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by mlsu 4mo ago
"Writing specs" is the essential complexity of programming. What you're saying is that there's no silver bullet. Agents or no agents, punchcards or interpreters, programming is programming at the end of the day.
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by mlsu 4mo ago
And it's even worse because the colors now could be so good because of modern technology. The potential is so high
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by mlsu 4mo ago
To be fair, solar turbines has had the name since 1929 (they were then called solar aircraft company). It’s not like they’re being intentionally misleading.
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by mlsu 4mo ago
I had a moment a few years ago (while on vacation) after a long flight. We set a blanket out under a huge tree and napped in the park all afternoon. I was staring up at a massive tree for probably 3 or 4 hours straight, basically doing noth
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by mlsu 4mo ago
I have the capacity to pay someone to dig a hole and fill it in. Would that be a wise use of my resources? We're talking about the whole sector here, not one borrower. Huge swathes of commercial real estate are sitting empty, that&#x27
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by mlsu 4mo ago
They are extending loans though. In a normal market, requesting an extension when the bank knows you're underwater should set off some risk alarm bells and trigger a denial. The "normal person" intuition about how loans work
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by mlsu 4mo ago
China's competitiveness in AI, despite export controls, should surprise nobody. AI workloads are very simple and massively parallel. Energy into the workload, trained artifact out. The bigger the artifact the more parallel you have to
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by mlsu 4mo ago
Stubbing my toe fucking sucks, but perhaps the fact that I think it sucks is actually evidence that it is secretly a good thing!
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Phone-Thing, Self-Thing(mlsu.io)
3 points by mlsu 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mlsu 4mo ago
This should be regarded as a failure of the markets. This anti consumer crap, that people demonstrably hate, worked! It worked to increase share price. We should all see that as a a fundamental failure of the market to transmit information
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by mlsu 4mo ago
I haven't seen anyone really talking about this, but we've seen many very public and powerful people have what is objectively a psychotic break, due to the content algorithm, AI, or both. We already know what the algorithm does to
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by mlsu 4mo ago
Somebody will eventually know the difference. And then you’re fired.
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by mlsu 4mo ago
Your argument here is either - the money is fake, because it's based on a future prediction that is eventually going to be wrong; or it is "what billionaires are doing is fine, actually." The first one is dispensed quite easi
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by mlsu 4mo ago
No, market cap does not come out of thin air. Money flows in one direction and human activity and real changes in the physical world flow in the other direction. Nobody is mad about the billionaires having a lot of money - they are mad that
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by mlsu 4mo ago
You can tell that he doesn’t really think too deeply about any of this, because the way he wants to illustrate the point is by typing the numbers into a calculator. It’s as if the money comes right up out of thin air, isn’t it? He inadverte
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by mlsu 4mo ago
Now the corollary. For each country, given existing borders, place the capital directly in the geographic area centroid? Population centroid? Which capitals move most?
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by mlsu 4mo ago
I mean there are web programmers that do not know C. C! The substrate of all computing! The bedrock, surely…
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by mlsu 4mo ago
If I had a few dollars for every time I heard “that’s so beyond the pale, it couldn’t possibly happen”, I would be buying some more RAM for my homelab right now.
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by mlsu 4mo ago
Piketty argues that if r > g, wealth will accumulate into fewer and fewer hands over time. R is the rate of return of capital (rents, stocks, bonds, etc) and g is the growth of the economy over time. If the economy grows at a higher rate
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by mlsu 4mo ago
I think the idea here isn't the absolute numbers, but that if Elon manages to successfully fleece everyone's retirement, it will collapse confidence in the market, which could wipe out far more value than SpaceX alone. IF SpaceX i
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by mlsu 4mo ago
I think the marketing campaign came first. Anthropic captured developer mindshare first, then they brought it to their companies.
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by mlsu 4mo ago
Our lives are just a big collection of experiences. The wall-clock minutes that actually matter in our lives are the minutes that we spend with other people. These minutes are literally all we have ; the next minute you have is literally t
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by mlsu 4mo ago
Yes, I really am. For the purpose of learning, internalizing and organizing information, hand writing is superior to typing in every case. It's physiological.
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by mlsu 4mo ago
It’s definitely actively bad to involve a device in the vast majority of education. And, it’s a purely selfish thing by tech companies to insert themselves into education. A student should not see a computer until college or vocational scho
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by mlsu 4mo ago
Thank you both! The comments in this corner of the thread made my day.
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by mlsu 4mo ago
The plagues come later, I suppose.
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by mlsu 4mo ago
I would be able to see my niece in person and hear her laugh if I could have this Friday off.
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Can we have the day off?(mlsu.io)
1415 points by mlsu 4mo ago|776 comments
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by mlsu 4mo ago
Every popular spotify playlist has a bunch of good songs and then like one or two "huh?" songs sprinkled in. It's really obvious what's going on.
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by mlsu 4mo ago
On makework compliance: "I really ought to throw this umbrella away. I know we're in a rainstorm, but I haven't gotten wet yet!"

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