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by randusername 3mo ago
Nobody can tell you what to diversify into without information about what you are concentrated in. Sure, spread investments across stocks and bonds and treasuries from different markets. But you can also diversify more broadly beyond econom
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by randusername 3mo ago
Genuine questions from the ground floor: How do you spot the quality candidates in those top roles? It seems like forecasting success is exponentially harder when the skills are so qualitative and contextual. And I have not yet witnessed an
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by randusername 3mo ago
it has the electrolytes plants need
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by randusername 3mo ago
I find it hard to trust economic narratives when so many metrics cited upon further inspection do not really measure what they are implied to measure. Or maybe we measure what is easiest to measure, not what is best. I see this everywhere,
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by randusername 3mo ago
I thought there was a lot of buzz about AI creativity after the infamous move 37 in that series?
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by randusername 3mo ago
I bet there will be a very interesting generational divide between the kids that were born before or after about 2010; old enough to have some critical thinking facilities at the dawn of ChatGPT when it was still noticeably dumb.
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by randusername 3mo ago
Well estimates claim AI may contribute 50-75% of US GDP growth. Which is confusing because we're spending 2% of US GDP on AI. I wasted like a half hour trying to find decent sources but I guess I don't know how to search the int
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by randusername 3mo ago
What's the point of an IPO? Show problematic institutional investors the door and replace them with disorganized public investors? Attract talent? Seems like if the company is really doing great you'd want to retain ownership. Rai
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by randusername 3mo ago
IMO audiobooks and physical books are an identical experience for passive reading, but not for active reading. So audiobook genre fiction is reading, but audiobook War and Peace or audiobook The C Programming Language doesn't count
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by randusername 3mo ago
> And I think that’s the biggest danger of AI. You convince yourself that you are doing something useful when you are not. Building technology to overcome relatable hardships and frictions is a worthy challenge full of meaning. Using s
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by randusername 3mo ago
TFA has an odd perspective. > Views are my own. I have no history with Zig. I’ve never spoken to Andrew Kelley There are better primary sources to explain what ZSF is trying to achieve with its AI stance. Kelley's rant [0] was a bit
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by randusername 3mo ago
Yeah, hard to imagine opposing AI absolutists settling their differences. IMO all the technical arguments and attacks are post-rationalization; different orgs, different contexts, different goals. I think Kelley saw this, but couldn't
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by randusername 3mo ago
Apple does like to market their hardware for education and small business customers, though. I think "buy this $10,000 box and to easily grant every Macbook Neo on your team safe, private, free AI" could be a real winner.
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by randusername 3mo ago
I hope this isn't the takeaway! Zig was the right tool to start, Rust is the right tool to finish. Making something possible and refining something until it is high security and reliability are different problems. Zig is great, but for
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by randusername 3mo ago
The 36 bay was all I could find on fb marketplace. I fell in love with the silly idea of squeezing 10G NIC + 10G writes (to a 2x12 RAID 10 HDD array) on the thunderbolt bus of my 12 year old macbook pro. Then I got distracted with the serve
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by randusername 3mo ago
I'm doing it anyway and I've found some secondhand deals. Maybe COVID homelabbers are offloading gear? I built a 24 TB HDD NAS in a 36 bay chassis for around $1000 all-in: mb, ram, rails, chassis, rack, disks, hba, nic Awful Watts
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by randusername 3mo ago
> OpenWRT is very good, but the installation and upgrades are not easy. Agreed that separate router and dumb AP is the way. Every time I updated OpenWRT there was some gotcha that created an unexpected headache where I had to rebuild my
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by randusername 3mo ago
Easier said than done. Not easy to access or pay for specialists in the US and they don't always communicate with each other well to coordinate care, especially for non life-threatening issues. I live in an area with three world-class
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by randusername 3mo ago
AI code is owned by owners and society is figuring out in real-time if code has some inherent value without humans that understand it. I'll be really interested to follow what comes out of the Bun team.
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by randusername 3mo ago
You can at the local level. I thought this piece was realistic and hopeful: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-open-ai-anthrop... I can't control how the world uses AI, but my family and friend
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by randusername 3mo ago
> The entire framing is wrong, even if it's both understandable and a very widely held viewpoint. Setting aside a few levels of irony in arguing with arguers on arguing, I think there are multiple framings for arguments. Things go o
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by randusername 3mo ago
There's this one unexpectedly pensive line in Indiana Jones III > We've reached the point where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away That's how I feel about the internet. Fun while it lasted, but I think
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by randusername 3mo ago
We had success in our county and town canceling contracts, but that doesn't mean they are banned from private land. I'm not totally sure, but it may even be the stupidest of all possible outcomes: they still exist, the cops can&#x
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by randusername 3mo ago
Of course there is. You can take notice of beautiful women in public. You cannot take upskirt photos. You can eavesdrop on a conversation at the park. You cannot put mics under all the benches. Privacy is a situational continuum of invasive
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by randusername 4mo ago
TFA gave me brain freeze. > Third, measure everything. The common view that AI is already leading to lay-offs and raising electricity bills is probably wrong. But without better statistics it is hard to be sure. Why are they syndicating
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by randusername 4mo ago
Here's a description of a "real programmer" from all the way back in 1983: https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
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by randusername 4mo ago
> Sadly your take doesn’t matter since the other voting bloc is parents and people concerned about their kids. I used to think the "think of the children" voting bloc was cowardly for hoping the government will do their job for
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by randusername 4mo ago
I was doing a comparison of 10G ethernet NICs just yesterday and ChatGPT was insistent that they are scorching regardless of actual throughput. Unless you manually downshift and upshift the communication rate. I'm having second thought
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by randusername 4mo ago
This article encouraged me to look at the investor materials [0]. The 55th slide "key metrics" wording stood out to me: > AI: "Nameplate Compute Draw" Total number of GPUs installed in the data centers at the end of a
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by randusername 4mo ago
I think science is just too granular to be a reliable input into wellness decision-making. It is too easy for interested parties to enable everyday people to confirmation bias their way into defying common sense. Of what utility is the trut

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