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by onion2k 1y ago
Large enough repos don't fit on a single machine. I don't believe any human can understand a problem if they need to fit the entire problem blem domain in their head, and the scope of a domain that doesn't fit on a computer
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by onion2k 1y ago
The course notes for MITs Statistics For Applications are online, so you can learn all you need to know what you need and to write the right prompts! Right? Consultants prove their value in knowing which screw needs to be tightened, not in
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by onion2k 1y ago
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." Bill Gates
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by onion2k 1y ago
Having spent a long time in tech and worked with a lot of people I've realised there are two sorts of people who are "imposters". There are those who have BS'd their way up and are in a role where they're out of the
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by onion2k 1y ago
It's nothing to do with quality. It's prioritization. Companies pick things they think people want (or what the team wants to build) without testing or experimenting with users and data. This is actually an example of the proble
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by onion2k 1y ago
I think there's a lot of developers who can ace a live-coding interview but who lack the understanding of engineering systems at scale so they'll make your whole codebase worse over time by introducing tech debt, anti-patterns, an
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by onion2k 1y ago
Truchet tiling is a staple of the shader community - https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=Truchet A particularly nice example - https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4td3zj And a nice '3D' one -
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by onion2k 1y ago
I'm not so sure about that. Specifically in the case of PowerPoint (or decks in general really) distilling ideas down to 4 bullet points that are 6 words each means you lose a lot of detail. People will fill those gaps with their own
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by onion2k 1y ago
Consumers pick _largely_ based on cost and features, with a things like brand, ethics, and environment coming second. However, consumers can only pick an option from choices they've heard of. Advertising is about getting into the list
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by onion2k 1y ago
At that point consumers would be free to make a choice to switch away from Apple if they value their privacy enough. The problem right now is that Apple is 'abusing' the fact that privacy-aware consumers are drawn to their platfor
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by onion2k 1y ago
2012! is a very long way in the future.
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by onion2k 1y ago
Here in the UK we have several campaigns for reducing 'street clutter', which includes excessive use of road signs.
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by onion2k 1y ago
Imagine if Tesla had been able to stop Andrej Karpathy working at Open AI just by spending 1/3 of what his salary was when he was on Autopilot. That sounds like a terrible idea.
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by onion2k 1y ago
None of that is the fault of Javascript, it's on the people building them. This is logically correct, but I don't think it's true in the spirit of the argument. Browsers makes it very easy to deploy a broken website. They
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by onion2k 1y ago
This is the 'no true Scotsman' argument. "Websites that use JS are terrible and broken." "Your website uses a ton of JS." "JS is fine in my case. It's all those other websites that are broken!" Y
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by onion2k 1y ago
Saying JS broke the web when your website loads 754kB of JS across 13 separate requests makes me wonder if you're very serious about the problem.
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by onion2k 1y ago
In a generalized sense, sure. There's both a strong correlation and a proven causation that drugs and domestic abuse go hand in hand across the prison population. However, on any individual case the same is not true, because that moves
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by onion2k 1y ago
The most common way this is done is by parsing the font and generating the SDF fields on the fly (usually using Troika - https://github.com/protectwise/troika/blob/main/packages/tro... ). It slows do
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by onion2k 1y ago
more of the money will come from the corporations If there was a decent chance that private investment by corporations in cancer research would turn a profit then they'd be doing it already, and paying researchers far more than unive
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by onion2k 1y ago
Google didn’t make books obsolete. I don't think anyone expected it to make all books obsolete, but you'd struggle to buy an encyclopaedia that isn't for kids these days.
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by onion2k 1y ago
Doesn't that depend on what you mean by "shave ms loading a page"? If you're optimizing for time to first render, or time to visually complete, then you need to render the page using as little logic as possible - sending
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by onion2k 1y ago
In most professional industries getting to the right answer is only half the problem. You also need to be able to demonstrate why that is the right answer. Your answer has to stand up to criticism. If your answer is essentially the output
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by onion2k 1y ago
I wouldn't hold my breath for a petahertz one anytime soon. That depends on what you mean by 'processor'. Optical systems are great at linear processing, but terrible at nonlinearity. You wouldn't want an optical pro
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by onion2k 1y ago
The literal argument here is fine - using a notebook is antiquated and we have better tools. But the sentiment holds true. When you're building software designing good code is the most fundamentally important aspect of your job. All
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by onion2k 1y ago
That assumes that every problem can be solved with money, and that the money (or the PRs the money funds) will be welcomed by the community. By talking about what OpenAI needs Bohan is hopefully starting a conversation with the community in
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by onion2k 1y ago
It looks more playful and less professional. That's intentional. Google's UX research is telling them that's what users (between 18 and 34 specifically) want more of.
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by onion2k 1y ago
Too many smart people work on these pointless projects instead of useful tech that benefits society. Hindsight is 20/20. In the early days of crypto the promise of decentralized finance outside of the scrutiny of governments and fina
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by onion2k 2y ago
we somehow hate leisure We don't hate leisure. Everyone loves their leisure. What we hate is each other . Unless people are able to accept someone else getting a free ride (even when they're not getting one themselves), some
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by onion2k 2y ago
Build something that works and that doesn't need a person to be around to support it. Or just don't offer support. :)
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by onion2k 2y ago
Would that actually be very much for any particular item? Amazon is a business whose success is due to scaling a very small profit on billions of transactions rather than making very much on any particular sale.

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