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by rlt 4y ago
> Bureaucracy is so absurd sometimes. Kafkaesque, you might say.
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by rlt 4y ago
This looks great. Does anything similar exist that lists possible genres for a given track? I’m a big fan of things like Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music and everynoise.com. It would be cool to be able to list out the genre(s) and show si
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by rlt 4y ago
It seems the right solution would be bonus-based compensation. If they redefine an industry, massive bonus, if they’re just a really good engineer, then get normal really good engineer salary. Or a demotion. Is that ever an option in compan
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by rlt 4y ago
It will probably take a true AGI for Microsoft to fix their awful buggy Teams client.
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by rlt 4y ago
And yet you’d almost certainly complain if an American company meddled in your country’s politics.
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by rlt 4y ago
ChatGPT. I’m not even joking, it’s now my first step in learning new tech (but not too new, GPT-3 was trained on a corpus ending in 2021 I believe) Ask it something like “Explain how to get started with Docker” and it will give you a bunch
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by rlt 4y ago
Nitpick: Generally “hot reloading” refers to reloading a single module or component in the system, while retaining the rest of the page state. But maybe this counts because it’s a static site.
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by rlt 4y ago
There's an API for ChatGPT? Or are you using the GPT-3 / Codex API?
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by rlt 4y ago
> if you prompt it with enough specificity you might be able to just recreate the image you had At some point the input must be considered part of the work. At the limit you could just describe every pixel, but that certainly wouldn’t me
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by rlt 4y ago
I seriously doubt Microsoft / GitHub would care if Copilot or a similar model were trained on their proprietary source code. An advanced code completion tool does pose any significant risk of someone building a competitive product to G
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by rlt 4y ago
Starlink is likely roughly break even launching on Falcon 9. The latest $137B valuation is likely predicated on Starship working as expected.
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by rlt 4y ago
It’s interesting how opposite people in nominally the same profession can be. If the problem is solved before I write code I’m not really interested in writing code. I crave problems that require experimentation, where the solution isn’t ob
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by rlt 4y ago
Absolutely worth it. The benefits far outweigh these downsides, and I’m surprised someone who’s been using it for two years doesn’t agree. I would simply refuse to work on a JavaScript project at this point.
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by rlt 4y ago
> I am sure this is meant to head that off if possible. Indeed, and they’re not making a secret of it, see vvanders’ comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34307382
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by rlt 4y ago
Ricci Wynne posts most of his videos like this independently ( https://twitter.com/RawRicci415 ). In most of them he lets the video speak for itself. I don't have any reason to believe he's lying and I think he&#x27
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by rlt 4y ago
Harm reduction itself isn't a bad thing, the problem is if it displaces other forms of help for drug users, or ends up encouraging more drug use. e.x. skip to 2:00 in this video https://twitter.com/sav_says_/status
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by rlt 4y ago
By “mostly transparent” I was mostly thinking type safety, ergonomics, no hand written boilerplate, etc. Totally fine to support a limited set of primitives and collections passed by value, and require developers consider the failure modes.
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by rlt 4y ago
Maybe true, but I was doubting the specific numbers of 10K CNC machines for 1M MacBooks. I’m curious how long it takes a single CNC machine to machine a MacBook body.
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by rlt 4y ago
How often do people use their glove box that this an actual annoyance? I only really keep my registration and proof of insurance in there, so I need to access it approximately never.
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by rlt 4y ago
> What happened when Apple wanted to CNC machine a million MacBook bodies a year? They bought 10k CNC machines to do it. That can’t be right. 1M / 10K = 100 MacBooks per CNC machine per year. Surely it’s at least an order of magnitu
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by rlt 4y ago
You can horizontally scale a monolith without going full microservices.
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by rlt 4y ago
I’d love for a language / framework that allows for an application to be composed of “modules” that can either be run in a single process, or deployed as multiple independently scalable processes, with a mostly transparent RPC system r
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by rlt 4y ago
Yup, it's called "virtual staging".
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by rlt 4y ago
Correction: the v1.5 satellites already have inter-satellite laser links.
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by rlt 4y ago
That's a long way of saying: yes, he's a bully.
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by rlt 4y ago
Unfortunately thinking in public can be risky, for example if your views change and/or public sentiment on the acceptability of those views changes.
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by rlt 4y ago
One-off projects like the High Speed Rail won’t make a noticeable dent in global sales. And he opposed remote work at his own companies because he believes (rightly or wrongly) it leads to decreased productivity.
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by rlt 4y ago
We’re talking past each other. I’m arguing we shouldn’t be arguing about Musk. I don’t know how much he is personally involved in the engineering decisions, but it doesn’t really matter because SpaceX has proved it can solve the vast array
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by rlt 4y ago
I’m refuting that he’s “a bored billionaire who ran out of ideas to impress the news”. He wasn’t a billionaire when he started working on it, and he’s been working on it for 20+ years, so I don’t think he’s bored. The rest of your complaint
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by rlt 4y ago
It’s certainly not an easy problem but neither are many of the other problems SpaceX has thrived solving. “Arguably harder” sounds like pretty good odds to me. The author essentially dismissed SpaceX with ad hominem attacks on Musk, who in

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