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by rurp 2y ago
Same experience here. I used to try Kagi from time to time back before they cut down the free tier and the results seemed fine but not particularly noteworthy. The lack of ads is of course nice, but having all of my searches tracked under a
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by rurp 2y ago
A code test that takes a couple of days ?! That's an awful lot of unpaid time for a single interview step, and that's even assuming it's not one of the many companies that underestimates how long the exercise will take. Open
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by rurp 2y ago
There's a good chance the recruiter was just spamming anyone and everyone they could find. At least 50% of the cold recruiter messages I've gotten have been for roles that had nothing to do with my background.
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by rurp 2y ago
Given that Elon is a notorious liar I would give zero credibility to his own self serving claims. I've seen several third party estimates and they all show a significant (double digit percent) decline since Elon bought the platform, wh
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by rurp 2y ago
This is a perfect example of why the market doesn't always produce the kind of product that consumers would prefer. Despite this sort of server integration being a terrible design for customers, investors absolutely love a platform l
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by rurp 2y ago
Capital markets don't perfectly account for all positive and negative externalities in the world, not even close. For example think of a company that invents a miracle drug that only costs $1 to produce. The net benefit to humanity wou
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by rurp 2y ago
If you're right about that being the dominant effect we should see small businesses increase as a portion of GDP as online ads become more prevalent, but as best I can tell we aren't seeing that at all. For example this[0] chart f
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by rurp 2y ago
My case was different from yours. Our project wasn't working by coincidence, the dependency resolver was flagging incompatibilities that simply didn't apply to our case, and began refusing to build a stable working project. Yes it
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by rurp 2y ago
No kidding about pip. The dependency resolver change several years ago was a similar terrible move to the PEP being considered here. It broke so much legitimately working code for no good reason; just paternalism from the core devs. The cha
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by rurp 2y ago
> also given that 100+ years ago they weren't as diligent in mapping out things underground and they put sewage, electricity and internet in the same ground since then. I have some experience with the local utility companies in my c
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by rurp 2y ago
Not necessarily. When I bought a used car a few years ago I got a great rate (< 2.5%) from my local credit union, and the rate the dealership offered was almost as low. Rates are much higher across the board these days, but the principle
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by rurp 2y ago
There should be zero overlap on a Venn diagram of people scrounging together money for basic transportation and those considering a $100k pseudo-truck. Anyone who needs to borrow money for a basic car but buys a cyber truck instead is in fo
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by rurp 2y ago
Cloud Atlas would be my choice for fiction. The novel covers an incredible range of interesting ideas and great writing. Antifragile for nonfiction. It really changed the way I think about how both the natural world and human institutions f
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by rurp 2y ago
With gas vehicles it's trivial to keep extra fuel in portable containers, if the situation warrants it. That extra range could easily be the difference between getting out of a disaster zone or not. Heck I'm hardly a prepper or li
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by rurp 2y ago
> why should governments do this? Why can't private companies do it? A private company will inevitably be looking to maximize their profit. There will always be the risk of them enshittifying the service to wring more money out of c
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by rurp 2y ago
It seems pretty clearly related to the post it is a reply to.
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by rurp 2y ago
There are only so many manufacturers of a given vehicle segment. If they all soft collude to stick with higher margin vehicles there's not much consumers can do about it. Car manufacturing isn't a liquid market where new entrants
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by rurp 2y ago
I tried this with a non-fiction book I read recently and it honestly feels like a pretty generic LLM output. The summary roughly follows the text, but in many spots takes things out of context to a degree that the summary would be very misl
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by rurp 2y ago
> Why would you generate all the summaries in advance when you can summarize real-time when a user clicks on it? Well the most obvious reason is that the summary page would load faster. I clicked on a book summary and it took much longer
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by rurp 2y ago
Wow, that post from the founder is as bad as it gets. Impressive amounts of arrogant, dumb, dismissive, and rude in a single tweet. I can see why yesterday blew up their face. The "we busy building rn can't be bothered with legal&
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by rurp 2y ago
I strongly second this. When I got back into reading I was also struck by how much deeper the stories and characters are, even compared to excellent TV shows or longform articles.
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by rurp 2y ago
Interesting quote from Altman given how the past year has gone: > The mission would be to create the first general Al and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the distributed version of the future that seems the safest. More generally,
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Sam Altman Emails Elon Musk(techemails.com)
2 points by rurp 2y ago|1 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg: "Ship the App" (2011)(techemails.com)
90 points by rurp 2y ago|77 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
Fairly standard greenfield projects seem to be the absolute best scenario for an LLM. It is impressive, but that's not what most professional software development work is, in my experience. Even once I know what specifically to code I
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by rurp 2y ago
That can change on a dime though, if Zuck decides it's in his financial interest to change course. If Facebook stops spending billions of dollars on open models who is going to step in and fill that gap?
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by rurp 2y ago
Lol, we aren't talking about training for a marathon or rescuing someone from a burning building. VR headsets are a niche toy that many people find unpleasant to use, and will likely always be a niche product.
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by rurp 2y ago
SBF's trial was one of the the most high profile trials in years, and resulted in a long sentence. I can't imagine a two year low security custodial sentence for Ellison is going to change anyone's mind who thinks that the cr
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Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in prison(wsj.com)
30 points by rurp 2y ago|2 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
Somewhat related to this, when I first setup a compost bin at home it was simply to try to reduce yard and food waste, and I hoped it wouldn't be too annoying to use. I was surprised to find that I've actually had a lot of fun wit

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