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811.
by saulpw 2y ago
Seriously, there's no information on how it works, who hosts it, how long it will last, or anything. Not even a contact link. I can't invest any amount of time in something like this no matter how nice it looks.
812.
by saulpw 2y ago
I mean handling sales + marketing + accounting and everything else required to run a company is worth 50% (maybe more). But of course while you were probably competent enough to "code it up", odds are he wasn't competent to
813.
by saulpw 2y ago
...because Bill Gates has given $30b to his non-profit and Steve Ballmer hasn't.
814.
by saulpw 2y ago
I canceled my GPT-4 subscription recently because it just wasn't that impactful for me. I found myself using it less and less, especially for things that matter (because I can't trust the results). The things it's good at: b
815.
by saulpw 2y ago
A cesium stopwatch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium_standard
816.
by saulpw 2y ago
Gates Outdonates Ballmer, Drops to #7 in Global Selfishness Rankings
817.
Signature Programs(iwriteiam.nl)
9 points by saulpw 2y ago|1 comments
818.
by saulpw 2y ago
How do you phrase these warnings? "Next time.."? I have a hard time being serious with my own warnings if it's fine enough for now.
819.
by saulpw 2y ago
They don't have to play by the rules either. They can also be sued by the NYTimes.
820.
by saulpw 2y ago
The reader has to add every RSS feed. What if I as the producer of those feeds want to ship a combined feed so they don't have to do that extra work? Or what if I'm a curator of RSS feeds and want to release one combined "l
821.
by saulpw 2y ago
Well since we haven't tried spending $7t on those other things, if it works to bring about AGI we'll be stuck with it even if it doesn't really help, and if it doesn't bring about AGI we'll be all out of cash. I&#x
822.
by saulpw 2y ago
If blockchain is any indication, ASICs give two jumps (2 orders of magnitude) over GPUs. But yeah, then further jumps will have to be via parallelism; can we put 100s or 1000s of these ASICs in a single computer?
823.
by saulpw 2y ago
Peak Phil Hartman.
824.
by saulpw 2y ago
> why over a billion, why not put it at over a million, or ten? It's not about using their money on federal budget. It's that money=power, and it's to the detriment of society for any individual to have that much power. h
825.
by saulpw 2y ago
Well if it became fashionable I imagine we'd plant more barley
826.
by saulpw 2y ago
I've appreciated https://github.com/cthulahoops/chatcli which is simple and straightforward.
827.
by saulpw 2y ago
In your analogy, we are all capable of running (probably), even if some of us are better at it.
828.
by saulpw 2y ago
Why dry? Doesn't the jhana lube make it smoother?
829.
by saulpw 2y ago
The creator of Forth wrote this: > I wish I knew what to tell you that would lead you to write good Forth. I can demonstrate. I have demonstrated in the past, ad nauseam, applications where I can reduce the amount of code by 90% percent
830.
by saulpw 2y ago
or maybe economics is the study of spherical cows trading fungible goods and services in an efficient market with perfect information, and the real world is none of those things.
831.
by saulpw 2y ago
They just said it was like the LSD of programming languages. Your question is kind of like "What are your main takeaways from LSD? Can you summarize?" which realllly misses the point.
832.
by saulpw 2y ago
Google Maps: acquired in 2004 Android: acquired in 2005 Google Sheets: acquired in 2006 Translate: launched in 2006 Chrome: launched in 2008 So only 2/5 of the ones you mentioned were started in-house, and all were pre-2010 (pre-Sundar
833.
by saulpw 2y ago
Specifically you said "it doesn’t really matter if you understand the code"...the literal code under review. Not the underlying mechanism of an abstraction you're using, which is useful, sure, even if you don't understa
834.
by saulpw 2y ago
This is such a dangerous take these days. Something can appear to "work" in the main case but be grossly or subtly broken for common edge cases. Malicious contributors (see recent xz exploit) are skilled at making code that work
835.
by saulpw 2y ago
There's a lot more noise from leafblowers and construction that penetrates my noise cancelling headphones at home, than I have ever experienced in an office. There is more in-office noise, yes, but that seems to be better managed by a
836.
by saulpw 2y ago
I don't want to work next to random people. I want to work with my co-workers. I don't want to have to come in every day for no good reason. I want to be able to come in to a shared space with my coworkers and have a productive
837.
by saulpw 2y ago
As always, the problem isn't consumer action but government policy: > If used clothing is the problem, why not prohibit it altogether? The answer is that countries tried. In 2016, a group of East African countries joined forces to b
838.
by saulpw 2y ago
Affording a lifestyle is largely about stability of housing costs. If you don't have at least $30k, you can't afford a house, and thus are subject to the whims of your landlord and the rental market. If you have $30k-$300k, you e
839.
by saulpw 2y ago
I think the US peaked in 1999, which coincides with the launching of the ISS and the peak of the internet bubble. I happened to be 23 so I can't really refute the article's thesis that it's all about the beholder's age.
840.
by saulpw 2y ago
What do you think a TPU is?

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