TheMagicHorsey

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by TheMagicHorsey 17d ago
Meanwhile, the brightest engineer they know left to work for a startup in San Francisco.
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by TheMagicHorsey 19d ago
Do judicial rulings have much effect on this administration anymore? It feels a bit like the judges are goalies trying to block penalty shots, and this administration just keeps kicking balls at the goal, and eventually something gets in .
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by TheMagicHorsey 1mo ago
Rust's more powerful type system seems like a better match for LLMs ... better guardrails. But Rust is so painful to read that LLM code becomes inscrutable. If I'm never going to read the source, probably Rust would be better. I
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by TheMagicHorsey 1mo ago
China has basically no domestic patent litigation. The way you stop the litigation is to just remove the legal rights associated with patents. Let everything become a free for all. China is just lapping everyone else right now. The lack
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by TheMagicHorsey 1mo ago
Anyone who has ever taken part in a software patent litigation ... or in the creation of a software patent, knows intimately that its a bunch of bullshit. The boogieman that software patent advocates raise is that IP theft and free riding w
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by TheMagicHorsey 1mo ago
Reminds me of the ship names in the Culture novels by Iain M Banks.
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by TheMagicHorsey 1mo ago
This phrase could have been authored about every single community leadership committee I've been a part of for the last 20 years.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2mo ago
I have about 20 or 30 fountain pens. I do system architecture diagrams, with notes in the margin, using pen and ink. It does help me think. I actually find it relaxing and fun.
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by TheMagicHorsey 3mo ago
There are certain influential people on Twitter, who if you see them start tweeting on a subject, you know the influx of hype and hucksters is coming.
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by TheMagicHorsey 3mo ago
Ha! I had a similar story, Om saw me and a group of other engineers that our boss briefly introduced as he was walking through our offices, and Om remarked: "You are working these guys too hard ... they look like they don't get e
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by TheMagicHorsey 3mo ago
Imagine if they applied this same logic to the NBA draft.
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by TheMagicHorsey 3mo ago
One of the reasons I started messing around with Zig.
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by TheMagicHorsey 4mo ago
It's interesting that saying the Earth is more than 10,000 years old is not haram in Saudi Arabia. I thought it would be, since they are so religious, but it turns out the Koran doesn't make any claims about the age of the Earth,
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by TheMagicHorsey 4mo ago
The UPI payment system in India seems to work really well. I'm not sure about the architecture exactly, but there seems to be a way to generate one-time passwords that you can use to pay people a fixed amount. E.g. you go to a website
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by TheMagicHorsey 4mo ago
How much of this action by Bambu is driven by the fact that they're being threatened from Washington DC that they will have to be able to prevent people from printing "illegal" items, like gun parts, in the future?
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by TheMagicHorsey 4mo ago
Oh lord. If this is the trend, I probably can't avoid improving my Rust language knowledge in the long term. I hate reading Rust so much right now. I guess I just have to get over that hump.
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by TheMagicHorsey 4mo ago
This is the way. Sovereign SOTA models might also be possible with nation-state involvement. But this is a good stopgap.
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
Is it just me being ignorant and crazy, or does it make more sense for EBay to take over Gamestop, rather than vice versa?
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
Was interesting to read this post because I've always been an extrovert and have never had trouble making friends. I usually make friends quickly ... and my problem is in the other direction ... I have too many friends and people get
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
My biggest gripe with Rust, which certainly reflects my own shortcomings, is that when I go back and revisit simple Rust programs I wrote more than a year ago, it takes me a long time to understand what I was even doing in a particular part
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
Hahaha! This is great. Somewhat related. My mom once yelled at me for losing a necklace she really liked. Then we were moving her stuff out of her house and found the necklace behind a wardrobe, wedged between it and the wall. It had be
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
Law enforcement being lazy, dumb, and incompetent is not an unpredictable bug. Its predictable. The smartest human capital does not go into law enforcement in this country. They go to other industries. Flock needs to have procedures for
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
This issue of large organizations making shitty products seems to infect every company except for a handful. Even Google, with all its good intensions, by 2010 was full of political animals climbing ever higher on the corporate ladder whil
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
Butlerian Jihad vibes are building.
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
What a coincidence. Just today, someone on my high school alumni group just posted an album they "made", which is 100% AI generated music. They claim authorship because they created the prompts to the AI. My feeling is that if t
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
I had no idea there was an entire OS written in Rust that was this far along. Is all the bootstrapping from assembly directly into Rust, or do they still have a dependency on C and gcc just to get things going?
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
Reminds me of this game show episode. I was watching it with friends, and I'm not sure if we all picked out who the smartest person would be, but I do remember we definitely figured out who one of the lower-ranked people would be just
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
I don't know what it is about me, but I have a sixth sense for losers who will not pay. There's been a number of times where acquaintences have taken contracts I've turned down (against my advice too) and have not been paid.
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by TheMagicHorsey 5mo ago
This reminds me of a story my grandfather told me about how they needed to have a bunch of infrastructure and employees devoted to telegraph based notifications in 1970s India, because some bureaucrats refused to move everything over to tel
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by TheMagicHorsey 8mo ago
America is "Three Corporations in A Trench Coat"? Everything America is doing right now is because America is precisely NOT taking corporate decisions. America is doing things to the international order that are directly fucking

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