shanebellone

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by shanebellone 3y ago
In my opinion, the value of its sandbox far exceeds the value of its business. I would never invest in Meta. I would love to invest in specific IP that's been developed, deployed, and optimized within the Meta ecosystem.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"But that's not what you're saying, you're saying "without privatised land, farming cannot occur", which is a trivially false assertion." The world's land is privatized. What ought to be has no re
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by shanebellone 3y ago
I fundamentally disagree. Supply chain is as important for software as it is for manufacturing. All code presents risk. With modern dependencies chains, those risks compound through time too.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"No it isn't. It is labour." Is it? Farming is (historically) an optimized form of gathering that's transformed alongside crop consolidation and other efficiency gains. Without land, farming cannot occur. Without laborer
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by shanebellone 3y ago
I disagree with this framing. Farming is merely "income derived from ownership of an asset". Web servers, auto rentals, text books, and skii/beach resorts are too.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"GPT offers you zero value because you don't know how to use it, so you're limited to cheap tricks." GPT offers me zero value because its internal processes are opaque. It's fundamentally unsuitable for business. Pe
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"Classism is the issue. Opportunity is the issue." The U.S. should owe its citizens access to opportunity. With access, everyone can pursue economic opportunity. "Greed of the wealthy reaping rents" This is rarely the ca
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"And owning your data and your tools isn't a theoretical or fringe concern. It is a central aspect of many people's lives, with wide practical consequences." Ironically, most development eschews this practice. The defaul
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"Right, another low effort deflection into the "It (is/is not) Intelligent" diversion." Straw man. "You can sit in that tarpit and duke it out with fanatics and doomsayers while patting yourself on the back for
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by shanebellone 3y ago
If you understood what an LLM is not, you might..
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"Iodine is an essential part of sea salt." Naturally occurring iodine (in sea salt) does not compare in dosage to fortified (table) salt. IIRC, fortified salt is recommended because iodine is uncommon in normal diets.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"massive cherry picking" I think the coined phrase is "prompt engineering". Side note, where's the eye roll emoji hiding?
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Amazon Kills Halo Band and Halo View
2 points by shanebellone 3y ago|0 comments
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by shanebellone 3y ago
I believe tech has passed down inefficient solutions that represented the best solution given the hardware constraints of the time. For this reason, I began rebuilding my web stack. Deployed applications: Analytics, Object Database, and W
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by shanebellone 3y ago
I think the intention is to eliminate the prompt component entirely. This would shift AI from "generative autofill" to a "repository of truth". The former is useless for most business applications. The latter is the holy
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"hackernews is more of a news feed with a comment section than a social network" The "more of... than" makes this sound less absolute. HN is not a social network. It is (probably) a public forum used to aggregate news an
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"What's missing in your eyes?" The network component. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"You know HN is a social site, right?" You know we're talking about social networks, right?
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by shanebellone 3y ago
I think Musk is a dumb man-child. Mastodon sucks too though. We should let social die. Our aggregate attention is too valuable to waste on such trivial things.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"Walmart has a lot of store manager/assistant managers that do quite well with high school diplomas or GEDs. Smart motivated people also do well starting businesses or working in trades. The incessant narrative that a college degr
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"What about something more general and even more text-based, like "Execute Console/Commandline Programs over SMS"." I built this a couple months ago. It's fairly straightforward.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
SMS is limited to 1 message per 3-6 seconds. The modem incidentally limits throughput. Also, Google Fi has unlimited text/call for $20/m. Their SIM does work with USB GSM modems.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"before people start wondering if they're not the sharpest bulb in the box?" Sharpness is relative.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply, Paul. "to accomplish A I will knock down whatever barriers are in the way which will involve selective learning about X, Y, Z, etc..." I agree with the sentiment and currently employ this appro
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by shanebellone 3y ago
That's dope.
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Ask HN: How do you navigate continuous learning?
1 points by shanebellone 3y ago|2 comments
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"therefore things worth doing/things that are meaningful look beyond that - and the wider they look the more meaningful they can be." Are "meaningful things" qualified by the persistence of their consequence?
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"I think you can find it's parallels in cars, aquariums, 3d printers, wood working, etc." Subtly closes the garage door nuh uh
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"Isn't 1 just the result of 2?" Only in that reach will continue to be monetized regardless of its impact on society.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"1) why you want that" Universal broadcast does not work (beneficially for society) in an industry built to monetize reach. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but voices are not equal in utility or worth. "2) who decides

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