marstall

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by marstall 11mo ago
I love CarPlay, but I do feel like I'm risking my family's life when it fails to connect and I'm left fiddling with it while driving. It seems like what GM's doing would at least eliminate that risk factor.
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by marstall 11mo ago
Unless the idea of us having a thinking self is just something that comes out of our mouth, an artifact of language. In which case we are not that different - in the end we all came from mere atoms, after all!
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by marstall 11mo ago
my rules of throwing a good (house) party: 1. good music with a beat. play records if you can, it's fun. 2. no food. people already ate. 3. hit the liquor store pre-party and get a few cases of booze. 4. if there's something a gir
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by marstall 11mo ago
unbelievable. gifted explainer!
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by marstall 11mo ago
How does that possibly work? How do they continue with zero of the staff?
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by marstall 1y ago
boston: the ultimate test
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by marstall 1y ago
also: mind-numbing.
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by marstall 1y ago
mindblowing - but still in the uncanny valley. and I guess it's cute that many of the characters live in a world where AI has caused an apocolypse, but is that really the message they want to lead with?
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by marstall 1y ago
i'm talking about turbo c++ of the 90s. it was a completely integrated experience. no screen switching was key. everything contained in one app. worth all the nostalgia but you kind of had to be there! and yep it was faster than zed.
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by marstall 1y ago
pretty much everything newer than ~70 years old on the internet is copyrighted, because copywright occurs automatically when you create something (in the US at least). So the answer to #1 is yes.
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by marstall 1y ago
and yet zed is straight up slower than turbo c++
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by marstall 1y ago
totally. so strange that that was the fastest, most flowy dev experience i've ever had. been chasing that ever since. though i must say rails, vite, react fast refresh, etc. are pretty nice in that regard.
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by marstall 1y ago
ha more like how i talk to my two year old. WindSurf's Cascade sidebar tool (which i use in RubyMine) has a stable of LLMs and it somewhat randomly switches the active one out from time to time. So I get a taste of what different ones
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by marstall 1y ago
SWE-1 has been being booped up by WindSurf to me lately and I've been impressed - often (enough?) getting me the same answers as GPT5 etc., but almost instantly. Gotta say speed is nice.
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by marstall 1y ago
Very cool. Surprising that having more AMPA receptors would lead to decreased cognition, as learning & memory is hypothesized to particularly involve processes that increase the number of in-position AMPA receptors.
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by marstall 1y ago
i've booped in and out of PM roles throughout my career - don't care to go back. thinking of something that combines left/right brain ... this stuff lives in my side projects but I'm thinking of ways of making one of the
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by marstall 1y ago
thank you, those are great ideas - but mostly out of reach for me. I simply lack the time (and brain, maybe). Need to find something I already have that will be valuable on the job market with a little primping ... as other responder propos
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by marstall 1y ago
ha yeah "hint of AI" definitely achievable. The positive side of it is that this is really cool technology that sparks my imagination...
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by marstall 1y ago
bubble bursting data point: I am about to throw away my side project's vibe coded front end (~5000loc) and rewrite it by hand. At the scale it's gotten to, its become too difficult to change. i try to tweak it and it doesn't
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by marstall 1y ago
i've hung on for 35 years in this profession by reskilling every 5 years or so. but going through the gauntlet of learning the AI theory/tech sufficiently to be able to contribute meaningfully, and then compete for one of these ti
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by marstall 1y ago
Having lived through both ... the job market was INSANE during dot-com. Getting a job was like falling off a tree. If this is 17 times bigger, where are the jobs (serious question)?
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by marstall 1y ago
Agreed - but don't WindSurf, Cursor and Copilot do all the same things now, but with choice of LLM & IDE integration?
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by marstall 1y ago
in the scientific domain?
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by marstall 1y ago
> Level 2 - One commit - Cursor and Claude Code work well for tasks in this size range. I'll stop ya right there. Spending the past few weeks fixing bugs in a big multi-tier app (which is what any production software is this days).
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by marstall 1y ago
well i'd suggest most countries are already regulating AI and will continue to do that with existing laws that protect privacy, the environment, worker safety, limit hate speech, etc. some of those regulations extend beyond national bo
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by marstall 1y ago
for an example of a global risk that was mitigated without a world government, take a look at nuclear arms treaties like START, SALT, etc.
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by marstall 1y ago
all pretty much true - but she wrote this book, which goes a fair way to redeem her in my view. also, she tended to at least try to temper the worst tendencies of the executive team.
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by marstall 1y ago
the economist doesn't have bylines, never has. you go by the reputation of the publication, which is top notch for science reporting!
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by marstall 1y ago
read the book. her allegations are important and she's a brave woman. Low point: zuckerberg pressuring the author, while she is suffering from late pregnancy complications, to travel to Myanmar with a callow sales pitch for their dict
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by marstall 1y ago
doing things in small chunks is good. so is it doing things in large chunks sometimes. In AI, like in life, there are no hard and fast rules and we're all figuring it out as we go. Like with "vibe coding" - sometimes it'

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