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by npunt 4mo ago
If it's a constant offset like you say, and given academia publishes and industry often doesn't, that might suggest it's dependent on the rate of advancement in academic research. Not in this field so I may be wildly off.
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by npunt 4mo ago
I feel like AI coding is accelerating everyone's work toward greater solution complexity and I think it's pushing people to build defenses and be more averse to someone else's complexity rather than being impressed by it. Big
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by npunt 4mo ago
This argument at its logical extreme would be that we should grow slop in vats because that takes less land to feed people. Agree that climate and biodiversity are two very important factors, but there's others. Health effects (e.g. qu
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by npunt 4mo ago
Cracks in the voice are so visceral. One I love is in the Rolling Stone's Gimme Shelter, Merry Clayton is just about screaming and her voice cracks and they kept the band's cheering reaction to it on the record [1]. Truly a case o
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by npunt 4mo ago
Sure the first first ones, but hedonic adaptation happens pretty quickly. If you watched a movie in the theaters and then got a VHS copy to watch on your TV at home, you'd notice the difference, especially if it was a well-worn copy. I
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by npunt 4mo ago
We all want what we don't have. Back in the day we were desperate for a clearer picture and found these artifacts annoying. We longed for an alternate reality that was as crisp as our own. Nowadays folks that didn't experience the
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by npunt 4mo ago
Time to wheel out one of my favorite quotes about the signature of a medium: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital vid
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by npunt 4mo ago
> Cool man, but it might surprise you to find out that people knowingly opt into receiving this stuff and actually consent to it. Consent is more than pressing 'Allow' on a notification pop-up. It's often not even informed
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by npunt 4mo ago
The generations system in III was amazing. I didn't care that the art wasn't top notch, I loved the game and seeing the story over three generations. Decades later I wound up making a storytelling game mostly based on it.
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by npunt 4mo ago
Comes just a few days after the death of Dick Parry, Pink Floyd's saxophonist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Parry
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by npunt 5mo ago
Bringing your own cup is also healthier, because paper cup linings are made of plastic that when exposed to hot liquids are likely to turn into microplastics. My rule is: 1) keep hot stuff away from plastic, and 2) assume everything is&#x2F
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by npunt 5mo ago
Public relations for mil spending
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by npunt 5mo ago
I did this calculation a bit ago and don't think frontier models are just a few MacBook Pro generations away. Yes numbers reliably go up in tech in general but in specific semiconductors & standards have long lead-times and publish
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by npunt 6mo ago
Wake up sheeple! Oh.. uh hold on a second... removes anesthesia mask from patient Wake up sheeple!
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by npunt 6mo ago
At least this gives kids the chance to be kids and know a life without it before they encounter it. Many of us grew up in the offline-is-default time, but our cohort will age out. Then we’ll only be left with people who grew up with these t
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by npunt 6mo ago
Please. At best HN has a very small subset of the problems in social media, and its positives easily outweigh its negatives. This is a well moderated forum with a lot of bright people and industry experts that a young person could learn fro
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by npunt 6mo ago
Totally. Today’s social media is not the same as last years etc. Read Meta’s quarterly reports and they brag about Reels increasing time spent on site by 30% in a year. That’s not even considering the other ill effects like giving kids a fi
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by npunt 6mo ago
Yeah engineering as a discipline tends to be pretty naïve to the consequences of what they build, and sociopaths take advantage of it. Norbert Wiener [1] observed this about the engineers working on nukes in the 1940s-1950s: “Push-button wa
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by npunt 6mo ago
Yeah tho most customers never even encounter that level of detail. Most people just know there’s a ‘new one’ and an ‘old one’. If they have an old one, they come in and get a new one. Everyone replaces on their own replacement schedule, and
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by npunt 6mo ago
Agree about psychological impact outpacing likely actual impact, but that’s a relatively temporary phenomena as we are all adapting to the new way things work. Productivity wise employment is far more than code production productivity in a
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by npunt 6mo ago
No particular opinion on this change, but generally pricing is a great way to separate dabblers from serious users. There isn’t a great deal of value in dabblers or what they produce, I imagine that training data isn’t worth much relative
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by npunt 6mo ago
Basically. Tim is the ablative heat shield.
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by npunt 6mo ago
Especially when ads win out over UX. Just a month ago I searched for UPS locations in Google Maps and filtered by open, and one place nearby popped up. I put the package in my car and drove over and lo and behold they were closed. When face
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by npunt 6mo ago
You want to be careful about who your customers are, and what they will do to you as an organization. Enterprise customers create enterprise teams create enterprise culture creates enterprise rot. Apple is wise to play to their strategic po
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by npunt 6mo ago
To be fair, a PE <10 didn't even represent the ground truth of customer's relationship to Apple at the time. In hindsight we have a lot more information, but in that era there was still a lingering question of whether their iPh
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by npunt 6mo ago
This is a really good take. This is absolutely not software's stable era, we're in for a rough next decade as AI upends every well-established software practice and the very paradigms we've relied on for so long of apps, OS,
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by npunt 6mo ago
Tim Cook really set John Ternus up to succeed as incoming CEO. Apple has a huge constituency that needs to be reassured about this change: customers, fans/developers, wall street, and global political leaders. These are HUGE stakes and
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by npunt 6mo ago
Apple plays the 'it's the best for most people' game, not the 'technically ahead in [one or a few feature categories]' game. They make the lion's share of profit in the categories they compete in because they s
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by npunt 6mo ago
Bad take. Each of these offered novel user experience improvements at launch. Yes they leveraged ecosystem (and yes I agree ecosystem lock-in does move devices) but thats also exactly what unlocked the better UX. In your other thread you me
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by npunt 6mo ago
and dropbox was just rsync

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