MikeNotThePope

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by MikeNotThePope 9d ago
It should be sponsored by a model provider.
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by MikeNotThePope 9d ago
I have a dumb question. What is the eventual of efficient land use? Say we bulldoze a bunch of single family homes and get 10x as dense. Now we have 10x as many people per square kilometer. Is that an efficient use of land? Will there
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by MikeNotThePope 16d ago
I remember talking to a person who worked in marketing Kingsford, which at the time had like over 90% of the marketshare for USA charcoal. They had a marketing budget that was willing to spend money on any ol' stupid idea because they
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by MikeNotThePope 1mo ago
I had not, good idea though. It hadn't come up enough to make me think of requesting it.
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by MikeNotThePope 1mo ago
I only have one minor complaint about Fastmail after 5 years. I can’t do a full-page screenshot of a long email on my iPhone.
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by MikeNotThePope 1mo ago
What energy sources do we have that don't ultimately derive from either solar of radioactive decay? Residual heat from object formation perhaps.
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by MikeNotThePope 1mo ago
Nothing sexy. Just automating all the little recruiting tasks that suck up my time. Mainly MVP will just reduce, not totally eliminate, applications from people who aren’t serious or are clearly or a fit. A lot of nice to have features t
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by MikeNotThePope 1mo ago
Quit my job in May. Been working on a hiring platform that I’ve always wanted. I wanted it so bad I quit recruiting, taught myself to code, worked as a developer for 12 years, and now I’m building it :)
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by MikeNotThePope 1mo ago
Personally I find AI simultaneously powerful and fatiguing. Hiring someone else to use AI is honestly pretty great.
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by MikeNotThePope 1mo ago
Buying stable coins is a mild pain because so many banks think crypto is radioactive. Then you have to wait for your deposited funds to completely settle before you can withdraw the crypto from your account and send it elsewhere. Doable,
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by MikeNotThePope 1mo ago
"After 12 months of data analysis, we have arrived at the conclusion that our average customer was born before 1957 and thinks the country to going to hell in a hand basket."
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by MikeNotThePope 2mo ago
It's fine to make a project that will only be interesting if people choose to contribute, and it's fine if people want to contribute.
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by MikeNotThePope 2mo ago
I wonder how well a coding agent could be out Apple silicon programs to older Intel chips.
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by MikeNotThePope 2mo ago
Your model/harness will indiscriminately do web searches to get answers. I believe that’s where the real risk is.
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by MikeNotThePope 2mo ago
There needs to be a simple feature to wipe your phone and then restore to a point and time. That’d be really convenient.
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by MikeNotThePope 2mo ago
I don’t think concentration risk is itself overly concerning. The nature of a market cap weighted index means it will always be heavy on whatever is currently trending. You’ll certainly be hurting if your plan is to retire at the top of t
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by MikeNotThePope 2mo ago
I never appreciated a proper muffler until I didn't have one. I was driving a 27-year-old Honda Civic, and the rusty muffler fell off one day. On the way to go get it fixed, the typically quiet Honda made a ridiculous amount of noise.
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by MikeNotThePope 2mo ago
What are people using in Canada? SMS?
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by MikeNotThePope 2mo ago
Fun fact: Ryanair owns its fleet outright, and (currently) buys all of its new planes from cash flow. Pretty unusual for a major airline.
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by MikeNotThePope 2mo ago
Unless the quote was good for a certain amount of time, I don’t see a problem. Prices change. When you see a good price, buy it.
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by MikeNotThePope 3mo ago
I felt a similar way when I visited the Gran Telescopio Canarias, a 10.4m telescope in La Palma in the Canary Islands. It’s hard to take pictures of the entire telescope because it’s so damn big. I love experiencing the feeling of being i
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by MikeNotThePope 3mo ago
My phone number is the ultimate vendor lock in. A username/handle would be an improvement.
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by MikeNotThePope 3mo ago
Rocket Lab wants the radio spectrum, which gives them a global license in every country to talk directly to cell phones. Why the Satellite Race is No Longer About Satellites - https://youtube.com/shorts/hRxv4RggxLE
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by MikeNotThePope 3mo ago
You don’t need to learn how to code if you’re not working on anything important & interesting. But you’ll be limited to what AI can do for you. If you need to solve problems where AI is weak, you’ll need the skills to do the work your
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by MikeNotThePope 3mo ago
What if you don’t filter at all? What if you just interviewed 10 random people? They’re probably all smart enough on some level.
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by MikeNotThePope 3mo ago
How about implementing a prepaid system where you set your budget, and if you exceed it, everything just pauses until you pay more?
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by MikeNotThePope 3mo ago
This is my own personal experience as a senior engineer. I hired my first ever intern for myself this past week for a personal. Rather than expecting someone who is experienced to knock out tasks or whatever & try to justify the expens
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by MikeNotThePope 3mo ago
Open source models are not immune to a different form of restriction either. I recently learned that China is restricting travel for AI engineers living in China. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-r
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by MikeNotThePope 3mo ago
This is somewhat impressive, but can you reverse a binary tree?! https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
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by MikeNotThePope 3mo ago
4.3T could be the cost of a dozen of eggs by 2040.

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