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by mejutoco 3y ago
Information reduces uncertainty. A lot of talking or a lot of misinformation does not increase information but noise.
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by mejutoco 3y ago
I found the concepts that help a lot in discussing this in its essence are equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome.
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Open source has a specific meaning clarified in each license (like truffle, truffle-flavoured in food). Each license is unambiguous about what one is allowed to do. Some licenses favor the freedom of the user, and some the freedom of the de
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Similarly to carbon costs and derivatives, we can go as far back as we want (carbon cost since big bang, since factory, or from the store) or examine the consequences into the future or alternative timelines (opportunity cost). It is an int
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by mejutoco 3y ago
More like a friend of a friend, then :) From whom you have heard many anecdotes, have common friends, and you feel like you know them. You are curious to meet them.
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by mejutoco 3y ago
I wonder how much the amount of data transfer costs (for training or finetuning) might be a big on top of that. I am assuming ingress costs are relatively cheap in most services (as in AWS).
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by mejutoco 3y ago
I agree with you about the worse type system not being a feature. Also missing the json features of postgres is inconvenient. Only one file to backup or deploy is the biggest advantage of sqlite IMO.
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Or you could use sqlite until you need postgres. I have to admit I reach for postgres immediately when in many cases sqlite would have served me just as well.
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Did you see all those "where can I buy this flavor of snack in $location", or some weird anecdote involving a flavor of chips or similar. Tons of astroturfing on reddit. I notice a lot of talking past each other in only tangential
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by mejutoco 3y ago
IMO there is some lack of information on this. Especially in how the on-socket RAM performs in combination with the GPU. If anybody using llama or Stable diffusion with such a setup could share their experience vs a more traditional Nvidia
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Adding htmx to this list https://htmx.org/
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Adding to other advice here: make sure you know how much salary will be in your pocket after taxes and living expenses. Switzerland is an expensive country, and comparing just the absolute number could make you feel very miserable once you
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by mejutoco 3y ago
IMO, there is this common habit in lesswrong of creating new words that sound smart, as if they cannot "stop trying to make it a thing". If justified, I don't normally see a problem with that (like fractal, from Mandelbrot).
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by mejutoco 3y ago
I see your point but I respectfully disagree. It seems to me you are taking only maximum absolute dollar into account. 50k€ or less in Europe is more like $100k in my experience. Assumptions: - Comparing salaries in absolute dollar amount,
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Although the US is a wealthy country, I believe for most people "following your dream" there could be much harder than in Europe. Especially in terms of an unexpected healthcare problem at the wrong time. Of course some people are
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Elm does have a escape hatch: ports. You could use ports to call any javascript library. I have done it and it works. Ports are needed because they make any js code go through the same "even router" than any Elm code. It works ver
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by mejutoco 3y ago
This is exactly like the book "the mom test" but for once we are the mom. If it is obvious that your friends want support, give them that. Unless they are betting their life savings or doing something extremely risky why bring the
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Not an expert, but from what I saw: fancy peaches sold individually and melons. These are supposed to be good gifts to bring as a guest.
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Todoist does exactly that. You can also say "every day at 12:00 for a week" or "every second sun of the month".
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Before the switch to hooks there was the switch from class components to functions, but some features (error capture) were only available using class component. The router situation has always been a mess too, and passing props around and l
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by mejutoco 3y ago
That is exactly what I meant with you have to roll your own of everything. The building blocks for this one are there. Elm could have server side rendering too, like nextjs. That is IMO way worse.
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Elm is pretty much finished (meaning feature-complete) IMO. Not much needs to be changed. I love Elm. I can always go back to a project and get back on it in 2 minutes. The compiler is superb. The problem is one must roll on their own almos
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by mejutoco 3y ago
You can control click or middle click on a link. Most websites only open external links on a new window/tab because they don‘t want you to leave to monetize you further. Maybe hn does not care as much, which is good IMO.
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by mejutoco 3y ago
Adding to the list of languages that also have this: python. Unfortunately searching on google "python executable comments" only returns lobotomized results about what comments in python are.
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by mejutoco 3y ago
In an scenario with 2 employers, even ignoring market dynamics of an oligopoly/monopoly, once you are rejected by them you have nothing to lose. The risk of your app being banned when there is only 2 marketplaces is way way higher than
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by mejutoco 3y ago
I don't know. I do not dislike Van Gogh, and his life certainly was colourful. To me, when I think of Van Gogh, more than any intrinsically gifted artist (I think this of Dalí, for instance) I think of the time that chose him. He was i
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by mejutoco 3y ago
The comparison would be IMO more accurate if there were only 2 employers in the world.
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by mejutoco 3y ago
That is an interesting observation. On one side we could say when it is your own money one behaves more egotistically. On the other side, if OP was satisfied in the current firm (they admit they are not) and could have an impact in the dire
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by mejutoco 3y ago
> We discover an existing thing. This is hiding the assumption in plain sight in a different form. The question then would be: was x an existing thing that we "uncovered"/discovered (it has merely hidden) or we created it
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by mejutoco 3y ago
IDK, I remember seeing a tweet from Paul Graham saying that any new startup should use Typescript (I guess instead of js) so there might be some rules of thumb that some investors follow.

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