losteric

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by losteric 8mo ago
This blog post doesn't say anything about your experience. How well does the resulting code perform? What are the trade-offs/limitations/benefits compared to SQLite? What problems does it solve? Why did you use this process?
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by losteric 8mo ago
Money follows ROI. Making those speculative or detrimental industries less profitable is the answer. Regulations on micro-targeting, data privacy, algorithm transparency, legal liability for content, etc.. all push back against the external
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by losteric 8mo ago
Advertising always seems like a prisoner’s dilemma. If no one advertised, people would still buy things.
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by losteric 9mo ago
Does Cosmos.gl do what you need? https://cosmos.gl/?path=/docs/welcome-to-cosmos-gl--docs
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by losteric 9mo ago
The ROI is you’re more likely to buy thinking you get a discount, and especially after doing the work to get the discount code. The trick is it’s priced assuming that discount will be taken off.
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by losteric 10mo ago
Was your app converted to use some Rust framework, or just Rust?
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by losteric 10mo ago
Wow, pretty much no one I know drives under any influence regardless what they use. I wonder how many of these people were under the influence of alcohol and other substances.
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by losteric 10mo ago
This by itself completely un-sold me. Requiring such rote memorization is a hard pass for me, it seems the user should just be able to self-assess whether they got it “right” (like Anki cards).
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by losteric 11mo ago
If you lived in an area with many restaurants offering the same favorite-cuisine/foods, and you were picking one to eat at indefinitely and exclusively… how would you choose? That’s where the analysis paralysis would come in to play in
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by losteric 11mo ago
Code is a hack in the same way that gears and wheels and levers are hacks. People don’t want mechanical components, they just want machines to do stuff for them.
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by losteric 1y ago
Every good Amazon org has sacrificial bad employees. Managers know a team of all-stars creates risky team dynamics under PIP
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by losteric 1y ago
> I've pumped out a ~15,000 line application heavily utilizing Claude Code over a few days that seems to work, but I don't know how much to trust it. Can I ask what you built?
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by losteric 1y ago
> check out the pipeline here “the pipeline” - seems like this is just a personal hackathon project? Why these models vs other multimodals? Which “nvidia models”?
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by losteric 1y ago
What in the bad rhetoric is this? The trades did and still do have standards. Hell there was a whole TikTok cycle where people learned there is a right and wrong way to lay tile/grout. One way looks fine until it breaks, the other last
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by losteric 1y ago
> if you were learning photography. would you still? First of all, photography was never a profession I would have recommended a kid get in to lol. I think it's likely we'll see fewer photography jobs, but the jobs that do exis
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by losteric 1y ago
> In theory it is unpaid, but it is always retroactively paid in practice and everyone knows this. Why only in theory? Why does it get paid back in practice?
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by losteric 1y ago
Doubt the form has anything to do with how "controversial" it is. NANDA is using the paper's popularity to collect marketing data.
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by losteric 1y ago
so nvidia's value supported by the value of AI companies, which nvidia then supports?
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by losteric 1y ago
I’m incredulous you’d expect otherwise? This is clearly pandering favor with a certain demographic, in a way that didn’t upset the big money going to Maralargo. Why would they intervene with outsourcing the jobs instead of H1Bs? And more im
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by losteric 1y ago
> Big corpo is a modern feodal state, where CEO is an emperor, c-suites are kings, managers are barons Why do people forget about board members and shareholders? There's a lot of overlap among the rich. I doubt Satya "wants&quo
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by losteric 1y ago
I’m sure geographic consolidation is the end state, we’re just taking incremental steps.
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by losteric 1y ago
> Technology continues to advance, exponentially Why should we believe it will continue to advance exponentially? And even if it does, we many find none of the hypotheticals pans out - perhaps we advance exponentially and there is noth
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by losteric 1y ago
“Free markets” are a conceptual tool. People don’t like how the tool is being used in America (and tbh globally). I’ve always associated HN with a more humane side of the tech industry, relatively more concerned about the wellbeing of socie
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by losteric 1y ago
> The qualifications, the "what have you been up to?"s -- such mind-numbingly boring conventions. Who wants to go through a "catchup" interview before talking about what's interesting If I think about someone, th
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by losteric 1y ago
I shoot on digital and film. Film photography has been "niche" for nearly 2 decades at this point. Comparing it to digital photography is like pointing out "smart watches can do so much more than mechanical watches" - th
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by losteric 1y ago
> Despite being trained on more compute than GPT-3, AlphaGo Zero could only play Go, while GPT-3 could write essays, code, translate languages, and assist with countless other tasks. The main difference was training data. This is kind of
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by losteric 1y ago
> However what will actually happen is society will use these people to brick lay for houses, care for the elderly or something else. That's honestly a good thing for society as we have massive shortages there, and not a bad thing f
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by losteric 1y ago
This is incredibly fatalistic. I lived under all of this, plus two immigrant parents with no community / role modeling, isolated in suburbia as a kid with a chronically online 20s. Yeah that nurturing left its mark. Yet I learned to s
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by losteric 1y ago
2 vs 1 doesn’t significantly impact space or cleaning labor, unless you’re staying in a super minimalist itty bitty unit (which I rarely find exists anymore)
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by losteric 1y ago
Perhaps we’re trading different stress/anxiety coping mechanisms?

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