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by spjt 1y ago
Good luck cracking down when local inference gets cheap.
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by spjt 1y ago
I don't think it wants to. Ask any on-call engineer or support tech how they felt when, after having their phone blow up at 1am because everything is falling apart, they found out that this was an AWS-wide outage.
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by spjt 1y ago
The thing about AGI is that if it's even possible, it's not coming before the money runs out of the current AI hype cycle. At least we'll all be able to pick up a rack of secondhand H100's for a tenner and a pack of smok
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by spjt 1y ago
I love vibe coding because it does the things I hate really well, like meeting test coverage requirements and writing doc comments.
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by spjt 1y ago
The difference with fusion is that we have a very good understanding of how fusion works, and exactly what we need to figure out how to do, to make it a viable energy source. It's basically just an engineering problem, albeit a very di
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by spjt 1y ago
I have a 5 toolhead prusa XL, meets every one of your criteria except for not being $4K.
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by spjt 1y ago
https://opendaw.studio/ That looks to be it although I am on my phone and it doesn't fit on my screen. It's a neat idea although I don't see anything indicating it supports VST and I'm not sure if it is
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by spjt 1y ago
Just be glad you knew what the bug was before you started. After 2.5 years... "Shit, I forgot to enable debug logging"
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by spjt 1y ago
I suppose you could argue that Amazon does have one special thing going for it here, idle compute resources in AWS. However that is not the sort of thing that requires "AI talent" to make use of.
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by spjt 1y ago
My question would be why a senior engineer with 15 years of experience doesn't have an "in" with someone at several companies.
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by spjt 1y ago
If you need this in the form of advice, it's something you shouldn't be doing.
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by spjt 1y ago
Are most people that money hungry? I wouldn't expect someone like Zuckerberg to understand, but if I ever got to more than a couple million dollars, I'm never doing anything else for the sake of making more money again.
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by spjt 1y ago
The last thing the world needs is another Linux package manager. F-Droid uses apt and it could hardly be considered Debian. It's an interesting question though, that I haven't thought about. At a minimum I'd say that it shoul
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by spjt 1y ago
Would be nice if I could just directly get paid $28K/year to not have sex.
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by spjt 1y ago
As a former pharmaceutical chemist, the job market in the US is kind of shit, which is why I write code for a living.
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by spjt 1y ago
What I don't understand is why nobody has actually figured this out. I read a lot of different news sources. I'd have no problem paying a reasonable amount of money to read an article I came across in the Podunk Picayune that look
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by spjt 1y ago
> LLMs have hundreds of millions of users. I just can't stress how insane this was. This wasn't built on the back of Facebook or Instagram's distribution like Threads. The internet consumer has never so readily embraced so
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by spjt 1y ago
With things the way they are, it's not hard to be more knowledgeable about a condition than your doctor. Doctors have to know about all the possible conditions people can have, I only have to know about the one I have, so I've spe
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by spjt 1y ago
As someone with an incredibly "addictive personality", I've always seen it much more simply. I become addicted to things when there's nothing else I'd rather be doing that is incompatible with the addictive behavior
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by spjt 1y ago
The most obvious argument for me is that I don't even think that developing land as much as possible should be a desired outcome. I'd rather have some billionaire sitting on a huge plot of wilderness than turn it into another shop
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by spjt 1y ago
There's a big difference between noobs on their own and noobs with a competent relative. Way back in the day, I set up my grandpa with Slackware and FVWM. Yeah, I had to edit a configuration file to add a program - but that also meant
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by spjt 1y ago
If you're looking for someone to fill a do-nothing CEO job for $6M/year, I'm available.
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by spjt 1y ago
Being an expert in type theory or language design is not particularly relevant either. The most relevant expert would be the lowly maintenance developer.
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by spjt 1y ago
I wonder how much there is an increased concern about injury, I have three kids and by the time I was their age I had spent more time in the emergency room than all three of them put together. I go to my kids' school from time to time
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by spjt 1y ago
It won't be coming for local inference.
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by spjt 1y ago
Doesn't explain why the biggest, most profitable tech companies also seem to have the most user-hostile products. I guess maybe the whole "The users and the customers are not the same people" thing...
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by spjt 1y ago
Maybe it's just bias based on what I'm familiar with but I don't really like the syntax, or at least I can't understand any of it intuitively. Looking at the few examples I can find, it doesn't appear to be obvious
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by spjt 1y ago
I'm not very sympathetic to moderators. Their job is to make some forum contain only what they want to hear from the (unpaid) people providing the content. If that's what you want, start a blog. In any sort of IRL community, if so
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by spjt 1y ago
It will neither be the first or last site destroyed by hamfisted power tripping overmoderation. And they do it in the worst possible way - Leaving the question up, but preventing anyone from answering it. So, the default experience with SO
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by spjt 1y ago
The worst thing I have ever seen is Plaid. I was trying to fund a brokerage account last week, this window pops up asking for my bank account login and password... Uh, no?

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