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by xmprt 1y ago
Who's writing good scifi these days which evoke that same sense of wonder? Project Hail Mary was a fun read but felt a bit too in the weeds with the details.
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by xmprt 1y ago
Free users typically fall into sales and marketing. The idea is that if they cut off the entire free tier, they would have still made the same revenue off of paying customers by spending $X on inference and not counting the inference spend
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by xmprt 1y ago
I hear this comment a lot and I don't get it. Let's say AGI exists but it costs $100/hr to operate and it has the intelligence of a good PhD student. Does that suddenly mean that the economy breaks down or will the goalposts
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by xmprt 1y ago
> We just think THOSE rules were bad but THESE rules are good That's kind of how society evolves isn't it? Rules are always changing and that's generally a good thing. Some rules are pretty set in stone throughout history
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by xmprt 1y ago
I think this is what Tao is saying that large organizations are filling the niche that was previously served by smaller organizations. eg. Discord, Slack, and other online platforms like Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, Fortnite, Roblox, etc., a
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by xmprt 1y ago
> paying more than a fair price by deceptive business practices I see product X is $10/month. I subscribe. I'm not sure where the deception is there? The alternative is likely either the cost of the product is exorbitantly high
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by xmprt 1y ago
Assembly is simple because each instruction is very simple. Also, assembly is complex because each instruction is very simple.
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by xmprt 1y ago
If you buy a device that works over Zigbee or Zwave, a layperson doesn't need to have the skills to run a local setup because some third party can always come in and help with the integration (either some third party cloud solution or
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by xmprt 1y ago
My house lock is probably the one place where I'm not prepared to compromise security with a DIY solution. Not talking about the software security (in fact open source solutions are probably more secure) but literally the hardware and
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by xmprt 1y ago
You're not the average person. You probably also don't have significant credit card debt or rely on buy-now-pay-later for making purchases. Subscriptions are a win-win for the average company and user - users pay less upfront when
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by xmprt 1y ago
> Valve isn't in the business of preventing you from playing your games on niche operating systems Getting your Steam library to work on Linux before it got Valve's blessing with Proton wasn't a great experience. If they w
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by xmprt 1y ago
My solution to this is to only download if the file doesn't exist. An additional bonus is that the script now runs much faster because it doesn't need to do any expensive networking/downloads.
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by xmprt 1y ago
Maybe it's different since you're not native English but clamp is as intuitive for me as something like ceil or floor methods. It might not be as simple for someone who is ESL, probably because no major programming languages that
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by xmprt 1y ago
Creators are already starting to build their own platforms for hosting videos and many of these are quite successful unlike prior iterations from 10 years ago.
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by xmprt 1y ago
There's no straightforward way to migrate between an iPhone and Android so you'd spend a lot of time. Also I'm not sure if it's even possible to fully move over - for example would you be able to export your iMessages? A
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by xmprt 1y ago
The biggest reason for me using Android is simply because of how much competition there is in the space. If I use Apple products and don't like something they do then I'm stuck on an older version at best and need to migrate every
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by xmprt 1y ago
I'm looking at those tangents as part of the scope of the talk. When you're talking about someone's unique perspective of the history of some event, you want all those opinions and rants in there. If it was just a list of sli
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by xmprt 1y ago
I don't see fluff there. Every sentence was pointed and served a purpose.
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by xmprt 1y ago
Isn't etcd or Zookeeper essentially Paxos as a service? Or maybe I'm missing exactly what's meant by this.
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by xmprt 1y ago
I'm talking about cases where even AI can't fix it. I've heard of a lot of stories where people vibe code their applications to 80% and then get stuck in a loop where AI is unable to solve their problems. It's been well
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by xmprt 1y ago
This is one of the reasons I fear AI will harm the software engineering industry. AI doesn't have any of these limitation so it can write extremely complex and unreadable code that works... until it doesn't. And then no one can fi
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by xmprt 1y ago
Junior engineers get better and learn from their mistakes. An LLM will happily make then same mistake 10 times if you try asking it to do something similar in 3 months. In the long term, I don't think LLMs actually save you time consid
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by xmprt 1y ago
I think you're both correct but have different definitions of hallucinations. You're judging it as a hallucination based on the veracity of the output. Whereas Fowler is judging it based on the method by which the output is achiev
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by xmprt 1y ago
It's not for everyone but I can think of 2 use cases immediately: 1. If you're a developer, then you're probably using sqlite to store data and having a GUI for checking/modifying the database is probably handy. 2. Most
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by xmprt 1y ago
I see the third section as more of a feasibility assessment and for people to comment on whether the technical design is sufficient and extensible or to look for alternatives. It's ok if the design diverges from the implementation but
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by xmprt 1y ago
I'm sure some people would find this useful but forgive me if I'm not ready to hand away my security to some unknown third party company. I don't know the first thing about CAs but Let's Encrypt really isn't that di
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by xmprt 1y ago
I agree to some extent but there were a lot of advantages that Trump had that aren't particularly democratic. Electoral college gives more weight to rural voters. First past the post sucks. It's easy to mislead people because most
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by xmprt 1y ago
3 minutes is too long for exploratory searches, where I'm not sure what I'm even looking for. And 3 minutes feels too short for deep research which I'm expected to trust some complex result which I either don't know enou
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by xmprt 1y ago
I never used them for shortening the URL but it helped to give a human understandable name to a link. For example, if I'm linking to a Google Doc, then I can either share the base64(?) link that Google autogenerates, or share short.lin
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by xmprt 1y ago
Discord is an electon app IIRC so in theory it should be possible to make a client side mod which fixes this. Not sure if that would result in your account getting banned though...

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