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by marstall 1y ago
So for an (employed) developer like me, who is dreading the next job search, what's a "hot" profession I could train myself on so my experience in the job market over the next 15 years could be like it was in the salad days o
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by marstall 1y ago
how long til they have GPT-5 level LLMs?
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by marstall 1y ago
As part of a longer conversation, i asked chatgpt when GPT5-level capabilities will be cheap enough to include in gift cards, throwaway plastic toys, etc. Answer was 2030-35. https://chatgpt.com/share/68b8ac92-ad28-8008
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by marstall 1y ago
For mac users interested in tiling (ish) managers, but not willing to make the leap DHH made, I highly recommend the Magnet app, which gets me most of the goodness he is demoing in the first part here ... (and maybe a little more?)
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by marstall 1y ago
The arguments pro and con are purely motivated by partisan concerns. its believed that more democratic voters are less likely to have an id, therefore voter id laws supposedly favors republicans. that supposed fact is at the heart of the en
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by marstall 1y ago
my son had similar results! we thought NVLD - now we are pretty certain Kabuki Syndrome.
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by marstall 1y ago
in the long term: simply that from the spinning jenny on, the history of automation is the history of exponentially expanding the workforce and population. when products are cheaper, demand increases, new populations enter the market and cr
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by marstall 1y ago
> no job remaining that a human can do better or cheaper than a machine this is the lump of labor fallacy. jobs machines do produce commodities. commodities don't have much value. humans crave value - its a core component of our
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by marstall 1y ago
that was because the economy was controlled/corrupt and not allowed to flourish (and create job-creating technologies like the internet and AI).
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by marstall 1y ago
8 billion people. only, what, 1 billion are in the middle class? Sounds like we need to be creating new markets at a rapid rate to me!
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by marstall 1y ago
temporary - thats the key. people were able to move to the cities and get factory and office jobs and over time were much better off. I can complain about the socially alienated condition I'm in as an office worker, but I would NEVER w
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by marstall 1y ago
The spinning jenny put seamstresses out of work. But the history of automation is the history of exponentially expanding the workforce and population. 8 billion people wake up every morning determined to spend the whole day working to impro
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by marstall 1y ago
every software company i've ever worked with has an endless backlog of features it wants/needs to implement. Maybe AI just lets them move through these feature more quickly? I mean most startups fail. And in software startups, the
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by marstall 1y ago
Harpers did an amazing cover story on these freaks in 2015 https://harpers.org/archive/2015/01/come-with-us-if-you-want...
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by marstall 1y ago
it's not such a binary. we all of us, software developers, are using AI every day now. It's one of our tools and we're staying present for at, sensing its energy. we let it run wild and get bored watching it work. Whatever it
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by marstall 1y ago
they used this product in the study - looks like subjects were geven about a 1/4-1/3 of the large bottle they sell, which is around $40 https://ketone.com
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by marstall 1y ago
I'd like to have a hackers news that was just posts like this!
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by marstall 1y ago
v impressed with how much OP can do, as a blind person.
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by marstall 1y ago
US 17th ... ugh.
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by marstall 1y ago
truly epic!
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by marstall 1y ago
guessing the introduction of the mech suit reduced headcount on the loading deck ...
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by marstall 2y ago
Yes I find chatGPT/Jetbrains (RubyMine) in my case is the most usable setup I've encountered. It's like Rubymine is "home" for me - and chatGPT's macOS client has become another "home" for me so it&#x
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by marstall 2y ago
Right? ageism maybe should work in reverse!
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by marstall 2y ago
This makes so much sense. I've been programming every day since I was in my twenties and there are definitely some concepts that seem much easier for me to get my head around now (I'm in my 50's) than earlier. Right now I&#x2
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by marstall 2y ago
the study cites Alzheimers and "other neurological conditions" - curious how broad that is and whether this could be of use for the average middle age person who's not quite as sharp as they once were, ahem, me.
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by marstall 2y ago
wow. and the TRP (and LAC) operons are mentioned in a context of "see, bacterial gene regulation is so simple " vs. the insanity of eukaryotes with little use of operons, lots of use of distal enhancers etc.
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by marstall 2y ago
first thing that came to mind is toothpicks. wonder if that's where the idea for the study came from. There was a time when men always had a toothpick in their mouth. Guess there was something to it! Seems like the simplest way to &quo
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by marstall 2y ago
i know. as if gene regulation wasn't insane enough already.
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by marstall 2y ago
> determinant of whether an intron would be spliced out of the mRNA transcript. I thought introns were virtually always spliced out of the MRNA transcript ... is this study saying that's not true?
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by marstall 2y ago
stunning! though curious about the sewage situation.

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