on that .NET train check this out as well, keep it on the DL though https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/why-use-fsharp/
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by kirse 4y ago
discipline equals freedom The problem is it's not even correct. Discipline does not equal freedom. Have you ever seen a well-meaning man with all his might do the same incorrect thing over and over? Of course you have, because we&
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by kirse 4y ago
for example lofty.ai (tokenized real-estate investing) Agree, IIRC this is a YC baby as well and will easily be a $1-10B startup over the next 5-10 years. They have unfortunately become less generous with fees since launch but the core pr
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by kirse 4y ago
Similar to Lyft/Uber, AirBNB increased the reach and variety to meet consumer's short-term housing needs. The old "people prefer 70 different spaghetti sauces to 5" thing. Some aspects of the experience has worsened, an
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by kirse 4y ago
Mobile devices, ubiquitous 4G comms, GPS location-based services. Underlying tech is always what enables "too early" products to succeed later on, particularly comms bandwidth. The same fundamental products have been reinvented
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by kirse 4y ago
Agree, I would love to shadow someone who claims they regularly (and productively) work 90-100+ hr weeks of focused, mentally-taxing labor aka System 2 thinking. Otherwise all of us easily "work" 100-112/wk if we simply limi
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by kirse 4y ago
the ability to externalize one's thoughts If you're truly stuck in that scenario I'd agree. I'd add that physically writing helps [1] even more than typing, since you're slowing down the externalizing and writing
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by kirse 4y ago
I bought a Fujifilm X-T4 for my first "big boy" camera last year and the deciding factor in my head was that the best camera is one you want to carry. The 18-55mm kit lens is one of the best + the X-T4 has easy knobs and settings
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by kirse 4y ago
This is how 13yo me learned to make websites, except it was View Source and Copy to Notepad. Maybe an opportunity to develop a coding course around it?
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by kirse 4y ago
We take our duty seriously to protect the digital asset ecosystem and its customers. Ah yes, the "duty" to prop up the market that keeps your Jane Street trading games alive and pockets lined with billions, what a noble cause.
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by kirse 4y ago
By contrast, digital work is almost never finished. Everything keeps changing, everything breaks and needs fixing, there's always one more revision or update... we have truly created a diabolical machine to enslave ourselves to. You&
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by kirse 4y ago
https://www.ticklab.org/ if you've been bitten, remove the tick carefully and send it in. Free if you're a Pennsylvania resident, might be an equivalent lab in your state. Plus plenty of stats on ticks & dis
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by kirse 4y ago
I just stack plates on my back, weighted planks are great for building core strength for heavy DLs/Squats. V-holds / dead bug holds also awesome.
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by kirse 4y ago
I have to spend all day trapped in meetings and arguing with people and get to spend very little time doing what I enjoy The only "have to" in life is death. I've been in situations like you describe as a lead, choose anot
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by kirse 4y ago
As long as there are well-capitalized parties that want to prop up Tether That's been my personal conclusion as well but it led me to the next question of what # is the breaking point for these well-capitalized parties? I tried looki
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by kirse 4y ago
How do you deal with the 60-min video shutoff during important mtgs, streaming, etc?
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by kirse 4y ago
Who cares if you personally can redeem them I care because I don't require an intermediary to withdraw my USD "IOUs" from a normal bank. In the case of Tether these intermediaries that decide whether or not I get my USD (Al

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