Diederich

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by Diederich 14d ago
Totally agree. When this current wave of GenAI really started heating up, I guess 2020-2021, my analysis was very straightforward. What are the high level inputs to long-term success? I basically came up with a couple of criteria: 1. Dat
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by Diederich 15d ago
I will be doing just that today.
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by Diederich 15d ago
LWN is one of the cornerstones of my very successful career. Starting from the beginning, I have (at least) read through every story and every article, every week, since 1998. Especially in the beginning, there was a lot in each article I
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by Diederich 21d ago
"It simply does not add up that someone who lacks purely technical skills in an area can make good decisions." I've been thinking about this and your related points, and I've been (with growing concern) instinctively in
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by Diederich 4mo ago
I'm watching it now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ecCDqTSJs As always, Tim is doing a fantastic job.
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by Diederich 6mo ago
> SpaceX will now be beholden to Wall Street I get and appreciate that sentiment. Musk currently has a controlling interest in SpaceX. Do you expect that to change after the IPO? Thanks!
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by Diederich 6mo ago
I get your sentiment, though I think it's likely that people, on average, are going to organically start writing more and more like LLMs.
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by Diederich 6mo ago
I believe the inflation adjusted price per piece has remained fairly consistent? https://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/priceperp... Perhaps sets of a given physical size have more pieces no
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by Diederich 6mo ago
> I have had the experience of serendipitous discovery when researching relatively recent history. I would really love to hear about this. (:
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by Diederich 8mo ago
I found this the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksFhXFuRblg "NBC Nightly News, June 24, 1975" I strongly urge people to watch this, it's 30 minutes but there are many very illuminating insights w
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by Diederich 9mo ago
"Show of hands for anyone using ChatGPT to shop. Be honest." I use Gemini to help with shopping decisions pretty frequently. It's been very effective and useful for that.
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by Diederich 9mo ago
I used the same prompt keepamovin used and changed it to CNN, which produced this: https://realms.org/pics/cnn.html Some interesting similarities.
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by Diederich 10mo ago
They don't need a lot of tools to do such a deep 'search' of your car, they're not under any requirement or mandate to make it easy or even possible to repair. In my 40+ years of driving, I've seen such disassembled
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by Diederich 11mo ago
I also lived not too far from that location, and unfortunately got a glimpse of the aircraft as it was spiraling down. The scene on the ground was pretty hellish.
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by Diederich 11mo ago
How did that look on the host system CPU/memory wise?
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by Diederich 11mo ago
Of the dozens of contributions I've made over the decades, some recent, either zero or one of them have been reverted.
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by Diederich 1y ago
Location: Olympia, WA, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Perl, GoLang, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, Mysql, MongoDB, Postgres, Linux, AWS, GCloud, OCI, Oracle Cloud, Git, Bash Docker, Kubernetes Cloud, Kubernetes Bare M
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by Diederich 1y ago
Is this deficiency likely to persist long-term as LLMs grow more powerful?
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by Diederich 1y ago
Recently, something quite rare happened. I needed to Xerox some paper documents. Well, such actions are rare today, but years ago, it was quite common to Xerox things. Over time, the meaning of the word 'Xerox' changed. More sp
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by Diederich 1y ago
I watch this video at least once a year, and make my immediate family do the same. Everyone in the United States should watch this video, or something similar, on a regular schedule. As great as the first part is, I actually think the secon
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by Diederich 1y ago
I think you mean legality -> lethality? That had me stumped for a moment!
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by Diederich 1y ago
This sounds very interesting; can you share more? Thanks!
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by Diederich 1y ago
...and search. That was amazing.
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by Diederich 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 is always fun to look at, 18.5 years ago.
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by Diederich 2y ago
> temporarily throw all the materials into a trash Just curious, did they pull it out of the trash later on?
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by Diederich 2y ago
Perhaps too provocative of a question for this forum: Assuming that this plant (and potentially others) ends up substantially reproducing the capabilities that are currently available only in Taiwan, how much would that fact change the US&#
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by Diederich 2y ago
> To remove inequality requires a totalitarian government. Be careful what you wish for. Are a lot of people actively and actually suggesting the full removal of inequality? Finding ways to reduce it is a very different thing.
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by Diederich 2y ago
This is an outstanding analysis, thank you, and very succinctly summarizes my own views.
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by Diederich 2y ago
> ... I remember I did the same when I was in 10 people startups and it required A LOT of work to keep all these things running... Honest question: how long ago was that? I stepped away from that ecosystem four or so years ago. Perhaps
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by Diederich 2y ago
I think this author is effectively saying that the devices that are widely known as 'heat pumps' tend to be more efficient than devices that are widely known as 'air conditioners'.

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