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by motorest 1y ago
> You probably need to have a bit of understanding of what you are writing ragebaits about, but not necessarily be an expert - returning to the author's point about rewarding mediocrity I'm sorry, this is simply not true. You c
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> I guess marketing is the dirty thing you gotta do to lift yourself up by your proverbial bootstraps, and anyone can do it regardless of where they grew up and how much money they got. This pov assumes that everyone engaged in "mar
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by motorest 1y ago
Some of the actual posts on wikipedia are more outlandish than the parody ones. It's entertaining.
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> I’m not a heavy JS/TS dev so here’s an honest question: why not use Bun and forget about node? Why would you switch from runtime A to runtime B? I mean, you presented no reason at all, let alone a compelling one, to pick either on
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by motorest 1y ago
What a great article. It's always a treat to read this sort of take. I have some remarks though. Taken from the article: > Avoid having five different services all write to the same table. Instead, have four of them send API reques
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by motorest 1y ago
> In many of the metrics, yeah. But Americans can afford larger houses and more stuff essentially, which isn't necessarily a good replacement for general quality of life things. I think this is the sort of red herring that prevents
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> These supposed "productivity gains" are only touted by the ones selling the product (...) I literally pasted an announcement from the CEO of a major corporation warning they are going to decimate their workforce due to the ad
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> the economic situation in Europe is much more dire than the US... Is it, though? The US reports by far the highest levels of lifetime literal homelessness, which is three times greater than in countries like Germany. Homeless people on
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by motorest 1y ago
> You're missing the point, language can be tricky. Technically, the state confiscating wealth derived from your labor through taxes is a form of robbery and slavery. You're letting your irrational biases show. To start off, so
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> Have you ever stopped to consider why class mobility is much much less common in Europe than in the USA? Which class mobility is this that you speak of? The one that forces the average US citizens to be a paycheck away from homelessnes
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> I think your assumption is probably a little backwards. It will be a senior SDE clearing the slate I think. I don't think you understood the point I made. My point was not about Jr vs Sr, let alone how a Jr is somehow more capable
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> I'd love a source to these claims. Have you been living under a rock? You can start getting up to speed by how Amazon's CEO already laid out the company's plan. https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business&
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> You can’t provide valuable things for “free” en masse without institutionalizing either slavery or robbery. The value must come from somewhere. Utter nonsense. Do you believe the European countries that provides higher education for fr
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> What makes you think that? Self driving cars have had (...) I think you're confusing your cherry-picked comparison with reality. LLMs are eliminating the need to have a vast array of positions on payrolls. From copywriters to cust
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by motorest 1y ago
I don't know who is downvoting this post. The fact that companies such as Tesla as being featured as meme stocks for years, with valuations that bear no relationship to performance let alone fundamentais, is a clear indicator that the
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> (...) but in America, the public owns the means of production through pension-based stock market ownership, which is one of the core tenets of communism (...) Do they own it, though? Or is the US public relegated to a position of finan
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> Being entirely dependent on Chinese manufacturing to make anything. I'm sorry, it's very hard to take this sort of concern seriously. The express goal of US's take on neoliberalism was to dump all manufacturing onto coun
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by motorest 1y ago
> People seems generally uninterested in fixing this too. What problem do you think needs fixing?
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by motorest 1y ago
> That page was made in December 2022, (...) Irrelevant. Wikipedia does not create concepts. Again, if you take a few minutes to learn about the topic you will eventually understand the concept was coined a couple of decades ago, and has
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by motorest 1y ago
> Every sentence there is meaningful. It really isn't. There is no point to pretend it is, and even less of a point to expect anyone should waste their time with an unreadable and incoherent wall of text. You decide how you waste yo
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by motorest 1y ago
> They aren't, despite marketing, really hallucinations. They are hallucinations. You might not be aware of what that concept means in terms of LLMs but just because you are oblivious to the definition of a concept that does not mea
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by motorest 1y ago
> how so? programs might use english words but are decidedly not english. I pointed out the fact that the concept of a language doesn't exist in token predictors. They are trained with a corpus, and LLMs generate outputs that reflec
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by motorest 1y ago
> How would you know if it adds nothing of value if you stopped reading it? :) If you write a wall of text where the first pages are inane drivel, what do you think are the odds that the rest of that wall of text suddenly adds readable g
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by motorest 1y ago
> That seems very dependent on which company you work for. Many would not grant you that kind of flexibility. It really boils down to what scenario you have in mind. Developers do interact with product managers and discussions do involve
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> Modern coding AI models are not just probability crunching transformers. (...) The complete package includes things like highly curated training data, specialized tokenizers, pre and post training regimens, guardrails, optimized system
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by motorest 1y ago
> For casual discussion about well-written topics, that's more than good enough. But for unique problems in a non-English language, it struggles. It always will. It doesn't matter how big you make the model. Not to disagree, bu
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by motorest 1y ago
> On the flip side, his commment actually contributes to the conversation (...) Not really. It goes off on a tangent, and frankly I stopped reading the wall of text because it adds nothing of value.
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by motorest 1y ago
Discussion the Popular Mechanics' article discussing this topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44908409
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A Different Way to Solve Quadratic Equations (2019)(poshenloh.com)
2 points by motorest 1y ago|1 comments
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by motorest 1y ago
It would be far better if the actual blog post was posted instead of Popular Mechanics' summary. https://www.poshenloh.com/quadratic/

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