tmountain

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by tmountain 9d ago
It’s optimistic to assume that a Democrat will be permitted to hold the office of the President. It came down to Mike Pence last time, and things have changed a lot since then.
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by tmountain 9d ago
You might argue it is illegal.
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by tmountain 15d ago
Thanks, that's helpful!
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by tmountain 15d ago
What makes for an amazing cable? For USB, if it carries data and power, I’m usually pretty happy with it.
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by tmountain 27d ago
This all sounds good, but the Government of one of the world's primary super powers (The United States) is currently unwilling to participate in fighting climate change, so any plan seems DOA without a major policy change on that front
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by tmountain 27d ago
Used to be? Isn’t this still the case?
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by tmountain 29d ago
Different people with different motivations.
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by tmountain 29d ago
There are lots of ways to have a fully functional brain besides writing code manually…
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by tmountain 1mo ago
I think the rapid improvements in local models will make a $2,000/mo price point completely impossible to sustain. This feels like a race to the bottom.
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by tmountain 1mo ago
Slop style.
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by tmountain 1mo ago
Yup, I think the author needs to take their own advice and invest some time into putting it into their own words.
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by tmountain 2mo ago
Yup, it’s a great UX and it makes the media experience feel finished, not hacky.
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by tmountain 2mo ago
As a musician, I can agree with this 100%.
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by tmountain 3mo ago
Cause all the kids are hooked on crack.
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by tmountain 3mo ago
Floppy disks were ubiquitous when I was in college. When I got into Linux, I did an experiment raw writing zeros to floppies with dd to see what percentage of them had I/O errors. I tested with a stack of about 50 of them that were lef
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by tmountain 3mo ago
We could probably debate this ad nauseam, so I'll just give you my most compelling arguments. 1) Writing code the "old fashioned" way (i.e., a Python program that does X, Y, Z) allows you to arrive at a battle tested solution
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by tmountain 3mo ago
The craziest for me is companies that sticking stochastic agents into automated business processes and expecting stable/reliable outcomes. Businesses want deterministic processes in the vast majority of cases.
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by tmountain 3mo ago
It’s been wildly successful. Poorly run projects tend to fail.
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by tmountain 3mo ago
Someone has to look out for the big guys! /s
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by tmountain 3mo ago
Lots of people have solar. Green AI, imagine that!
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by tmountain 3mo ago
There are plenty of honest millionaires, but no honest billionaires.
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by tmountain 4mo ago
I have been working on a language learning app for myself, and I am using a textbook that I like as the basis for an Anki inspired “learning tree”. This is working pretty well because I can build progressions from the original table of cont
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by tmountain 4mo ago
Context here (Patrick Boyle): https://youtu.be/IHD8BDFYyGI?is=dnpBeOoxH7LUJknm
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by tmountain 4mo ago
A huge chunk of SoaceX value in their filing is attributed to their AI technology (aka Grok). I believe it’s 90% or more… Now, it seems they’re leasing the infrastructure required for Grok to scale to Anthropic and Google. I wonder how that
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by tmountain 4mo ago
Yeah, but then it’s either an arduous manual review or incurring a bunch of token usage to review something that may be slop.
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by tmountain 4mo ago
Neurotone.ai || Remote (Americas East / Western Europe) || Full-time || neurotone.com We build AI-assisted auditory training for people with hearing loss. Our product is live, in clinics, and growing internationally. Backend Engineer:
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by tmountain 4mo ago
Big dreamers, which is awesome, but they need a disciplined PM type team member to bring them down to Earth (ROI analysis on their roadmap).
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by tmountain 5mo ago
I tend to agree, but the gains will come at the expense of the early adopters. Then again, this has been the case in so many industries throughout history.
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by tmountain 5mo ago
For a preview of how this will go, take a look at this: https://accounting.penrose.com/
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by tmountain 5mo ago
Got it, thanks.

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