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by labrador 2y ago
Since no one outside Google knows what real work the white-collar staff at Google do, no one can prove him wrong. He may be quoting a disgruntled Google employee. He's using an appeal to authority argument - his own as one half of Andr
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by labrador 2y ago
No new material in the edited version. They cut out the unfunny/uninteresting parts
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by labrador 2y ago
No stereotypic HN exchange would be complete without a meta comment about the comments
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by labrador 2y ago
My friends and family appreciate when I use language they can understand so it's a habit I've gotten into, but I do appreciate your distinction
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by labrador 2y ago
My apologies then
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by labrador 2y ago
I think you have it backwards. Snow Crash was published in 1992. The article references things Ballard said in the 70's and 80's
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by labrador 2y ago
I love this quote: Every home will be transformed into its own TV studio. We’ll all be simultaneously actor, director and screenwriter in our own soap opera. People will start screening themselves. They will become their own TV programmes.
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by labrador 2y ago
I volunteered to help .netart artists in the early 2000's to get their code working. They were able to do some very creative things with PHP that I know they didn't have the coding skills to do otherwise. Like grabbing random imag
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by labrador 2y ago
It's late Friday night so this what I really think of PHP: It is the purest form of web programming. You don't need a framework. Spin up a server and just start writing. Experiment. Do crazy things with it, like an art project. Ev
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by labrador 2y ago
A lot of people in the 1980's predicted "vulture capitalism" and agressive off-shoring would destroy America's ability to make things. It was obvious even at the time, but the money people just couldn't help themsel
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by labrador 2y ago
It was fun reading those books when I was a teen
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by labrador 2y ago
Why can't I talk to Claude on my desktop computer? Seems like a no brainer to turn Claude into the Star Trek computer
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by labrador 2y ago
Of course it had an Earth-like environment. Hasn't anyone ever read Edgar Rice Burroughs?
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by labrador 2y ago
Why do they have to be widespread?
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by labrador 2y ago
It works for X
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by labrador 2y ago
Except it has other meanings, not necessarily the Supreme Being. From the link you shared: Rāma is a Vedic Sanskrit word with two contextual meanings. In one context, as found in Atharva Veda, as stated by Monier Monier-Williams, it means
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by labrador 2y ago
I aspire to be a well off individual gentleman scientist
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by labrador 2y ago
I asked Claude Opus about it and got an estimate. It's going to take over 100GB (A 128 GB RAM stick can cost around $1,500) to run locally and probably mulitple Nvidia A100's ($10,000 per) to run locally, so if you're rich or
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by labrador 2y ago
"run locally" is meaningless if you don't state the hardware requirements unless you don't mind wasting the readers time making him or her figure it out only find out it takes a $20,000 computer. Or is this just assumed?
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by labrador 2y ago
Thank you for your thoughful response. Maybe I didn't say it clearly, but sometimes I like to acknowledge that we have geniuses in the programming field too, like a Ballard or a Jon Carmac. I enjoyed "Coders at Work: Reflections o
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by labrador 2y ago
My point was Andreeson wasn't first with a GUI web browser. It seems like you didn't even read my comment.
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by labrador 2y ago
The wise man is one who knows what he does not know - Lao Tsu In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few - Shunryu Suzuki, Zen master Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's i
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by labrador 2y ago
Yes, when home copmputers hit in the 80's and the internet hit in the 90's, if you were a half-way decent programmer the odds were pretty good that you'd make a lot of money. Physicists and non-microchip engineers didn't
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by labrador 2y ago
I looked into Marc Andreeson's genius once and it surprised me that there were several GUI web browsers before Mosaic. Marc made a better one at the right time for it to take off. He's a coder, a good one, but to say he's a m
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by labrador 2y ago
I grew up low middle income in Santa Cruz and can't recall a single suicide in my high school of 2000 kids. Why kill yourself when you can go surfing?
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by labrador 2y ago
I'm a working class kid and made my money in that era (money long gone). I moved my family into a wealthy neighborhood thinking it would be good for my kids to be around a better class of people. Boy was I wrong. There are a surprising
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by labrador 2y ago
My issue with American programmers and technologists who get rich is that it goes to their head and suddenly they think they're an intellectual on a wide range of subjects. It happened to me but I grew out of it when I got old. Marc An
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AI priest avatar gets the chop in first week of digital ministry(catholicherald.co.uk)
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by labrador 2y ago
tbh I think you're comment is disrespectul to Fabrice Bellard. You're implying the man who wrote FFmpeg is a flashy showoff who doesn't deliver real value. That's like saying Mozart was nothing but a score scribbler with
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by labrador 2y ago
Yes, we all know these things. You're giving me boilerplate management speak. When asked about 10x engineers I think of someone like Fabrice Bellard https://bellard.org/

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