threetonesun

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by threetonesun 4mo ago
You can imagine all of these moderately successful SAAS companies that see peak subscribers starting to fall off on top of legacy tech stacks and no will to make drastic steps to get back to growth and understand why they sell. I've ne
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by threetonesun 4mo ago
It's made Grade B more widely available though, because now it's just a light or dark choice like brown sugar, whereas before Grade B seemed somehow inferior. Before it was easy to assume Grade-A would be the most maple-y.
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by threetonesun 4mo ago
As New Englander I feel it's important to note that there are, like olive oil, various grades of maple syrup. They changed the system but Grade B / Dark maple syrup is the best for pancakes and "thickness". If you want t
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by threetonesun 4mo ago
The Mitch Hedberg joke about getting a receipt for a donut is now an email newsletter.
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by threetonesun 4mo ago
The question you always have to ask is what problems does it directly solve. I personally think most of the current problems in software development and really the world at large are not time-bound problems but alignment issues, and all an
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by threetonesun 4mo ago
I assumed the issue was similar to crypto mining, where given finite amounts of space and power it makes sense to always be running the latest and most powerful GPUs instead of keeping older hardware running. There's definitely a secon
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by threetonesun 4mo ago
I asked - I don't have an opinion either way. I use LLMs, I just don't find them life changing, but I would never deny that in a world with infinite data something that can do a pretty good first pass at parsing and summarizing an
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by threetonesun 4mo ago
I’d love it if for once someone on here saying LLMs are some life changing apparatus would give a single example.
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by threetonesun 4mo ago
Back when Macs were suffering under poor Intel chips there were valid competitors in battery life and size and weight from Dell. Except they ran Windows, and the trackpad was never as good as a Mac, and you'd find yourself searching fo
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by threetonesun 4mo ago
Frontend developer here, frontend projects are incredibly repetitive. It is still wild to me that a complete set of UI controls that you can customize isn't native to all browsers. I can't count how many sortable / filterable
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by threetonesun 4mo ago
You can buy blue checks, I guess. On the other hand they shut off embeds and access to replies unless you were signed in so it's functionally dead as a "website". Oh and sometimes there's child porn? So I guess it was ov
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by threetonesun 4mo ago
It wasn't 20 years ago, and it shouldn't be today, but somehow we've made it harder. I suppose some think AI will "fix" it but I tend to think it'll just make it worse.
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
Inflation adjusted gaming is about the same as its always been. Hurts to see prices go up but it happened during the SNES days too, and the job market was more fucked then.
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
That car is awesome, though. Still waiting for some designer to prove themselves by making the VW Bug of EVs not yet another $100k+ plasticy looking rectangle of questionably utility.
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
Every ad in Reddit is clearly marked. I'm not being obtuse - obviously Reddit, the internet, magazines, TV, all do some form of subliminal advertising, astro turfing, paid placement, etc, but we're talking about two different thin
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
Why would AI ads be unmarked? Most of the Google AI search results I get show sources. They're just summarizing top results for you, injecting a ad shown as an ad into that isn't tremendously different than how Google worked befor
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
Yes everyone that lives in a major city that doesn't use a car is... not participating in the real economy.
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
I assume they internally see the traffic they are losing to ChatGPT and see this as the best path forward. Or it's even more simple, and much like stacking sponsored links at the top of the results, they see that no one interacts with
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
it's much more reasonable and trivial on lower quality monitors but if one of the two PCs is for gaming you're going to want 4k at at least 120Hz which, last I checked, didn't exist (or was very expensive). You also might hav
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
It would actually be interesting to see what people do attempting to transcribe AI generated material to paper. At the very least it's another layer of learning in writing it out.
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
There's some cosmic irony that this is happening when the people who came up with the derogatory term "soy boys" are in office, but I'm too depressed to laugh about it.
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
The internet solved the problem of millions of millions in it's implementation details, you share a URL. You follow people, they share URLs, it grows organically, same way every website worked pre... Instagram? I'm not sure who mo
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
When I was considering a local setup the M1 Ultra Studios with 128 GB of RAM seemed to be the best price:performance at the time. I think RAM always wins out. Also minor note: the M4/5 Pros come in multiples of 12, so it's a 24&#x
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
I missed a word in there, which was "has it always worked out", but on the other hand I've also dated a lot of people I didn't marry, and even in my original phrasing I think it would be very odd to not ask or try to sus
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
Right, there's no form of racing that is a straight line, is there. Regardless, optimizing a pick up for 0-60 time is a strange goal, unless you have some express desire to launch 2x4s a great distance in a complicated way.
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
This is a bizarre take, I've always asked questions like this when interviewing, and if a manager doesn't have a good answer I ask for follow up conversations with the team before taking a job. Has it worked out? No, but usually t
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
Both are absurd and entirely unnecessary for vehicles not on a race track. Tesla's great trick was replacing BMW as the car your neighborhood prick who wants to look upscale buys by default.
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
Sure, now map that income to transit usage in any major American city that actually has public transit. Also $160k household can be very different in terms of childcare costs depending on how many people in that household are working, and i
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
I'm not sure you understand who the upper middle class are.
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by threetonesun 5mo ago
Why are you a CEO if you are bad with words. If a CEO's work can be reduced to picking the best option from AI generated text why do they make so much money, and why would anyone chose to invest in a company that could be led by anyone

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