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by ryandvm 2y ago
Been coding for 30+ years. In the last 5 years I have come around to not hating JavaScript (TypeScript really), but let's be honest, it took 15 years of hearing the JS community tell us "sure JavaScript used to be awful, but now i
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Looking forward to US police departments getting these when our military does their yearly Goodwill drop offs...
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Good. The sooner systems design people stop thinking that SSNs are UUIDs the better.
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Agreed. Apple has a lock on consumers similar to Microsoft in the business market. They may or may not be producing the best products, but switching ecosystems is phenomenally painful.
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Don't bet against America's oligarchs. They will move Heaven and Earth to make sure the 1% don't have a bad quarter.
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Love Spacetime, but I find there's a point about 2/3 of the way through every video where I realize I am totally lost in the explanation and I'm just letting the science talk spritz over me like a light summer rain. Vaguely h
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by ryandvm 2y ago
The physical number of transistors is irrelevant. If in software you were able to perfectly simulate the 100T physical neuronal connections in a real brain, then you would perfectly recreate that brain's conscious experience. Granted,
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A cheap, abused Tesla perhaps if you're looking to rescue one.
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I just remember the integer part.
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Absolutely. Outlawing the "meaningful content algorithms" would go a long way towards solving this problem.
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My problem with the "truck as a vibe" concept is that it's also "inconveniencing other people as a vibe" too. I don't mind work trucks, but the lifted, massive, shiny emotional support truck is: * Blocking
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I think relational databases as a technology are absolutely the bees knees. It still boggles my mind that devs are choosing NoSQL databases for their products right out of the gate and throwing away 50 years of relational alegbra database t
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Agreed. Assholes are bad for organizations, but sadly, it's a pretty effective strategy for the asshole. Over the years, I've observed that you basically need 2 out of the following 3 things to be successful in this world: *
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Agree. Ad-based businesses are eating the world. They hoover up data, invade your privacy, and then set up moats around their little fiefdoms (when they aren't selling your data to the other fiefdoms). And every ad-based business has t
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by ryandvm 2y ago
This is wild. Why exactly does an app that is a thin wrapper over some APIs require Apple silicon?
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That's absolute nonsense. Numbers vary, but domestic airliners have an industry average of about 51 miles per gallon of fuel per passenger. That puts it right around the average car trip (1.5 passengers).
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Ethanol is such a phenomenally disgusting boondoggle that it alone should be enough to convince anyone that the United States political system is utterly broken. US politics is pay-to-play and nothing demonstrates it quite so clearly as the
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by ryandvm 2y ago
As an Android user, it matters because our clueless iPhone user friends don't understand that their phones only send us shitty quality media.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
It's reductive, but the great thing about democracy is that the voters get exactly what they deserve.
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Well, clearly the _actual_ founders of Tesla did...
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Because it is informative about his true intentions when he talks about going to Mars. He is not stupid enough to think that we currently have the capability of building a Mars colony that would be even remotely close to sustainable in the
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For some reason the ChatGPT app on OS X also requires Apple silicon. Not sure why since it's just talking to an API.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
If you know what you want to build and how you want to build it, then maybe I would agree. You want a crew team of a half dozen interchangeable rowers and the fewer boat rockers the better. It might be a miserably bland social environment,
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by ryandvm 2y ago
But even now the LLMs absolutely have limited problem solving capability. For example, yesterday I asked GPT-4o to write multiple alternate endings to the short story "The Last Equation". They weren't dramatically compelling,
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Mars makes sense to Elon Musk because it would be the culmination of his multi-decade strategy of pumping up companies on government largesse. Whether it's fat government contracts or tax credits and grants, every single one of his ven
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by ryandvm 2y ago
You have to be careful how much wisdom you glean from fiction. The sheer hostility of space kind of precludes the "she's a good ol' ship" trope. When your door doesn't shut on your pickup, you can bang on it a bit.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I look forward to witnessing more Texas-style deregulation nightmares. This will probably play out as the financial equivalent of their paroxysmal electrical grid. Sometimes your purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Mid 40s and I found that OrangeTheory twice a week and intermittent fasting works really well for me. I was never able to do gyms before because I'm kind of ADHD and completely lack the motivational skills to push myself effectively du
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Not implausible, but I'd say we're 10 years out from the FAANGs replacing their silicon AND CUDA.
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Windows 11 feels like the kind of OS you would get if it were free (ad supported). Ironically, the actually free OSes are much less cluttered and much more stable.

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