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by strgcmc 1y ago
This is probably stupid, but at the hope of helping others through exposing my own ignorance -- I'm having trouble actually installing and running the preview... I've downloaded the preview release duckdb binary itself, then when
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by strgcmc 1y ago
Years ago back when there was no AI biasing your interactions with other children... The entire argument is that the new generations don't have the same opportunity to form friendships in an unfettered way like you did in your childhoo
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by strgcmc 1y ago
That's very naive. AI replaces any and all "less fun" forms of interaction, for children who are too undeveloped to appreciate any goal/metric besides "fun". Meeting new unfamiliar kids is not fun, ergo kids wi
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by strgcmc 1y ago
I'm sorry but your take is just too stupid to ignore, and I apologize in advance because ad hominem is not my goal. I'll boil this down to the simplest possible explanation of why your statement is idiotic -- children who are trai
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by strgcmc 2y ago
Perhaps this is closer to Vanguard's ownership model, i.e. that Vanguard is an investment management company that is owned by its funds' shareholders? I definitely think there is a way to make this viable at small scale in a tech&
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by strgcmc 2y ago
I mean, let's go further than that even... Imagine if somebody invented commercially viable nuclear fusion and achieved effectively free and infinite electricity, then by your logic, either of two things could happen: - Bitcoin becomes
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by strgcmc 2y ago
I wouldn't argue about usefulness, but certainly Bitcoin mining is more directly economically rewarding than an indirect contribution towards protein folding progress for the field at large. Every 1 hr of mining at X hash rate will yie
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by strgcmc 2y ago
Comments in other threads explained why there will always be a gap between generation vs storage capacity, or why it's economically unwise to build so much storage as to cover peak generation. For my purposes, I assumed a reasonable al
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by strgcmc 2y ago
There seems to be a blindingly obvious solution, to capture some economic value from the otherwise excess solar power generated -- Bitcoin mining. In theory, it's very similar to this application, using otherwise wasted gas flares from
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by strgcmc 2y ago
You probably would enjoy this book "Subtract", about the science of less: https://leidyklotz.com/media/
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by strgcmc 2y ago
I dunno, this seems like a pretty good understanding to me. What more would you ask for, to represent "understanding" that satisfies you? --- (I posed the Wikipedia version of this puzzle, to Claude Sonnet 3.5 free tier) "A f
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by strgcmc 2y ago
And all I'm saying is that, you probably need a different example of what "reasoning" is, because the one you gave is something that Claude is seemingly able to do.
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by strgcmc 2y ago
I think you need to re-calibrate your expectations... I'm not saying this is a solved problem by any means, but I just tried this out with Claude Sonnet 3.5, and these instructions seem quite reasonable and detailed to me (about what I
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by strgcmc 2y ago
Look, you asked for advice, I gave some advice and suggested you do some introspection, and just based on the evidence of this comment chain alone, we can see the answers to some of my earlier-suggested questions: - You aren't willing
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by strgcmc 2y ago
Well, if this is how you think, then I am afraid no useful advice is going to penetrate your preconceived notions of inferiority. It is actually possible, and happens every day at every company, that meaningful relationships exist across ma
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by strgcmc 2y ago
Well, are you an executive, or one step from becoming one? Then it's entirely possible that spending more time socializing recreationally can directly help your career. Golf happens to be a common choice, but maybe your exec team like
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by strgcmc 2y ago
I would actually encourage you to zoom out 1 or 2 levels, and instead of focusing on the "how to get better at 'sucking up'" problem, I would instead coach you to think about why you chose to apply this specific mental m
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by strgcmc 2y ago
> But it’s not a good reason to call the senior manager who doesn’t understand the situation “competent”. I'm not so sure that this is actually true... It certainly seems like a certain flavor/kind of "competency", fo
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by strgcmc 2y ago
Leonardo da Vinci imagined flying machines. When most people may have believed it to be a priori impossible during his time, instead da Vinci probably believed it to be simply another (solvable) engineering problem. That being said, even if
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by strgcmc 3y ago
> And all for slightly faster shopping. Wanted to comment on this part -- Prime itself was nothing more than faster shipping, though yes the difference between 4-6 weeks standard vs 2-days was massive (not just slightly faster). But the
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by strgcmc 3y ago
There is a simple but undeniable element of genius to the idea of, instrumenting the number of validations triggered. I would hazard a guess that 90+% of teams would focus on an "order success rate" type of metric and call it a da
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by strgcmc 3y ago
That's... not actually how that 30/70 statement is meant to be read. Imagine as a simplified analogy, applying to get into Harvard. Imagine Harvard has 1000 spots to fill, and that there are 10,000 applicants with roughly equivale
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by strgcmc 3y ago
Those types of questions are likely to engage "problem solvers", aka people who don't just wait to be told what to do, but who actually demonstrated proactive critical thinking by reacting to a challenge. Those types of peopl
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by strgcmc 3y ago
Incentives operate on a slow time-scale. Let's say you have a decent team as a baseline, but starting to fall into this "just tell me what to build" apathetic failure mode. How would you turn this ship around? As a manger, yo
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by strgcmc 3y ago
Such structures exist, i.e. worker owned co-ops. They're obviously just not the norm under capitalist systems.
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by strgcmc 3y ago
So in a similar vein as, data engineers being people who USE things like Redshift/Snowflake/Spark/etc., but are distinct from the category of people who actually build those underlying frameworks or databases? In some sense,
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by strgcmc 3y ago
This is kind of a meaningless question to raise in a vacuum. For most people who get the chance to talk with "tech CEOs", the basic context of the conversation is usually built on a profit-seeking foundation -- Should I invest in
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by strgcmc 3y ago
Essentially this same sentiment, applies to any number of things: - Why would anyone buy the Framework laptop, they don't have nearly the support/pedigree that Dell, HP, etc. has? - Why would anyone use iPhones in the enterprise&#
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by strgcmc 3y ago
I think that's reading too much into, what is fundamentally a very normal and common way of dealing with CEO turnover -- appoint a safe, business-friendly steward of a CEO, while you stabilize the crisis and decide who the real long-te
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by strgcmc 3y ago
There's a lot of good feedback to chew through, but I'll refrain from diving in too deep, and just mention that, as important as the HVA/DSI methodology is, there's been a comparatively lower amount of research done in &

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