andyjda

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by andyjda 2y ago
I see this pattern a lot, and I find it telling: - someone claims that Gen AI is overhyped - someone responds with a Gen AI-enabled service that is 1) really impressive 2) is currently offered pretty much for free 3) doesn&#
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by andyjda 4y ago
I find it annoying either way: it doesn't provide valuable/novel information and isn't conducive to productive conversation (in part because it's unclear if it's sarcastic or earnest)
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by andyjda 4y ago
why is it that any mention of Rust on the internet will bring about these wildly-overshooting claims. The amount of production software having been re-written in Rust (or replaced by a Rust counterpart) is minimal. This kind of rewrite is r
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by andyjda 4y ago
which is why it's not a good analogy: you make a powerful tool like "programming language" easier to use, you get more people with the power to write programs. You make an unreliable and brittle tool like ChatGPT easier to us
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by andyjda 4y ago
The ratio of dumb stuff to reasonable stuff being said about ChatGPT is dizzying; I truly hope it has reached its peak and this kind of hype and poorly-thought-out analysis dies down soon. This whole article could be summarized as "How
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by andyjda 4y ago
I'm with you, but I also think that discussion about specific tools often is wrongly prioritized over discussion of general principles. The lesson should be "always profile your programs, and be especially wary of third-party depe
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by andyjda 4y ago
any way you decide to organize a state will have to be enforced by government to work at a large scale. That's what the law is for. Jesus actually did have a pretty clear statement in favor of taxes, the most common form of forced redi
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by andyjda 4y ago
Christian charity is not a right-wing principle. Many in the US tend to associate Christianity with right-wing ideology, but there's actually quite a few examples of a varied history of left-wing Christian thought and action. Sticking
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by andyjda 4y ago
What is mysterious about Chekhov’s success? Genuinely curious as someone who has only read a few of his stories but finds them clearly very well written and influential. Maybe the extent of his success is still somewhat surprising?
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by andyjda 4y ago
If he’s trying to do that, then I’d say he should focus outside of engineering and more on product design, marketing, and brand. “How to build a Super App” is not that complicated, from an engineering perspective. It does requires hard work
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by andyjda 4y ago
> engineering solutions to, for example, stop the spread misinformation without censorship. I really don't think this is an engineering problem. If I was a tech lead and a product manager came up to me with this, I'd tell the
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by andyjda 4y ago
> I don't see what it is about the Twitter product that would require going "hardcore". It's been more than twenty years since the dot-com bust and people still think that just because a company is on a website that
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by andyjda 4y ago
don't smartphones in China mostly run Android? Seems like a weird thing to compare OSs with apps
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by andyjda 4y ago
I see.I think we're in partial agreement regarding "discoverability" then, although I wouldn't call it "discoverability": I'd say the problem is more simply due to the fact that the tutorial is out-of-date
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by andyjda 4y ago
according to the maintainer: "I have investigated a number of cases like this, and in every one the data has been correctly recorded in the database, but for some reason it is displayed/exported incorrectly." https:/&#x
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by andyjda 4y ago
> Emacs' defaults, discoverability, overall polish - just sucks Agree that there's plenty to dislike about Emacs' defaults, especially in terms of polish/GUI, but can you elaborate a bit on what you mean by "di