eric4smith

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by eric4smith 3mo ago
Really? No.
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by eric4smith 3y ago
That’s like saying generative AI is not real AI.
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by eric4smith 3y ago
It’s open enough that a poor person working freelance for $5 per hour on the other side of the world can use it for free to enhance their work. Sure you can bleat on and on that it’s not GPL blah blah. But I see some VA’s who have English a
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by eric4smith 4y ago
When their careers is something that is suitable for 18 years and older I would agree with you. Otherwise you’re deliberately ignoring the elephants in the room.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
People keep saying I’m “anti woke and anti tran$”. But it’s things like this that give me pause. Why not just not read the books you don’t like?? I love to re-read books I like every few years. Similarly If someone said that people should a
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Yeah it’s sucks how he was let go. But he will get paid. But for the first time I’m using Twitter more than HN , which has jumped the shark. Elon’s accomplishments? - helped start openai - runs the biggest rocket company that makes a new ra
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Cough, cough... HN? "Keep body text at 16px or above 16px is the default text size in most browsers. Text below this size gets harder to read, so it’s safest to avoid it for body text. The higher you go beyond 16px, the easier the text
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Makes HUGE difference. All the front-end work is another complete app with all the work that entails.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Hustle bros were there since the beginning of time. Think about that. Every new thing for thousands of years someone always jumped on it for short term $$$ gain. The hustle bros have a firm place in the ecosystem and the internet has just p
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by eric4smith 4y ago
This article reminds me of some guy on Twitter who says nothing in AI space has changed since 2020. Maybe so. But you know what’s changed? Someone decided to get their a$$ out of the AI labs, write a really simple interface just to “get it
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Most SPA is totally unnecessary and a big waste of time. People are worrying about the speed of SSR when they should be worrying about the developer time on the client which is several orders of magnitude more. I think people have fallen in
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Visited Japan and loved it. BUT. The rest of the world treats Japan as something "special". All the media/manga/anime/pr0n/temples/culture and people. What I've learned traveling to various countries
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Sometimes capitalism works!
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by eric4smith 4y ago
The point is to get the list quickly. Then the next point is to summarize each item. Then I can go in and validate the info from other sources and clean up the writing to my style. Get it now?
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Ugh I’m not.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
I Clearly said we use google to confirm the AI output. And we also do not do medical stuff. I just used that as an example.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
A lot of my reason for googling was to find facts or answers for what I’m writing or coding. Now I use ChatGPT as an “assistant” to do a lot of tasks that I would have normally done with laborious searching through google. It truly saves a
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Default Vim is best. Actually just editing/copy/paste/delete is more than enough for 99% of uses cases. I been using vi since 1982 and vim now. No need for anything else. No plugins. Nothing. Just vim.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
“Open protocols” is all well and good. Onboarding is important. However what will cause Mastodon to remain as a niche network is that the networks you want are not over there. Ask yourself this… Which server are most of these people on? Are
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Me: ChatGPT please write 500 words for todays essay on the importance of writing 500 words each day. ChatGPT: Ok, here is an essay…
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by eric4smith 4y ago
I do online marketing for many small websites in my portfolio. Yesterday I had to write some fairly boilerplate landing page content for 13 types of sub-services. In each case I asked ChatGPT to write 500 words in the style I wanted. It did
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Was a vegan for 15 years. Then switched to carnivore abruptly. Changed my life for the better. Would never eat any plant based fake meat products.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Joe Haldeman's The Forever War and Forever Peace series of novels chronicle this with pretty decent speculation. He goes from war, to loneliness, to very low birth rates in society to rising same sex unions, to interesting alternative
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Slightly off topic... Back before my Phoenix/Elixir days, we used to have to cache almost everything. Now we don't cache anything -- even with more traffic and less servers. Now, the projects I work on are not getting millions of
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by eric4smith 4y ago
I had a database table where I used UUID as primary key. Big mistake. Haunts us to this day. Not sortable. Takes a lot of space. Table relationships are annoying. Etc. What we do instead is have a secondary UUID key and keep Bigint as prima
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by eric4smith 4y ago
My mistake. I refer to time as it is relatively perceived as in "relativity".
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Some concepts are hard to grasp because of their scale. Greg Bear was the first person who really made me understand time slowing down as speed increases in Anvil of Stars. Also the destruction of earth in “The Forge of God” was so visceral
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by eric4smith 4y ago
Yes
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by eric4smith 4y ago
You just don’t know them enough as yet.
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by eric4smith 4y ago
I’m not gonna google that for you. Don’t be lazy, spend the 15 minutes and do that research yourself.

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