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by pnathan 1y ago
Nikon is building in authenticity tooling at the camera & sensor level with its latest cameras. Z6iii I believe was the first.
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by pnathan 1y ago
The solution here is the Government regulating and managing the situation. It has been recognized for a century - if not more - that the onus is on the State. The FDA, FTC, EPA, etc should be involved here.
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by pnathan 1y ago
> I've been playing with the hypothesis that if information is controversial/surprising and targeted at laypeople, it is almost guaranteed to be misleading or outright false. This is my general perspective with history books -
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by pnathan 1y ago
The Body Keeps the Score is stuffed full of, essentially, woo. I assess it as being correct in noticing a lot of "smoke" around mind body connections. But I found almost all the causeual linkages to be "... really???". C
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by pnathan 1y ago
its an interesting concept.
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by pnathan 1y ago
I wonder how this plays out with Kaiser and other integrated practices.
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by pnathan 1y ago
It would be good to see the old english letters brought in. I particularly enjoy thorn.
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by pnathan 1y ago
I am running a lightweight experiment - I have a Java repo I am vibecoding from scratch essentially. I am effectively acting as a fairly pointy haired PM on it. The goal is to see what how far I can push the LLM. How good is it... really?
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by pnathan 1y ago
My chief thought about this deal is that Silver Lake ripped off the Skype employees with a claw back clause. Good luck to the EA workers.
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by pnathan 1y ago
Yes, the network effect and cumulative impact is profound. If I were to make a lightly educated guess - those who were teens in the 40s and 50s saw the world of their parents and their sacrifices, along with the totalitarianism of the USSR
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by pnathan 1y ago
I would concur. It's my observation from 20 years of watching and participating - the volunteers are the retired, the wealthy, the underemployed, and the stay at home parent. "Normal" working people are not volunteering and h
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by pnathan 1y ago
I personally have needed to sync something between 3 and 6 devices over the past 5 years on a daily/weekly basis. I invite you to figure out how to algorithmically figure this out in a general case without needing Git Merge levels of c
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by pnathan 1y ago
Yeah, that's what they said back then too. For those with ears, the old men always say the world is getting worse.
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by pnathan 1y ago
I've been happy with Anthropic models. I also have been using the Google models more, with decent results. The Copilot/OpenAI models don't seem to be as good as a rule of thumb, can't explain exactly why. Overall, I thin
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by pnathan 1y ago
It can be. But I would like the option to toggle to 'unfiltered unmemory'd unsafety'd LLM' to just get the straight answer.
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by pnathan 1y ago
I generally turn off memory completely. I want to have exact control over the inputs. To be honest, I would strip all the system prompts, training, etc, in favor of one I wrote myself.
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by pnathan 1y ago
The critique of modern websites is on point. Yet, I'm not convinced that Windows 95 is the right vibe. But it's better than many others. There's a lot of damage done by the GUI & design 'experts' who keep up wit
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by pnathan 1y ago
docker works well enough. podman avoids having to deal with the Purchasing department, but doesn't work great. would definitely suggest doing docker if you're up to dealing with the purchasing department.
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by pnathan 1y ago
I wonder what it would take to compile rust programs to run on Win 3.1. I don't know why you would, but, I wonder.
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by pnathan 1y ago
Async taints code, and async/await fall prey to classic cooperative multitasking issues. "What do you mean that this blocked that?" The memory and execution model for higher level work needs to not have async. Go is the canon
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by pnathan 1y ago
Run-rate revenue of 1b vs 3b. Those are big values. I am very curious about the GAAP numbers here.
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by pnathan 1y ago
I pay for intellij. I pay for Obsidian. I would pay for zed. The only path forward I see for a classic VC investment is the AI drive. But I don't think the AI bit is valuable. A powerful plugin system would be sufficient to achieve LLM
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by pnathan 1y ago
It's a question of the business model.
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by pnathan 1y ago
I'm pretty fast coding and know what I'm doing. My ideas are too complex for claude to just crap out. If I'm really tired I'll use claude to write tests. Mostly they aren't really good though. AI doesn't really
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by pnathan 1y ago
That's a fantastic counterpoint. I've found AI reviewers to be useful on a first pass, at a small-pieces level. But I hear your opinion!
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by pnathan 1y ago
I'm glad to see this. I'm happy to plan to pay for Zed - its not there yet but its well on its way - But I don't want essentially _any_ of the AI and telemetry features. The fact of the matter is, I am not even using AI featu
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by pnathan 1y ago
Public schools are also a de facto childcare, welfare, and healthcare delivery system. Education is only one facet of the modern public school system in today's society.
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by pnathan 1y ago
OP: You need to stop with the LinkedIn short paragraphs that try to reveal insight. It does you no good as a proponent of a good education to write so poorly. Anyway - Education is a very slow and difficult thing, because it is paired with
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by pnathan 1y ago
What a depressing read & sales pitch. I've spent a lot of time doing this sort of agentic coding and it's ... not great as your full time Thing. Much better for it to be auxiliary boost.
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by pnathan 1y ago
vis-a-vis running a roughly equivalent set of services cobbled together, its wildly low maintenance to the point of fire and forget. you do have to know what you're doing and not fall prey to the "install the cool widget" tra

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