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by pkdpic 4y ago
I'm hoping that's the unstated underlying opinion the wider dev community is operating on. That's enough to satisfy me.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
But for who? Jeff bezos? The Yang Gang UBI?
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Ask HN: What's the end-goal with AI again?
4 points by pkdpic 4y ago|10 comments
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by pkdpic 4y ago
> I think it might be worth partnering with someone who specializes in community building, then. Curious if anyone has any concrete experience on what this step looks like / how thats done. And for whatever it's worth I agree o
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Those responses are really illuminating thank you. And thank you for being a kind, clean and respectful neighbor.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
0. I'm sincerely sorry to hear about your mental health situation and the effect its had. 1. What has your experience been with shelters / housing programs and / or mental health assistance programs? 2. What factors keep you
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I don't think thats coming off as particularly cynical. Feels like the cynicism would come from not following this kind of advice and getting resentful/ burning out. Anyway thats all really excellent advice thank you for taking th
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Ooh nice. Thats a good one : )
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Ask HN: Any advice before starting my first real dev job?
10 points by pkdpic 4y ago|21 comments
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by pkdpic 4y ago
That was solid.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Good points. Makes me think that picking on chatgpt as a target for ai resistance seems silly since its the most public but almost certainly not the most powerful llm. I'm imagining some cabal of elite string-pulling shadow masters shr
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Yeah this is all making me wonder why we're looking for a singular dominant culture to which there are one or more counter-cultures. Pretty sure one of the canonized characteristics of post-modernity (or the post-cold war era if you do
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by pkdpic 4y ago
After reading three of these I decided to just start listening to the audiobook of iWoz. Free on my library app. Very cool description of his excellently nerdy childhood. Especially if you're a parent his dad relationship seems like so
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Great piece, it seems to have produced a couple of non-ai-augmented thoughts... 1. When ambitious young cooks / farmers etc set out to make a name for themselves in the food industry, I don't get the impression they're rushin
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Not to diminish anyone's appreciation for OpenAI's increasingly performance-art level Orwellian name but I have found myself believing that their preference would still be to secure funding that would allow them to live up to the
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I completely agree but one unfortunate reality I've noticed as a still-active dvd collector / aficionado is where the heck to buy them. $4+ on ebay for an 80% chance low-res bootleg stopped working for me 3ish years ago and I stil
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Seriously beautiful, well done.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Hugging face has everything you need to get started with stable diffusion textual inversion training here. It's awesome to get it running but as others have said it has limitations if you're trying to get multiple images for a nar
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I'm pretty sure I agree with you 100% but as I write this I'm wondering how different an upvote is from a like button... Also wondering if there was a pre-internet social equivalent of a like button. Maybe there wasn't one. I
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Stable Diffusion Cave Paintings(astronaut.horse)
2 points by pkdpic 4y ago|0 comments
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Come back to the US! Get a Tinder account and go to a software dev bootcamp! I had tons of bootcamp students in their 40s trying to get back into the workforce after long breaks and it worked for them. And 40s isnt too old too old to start
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Sidenote, you don't sound like a failed artist to me man. You sound like someone who survived the art machine and worked hard to make a smart career transition capable of supporting whatever kind of art you want to make. PS I did the s
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Mind blown by all this. > But why base-60, 360 degrees in a circle, 7 days in a week, etc.? All from Sumer around 2500 BC (Wilson), and inherited by the Babylonians. > The Sumerians were great innovators in matters of time. It is to t
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by pkdpic 4y ago
> Weaving the Web by Tim BL > Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Liu Cixin > The Unix O'Reilly Guide All quick entertaining reads. All written by software engineers. All utterly useless for managing state in your React apps.
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by pkdpic 4y ago
That's a really interesting point, and it makes me realize that the Nancy Reagan 'what constitutes porn' question is obviously super old and problematic. Also lexica.art is swarming with celebrity fantasy porn that just has a
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I think it's a great idea regardless of practicality / implementation which I think is generally understood to be largely a matter of time, money and hardware. I feel like you write it up so the idea gets out there or you can pitc
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I watched GPT solve a leetcode the other day with excellent comment annotations. Wondering how AI refactoring might fit into cleaning up sloppy codebases... Seems like something I should have already thought to try... Also haven't comp
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Am I the only one who read the title of this post and had the knee-jerk reaction of "good"? The articles point seems to have its flaws and maybe the main point is that mastodon will be ruined not saved from ruin by the scaling pro
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by pkdpic 4y ago
I started undergrad as an engineering major in 2005 and I remember [somehow] thinking very clearly that programming was fun and interesting but would be a self-indulgent thing to study since it was just for making fun websites and video gam
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by pkdpic 4y ago
Agreed, I would have really liked the paintings by themselves with minimal context. But this kind of pretentious artíst archetype seems like its designed to alienate most people from visual art rather than invite them in. And even though I

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