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by ffitch 2mo ago
The article is not about this stuff being useful for making money off of prediction markets.
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by ffitch 2mo ago
from the article: I asked the guy who turned $35 into $2 million in seven months on Kalshi whether, in another seven months, he would be able to 100,000x his money a second time to $200 billion. Unsurprisingly, he said no - there’s only
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by ffitch 3mo ago
No extra hardware, stock macbooks and an imac. No fancy apps either, RayCast is probably the only one that overrides default system behavior. It used to be better, a few years ago macOS would run stable for months, but even then I had to re
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by ffitch 3mo ago
hope not : ) I observed these across three computers on different versions of macOS.
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by ffitch 3mo ago
A couple of years ago I noticed that my mac starts collecting weird little bugs if I don’t reboot for a really long time. The cursor starts misbehaving (it won’t reliably change over links, or in graphic editors), switching between apps mig
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by ffitch 4mo ago
fun fact, CH is an ISO code of Switzerland, and China is CN
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by ffitch 7mo ago
> our team was blown away > by how much Codex was able > to accelerate its own development they forgot to add “Can’t wait to see what you do with it”
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by ffitch 8mo ago
I didn’t mean collaboration features. I clumsily used 10,000-users as a measure of the app completeness.
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by ffitch 8mo ago
Building (or vibecoding) a markdown editor for a single user and their specific use case, for a 100 users, and for 10,000 users takes different amount of time and effort. In the pre-LLM days people with resolve to make 1-user version were l
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by ffitch 10mo ago
in this quote ↑6 describes the wealth level and ↑7 the number of people at that level. the author gives every number in log form.
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by ffitch 1y ago
seeing how much power shifted from legislative branch to executive, and how often executive branch changes its mind, I wouldn’t count on the unwavering government support
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by ffitch 1y ago
great benchmark!
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by ffitch 1y ago
does anyone know how would e-ink compare to oldschool reflective TN LCD displays (those in Casios from the nineties)? I have a Playdate device with this type of screen and it seems pretty cool, I wonder why so few devices today are taking a
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by ffitch 1y ago
Hey, I’m the author of Shottr. It’s super gratifying to know that there are people who see the app that way : ) thank you for saying this!
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by ffitch 1y ago
Great analysis! a couple of comments: 1. the airfare inflation chart is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI which is calculated differently from the other metrics in the article; it does take into account routes popularity. 2. today
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by ffitch 1y ago
I wonder how modern models fair on NovelQA and FLenQA (benchmarks that test ability to understand long context beyond needle in a haystack retrieval). The only such test on a reasoning model that I found was done on o3-mini-high ( https:&#x
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by ffitch 1y ago
I’m curious what the policy with the highest long-term benefit would be. The country needs external talent, but would skewing H-1B towards high skill be good? The economy seems to need unskilled labor for the jobs Americans are not interest
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by ffitch 1y ago
From where I stand, AI seems to enjoy lightning fast adoption. Personal computers became a viable technology in the eighties, slowly penetrated workplace in the nineties, and supposedly registered in labor productivity in the early 2000s. T
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by ffitch 1y ago
> So, any smart simulation would only be simulating a small very percentage of itself at any given time does a falling tree make a sound if the simulation is not running? : )
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by ffitch 1y ago
The things like window buttons, remote keyfobs or radio units will have higher margin when sold individually, allowing to lower the base model price.
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by ffitch 1y ago
curious that both YAGNI and YAGRI arguments could realistically be made for the same fields. guess it boils down to whether someone’s YAGRI is stronger than their colleague’s YAGNI ( :
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by ffitch 1y ago
somewhat unrelated to the topic, but I really liked this part of one of the sentences: “did not not only did not”. it does make sense in the sentence btw.
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by ffitch 1y ago
The share of adults with a higher education degree almost doubled during the author’s teaching career. No surprise a median student is less capable and motivated today.
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by ffitch 2y ago
for what it’s worth, my afternoon projects tend to take over four days even if no llm is involved
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by ffitch 2y ago
this satisfaction sells. there are companies built on the premise that after the last 1% of effort the sales skyrocket. the marketing narrative of having a complete, high quality product helps to stand out.
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by ffitch 2y ago
the chip is inside the relatively soft back cover, not in the polycarbonate page
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by ffitch 2y ago
World Rapid and Blitz Championship downgraded itself to the World Rapid and Blitz Candidates Tournament. Hope sponsors are not too pissed.
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by ffitch 2y ago
I meant the folders, sorry! Is age the factor here? feels like they’re just as ubiquitous today as they were when the author was in high school. I certainly appreciate the idea of crafting something special out of seemingly boring material,
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by ffitch 2y ago
it’s very inspiring! I wonder why manila envelopes. does envelope paper have properties uniquely fitted for this kind of modeling, or is it just nice color and suitable weight?
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by ffitch 2y ago
2.8% GDP (and labour productivity) growth doesn’t look that impressive when budget deficit is at 6.4%. A large portion of US GDP is domestic consumption.

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