ramesh31

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by ramesh31 10mo ago
technically correct is the best kind. who cares if it's obnoxious? take the opinions and agree or disagree with them.
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What's your tooling look like? Favorite model?
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It's an apocryphal quote. "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Training on conversations like these are why the Skynet LLM will optimize us out of existence within moments of coming online.
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>It's probably fine--unless you care about self-improvement or taking pride in your work. I did, for a very long time. Then I realized that it's just work, and I'd like to spend my life minimizing the amount of that I do a
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>Whatever they do, they simply cannot win. I'm personally starting to suspect the main issue with Mozilla is its users. A lot of people remember the Mozilla of old, and are just completely depressed at the state of where it has ende
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>If you think eastern philosophical traditions have resulted in comparatively less consumerist desire in Asia, you’re in for a disappointment. I'm actually saying that Western philosophy won, even in eastern cultures today. Eastern
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This is the single biggest rub between eastern and western philosophical traditions. Of course we could all sit quietly on a pillow in zazen pose, minds blank, freeing ourselves of want and desire, living happily and peacefully with nothing
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>Has he made billions? He's obviously done well but I'm not sure he has been able to capture any value from openai except for publicity, and what else does he have? Forbes has him at $2.2bn, mostly from Reddit and Stripe https
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Burnout and disagreeing with leadership are something we all deal with. But don't quit your job folks. It's a real rookie move. Unless you have something rock solid lined up, you will become radioactive to any potential employers,
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by ramesh31 10mo ago
It really is remarkable compared to any other consumer good. My 2002 Corolla has cost $20 to fill up since it was brand new. The benefits of empire I guess.
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by ramesh31 10mo ago
It's depressing the state of modern (6/7) Civ given its lineage. Really it's a microcosm of the software industry in general. Half baked ideas poorly implemented and shipped with the intent of patching later on. To this day,
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>I say this with no snark or disdain: Sam has mastered the art of the flywheel. It's been his entire career. Guy has made billions of dollars from talking.
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Now open source Claude Code. It's silly to have it in this semi-closed obfuscated state, that does absolutely nothing to stop a motivated reverse engineering effort, but does everything to slow down innovation.
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by ramesh31 11mo ago
>This is missing a "if variable equals" imho. This is exactly what it does not need. SASS style conditional CSS is a complete nightmare to maintain. The declarative nature is one of its greatest strengths.
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>"I hope more people choose the same until the working age tranch of purchasing power isn't as available as they'd like and prices have to drop." You just have to remember and keep in mind that the game is rigged. Hou
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>it's tough to imagine buying and then being on the hook for a mortgage without a job even with some savings Key thing to remember here is that you always have to live somewhere, even if you're laid off. Unless you're read
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>"allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices." Key phrase there. You should already be treating any employer provided device as completely compromised. Never do anything on those that you woul
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>"if you can rent cheaply enough for 10-20 years the boomers will start dying in sufficient numbers that if there is somehow no reversion on home prices in the mean time there should be insufficient buyers at that point and prices w
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by ramesh31 11mo ago
>Even then I question max 401k - time works for the young and so a maxed 401k makes for too much money in retirement and not enough to enjoy now. Except the 401k is so tax advantaged that you are foolish to not use it as your basis for f
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by ramesh31 11mo ago
> turning in 1000's of job apps struggling to find a job This is the entire problem. It's called job hunting , not job fishing. I.e. you should be seeking out specific exact positions that you know are worthwhile and tailoring
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by ramesh31 11mo ago
>The correct answer to that question is "they don't Read the list and try to find a single non-WASP family: https://www.forbes.com/families/list/
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Go back a few generations for just about every wealthy family in the US, and it's nothing but slave (or highly exploitative) labor building on land and resources stolen from the indians. It's the uncomfortable answer behind the qu
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>Yes, but the machine itself is deterministic and logically sound. Because arithmetic itself, by definition, is. Human language is not. Which is why being able to talk to our computers in natural language (and have them understand us and
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Strongly considering the upgrade at this point. Incredible what they've done with the hardware, but my EON Gold has been running thousands of miles for years now without issue. Would like to get the trade-in discount but I hate to give
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I've come to cease all "inquiry" type usage of LLMs because of this. You really can't trust anything they say at all that isn't verified by a domain expert. But I can let it write code for me, and the proof is in
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>Maybe the entire purpose of OpenAI was to suck all the inflation the US government created on the last decade and burn it out in a huge bonfire at the end of its life. This has seriously crossed my mind as well. Like we've reached
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>"It doesn't matter, the real benchmark is taking the community temperature on the model after a few weeks of usage." Indeed. It's almost impossible to truly know a model before spending a few million tokens on a real
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by ramesh31 11mo ago
>What prepares one to read Finnegan's wake? Listening to Joyce read it aloud: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M8kFqiv8Vww&pp=ygUcam95Y2UgcmV... . I had so much trouble trying to read him before understanding the in
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by ramesh31 11mo ago
Just another data point to the unbelievable strategic failure of MS in ceding the mobile market so early on. Imagine a world where we had portable devices capable of natively playing Direct3D games from the beginning.

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