bangaroo

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by bangaroo 11mo ago
> if you make the same argument for flight it looks really weak. flight is an extremely straightforward concept based in relatively simple physics where the majority of the critical, foundational ideas involved were already near-complete
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by bangaroo 11mo ago
wouldn't call myself a detractor. i wouldn't call it a belief system i hold (i am an engineer 20 years into my career and would love to automate away the tedious parts of my job i've done a thousand times) as it is a position
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by bangaroo 11mo ago
so to clarify your case, you are having it generate a new application, from scratch, and then benchmarking the quality of the output and how fast it got to the solution you were seeking? i will concede that in this arena, there does seem to
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by bangaroo 11mo ago
you didn't provide an anecdote. you just said "it's better." an anecdote would be "claude 4 failed in x way, and claude 4.5 succeeds consistently." "it is better" is a statement of fact with literally
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by bangaroo 11mo ago
"it's better at coding" is not useful information, sorry. i'd love to hear tangible ways it's actually better. does it still succumb to coding itself in circles, taking multiple dependencies to accomplish the same t
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by bangaroo 11mo ago
every time i say "the tech seems to be stagnating" or "this model seems worse" based on my observations i get this response. "well, it's better for other use cases." i have even heard people say "this
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by bangaroo 11mo ago
Nobody could have seen this coming. Nobody at all.
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by bangaroo 1y ago
totally familiar with that - more often than not (in that it's always been the case) that is a function of how the company chose to build things, however, and not the base framework the product was built on. in fact, the greatest sourc
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by bangaroo 1y ago
realistically i've worked at very few companies whose delivery is held back meaningfully by the framework something is built in. when there's friction, it's much more likely to come from poor planning, or constantly adding mo
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by bangaroo 1y ago
perfectly reasonable read of it, honestly. i think i'm just very tired by all of this.
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by bangaroo 1y ago
at what point does it make sense to say “maybe you don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt” because it sincerely feels well past that point by all measures.
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by bangaroo 1y ago
i needed an "oh, that's really nice" story today. this delivered. in every way, this seems well-intentioned, quirky, cute, fun, and positive. unless there's some subtext i'm missing, this is just a good and nice thi
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by bangaroo 2y ago
this makes me feel less crazy apple ebbs and flows in terms of how on the ball they are in any given area, but it feels we're at a strange inflection point where their hardware is the best it's ever been and the software is inexpl
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by bangaroo 2y ago
the way i've heard it explained is functionally that the ultra rich are either leaning towards things like those private suites onboard a large plane, or flying in a private jet. people don't mind the experience of flying in a pla
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by bangaroo 2y ago
i don't. i'm explicitly choosing not to be pedantic and instead hoping you'll take what i say as what it obviously is intended to mean and not as a very specific and accurate phrasing to be disassembled and torn apart without
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by bangaroo 2y ago
as a person who likes airplanes (and airliners in particular,) i think it's cool that a commercially-focused aircraft manufacturer has managed to return to a type of flight that has primarily been relegated to military operations for a
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by bangaroo 2y ago
nope. commercial and private jets generally cap out around mach 0.9 i am very rusty on the economics and details of supersonic commercial flight, but the general gist as i recall is: - going much faster scales up the cost of flying at a rat
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by bangaroo 2y ago
i don't disagree with any of that, i'm extremely skeptical that they will ever scale this up however: there is, now. this is a civil aircraft flying supersonic, which is still some sort of interesting fact.
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by bangaroo 2y ago
there hasn't been supersonic civil aviation, as far as i am aware, since the concorde was grounded. there are no active commercial aircraft capable of going supersonic. this is significant because it's the first civil aircraft to
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by bangaroo 2y ago
wow! this sure is great! gemini has worked so great up until this point - for example, i learned that a man who died in 1850 is one of three private owners of the airbus a340-600 last week! i'm so glad gemini exists and i absolutely ca
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by bangaroo 2y ago
as an avid apple music user i am continually frustrated by what an afterthought the windows app is it's a continuation of apple's legacy of barely putting in the minimum to ship anything for windows. there's a reason i won&#x
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by bangaroo 2y ago
there is a little icon that is like... three lines next to an arrow in an L shape, but it's honestly unclear what it means visually (it doesn't read as AI, and I feel like "little sparkles" is the de facto AI icon) and i
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by bangaroo 2y ago
i mean the register is kinda more of a tabloid than anything, it's real-ish news but with a loose and snarky editorial style, so... it's pretty on-brand.
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by bangaroo 2y ago
Apple Intelligence is kind of uniquely bad. I don't understand how, but its AI message summaries often completely flip the meaning of texts I've received. I've gotten summaries that say "X person hates Y" and I read
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by bangaroo 2y ago
it's not a matter of what's complicated, it's a matter of what it replaces. the quote isn't reflecting on what's easiest to solve, it's reflecting on the impact that it has on culture as a whole. a tangible imp
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by bangaroo 2y ago
there are a lot of contexts where i'd be pretty bummed to find out most of the content was written by a computer, or feel like i lost something tangible or meaningful because of that change in the case of linkedin, i lose nothing. befo
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by bangaroo 2y ago
point 2 is the thing that i think is most important to point out: "architectures change" sure, that's a fact. let me apply this to other fields: "there could be a battery breakthrough that gives electric cars a 2,000 mil
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by bangaroo 2y ago
i am phenomenally skeptical of LLMs as tools that i can apply to my job, and so i say this only to offer a counterpoint - i actually think that warp is the only LLM tool that i like using. i've actually gotten real value out of it that
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by bangaroo 2y ago
yeah, i was with that comment until that point. i find it very hard to naturally meet or run across people in the suburbs, though i suppose in smaller rural areas if you are engaged in the community in some way you'd likely see the sam
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by bangaroo 2y ago
so to be clear, i'm engineering leadership - my exposure is probably greater than most individual contributor engineers but don't take my word as the experience of a dedicated recruiter - they have a much better view of the lay of

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