csharpminor

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by csharpminor 9d ago
Oh yes Department of Defense is much less disgusting. Actually, why not just rename it to Ministry of Peace? We can call it Minipax for short.
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by csharpminor 13d ago
Are we forgetting how fast they rushed in to deploy Claude at the DoW with Palantir?
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by csharpminor 3mo ago
“So glad we found a home for all of the Claudes!”
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by csharpminor 5mo ago
I think Codex is a better fit for professional software engineers. It's able to one-shot larger, more complex tasks than Claude and also does better context management which is really important in a large codebase. On the other hand, I
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by csharpminor 6mo ago
Context management is one area where I’ve found Codex is a lot better than Claude. Sessions last forever without degrading. Codex doesn’t forget things that Claude drops from context.
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by csharpminor 1y ago
Another sketchy practice: if you get Uber Cash through a card like Amex, when you go to use it the price for the ride is automatically $15-$20 more than someone who doesn’t have an Uber Cash balance. I’ve checked this side by side with coll
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by csharpminor 1y ago
If you believe the AGI thesis, this is a stepping stone to unlocking fusion and other scientific advances.
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by csharpminor 1y ago
Jobs was kind of infamous for making people put their app / product in front of him while he sat in silence and used it. Harder to fake. But lots of execs don't know enough about their own products to interrogate like that. So the
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by csharpminor 2y ago
One of the things I love about ChatGPT is voice mode for collaborative searching. My wife and I will both ask questions about things like house repairs, meal planning, sleep training, etc. So much better than both of us googling separately
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by csharpminor 2y ago
Why assume that chat will be the interface? Multimodal and dynamically generated seems more likely.
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by csharpminor 2y ago
I find it fascinating how communication channels are subject to some form of Goodhart’s law. Channels that are recognized as valuable by subscribers become more desirable by publishers, receive more noise, and then cease to be useful.
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by csharpminor 2y ago
I truly wonder if this is an “any publicity is good publicity” tactic on their part. It’s now national news that OpenAI supports conversational voice. Buying this level of publicity would likely have cost more than the lawyers and damages.
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by csharpminor 2y ago
The same problem can have different causes. Forgive me, but this sounds like rationalized fatalism. I’m genuinely curious, what keeps Sweden from building more cheap housing?
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by csharpminor 2y ago
More people need to know about the role unions play in obstructing new construction. From locking up permits in CEQA reviews to blocking pre-fabricated structures, they are one of the driving factors behind a housing unit costing $700k at t
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by csharpminor 2y ago
IMO teaching people about passkeys and making the onboarding experience as easy as possible would be many times more effective at actually preventing phishing.
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by csharpminor 2y ago
Boom (and supersonic aircraft) are a strategic investment priority for Saudi Arabia to sustain demand for oil. If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about their impact on emissions I don’t know what else does.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
It’s one of those experiences you didn’t realize you wanted until you have it. - No need for chit chat, you can just work / talk on the phone / play music - No 18-hour shift sweat and deodorant smell - No cursing at other drivers
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by csharpminor 3y ago
The only major U.S. airline to not currently operate the MAX is Delta. Frontier, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Spirit, and SunCountry also do not operate it.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Agree with this. For folks not familiar with Twilio leadership, I would liken Kho to Twilio's version of Tim Cook. For the size and stage of growth that Twilio's at, he's the best possible replacement for Jeff.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I’ve noticed these near-death-experience videos coming up in my recommendations and found it truly odd. They don’t seem to have anything to do with what I normally watch. I have to wonder if they’re the top of the funnel for religion campai
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Out of curiosity, have you ever been responsible for hiring and managing a team? I say this because my experience of hiring and employing people really shifted my opinion in favor of maximum diligence unfortunately.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I'd be curious to know from someone with more knowledge: are there any technological improvements that could prevent this kind of accident? It seems as though it should be possible (though perhaps not easy) to automatically detect an a
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I'm very mixed about B-corp (I say this as someone who went through it about 10 years ago). There isn't really anything about the certification process that's binding, and it's definitely gamed. There are multiple MLMs t
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Yes, the “Rockwell Retro Encabulator” - a Reddit favorite - is currently on the front page of HN. Sigh.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Many people will exclaim, "only $9M!?" It's probably true that this amount is underestimated. But it's also true that incumbent politicians are very cheap. For example, a $10,000 donation obscures that the lobbying group
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by csharpminor 3y ago
This firing very much has the feeling of the board fearfully pulling the circuit breaker on OpenAI's for-profit trajectory. On the one hand, I actually respect their principles. OpenAI has become the company its nonprofit was formed to
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by csharpminor 3y ago
I’ve received two data breach notices in the past week, one from my healthcare provider and the other from the bank that holds my mortgage. In both instances they said to lock my credit, and provide free credit monitoring for a year. I find
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by csharpminor 3y ago
If you read the article, it speculates that the most likely mechanism will be IR cameras that detect distracted driving/sleep. This technology is already widely used in commercial truck driving.
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by csharpminor 3y ago
A government’s source of revenue is working age taxpayers. Its biggest cost is the social safety net for the elderly. It seems natural for them to care about population growth? Where would they get the money for UBI if their tax base is con
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by csharpminor 3y ago
Do more short high effort intervals. Find a track to run at if you can and alternate easy/hard laps. The visual cues of a track will really help you feel confident pushing hard because it’s easy to see how much distance remains. Also,

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