tengbretson

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by tengbretson 8d ago
Spoken like someone who's dinosaurs have never been to the moon.
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by tengbretson 10d ago
If, after 75 years of trying to sell cars, people _still_ would prefer a faster horse, then Henry Ford would have been just as wrong.
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by tengbretson 10d ago
"they just don't know what they actually need" Classic butt-guy response.
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by tengbretson 11d ago
> Because they study architecture. If the architecture they're studying is divorced from the preferences and needs of the uneducated masses then who cares? They may as well be studying their own butts.
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by tengbretson 14d ago
No, but I would a computer.
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by tengbretson 14d ago
> true optimal True optimal what? Optimal intelligence? What would that be?
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by tengbretson 14d ago
If a self improving model can't produce enough value to pay the electric bill then who cares? Unplug it.
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by tengbretson 15d ago
Obviously I'm going to keep the box, but the real question is how many hundreds of NEMA C13 cables should I keep?
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by tengbretson 17d ago
> AI can't be allowed to be a decision maker of any kind in healthcare. It will, except it will be snuck in through the back door. It won't be some kind of robo-doctor making care decisions, it will come in the form of insuranc
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by tengbretson 25d ago
Not really excited for a $500 toothbrush, but this should have an awesome impact on the rest of the market. Putting the word "camera" in the name seems pretty dumb, but who knows? Maybe I'm the dumb one.
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by tengbretson 1mo ago
I don't understand. Does the metaphor "load-bearing assumption" not actually mean anything to you?
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by tengbretson 1mo ago
Why are people getting so hung up on the "load-bearing assumption" turn of phrase that Claude uses? I get that it becomes cliche, but it is also a rather semantically dense way to communicate an idea that a lot of people run into.
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by tengbretson 1mo ago
Easily yes. Developing an open source project is a free time activity. I can easily think of a year's worth of projects I'd rather do in my free time than write website copy.
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by tengbretson 1mo ago
> But, this is the kind of information I'm worried about when a vendor sells my data. If Google wanted to sell a product to the airlines that offered to keep annoying people like me from purchasing flights How can I help them accomp
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by tengbretson 1mo ago
String theory is a great example of a dead end kept alive by ego and sunk cost fallacy. An AI would have declared it dead and moved on 10 years earlier.
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by tengbretson 1mo ago
> we passengers are trying our best 100% disagree.
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by tengbretson 2mo ago
Was it serving oreja de cerdo?
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by tengbretson 2mo ago
The author's definition of a "Disability Dongle" perfectly describes the early versions of motorized wheelchairs. Why is it such an obvious conclusion that we need remake the world to be compatible with the previous generatio
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by tengbretson 2mo ago
I think about that every time I walk into a bank with an elaborate building or a ton of staff hanging around.
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by tengbretson 2mo ago
The quality of your local nerd has also likely decreased substantially. Being a nerd used to be a lot more work. Now, if you're having a face-to-face interaction with a local aficionado there's a high chance you're just inter
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by tengbretson 2mo ago
It's totally worth doing. Especially since it only takes one or two manual improvements before you can just say "ok, replicate this new pattern throughout the codebase. Go."
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by tengbretson 2mo ago
The idea that we might already have an optimal system but that it requires the sacrifice of feeling mild discomfort for a day or two is unfathomable for some people.
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by tengbretson 2mo ago
Which one to make permanent gets you a different answer based on what edge of a time zone you're on. The obvious move is to further subdivide the timezones at the :30 mark and make one half permanent standard and the other half standar
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by tengbretson 2mo ago
It's a shame that LLMs took off at the exact same time humanity entered it post-literate phase.
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by tengbretson 2mo ago
I really want to see this tested on HDPE. A simple, reliable adhesive for polyethylene could be a game changer.
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by tengbretson 2mo ago
Yeah. Just think about how much smaller of an apartment they could be living in.
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by tengbretson 2mo ago
3090s are still selling at damn near their release MSRP.
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by tengbretson 3mo ago
Your code appears to have a bug where if the arrow keys trigger a change of direction twice in a single frame interval, it can mistakenly send the snake back on itself.
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by tengbretson 3mo ago
It is hard to evaluate the model performance of Composer 2.5 when Cursor's harness is so awful compared to the others on the market.
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by tengbretson 3mo ago
I don't disagree with any of the major gripes people have with orms and I find SQL to be much cleaner in a lot of circumstances. That being said, if orms didn't force you to explicitly define your domain models about 60% of develo

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