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by tarsinge 4y ago
My pet theory is lot of people overextended themselves due to easy financing[0] and are perpetually frustrated when driving due to the insatisfaction of getting very little of what they imagined. They are just commuting like everyone else b
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I didn't know about the Microdrive but Wikipedia says model larger than 1GB up to 4GB were first available in 2004, nearly 3 years after the iPod. At that time for $499 it costed you could already get a 40GB iPod.
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by tarsinge 4y ago
The paper is discussed by another commenter which brings interesting points how that model is built and it may not be what you think. I agree with what you said regarding how we choose to view things, but I think you also have a bias/b
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by tarsinge 4y ago
> They learned how to make a project look shiny for 6-18 months This is the root cause of so many problems, execs, politicians and even employees now that personal branding has taken over for everyone have no interest in building things
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Do we know why they are shot down? How do we know there is no dangerous material in them (e.g. radioactive)?
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by tarsinge 4y ago
What are you trying to see? If they are not using Google you'll not see it in these data.
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Why the obsession with AGI? The point is that ChatGPT is already useful.
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by tarsinge 4y ago
That thread is mostly about Google completely messing up their response to what Microsoft announced yesterday. I don’t see that unanimous acceptance, there are a lot of interesting discussions about the shortcomings. There are many comparis
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by tarsinge 4y ago
I can totally see why ML researchers that were expecting end-user products being notebook like and targeting data engineers were took off guard by the sudden discovery of the how a chat interface is powerful and usable by anyone.
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Thanks to that joke I just imagined how it could be a game changer for internal corporate documents (the kind that are 50+ pages and never read), especially if it’s native into Office.
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by tarsinge 4y ago
It’s an interesting analysis but I think the cause is less conscious and more of a side-effect of overstaffed tech companies giving too much importance and reward to tooling projects (i.e. tech marketing/reputation)
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The market reason is companies internally rewarding engineers for developing and marketing these tech projects, then cargo cult in the industry for less sophisticated management and investors, coupled with resume building of developers. All
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by tarsinge 4y ago
Someone deaf and blind still form thoughts but don’t output them in words. Words follow cognition, it’s sometimes obvious when you have a clear concept in mind but forget the word. Edit: also when programming, I form mental structures and c
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by tarsinge 4y ago
I’m sure people were saying the same things regarding IBM in the 80’s, Microsoft or Cisco in the 90’s… Google is a big corporation with inertia and averse to risk regarding its core business, they are not immune to being disrupted.
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by tarsinge 4y ago
I have not experienced it myself but I have seen a relative having an episode like that, it was quite scary for me but like you that person is functional and back now. Personally I make quite vivid dreams that make me contemplate how fine i
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by tarsinge 4y ago
One caveat is that you have to pay attention on which subreddit you are to be sure you get a real variety of opinion and are just not in an echo chamber with bot parroting the current "wisdom" of that sub to farm karma. I've
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by tarsinge 4y ago
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a good entry point. These are reflections of someone who had "everything" for its time (emperor during the golden age of the Roman Empire). It is an eye opener regarding how having things and bein
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by tarsinge 4y ago
This one?[0] It's funny it's always cited with the reversed finding: while men were more fair in rating attractiveness, they then only target the top most attractive females, completely oblivious of where they stand. OTOH women we
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by tarsinge 4y ago
> In my own case, I had significant cardiovascular issues at a relatively young age, 1 week after I got my booster. The vaccine is only a part of the virus right (the spike protein)? Yes for you it’s likely the cause, your experience reg
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by tarsinge 4y ago
I say this without a political agenda but regarding the diminishing returns of consumption I think there is larger issue that is boiling: there is a huge existential crisis boiling due to the failing of consumerism and growth as the promise
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by tarsinge 4y ago
We are talking about a model that at its core is about making statistics of what the next word will be in a sentence based on an existing corpus. It gives that model the ability to find and summarize all of the existing content in relation
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by tarsinge 4y ago
> Another big place of interflow of culture is with manga/anime subcultures, which are produced and consumed by a very specific part of Japanese society in the first place, then exoticised a great deal by the types of internet commu
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by tarsinge 4y ago
Eating once a day indeed has nearly the same effect. Once a week is not possible due to physical limits of processing that volume of food. It's easy to explain your example with diabetics: very simply insulin is what allow muscle to us
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by tarsinge 4y ago
This is not a meme but basic physics. This is how you do your cut and bulk cycles to lose and gain exactly a planned amount of weight. My base energy expenditure is relatively low at around 1800 kcal. If I eat 2000 kcal I will gain around 1
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by tarsinge 4y ago
But perception and relationships is what will ultimately drive sales, because customers are people too. What's difficult is finding the balance between product, marketing/sales, and tech. An easy example but I find Steve Jobs real
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Be careful to not push yourself and to never do breathing exercises with retention in water, the risk of fainting and drowning is real.
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What's fascinating is how long it took for this generation of giants for people to realise it's just the same big enterprise world again, just more shiny. Maybe it's because they revolutionised corporate marketing: Google was
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I find people around me very averse to "fake"/replacement of a real product, there is no way it will replace meat in cooking. What I don't get is why it's not more successful in fast foods. In that setting you are a
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by tarsinge 4y ago
My take is that Japan due to their focus on hardware has a very good low-level programming culture that is still relevant for console games. I dabbled with SNES programming recently and what Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, Squaresoft... could do
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Yes, especially because there are things like high-oleic sunflower oil with a completely different fatty acids profile more similar to olive oil.

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