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by preommr 4y ago
It's from the twitter thread by paul graham that the OC linked. It was a response to someone asking who dislikes Garry Tan, to which Paul Graham replied: "The extreme left in SF politics (which in SF = the Establishment)"[1]
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by preommr 4y ago
> The extreme left in SF politics (which in SF = the Establishment). ??? kind off topic, but I am curious what other people in SF think about this statement. I don't live there, but I find it surprising and dubious that the extreme
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by preommr 4y ago
Feels like we're burying the lede here focusing on firefox/chrome or having to login when it's really damned impressive that you have an entire video editor in the browser. So it seems like codec support allows viewing indivi
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by preommr 4y ago
It's $8 for me, the yearly sub is a 42% discount. Even at $15, that's pretty fair given that it's a tool that someone is going to use for their job or at least an involved hobby.
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by preommr 4y ago
> upper-middle class or rich. Upper middle class covers a lot of commonplace jobs like dentists, accountants, engineers, etc. Also you're leaving out lots of people that do come from even more humble origins like Steve Jobs, Oprah,
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by preommr 4y ago
The reduction in requirements is impressive, but the results are underwhelming. Midjourney seems to be the leader in producing the best looking results for now.
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by preommr 4y ago
> Its discriminatory because if you don't know someone you can be SOL. Thanks for explicitly explaining that part. Now that you've put it that way, it's a pretty apt term but I probably wouldn't have been able to figu
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by preommr 4y ago
> It took me about 6h to develop and iron out the edge cases. This is where you messed up. Set a hard limit of 1-2 hours, and mention edge cases in your comments and move on. It also depends on the stage of the interview. If you're
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by preommr 4y ago
2.5b seems like a drop in the bucket for what would essentialy revolutionize the world of transportation.
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by preommr 4y ago
> The claim is that it's actually much higher, say 25% Like the parent comment said, bot count was tied with methodology. So Musk can argue: 1) twitter is lying about the results of their methodology - highly unlikely 2) their metho
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by preommr 4y ago
I am a coward so I didn't want to be the first one to say it, but so many of these comments are so suspicious. The really positive ones seem to have like 1-2 karma.
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by preommr 4y ago
A really big problem with web app dev is that it covers a very broad area. Advice like not using libraries will have very polarized reactions (as evidenced by this thread) based on what kind of goals people are working on. Some react projec
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by preommr 4y ago
> I’ve never seen the signal to noise ratio anywhere this terrible for any other social media app. Is the tide finally turning? Even a few months ago people were making superlative claims about how insanely good tiktok's recommendat
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by preommr 4y ago
really? So many videos are just reaction videos, or doing trends which are the same concept (e.g. a dance, or challenge) just by different people. There's so much reptition, lots of creators that keep doing the same shtick because that
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by preommr 4y ago
> It's the science of thinking you'll be Google next week, There's other reasons to use K8s than just thinking of massive scale. Setting up environments becomes a massive PITA when working directly with VMs. The end resul
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by preommr 4y ago
My 2c: Start with basic k8s. Just getting a couple of apps deployed on a cluster with logging, scaling, pipelines takes ~ 2 weeks. Trying to rebuild that basic functionality using ad hoc solutions takes way more time and rapidly becomes mor
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by preommr 4y ago
> "What is AGI?" is becoming increasingly irrelevant. It's always been irrelevant in the practical sense. It's just an interesting conversation piece particularly among the general public where they're not going
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by preommr 4y ago
Very unlikely. Godot has those features because game devs often need to make UIs for the game e.g. menus, etc. A decent game engine has to have that kind of functionality. Godot dogfooding is not a good indicator of it's potential as a
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by preommr 5y ago
1. Quietly buy all the $10k - $50k range stuf 2. Sell to people trying to execute above strategy 3. buy lambos This IS financial advice and totally legit.
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by preommr 5y ago
Dude, this isn't 2015 anymore - Nvidia has a higher market cap than Meta. The days of Meta being a giant that can continously buyout other companies to keep stayling alive are coming to an end.
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by preommr 5y ago
obligatory xkcd about how standards proliferate
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by preommr 5y ago
I swear we're just going around in circles because people only have a surface level understanding of these front-end frameworks, and the challenges with building at scale. react isn't about 'hooks', 'jsx', &#x2
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by preommr 5y ago
> It's akin to eating a dog or cat (which might be acceptable in some parts of the world, but pretty shunned in the west). Why the tangent on eating dogs/cats when pigs are just as smart but widely consumed throught the western
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by preommr 5y ago
Did you just skip to it or did you watch it with audio and pay attention to what he's saying? Becaue he mentions that the difference might not be super obvious but still makes a pretty good case for it.
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by preommr 5y ago
> I consider trucks in US for non-contractor use to be frivolous, but I don't go around telling people those need to be banned. What does you not liking trucks have to do with the issue of putting limitations on mining crypto? Just
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by preommr 5y ago
$100 for what one (three?) years? Seriously? Forget the exorbitant tech salaries, so many other industries charge way more for essential equipment. That's chaper than a single snap-on wrench out of the hundreds that an automative shop
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by preommr 5y ago
I feel like this is more an issue of people talking past each other rather than having actual differences in opinion.
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by preommr 5y ago
Everyone noticed. What was less obvious was that electron would grow this big and still be this bad. How is the memory usage still so inefficient?
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by preommr 5y ago
two types of software: those that people complain about and those that nobody uses
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by preommr 5y ago
> StackOverflow runs on a couple of servers. K8s can as well. The difference is a bunch of servers running k8s or a bunch of servers running custom code to duplicate parts of k8s.

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