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by nwienert 4y ago
> Isn't every "new style" just a novel combination of pre-existing concepts? At the extreme limit, maybe. But within art or even digital art, then new styles are actually not that rare, humans are pretty good at generating
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by nwienert 4y ago
Dall-e has novelty, but no intent, meaning, originality. Yes the author can be creative at generating prompts, but visually I haven’t seen it generate anything that feels artistically interesting. If you want pre-existing concepts in novel
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by nwienert 4y ago
The interesting part is that the car stopped instead of moving out of the way. A human has an instinct to avoid collisions that evidently is absent in their model. The question is how long is the long tail, and how hard is it to instill com
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Self-Driving Cruise Taxi Crashes with Passengers on Board(thedrive.com)
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by nwienert 4y ago
Facebook and Twitter absolutely did, immediately. Reddit and basically all of the media did too. Can’t find evidence if Google did, but given they suppress far less spicy things already + their automatic upranking of all MSM sources means d
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by nwienert 4y ago
There’s always a price, you just may not pay directly.
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by nwienert 4y ago
I moved from GitHub to Buildkite for my side project because it builds a ton of stuff and I was waiting a lot for CI. With Buildkite I set up a 40/mo Hertzner box with a ton of power, getting about 20x throughput for the price. Not aff
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by nwienert 4y ago
It’s disheartening - you have good intentions but almost everything you say is backwards. Regulation on Apple only is the opposite of encouraging competition, it’s literally calling shots against the only fighter that’s pushing back on Chro
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by nwienert 4y ago
When you develop in Chrome of course you’ll feel like bugs only exist in other engines. Developing on Safari it feels like the opposite. A few years ago I’d have agreed somewhat, but Safari has accelerated considerably and improved wrt stan
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by nwienert 4y ago
Wow, explains a lot. It’s such a shortsighted position for a browser - it’s one of the only platforms that literally can’t have breaking changes, and they want to bloat it even more? The entire problem with the web is they keep adding hig
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by nwienert 4y ago
Switched to Safari a couple years ago and haven’t looked back. Chrome feels like a dinosaur and I miss it only for the dev tools. Sorry to break it to you, but Safari is the better browser. I’m glad they limit the engine choice. At least a
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by nwienert 4y ago
Zappos and others have done it (Zappos did it better, even), but most were sucked up or forced out by Amazon as it had all the momentum. That's exactly being in the right place at the right time.
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by nwienert 4y ago
AWS wasn't Bezos, it was a whole squad of Amazon execs and employees and an idea that formed over a long time period through many people, if anything it proves the opposite point that he deserves outsize rewards. The rest of the succes
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by nwienert 4y ago
Also just something interesting to do. And it’s fun to lead, and get press, and make hard decisions.
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by nwienert 4y ago
We don’t really know how impressive it is, a lot of founders made it huge in that golden time period even for terrible ideas that died shortly after, and network effects always crown one or two as massively disproportionate winners in each
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by nwienert 4y ago
It’s always the case in the US, but certainly not the case in many other places.
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by nwienert 4y ago
To bruce511 - The type of populace that willingly disarms themselves is the same populace that willingly accepts totalitarian lockdowns. In America, if the government had tried anything near that, there'd have been riots immediately. A
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by nwienert 4y ago
Those protocols were developed without government mandate.
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by nwienert 4y ago
The tamagui base starter repo is a monorepo with typescript, react native and web all working together[0] which you can get running with by simply doing: npx create-tamagui-app@latest [0] https://github.com/tamagui/star
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by nwienert 4y ago
It's hard to read articles with this unabashed of a tone, feels like much of the company's own claims are uncritically re-printed.
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by nwienert 4y ago
Again in terms of productivity: safety (huge), money savings (huge), literal speed (yes, it's faster A to B), productive activities possible during driving / due to the comfort of driving / due to tech like GPS (...huge) as..
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by nwienert 4y ago
No, he said today they wouldn't reach it.
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by nwienert 4y ago
Last I used them (last year) their postgres offering, even scaled up to larger nodes, was significantly slower than the cheapest DO offering. I filed a few issues but haven’t checked back since.
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by nwienert 4y ago
If Shaq lifts me up so I can dunk, you can say that I dunked, but in general it's more accurate to evaluate things under more normal circumstances.
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by nwienert 4y ago
> The main point though is that you don't accomplish more You said this is your main point, and I directly replied to that. Another point you made was that electronic signs at trams aren’t an improvement. I agree! Wholeheartedly. I
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by nwienert 4y ago
My perspective is quite the opposite, people travel to see each other way more, video chat way more, and we talk about more diverse and interesting stuff. They have more hobbies and more interesting hobbies (the internet has really exploded
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by nwienert 4y ago
Ok swap in a 22 Tacoma. You're arguing the specific when you should argue the general. Your second point is shifting the entire conversation to something else entirely.
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by nwienert 4y ago
It goes much faster (acceleration and confidence at high speeds), using half as much gas, at least 2x safety, while able to be more way productive while I drive, if I choose to (I mean I can call video call anyone at any time - show that to
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by nwienert 4y ago
> The main point though is that you don't accomplish more And I pointed out ~10 ways I do accomplish more because of it, refuting exactly the point. The rest of the comment cites a ridiculous one-off, narrow social science study w
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by nwienert 4y ago
Yea, actually it was fully restored by the previous owner who was a mechanic, new engine (and gaskets which were famous for exploding on those models), suspension and all. Under 100k miles too and the body was perfect, even interior was ama

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