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by rossdavidh 8mo ago
"This is what we have to look forward to? Journals filling up with this bilge, this useless wordy debris? Gosh, that's going to work out great with all those machine-learning algorithms for collating human knowledge - just wait un
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What the Literature Is Filling Up With(science.org)
3 points by rossdavidh 8mo ago|1 comments
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by rossdavidh 8mo ago
If you really don't know a single such person, you live in a very odd bubble. I know lots of people who used ChatGPT a lot when it first came out, found it funny and occasionally useful, then changed their mind to just finding it funn
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by rossdavidh 8mo ago
Well, it would depend greatly on which real estate you mean. There are empty cities in China which testify that real estate can, in fact, be very risky, but most real estate is not like that. Lots of other places where it is certainly not
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by rossdavidh 8mo ago
As others have pointed out, it also runs up less in percentage terms during the resurgence. If, as you posit, Bitcoin is becoming less volatile, then the question will be what the demand looks like when it is no longer a way of getting exp
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by rossdavidh 8mo ago
"JPMorgan calculated last fall that the tech industry must collect an extra $650 billion in revenue every year — three times the annual revenue of AI chip giant Nvidia — to earn a reasonable investment return. That marker is probably e
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by rossdavidh 8mo ago
If what they are getting is "not much, plus a side order of hallucination", then connecting the dots is exactly what they DON'T want to do.
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by rossdavidh 8mo ago
So, it seems like a "FREELANCE" or "OPEN TO FREELANCE" or etc. keyword, on the regular "who is hiring" and "who wants to be hired", would not be too difficult for people to use and understand.
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by rossdavidh 8mo ago
What are the incentives to either pretend you have more people in your household than you do, or pretend you have more people in your city/region/country than you do? What are the incentives to get it right? Given the balance of i
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
I'm using it already to compare dev to prod. Sure, you could to that with two separate windows arranged side-by-side, but this is much quicker.
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Firefox Split View is ready for testing(blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
2 points by rossdavidh 9mo ago|1 comments
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
Very true. Look at the wikipedia article for "AI Winter" to see how old this cycle truly is...
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
Interesting thought experiment. In that alternate reality, their shareholders would probably be shouting "why would you give competitors access to this awesome tool?!"
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
So, a couple years ago Microsoft was the first large, public-facing software organization to make LLM-assisted coding a big part of their production. If LLM's really delivered 10x productivity improvements, as claimed by some, then we
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
Yes, absolutely. One of the first things I noticed when I changed from two pairs of glasses to progressive lenses. The other thing was that, because I don't have to switch glasses to look away from the screen, I remember to focus on
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
I have a wise, witty, charming and personable friend who is a complete hoarder. It was a big deal to be allowed into the house. But, after several years of attempting to help, I eventually had to realize that it wasn't the effort req
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Myth of the Monolithic ERP: Why They Keep Failing [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rossdavidh 9mo ago|0 comments
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
So, put together a few things: 1) to satisfy investors, companies require continual growth in engagement and users 2) the population isn't rocketing upwards on a year-over-year basis 3) the % of the population that is online has satura
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Why NYC Taxis Are Crushing the Ride-Share Revolution [video](youtube.com)
2 points by rossdavidh 9mo ago|0 comments
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
A software startup has always, always been a longshot. This is still true. Also, vanishingly few companies of any kind, including software, ever get a "moat". Small companies survive, when they do, by being fast moving enough t
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
https://www.rosshartshorn.net/ I also have a work one at https://www.rosshartshorn.com/ but that is really just a single page.
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
I agree less likely, but I wonder if more likely to be fatal when they happen? Just a guess.
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
Fewer small (one-level) homes is an excellent point. Also a lot of old people used to live in trailer homes or mobile homes, which are also one-level.
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
Article says age-adjusted fall rates are up substantially, so it's not just older population.
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
Presumably because the Wisconsin-vs-Alabama differences have not significantly changed in the last few decades? Wisconsin has been a lot snowier than Alabama for a long time.
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
A few videos coming out via Starlink.
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by rossdavidh 9mo ago
Well, they did say "light evidence" rather than "proof".
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by rossdavidh 10mo ago
"The Gentle Grafter" by Henry, O. "Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic" by Monosson, Emily "Options" by Henry, O. "Population Fluctuations in Rodents" by Krebs, Charles J. "In Search of the Ol
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by rossdavidh 10mo ago
A situation in which many people care a little,but a few people care a lot in the other direction,is almost exactly what government is for. Ken Paxton has issues, for sure, but good on him in this case.
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by rossdavidh 10mo ago
Austin resident here, and remote worker since before the pandemic. Downtown is definitely in a state. But, there are several reasons for this: 1) homeless population makes it less attractive as a workspace, and while the city has started

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