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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
I wonder if the sunk cost fallacy - that usually refers to an abstract cost, like time or money - would truly be the same effect as an aversion to retracing a path in 3D space. Possible, or even likely, but interesting nonetheless. Towards
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
I grew up hearing the coders and hackers of yore regaling tales of their youth, the days they invested in things like the commodore or the IBM PC. I was born at the end of the 90's and never touched any of those things and always felt
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
> Using quantum effects to break cryptography wouldn't have any real long term advantages unless you aspired to be some sort of a supervillain. It's of interest to governments, for national security reasons. Quantum computing i
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
The other thing that differentiates Spielberg's original work from all that's followed is the way it explored the details. From the sourcing of the amber, to the need to have paleontologists, botanists, and lawyers check Hammond&#
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
The most I've done with it so far has been asking what a nice database layout might look like for a given problem, copying the output to a markdown file, and then referencing it as I personally design the schema. LLMs are pretty cool,
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Off topic: This page is beautiful. Love it when people use magazine-style layouts on the web.
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by LeftHandPath 1y ago
Hah, I had Michael Branicky as a professor (for his AI course) at the time (Jan - May 2023). Didn't expect to see his name here. He's a brilliant guy.
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I wonder why they don't bother fixing it. Clearly it hasnt hurt their bottom line much, but you'd think they'd sell more phones if they were still the kings of "it just works" (and they aren't).
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
What a metaphor. Beautifully written.
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Beyond the car culture issue, I thought it was interesting to see the direct line drawn between legally required insurance purchases and the preference for FIRE jobs over STEM jobs in the US. Several years later, a few of the author's
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How Most Insurance Companies Strangle Automotive Enthusiasm (2017)(roadandtrack.com)
5 points by LeftHandPath 2y ago|1 comments
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Immutability is a fantastic tool, especially when working with enterprise data. It's relatively easy to implement your own temporal tables on most existing databases, no special libraries or tools required. It seems really trivial&#x2F
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Absolutely. Look at how Sam Altman speaks. If you've taken a couple of lectures about AI, you've probably been taught not to anthropomorphize your own algorithms, especially given how the masses think of AI (in terms of Skynet, Co
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I am glad you followed up on this, to see if you could do it again! That matches my experience. I remember feeling like the big tech corps had turned "consumer" into a pejorative and started relentlessly abusing their customers ci
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
For sure. I just really like the SL! Currently have a 2012 C350 Coupe that I love to death. Have had it since 2018. Fantastic car, I don’t think it spies on me too much
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
My plan is to buy an old 1960-1970 280SL (or, really, any somewhat reliable vintage car) and stubbornly refuse to drive anything else.
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
It is! I found the sword quite fascinating as well. The older Chinese lettering on it looks really neat, too
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
What an interesting life to have lived. > Evidence of his craft was seen in his tactics, which included feigned retreats, ambushes and the use of false information. Reminds me of "Intelligence in War" by Keegan, which discussed
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
What a perfect invitation to get on one of my favorite soapboxes. Spoiler: I'm a big fan of Brock Yates. Speed limits are an imperfect tool for an important problem. They were generally much higher, or nonexistent, on US highways befor
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Great article. I remember seeing that a year or two ago but had long since forgotten about it. > Several car brands also note that it is a driver’s responsibility to tell passengers about the vehicle's privacy policies. "Hey Bi
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Perhaps there's a reason why. The market generally doesn't need people who can do it all. In the same way it doesn't need people writing C++ or Rust to know how to write machine code or assembly. Sure, the ones that can are p
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Wow. The fact that those "animations" (the fire and water effects) were all done with palette shifting is mind-bending.
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Exactly! I expect that some are able to put it to good use. I am not one of those people. My experiences with ChatGPT and Gemini have included lots of confident but wrong answers, eg “What castle was built at the highest altitude”. Thats wh
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I’ve never used it, simply because I hate autocomplete in emails. Gmail autocomplete saves me maybe 2-5s per email: the recipients name, a comma, and a sign off. Maybe a quarter or half sentence here or there, but never exactly what I wou
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
To be replaced with "Dell," "Dell Pro", and "Dell Pro Max"... Those tiers seem oddly familiar. They also throw away what I thought, as a proud long-time Dell Precision owner, was decent branding of their differ
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
It's fascinating because I came to a similar conclusion while working with very old IBM mainframe code editors (AS400 / IBM i "Source Entry Utility") It's nearly impossible (if you read the docs) to write somethin
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
On my laptop (2017 macbook air with an i3 and 8GB ram), about 45 seconds. On my desktop (Ryzen 5600G, 32GB ram), 2-15. I haven't tried any techniques to reduce the compilation time yet.
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
1: Actually, that's not true! I use Leptos in their "islands" mode for server side rendering. The entire page is sent as an HTML response, and there is little/no "hydration". The WASM file ONLY includes interac
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I liked the Leptos JSX syntax and I feel like Dioxus is addressing a different problem. Dioxus specifically markets itself as a tool for universal app development. I looked at it, Perseus, Askama + JS, etc, but ultimately thought Leptos see
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
The only hitch was figuring out how to get server side includes not to break the WASM compilation (the solution was adding #[cfg] and #[cfg_attr] guards around the diesel use and derive rules). Other than that, it just worked - it’s so damn

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