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by madrox 3y ago
So the answer is to take on a second job, spending several years fixing the system (and contending with people who don't agree with you) so that it will be fixed near the time my child has moved on? That isn't a real answer. What
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by madrox 3y ago
Owning both systems, this makes a noticeable difference when playing games. All other things being equal, if I get a choice of which system to play a game on, then I choose PlayStation for the controller alone.
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by madrox 3y ago
As someone who worked 10-14 hour days in their 20s, I know for a fact it made me more effective and I achieved more. I also scaled way back in my 30s to have more of a life. I don't regret either decision. What Carmack says maps to my
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by madrox 3y ago
I find it rather cringe that we are judging where Carmack chooses to spend his spare time in a thread about people working less (where he was explicitly mentioned in the parent comment he responded to). In addition to being an engineer, he&
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by madrox 3y ago
As someone who's been working on this space as their day job for the last several months, I can say that LLMs are SURPRISINGLY GOOD at this. The real challenge is the sentiment you're articulating here...trust. I've been re
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by madrox 3y ago
When I was taught statistics, this was regularly brought up as a big no-no in science. However, I read a guide to practical statistics that had a gem about predicting the stock market. If we discovered surges in the market correlated to new
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by madrox 3y ago
This makes me wonder if Yelp is the problem or reviews as a mechanic.
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by madrox 3y ago
Nothing can destroy Nokia phones
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by madrox 3y ago
This was my thought as well. In all likelihood, the CCO is the person who informed to the SEC. If I were in that role, I would have.
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by madrox 3y ago
There's a famous macrumors forum post of people raging against the iPod, saying it will be a massive failure. We've seen the same reaction from every Apple hardware announcement since. The original post in 2001 is still live. Read
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by madrox 3y ago
This is very cool, which is why I'm so annoyed by the onboarding modals. Don't take away focus from what the user is currently messing with to show them a wall of text. Use tooltips.
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by madrox 3y ago
This doesn’t pass the smell test for me. Something has changed. Maybe the model hasn’t changed, but something somewhere is making output worse. I’m honestly more concerned if OpenAI doesn’t even realize it. Nothing is more infuriating as
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by madrox 3y ago
In my experience, all dating is superficial in the beginning, and attempting to short-circuit that process never really works in the long run. You can't speedrun getting to know someone. This is why "dating milestones" are su
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by madrox 3y ago
Reminds me of a similar case between the AP and the artist that made the famous "Hope" poster of Obama: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/12/132860606...
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by madrox 3y ago
The lovely thing about LLMs is that it can handle poorly worded prompts and well worded prompts. On the engineering side, we'll certainly see more rigor and best practices. For your average user? They can keep throwing whatever they li
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by madrox 3y ago
OpenAI has stumbled at every step apart from "make something really good that people like." DALL-E access was over-controlled and they lost a lot of mindshare to competitors. In the case of ChatGPT, I doubt they even thought about
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by madrox 4y ago
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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by madrox 4y ago
It's one thing to have heard rumblings and another to hear about this happening a block from your old home. Upsetting story on many levels.
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by madrox 4y ago
I lived a block from here prior to Covid, and I would've called this a safe part of town. Honestly incredible there was a stabbing there. My condolences to the family. The guy was too young.
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by madrox 4y ago
It doesn't, but the poster is a reputable account. I have to assume this is correct.
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by madrox 4y ago
I've wondered that myself. In my experience, people were practically born into the GNU lifestyle or they weren't. I've never known someone to convert past the age of 20.
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by madrox 4y ago
I was over-simplifying for the purposes of a comment, but I think my point stands. Just Chatting is an interesting one, because it's mostly a parking space for streamers who are just engaging with chat. However, that's content tha
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by madrox 4y ago
To be clear, you're correct. That was this current wave's web3. Once the bubble burst, though, money stopped being so easy. That's the period we're about to come to now.
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by madrox 4y ago
It's beside the point, but I think you're forgetting that Java was trendy 20 years ago. That didn't change until Ruby and Python came on the scene a few years later.
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by madrox 4y ago
I'm not sure how serious you are being. Back then, money wasn't easy and those jobs didn't come back either. New jobs did emerge, though. We also didn't wait for the powers that be back then to figure it out, either, les
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by madrox 4y ago
I can't say I'm surprised. Combined with Emmett's departure, Amazon is painting a picture of the belief that Twitch has hit its cap. Video games are a hits-driven business, and that goes for Twitch as well. The popularity of
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by madrox 4y ago
I was in tech during the dot com bubble. It was the same then as today. In the early 2000s, there were two open tech jobs for every qualified person. Businesses like Microskills (no longer around) sprung up to teach basic network administra
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by madrox 4y ago
As a former Twitch staff, I wish Emmett luck. Twitch is faced with several challenges right now: increasing competition from all sides, perpetually disgruntled creators, and pressure from their parent company to hit aggressive revenue targe
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by madrox 4y ago
Three months ago, there was a post on HN about Neuralink's treatment of animals. I mentioned that I struggled with the idea of animal testing and meat eating, generally. [1] I was surprised by the lack of empathy for the sentiment. Mos
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by madrox 4y ago
I've seen this rhetoric since Geocities. Discord is the latest scapegoat in a long lineage of successful products that are paradoxically ruining the internet and holding us back from the digital utopia we all dream of. Thinking like th

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