browski

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by browski 2mo ago
HN, iPhone apps, and web apps, video games, Star Wars and comic movies, more cars and trucks than ever I am raising my kids to show zero respect to elders given in to nihilism to preserve their own extravagance
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by browski 2mo ago
Fwiw I find social media scores corny Just stokes addiction to a false sense of empowerment and social contribution Downvote away to hide from ideas and opinions you don't like. Conservative people are the only people so dysregulated b
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by browski 2mo ago
They aren't destroying work. Humans can still work on their yards and homes and yadda yadda They’re destroying labor exploiting knowledge "jobs" which is of course something NY Times and similar must be against or they might
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by browski 2mo ago
Programmers do not build a computer. EEs and computer engineers do that. They are driving (lol) towards the sale of a computer with a model on chip without a programmer salary and benefits adding to cost and resource use (all the tools of t
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by browski 2mo ago
What makes computers useful is solving problems I don't care if they adhere to written and oral traditions of the past or some other means I need to add and divide and test values in memory. I don't care what it looks like to do t
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by browski 2mo ago
> A decent model with a great harness beats a great model with a bad harness. Agreed. I don't use off the shelf skills and such. I craft my own that best serve the abstract problem rather than act as generic code tools. If I am work
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by browski 2mo ago
Never marrying may reduce risk of dementia: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/202504...
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by browski 2mo ago
Nvidia makes real things, grinds to push computing forward and are coincidentally wrapped up in the latest hype cycle in a big way Software-only startups make nothing but hype and (these days) merely copy-paste existing frameworks and libra
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by browski 2mo ago
Yeah how many of us know how to build an ICE engine or shoes of any meaningful quality We set upon end of human craftsmanship decades ago Math is probably the easiest to reclaim given its right in front our faces going about daily life. The
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by browski 2mo ago
Creative writing has gone from Shakespeare and Poe to corny simile; "life is like a belly button." Worked for Forrest because the character was intended to be simple. A cave isn't stable. It's an ever evolving biome of
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by browski 2mo ago
Yeah. Hiked on and around them in PNW mountains. And?
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by browski 2mo ago
Altman showing how desperate he is to get into hardware. He knows local models that supplement models in chip are the end of OIA
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by browski 2mo ago
Yeah I am mostly retired in late 40s having saved as much as possible as fast as possible and have time on my hands. Am exploring social media I largely ignored while staying busy working. Besides even if it was 3 years old account it still
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by browski 2mo ago
Outsiders need to append a "for NYC". They didn't here because for them as representatives of NYC that's all they are speaking to. Technical pedantry like this just displays poor language and social skills.
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by browski 2mo ago
That's a self selecting vain perspective to conclude with. Code is just storage medium. The hardware ultimately decides a lot that's out of our hands anyway; hardware never runs code in any structured way so getting intimate with
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by browski 2mo ago
Education is too obsessed with reading. It's passive cognitive copy paste. Writing seems way more important. Requires reading and establishing one's own voice. But writing in school (at least the district my ex worked for) is focu
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by browski 2mo ago
> I vehemently disagree that people working at big companies are stupid, or making themselves stupid. There are VPs and SVPs at Adobe and Salesforce that are smarter, more knowledgable, and more productive than any startup employee. That
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by browski 2mo ago
Here's me using a Gemini chat log scraper (from Gdrive) then dumping my prompt+Gemini response into local AI Never go over the free limits in Gemini Pro. Gemini is great at research and architecture, and my 30 years experience in progr
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by browski 2mo ago
Where all the bits we slang in 2009 and MacBooks we breezed through in the 2010s? Yeah, same place the tokens and MacBooks today end up This shits a boulevard of broken dreams in a lot of ways