onion2k

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by onion2k 2mo ago
That's what makes them good examples, because I'm not arguing in favor of AI. I'm pointing out that things are never universally good, and if you argue things should be shut down you should expect some of the things you like,
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by onion2k 2mo ago
Not right now, sure. The investment has been done over the last couple of centuries of golf course building. The environmental impact of keeping a huge amount of land watered so a few thousand people can bat their balls around is ongoing. F
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by onion2k 2mo ago
Now do Netflix and YouTube! How about golf courses, almond farming, and Disneyworld? Everything has a downside attached. Most things are terrible for the environment if you look at the raw numbers, and if you're not interested in the
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by onion2k 2mo ago
Maybe I'm being too cynical, but all the benefits in the video intro are either things that aren't benefits of the hardware (screen calls without looking, Gemini, tap less do more) or they're compensations for the foldable sc
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by onion2k 2mo ago
I'd accept a few hundred grand to reply to emails with "No, the torment nexus is a net benefit.."
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by onion2k 2mo ago
If you ask an LLM to give you a 500-word summary of quantum physics, it'll give you an oversimplification that probably leans on a hodgepodge of pop-sci metaphors. That's what you'd get if you asked a leading physicist too,
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by onion2k 2mo ago
Having done sales before, I can assure you that it's differently stressful rather than more stressful. Trying to sign a customer for a substantial booking is stressful, but so is deploying a complex change that you can't roll ba
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by onion2k 2mo ago
Engineers who find it distasteful should be happy to know engineers typically get way more equity than sales reps. That isn't true. Early sales employees ('customer success', 'technical sales', 'growth',
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by onion2k 2mo ago
Major open source projects are by and large starting to ban LLMs now, because the contributions made by LLM users have been universally terrible and unhelpful. There are two incentives for contributing to open source. The first is to make
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by onion2k 2mo ago
Cool project. A couple of years ago I was gifted "One-Plank Woodworking Projects" by Andy Standing for Christmas (which is great). It's a book of plans for things you can build with, obviously, one standard plank of wood. Tha
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by onion2k 2mo ago
I wrote a release train modelling app ( https://allaboard.ooer.com/ ) and it turned out so horribly complex and hard to use I'm building a general systems modelling app instead so I can rebuild the model in a nice text f
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by onion2k 2mo ago
"Number of locations" is an input so if the system has been designed to handle up to 10, and not 100, then yes I would absolutely expect it to fail with the higher value. Developers (and everyone else really) need to think about s
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by onion2k 2mo ago
If a game is so hard that the player gives up, they won't buy your next game. That is an existential threat to your game studio. Worse though, if your game is deemed 'unfair' rather than just 'hard', then even the h
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by onion2k 2mo ago
90% of code wouldn't pass a basic audit, let alone any sort of regulatory scrutiny. Developers are building the easy version most of the time.
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by onion2k 2mo ago
He may well be right, but 'more work' is rarely the answer. The key is doing 'the right work'. In my experience of AI so far, it's really easy to just 'do more', but there's also very little value in
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by onion2k 2mo ago
I think the comments here are taking this comment as being about how salaries are too high, or how it's daft to suggest people shouldn't chase the best paying role available to them. I suspect that isn't really what Dario m
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by onion2k 2mo ago
Baking the base models on to ROM makes a lot of economic sense. Less so for consumers though, because it'd mean the phone is out of date in 3 months when a better model comes along.
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by onion2k 2mo ago
People will always want something to gatekeep their chosen field. Code went away, so now people need to be able to say if the machine wrote good code. In a year or two people won't be able to use that because the code will be measura
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by onion2k 2mo ago
While that's undoubtedly true, the level of trolling varies a lot so I don't think it's quite as simple as "if people can troll then they will." There's a crazy level of trolling on 4chan, quite a lot on Reddit
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by onion2k 2mo ago
Not buying it. In the end, OpenAI will throw these people under the bus and settle out. I think you're right, but let's not forget that Apple's goal isn't to protect themselves or to get a fat payout here. Their goal i
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by onion2k 2mo ago
Every company does that. It's literally a whole industry: Public Relations
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by onion2k 2mo ago
I don't find three.js models/animations as indicative of anything other than the model's ability to write three.js code. This weekend I've been converting a game from three.js to ogl.js in order to see if I can optimis
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by onion2k 2mo ago
That question is essentially asked "Why can't we just upgrade all of our legacy systems that are more than 15 years old?" 15 years because anything running a network stack from 2011 probably doesn't support TLS1.3 unless
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by onion2k 2mo ago
It’s very hard to imagine Camus pieing off fighting for the French resistance or Hemingway staying home from the Spanish Civil War because they were satiated by their Funko Pop collections. It's a lot less hard to imagine a person wi
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by onion2k 2mo ago
China has a population 4 times bigger than the US, and the films you cite did roughly 4 times better in each example.
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by onion2k 3mo ago
I'll read this later.
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by onion2k 3mo ago
True, but at the same time if you're building an app the number of times when you think "I want to render this HTML without hooking it into the data store, other components on the page, data fetch layer, logging implementation,
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by onion2k 3mo ago
The airline industry since its birth has had a collective net loss, in aggregate, despite moving hundreds of millions of people. The industrialisation essentially socializes the cost across a lot more people though, so even though it does
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by onion2k 3mo ago
I watch a lot of people's sessions more than my own haha That's not a good thing if you want people to use your service.
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by onion2k 3mo ago
The ramifications are bleak if you're destined to become an employee . Students believe that AI can do their work for them, so they shouldn't be surprised if AI gets the job they wanted. On the other hand, these students are prov

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