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penjelly
3y ago
mostly its the willingness to listen and learn, plus they have to have demonstrated some ability to code, either via github, or in person conversations reveal their knowledge quickly.
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penjelly
3y ago
nobody said thats the only argument Ilya had, but the points from scott alexander are legitimate and could be addressed even before hiring scott on or having an academic paper written.
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penjelly
3y ago
> i sleep while I race along the tracks towards my destination. I don’t have a place to retreat to. many people pay specifically for place to retreat to
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penjelly
3y ago
everytime i boot a Linux based disco on hardware for the first time im always blown away that some of the greatest multitools of mankind are free and available in minutes
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penjelly
3y ago
anecdotally i know of people who bring their laptops to bed for tv/movies
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penjelly
3y ago
the same applies to both sides of the political spectrum
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penjelly
3y ago
it feels perverse that their pay could be inversely proportional to how much they prevent other people from getting.
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penjelly
3y ago
its nuts how much these devices will be able to learn about us. User privacy will have to change if they can spatially map out your bedroom, your body and your movements.
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penjelly
3y ago
nuance is beautiful
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penjelly
3y ago
i find the inline suggestions of copilot distracting in any but the most mundane of cases. I know you can disable them but it still feels like it should be enabled instead of hotkeyed
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penjelly
3y ago
ya this made it unreadable for me.
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penjelly
3y ago
a big step towards making these systems less opaque
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penjelly
3y ago
> Today I'm signed up to become a specialist for allergies and food intolerance, in the hopes to find something that works not a doctor and this isnt medical advice. It may be low stomach acid if you struggle with digestion? Non-sc
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3y ago
> GPT-5 has to be incredibly good at this point, and I'm not sure that it will be. My guess is it isnt, these systems are hard to trust, and the rhetoric "were aiming for AGI" suggests to me that they know this and AGI mig
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penjelly
3y ago
thanks my bad. i didnt see that and yeah its batshit insane
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penjelly
3y ago
> A teenage girl can dead 405? I bet you have a lot of friends :). i think you mean 225, my example number was not OPs starting number.
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penjelly
3y ago
not to be pedantic but > and I was working my deadlift reps towards 225 lbs—four plates, in meathead parlance.[1] in meathead talk that means 2 plates, because they typically count one side only. at least in my experience thats always be
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penjelly
3y ago
how would you recommend a software dev break into the industry over the next 3-5 years? Preferably without going back to university. What sorts of projects are best to focus on initially?
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penjelly
3y ago
i think youd find your senses thouroughly overwhelmed by such an "unlimited window" space, instead youd find "go to definition" and reading a 1 (or 2) pages of code at at a time far more useful in the end....
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penjelly
3y ago
> At least right now, it seems only a little more uncomfortable than wearing over-ear headphones for long periods of time. This might not apply to everyone, but I have not felt nauseous once while wearing it. i find this pretty hard to b
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penjelly
3y ago
its most definitely not utilizing mixed reality to its advantage. No difference between laying in bed with a vr headset.
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penjelly
3y ago
i dont follow... even if its trained anc doesnt use search isnt the act of it deciding the next move a sortof search anyway based off its training? Ive heard people describe LLMs as extremely broad search, basically attempting to build worl
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penjelly
3y ago
i find it amusing if you were to use it for p*rn, apple would basically have a full scan of ur private regions
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3y ago
> So is that it? I know the job market is tough right now, but have I snookered myself and made myself unemployable for working too effectively during my last role? No? maybe youre looking in the wrong places though, and possibly tho unl
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penjelly
3y ago
i agree. what is starTAK and dynaTAK? my searches arent revealing anything
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3y ago
searches say over 20 million meta quests 1-3 sold and tech reporting already claims quest "has gone mainstream" back in 2021, so i dont think your point holds up. What has apple done that meta has not here? My view is Meta has do
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penjelly
3y ago
watching a movie in VR networked with other people is something i did 3 years ago with the valve index, and yes it was immersive and enjoyable. This isnt unique to apple vision, we should all realize that.
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3y ago
> Guess we could think of the Giza Pyramids as a counter-example. Plenty of religious monuments got built on the bones of slaves. im not arguing it they died during construction. My point is that a lot of them were undoubtedly proud of t
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3y ago
consider also, games must be built with handtracking for it to work, controllers wont suffice. So not all vr games even if they do open it up.
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> I’m confused by the enthusiasm. Have we all forgot that we’ve been through this “virtual desktop” cycle already? yeah i dont get the hype, almost everything here should be possible with the quest 3 for 1/10th of the price. Plus yo
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