nmfisher

48 ms·

661.
by nmfisher 5y ago
It's more that, if "amateurs"/volunteers can replicate this, it means OpenAI doesn't have much of a moat. (OK, I admit that it wouldn't have been possible without Google's donated TPUs. But the cost isn&#x
662.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I moved to Singapore from Australia about 18 months ago. I’m still struggling to cope with the heat (or more accurately, the humidity). I still exercise outside regularly, but only after dark. Admittedly, I seem to live in a hot part of tow
663.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I think the point was more that many people can’t write unit tests because their code is so shoddy that it’s basically impossible to do so. It sounds like you and I share a similar methodology. I don’t write unit tests for all my code. In f
664.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I love Bash too, but using it daily is probably more inertia than anything else. Some things are just downright horrible (for the life of me, I can never remember associative array syntax off the top of my head) but it's just so good w
665.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I actually don't think there's much of a moat here at all. GitHub repositories are open for the taking, GPT-XXX is cloneable (mostly, anyway) and VS Code is extensible. They definitely have a good head-start, but I really don&#x27
666.
by nmfisher 5y ago
Yes, I’m very much the same. Windows 10 has been getting on my nerves for some time now, and the TPM requirement is the nail in the coffin, I’ll be switching to Linux desktop for my primary machines.
667.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I keep seeing this argument cropping up and it’s really not a useful comparison. If you buy a share, you generally buy (a) a vote that you can use to kick out the board and replace them with someone who will pay a dividend, and (b) a shar
668.
by nmfisher 5y ago
Yeah, the UK isn’t really Europe...
669.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I've really wanted to move into this direction too. What's the remaining 15%?
670.
by nmfisher 5y ago
+1 for ngrok, totally worth the $80 a year (or whatever it is I shell out).
671.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I'm really not sure that's true. I don't know exactly how many were built, but Melbourne (Australia) added a lot of CBD apartments and the price continued to shoot up. Those were overwhelmingly tiny/cheap/low-qual
672.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I assume if you have a loan of $100,000 secured against an asset worth $1 million that appreciates 10% each year, you can basically continue rolling over the loan. As long as the asset value doesn’t drop, you never have to actually repay th
673.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I agree, I don’t see why income tax couldn’t be levied on any amount greater than $X borrowed/secured by an asset as collateral. For all intents and purposes, it is income and should be taxed as such.
674.
by nmfisher 5y ago
Those bonuses are then taxed too, which should give you a hint why corporate tax is a bit daft to begin with. Corporate tax is, by and large, a fiction to placate voters. It could (should?) be replaced with a more flexible system that isn&#
675.
by nmfisher 5y ago
The dirty secret is that, despite what they may claim, venture capitalists aren’t good at picking winners, nor do they need to be. The real skill is in (a) raising funds from LPs, and (b) creating a wide enough deal funnel to service it. Th
676.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I don’t think Dropbox are GAAP profitable either, I was looking at their financials a couple of weeks ago.
677.
by nmfisher 5y ago
On the flipside, I’m an otherwise adventurous eater but I simply can’t stand the taste of fish sauce. It’s why I now mostly avoid Thai food as a whole, the fish sauce is nauseating and overpowering.
678.
by nmfisher 5y ago
Apple will stop making the iPhone? That's crazy talk. It's literally their most successful product line ever .
679.
by nmfisher 5y ago
If Tesla actually did not sell its BTC holdings, then today's plunge could have seriously affected its quarterly earnings (I'm not 100% sure how the accounting works, but they may have had to revalue their BTC holdings which would
680.
by nmfisher 5y ago
That’s exactly the thought I have. I have a feeling it would be truly bizarre to sit down and talk to my mum or dad through this.
681.
by nmfisher 5y ago
Is there a paper or other blog post that goes along with this to explain the Lamda architecture? Otherwise this is mostly marketing fluff.
682.
by nmfisher 5y ago
The reality of the current world is that a lot of people feel exactly like that , so you're unlikely to convince them to change their behaviour. Rather than deny that reality, you're better off working with it to produce more, bu
683.
by nmfisher 5y ago
This is an interesting dynamic I noticed when living in China, too. There are no "good" or "bad" areas, only "rich" and "poor". If you're a student/minimum-wage worker who can only afford t
684.
by nmfisher 5y ago
Yeah, this is admittedly a serious issue. If anyone hasn’t seen it, install Google Pay on iOS and go through the signup/intro screens. The lag is awful (and I say this as someone whose app in built on Flutter). I know it’s only a “firs
685.
by nmfisher 5y ago
Anyone got experience with both RN and Flutter willing to chime in on how they compare? So far I've been fairly satisfied with Flutter, however there are some glaring performance issues (though it sounds like these will be addressed in
686.
by nmfisher 5y ago
Bear in mind that I've written almost no Java since 8, so this may well be out-of-date. With that in mind, though, the biggest gripe I have, by far, is its needless verbosity. It always feels like I need a huge amount of boilerplate an
687.
by nmfisher 5y ago
Compare writing Java professionally with writing Kotlin professionally. It's like night and day. Same projects, same VM, all that's different is the language. Distaste for Java isn't elitism or arrogance, it's just that
688.
by nmfisher 5y ago
It kind of has, at least as a mainstream music genre. What passes for rap (or hip hop) in 2020 is far removed from the golden era of the 80s and 90s.
689.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I've always seen "EDM" as the bastardization of electronic music by the American festival scene in the late 2000s. That's not a knock on the USA as a whole (a lot of garage/acid can be traced back to Detroit house a
690.
by nmfisher 5y ago
I love this. That kind of genuine curiosity and passion is what’s needed to really teach people to embrace maths.

More ›