baconmania

6 ms·

1.
by baconmania 3mo ago
Folks who keep mentioning that this is no different than any previous upward leap of abstraction in human history are missing a key point that the frontier labs are certainly not missing: this is the first time in computing that you are bec
2.
by baconmania 3mo ago
Sorry to disappoint bud, I'm a manager of managers. Being able to look critically at your own tribe is one of the first skills you learn if you want to survive as someone telling other people how to do their jobs.
3.
by baconmania 3mo ago
>choose what tools I use to learn about my condition regardless of how well it works or even if it’s likely to mislead me. Even if it "works" so poorly that you're not actually learning about your condition?
4.
by baconmania 3mo ago
The implication that tokenmaxxing was an intentional and thoughtfully considered approach rather than blind hype-following by an overpaid manager class who are too far removed from value to understand the downsides of LLMs is hysterical bey
5.
by baconmania 1y ago
Outsourcing a specific task to a deterministic tool you own is clearly not the same thing as outsourcing all of your cognition to a probabilistic tool owned by people with ongoing political and revenue motives that don’t align with your own
6.
by baconmania 1y ago
You’ve offered no evidence of “DEI in maths” or any of your other confidently unsubstantiated arguments. You’re just parroting talking points. Unserious takes deserve unserious responses.
7.
by baconmania 2y ago
This is an enormously disingenuous take. When Usenet was the only game in town, children were not stumbling into hyperoptimized addictive experiences tailored to every flick of their eyes. You don’t think that thousands of engineers buildin
8.
by baconmania 2y ago
It’s not super clear what you’re getting at here. The choice isn’t teflon or oil. Everyone uses fat to sear food in a pan, whether or not it’s a nonstick pan. Cooking with a high-smoke-point oil which is low in saturated fat, such as avoc
9.
by baconmania 2y ago
Most consumer PTFE coatings are declared to be safe up to 450°F. It is trivially easy to heat a pan beyond that temperature on modern gas, electric, and induction ranges in less than ten minutes. The margin of safety is demonstrably nonexis
10.
by baconmania 3y ago
Assuming you're serious, I'm curious why you think Reddit's CEO shouldn't be chastised under that same category. Selling ads next to user-generated content, rent seeking with demands of extortionate API fees to serve th
11.
by baconmania 4y ago
Is this actually a reinvention of the browser, or just another self-interested organization trying to grab a slice of the pie? I download Arc and am immediately greeted with a mandatory account creation page (which asks for my name, even) w
12.
by baconmania 4y ago
Given your comment history, it’s clear that you’re driven by motivations that aren’t at all universal. More bluntly, you’ve decided that consumer-surveillance-as-a-service is harmless. I’m thankful that the European regulatory apparatus dis
13.
by baconmania 5y ago
Charitably, this is a goofy take. Less charitably, your reference to a "vocal urbanist activist crowd" suggests that you're leaning more on partisan talking points than evidence. More to the point, here's where this argu
14.
by baconmania 7y ago
What's interesting is that most thoughtful people in the industry agree that our conventions around interviewing make for an almost hilariously arbitrary hiring process, but very few large software orgs have actually changed the way th
15.
by baconmania 8y ago
What's your source for the claim that Tesla's system "doesn't detect stationary objects"? From the reference frame of a moving Tesla, both globally stationary and globally moving objects will appear to be in motion.
16.
by baconmania 10y ago
Given this man's established ideological record, I think this article reveals more about Jason Furman's personal philosophical baises than it does about the objective costs and benefits of UBI: http://articles.latimes.c
17.
by baconmania 11y ago
The fact that Clojure "hides the magic" behind less-verbose syntax can be a feature or a bug, depending on your opinion. What's certain is that it's disingenuous to say that you have to explain those concepts in other la
18.
by baconmania 11y ago
>Legitimate criticism of his views should be directed at him Meanwhile, on the GitHub issue: >Locking this one. Note sure which peanut gallery site linked this... This is clearly a guy who thinks his own opinion is above reproach and
19.
by baconmania 11y ago
This is Amazon's wet dream. Your app isn't an app at all, it's just a collection of configs on the AWS Console. When and if the time comes to migrate off of AWS, you realize you don't actually have an app to migrate.
20.
by baconmania 12y ago
Except people who buy physical gold don't have to worry about "the technical side of securing their own funds" because they can put their gold in a safe deposit box... at a bank. The safety of your Bitcoin, on the other hand,
21.
Talos: An ExpressJS-inspired middleware framework for building IRC bots in Node(github.com)
1 points by baconmania 12y ago|0 comments