snoman

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by snoman 1y ago
> Unfortunately it is possible to live without a romantic partner, but in non-socialized nations it is not possible to live without an income. That’s where self-employment becomes an option.
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by snoman 1y ago
You couldn’t be because I have it on good authority that I am.
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by snoman 1y ago
> In practice, I find that if I don't format something as a bulleted/numbered list, nobody is going to look at it. I’m one of those people, if I’m honest. If I’m reading for work, I want the minimum words necessary to get the p
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by snoman 1y ago
With index funds effectively propping up the S&P etc. people are already questioning it. Consider that millions of people are parking billions of dollars in index funds that just track the ~500 biggest companies with the expectation the
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by snoman 1y ago
The question isn’t whether there exists a function that can translate one language to another. If they’re Turing complete, it’s certainly the case that the same software CAN be written in different languages. The question is whether or not
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by snoman 1y ago
> Imagine how much it will cost or how much it will be enshittified when the investors come looking for their returns. Indeed but one potential saving grace is the open sourcing of good models (eg. Meta’s Llama). If they continue to open
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by snoman 1y ago
This is difficult to express because I too have enjoyed using an LLM lately and have felt a productivity increase, but I think there is a false sense of security being expressed in your writing and it underlies one of the primary risks I se
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by snoman 1y ago
Like Geoffrey Hinton, who predicts 5-20 years (though with low confidence)?
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by snoman 1y ago
My personal conspiracy theory is that Nokia was an orchestrated takedown by MS. Get a leader in there to tank its stock for an acquisition. MS just shit the bed on the other side of it and failed to deliver a competitive-enough mobile platf
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by snoman 1y ago
That’s the exact opposite of the way it is right now (at least for me). I don’t like having multiple ride hailing apps but easily have ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini on my phone (and local LLM at home). There is zero effort cost to go from one to
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by snoman 1y ago
Ostensibly the PRs are getting reviewed so it’s, maybe, not that bad but I had a similar reaction: I can slap together something with some wood, hammer, nails and call it a chair. Should I be manufacturing furniture?
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by snoman 1y ago
Clippy was a laughing stock and target of derisive comedy for years. It has such bad brand recognition that nobody should be surprised that they aren’t using it.
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by snoman 1y ago
A false dichotomy if I ever saw one.
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by snoman 1y ago
Some of the most valued things in my life are the photos I’ve taken and printed as they remind me of where I was, what I was doing, and who I was with. It’s one thing to miss a moment, like the author of this article did, because you’re fid
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by snoman 1y ago
A big part of my job is building proofs of concept for some technologies and that usually means some webpage to visualize that the underlying tech is working as expected. It’s not hard, doesn’t have to look good at all, and will never be ma
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by snoman 1y ago
> I’m tired of adversarially wrestling usefulness out of a trillion dollar company. Very well put.
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by snoman 1y ago
That’s a pretty obscure/dated reference to the Master Control Program that ran on Burroughs mainframes. I suspect the downvotes are for “… stupid AI crap.”
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by snoman 2y ago
The Colonel’s Bequest (also by Roberta Williams) still holds a special place in my heart. I can’t play a game like Luigi’s Mansion without feeling like that was one of the inspirations.
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by snoman 2y ago
How does Flash compare to Nova Lite? The latter looks less expensive. I haven’t really used either (used Nova Pro and it was good)
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by snoman 2y ago
You’re getting downvoted, it seems, but you raise a very real point: you need to have a high turnover, or rough span of control ratios, in order for this to be a common interrupt. Especially given it’s well known that people don’t leave com
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by snoman 2y ago
It be weird to see MS make an IronTypescript given that they created typescript.
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by snoman 2y ago
> they've culled those that they deemed weren't a good fit… I think it’s worthwhile challenging this assumption. In a layoff, with that many people, I don’t think you can say much beyond that the company doesn’t want to pay the
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by snoman 2y ago
Oh, so “it’s more costly immediately” actually meant “it’s more costly once you’re storing over some threshold of data.” Ok. I can get behind that. I don’t think it’s so easily observed at scale though, because at that point it’s hardly jus
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by snoman 2y ago
Not sure what you’re getting at. An S3 bucket out-of-the-box is secure and can’t leak/be accessed publicly. There’s legitimate use cases for making a bucket public. What are you advocating for?
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by snoman 2y ago
Care to elaborate? What you’re saying doesn’t match my experience. I’ve paid pennies a year to store data in s3 for the better part of 5 years. Can’t even buy a hdd with what I’ve spent on s3.
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by snoman 2y ago
You’ve either never implemented a file system, or just a basic POC of one that nobody used.
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by snoman 2y ago
Ahh. That makes sense!
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by snoman 2y ago
That would surprise me too considering read-after-write consistency came to S3 like 5 years ago?
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by snoman 2y ago
At Microsoft, for every Principal Engineer/Manager there’s a dead internal project that nobody uses but had “… lots of impact.”
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by snoman 2y ago
I get it, there’s work to be done to flush this out but it’s interesting to me that actual scientific enquiry gets more push back than “but old guy said so.”

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