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by mgfist 6mo ago
Same, but now with AI I don't have to remember that anymore
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by mgfist 6mo ago
Yikes, so basically Iran gets everything it wants. It paid a heavy price for it, but it would get so much out of this. At pre war ship rates, that toll would be ~$90B per year ($45B if split half with Oman). Iran's government generates
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by mgfist 6mo ago
Posted this after mythos came out? The hutzpah
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by mgfist 6mo ago
On the other hand I've gotten to use opus-4.6 and claude code and the quality is off the charts compared to 2023 when coding agents first hit the scene. And what you're saying is essentially "If they haven't created God,
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by mgfist 6mo ago
It's got 9m people. The US has 30x the people and 250x the space. It's not comparable.
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by mgfist 6mo ago
That works for Iran because US air-defense is still comprised mainly of advanced and expensive systems (like the Patriot). It doesn't work as well in Ukraine or Russia because both have figured out drone interceptors quite well. Both c
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by mgfist 6mo ago
If only there was a 4 year long war where thousands of drones are flown every day both on offense and defense that we could have learned from ..
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by mgfist 7mo ago
Evolution is kinda like pre-training in a sense.
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by mgfist 7mo ago
Oh c'mon. Here's what Sid's done to help others in the process * Started 10 companies to enable access to others * Detailed policy proposals to make this easier process for others * Open sourced the entire process and all o
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by mgfist 7mo ago
I see indecision and analysis paralysis far more. And yes, you do need to thing about things, but far too often I see people not do something because they're worried it's not optimal. But not doing something is far worse than doin
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by mgfist 7mo ago
> I probably agree with that, but also acknowledge there's no good way to make that completely objective. Even worse, rich kids have far more means to engage in extracurriculars than poor kids.
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by mgfist 7mo ago
Well nothing is truly meritocratic - even with free tutoring, kids will still have different genetics, different home environments, different upbringings etc.. Colleges in the US that removed standardized testing from their applications, in
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by mgfist 7mo ago
Yes, but only if you have an ax to sharpen. With a lot of things it takes trial and error to make progress. You can take this pretty up high too - sometimes it takes building multiple products or companies to get it right
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by mgfist 7mo ago
OP wasn't talking about free markets but supply and demand.
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by mgfist 7mo ago
It should be externalized to a degree. Facebook shouldn't be the ones verifying age, but there should be a trusted 3rd party service that does that, which just tells facebook "yes this user is old enough to use your service"
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by mgfist 8mo ago
> But here's what I keep wondering: does expanding the scope of the possible eventually erode the deep understanding that makes the expansion valuable in the first place? Like, if you never have to debug a memory leak because the ag
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by mgfist 8mo ago
Not true (newer investors generally get seniority), but more importantly this is about common shareholders (generally employees and even founders) who never have the opportunity to get liq pref.
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by mgfist 8mo ago
All fair, but I think a different interpretation could be that AI allows you to vastly expand the scope of the possible, such to create a situation again where things are challenging and frustrating and fun.
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by mgfist 8mo ago
> But it's sad it does not ask the user more. You can ask it to ask you about your task and it will ask you tons of questions.
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by mgfist 8mo ago
Block isn't a jobs program, and employees cost money. Layoffs suck (I got laid off last year) but the reality is that it's a business and regardless of profitability, if you're not worth more than your salary you're a li
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by mgfist 8mo ago
Yes the stamina needed to play classical tournaments is not as there anymore, but he's still very very strong. He just came in second at Tata Steel Rapid, which although is not classical, is still an indication of strength, albeit with
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by mgfist 8mo ago
Vishy's still a top player at 56
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by mgfist 9mo ago
Yes, then you must have a rough estimate for that. Or in the other extreme example - in the case of an outage, estimates must be much more precise (i.e. "we should have a workaround in ~30 minutes"). But neither case requires too
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by mgfist 9mo ago
In general Western society has effectively outlawed "shame" as an effective social tool for shaping behavior. We used to shame people for bad behavior, which was quite effective in incentivizing people to be good people (this is o
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by mgfist 9mo ago
That's why the right way to do it is to have a hard deadline given to engineers, then the engineers cut whatever scope is needed to actually wrap something up by the deadline
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by mgfist 9mo ago
My most productive team did no time estimates at all (short of very very rough project estimates i.e. "yeah I'll work on this project for at least the next quarter then we'll see"), and instead of spending endless time i
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by mgfist 9mo ago
> Where I live in the US the major landowner(s) and local billionaire(s) ultimately controls these things Idk exactly what you mean by `major landowner(s)`, but where I live, zoning and permitting is controlled by retired people who own
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by mgfist 9mo ago
I hate how AI is being shoved in most things, but I do love AI in a few of those places (ai coding and google search replacement)
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by mgfist 9mo ago
I don't think corporate profits are the reason Apple has shitty UX because it's hard to argue how shitty UX correlates to higher profit, especially when it costs more to create a shitty UX than to keep the good one you already hav
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by mgfist 10mo ago
Because that requires adoption. Devs on hackernews are already the most up to date folks in the industry and even here adoption of LLMs is incredibly slow. And a lot of the adoption that does happen is still with older tech like ChatGPT or

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