fraaancis

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by fraaancis 7mo ago
He kind of did. He used leverage to place bets on the market. Leverage scales in a way, because larger pools of money (corporations, groups of investors) mean larger bets. But leverage also doesn't scale, because larger pools of money
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by fraaancis 7mo ago
AI Fatigue. I'm a fan of AI but I've stopped clicking on stories about it because it's mostly hype, slop, fomo, and flat-out lies.
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by fraaancis 7mo ago
I wonder how many layers of fabric a cutter could get through in one pass (without setting it on fire).
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by fraaancis 7mo ago
YouTube's recommendation system is great... for children.
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by fraaancis 7mo ago
In the problem is the solution. Open source maintainers start writing AGENTS.md and other files to guide those using LLMs, and future nerd sniping and elitism can be practiced in reference to the spec instead of the actual code. There can
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by fraaancis 8mo ago
If you can handle Linux, you should try Reaper as a DAW. It's really great.
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by fraaancis 10mo ago
Maybe, but they also have bets placed that hydrogen fuel cells are the future, which doesn't seem very realistic either. Unrealistic in a different direction.
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by fraaancis 1y ago
I've definitely seen this in the chat interface. It loses entire methods and segments of source, and it absolutely crawls during generation. To the point where I just tell it to give me the changes and where to put them.
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by fraaancis 2y ago
It's too bad the AI can't just do the sewing.
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by fraaancis 2y ago
This is exactly the app I would've wanted when I was still trying to lose weight by tracking calories, really great idea. I paid for a calorie-tracking app that couldn't do this, I think it was MyFitnessPal, and know several peop
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by fraaancis 2y ago
I kept at mathacademy for about 6-8 months and completed Foundations 1, which was mostly a review of things I'd forgotten. Once I got to Foundations 2 and started regularly failing quizzes, I had to let it go. In my opinion, the peda
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by fraaancis 2y ago
Now that I think about it, I never once got a job from a cold application. It was always on either an employee recommendation or having met a family member.
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by fraaancis 2y ago
Second this. Getting rich is orthogonal to general intelligence, and much more aligned to how you estimate and handle risk.
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by fraaancis 3y ago
In a comment on another Rust-related post, the author noted that, "rust definitely skews younger than average. i don't have statistics on hand, but almost all people i know working on the project are younger than 35, and a
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by fraaancis 3y ago
I've known some corporate recruiters personally and I thought I'd heard most of the hiring horror stories. I have _never_ heard of this, and now I'm wondering how prevalent it is.
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by fraaancis 3y ago
Converting all matter in the universe to compute.
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by fraaancis 3y ago
Public transit is hot garbage in 99% of cities in the US. Bus routes represent a shuttle for moving the poor, elderly, and infirm between various public assistance offices. It won't go away, but it's unlikely to ever be more tha
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by fraaancis 3y ago
Yeah, it is. The only glaring issue I see is that Yaccarino will definitely have to compromise by kicking some of the more radical people off the platform to get the high-dollar accounts advertising on Twitter again, which will draw fire f
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by fraaancis 4y ago
This hole was plugged more than a year ago as they no longer use the ESP32 as a base.
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by fraaancis 4y ago
"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.
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by fraaancis 4y ago
* > I believe the key to success here will be "Cold Sales" * 100% correct. 1. Get a demo ready that you can show on a laptop. Focus on features. 2. Smile and dial. Set a meeting with the business owner or manager to show the