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by gcp123 4mo ago
Freaking love it! Gonna put this on my 1998 Bondi Blue iMac G3 today.
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by gcp123 1y ago
Having spent some time working on aging research before transitioning to biotech, this paper genuinely excited me in a way that few studies have recently. The longevity field is littered with compounds that work beautifully in vitro but fai
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by gcp123 1y ago
While I think the title is misleading/clickbaity (no surprise given the buzzfeed connection), I'll say that the substance of the article might be one of the most honest take on LLMs I've seen from someone who actually works i
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by gcp123 1y ago
Yes! The century of the self documentary I mentioned is all about Bernays.
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by gcp123 1y ago
This struck a nerve. I've been on both sides of this war: the test evangelist fighting for coverage and the pragmatist shipping to beat a deadline. After 20+ years in software, the truth is painfully obvious: testing is the greatest pr
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by gcp123 1y ago
Amen.
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by gcp123 1y ago
I can’t stop thinking about this article. I spent a long time in ad tech before switching to broader systems engineering. The author captures something I've struggled to articulate to friends and family about why I left the industry. T
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by gcp123 1y ago
As someone who's worked in marketing for 15 years - across big agencies in New York and running growth for startups - there's an uncomfortable truth to this piece. The industry has quietly become something darker than when I joine
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by gcp123 1y ago
I built something similar a few years ago, but using a Pi instead of an Arduino. Reading through the poster's calculations brought back memories of debugging my own orbital mechanics code at 2am while questioning all my life choices. W
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by gcp123 1y ago
I've been following Voyager since the late 70s when my dad (who worked at Ames) would bring home printouts of the Jupiter images. This interview captures something profound about these missions that non-space folks often miss. The most
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by gcp123 1y ago
I've spent the last decade watching this arms race between interviewers and candidates. Last month I hired a senior dev who couldn't implement a basic database migration when we brought him on but aced our interview problems. Turn
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by gcp123 1y ago
What makes this fascinating isn't just what it says about storytelling, but what it reveals about our relationship with truth in media. I worked in public radio for 7 years, and TAL's influence was impossible to overstate - every
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by gcp123 1y ago
The author did a fantastic job explaining complex cryptographic concepts in accessible terms. I particularly appreciate how it builds up the problem space before introducing solutions. I spent several years implementing TLS in embedded syst
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by gcp123 1y ago
The tragic irony of Objectivism is perfectly captured in Peikoff's life story. A man who dedicated himself to a philosophy of radical independence ended up defining his entire existence through dependency. First on Rand, now apparently
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by gcp123 1y ago
I've spent the last six months building a coding agent at work, and the reliability issues are killing us. Our users don't want 'superhuman' results 10% of the time - they want predictable behavior they can trust. When w
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by gcp123 1y ago
I didn't say that intellectually honest content bubbles to the top, I said: "I think the algorithm is working exactly as intended if it's designed to limit intellectually dishonest content". There's a difference.
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by gcp123 1y ago
As someone who's been reading Daring Fireball since 2004 and considers themselves an Apple fan, I think the algorithm is working exactly as intended if it's designed to limit intellectually dishonest content. Gruber has built a ca
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by gcp123 2y ago
Two follow-ups for you: 1. Is this response some kind of attempt to excuse hostile UX? 2. Because reader mode exists, does that mean brutally bad UX should never be called out?
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by gcp123 2y ago
Came here to say this. Woof.
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LegacyAI allows vintage Macs to run AI services like ChatGPT(manticore.nz)
1 points by gcp123 2y ago|0 comments
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by gcp123 2y ago
This is about selling solutions vs solving problems. There's an excellent quote about this common phenomenon from Lant Pritchett (Prof @ Harvard Kennedy School) that has stuck with me for years, and helped improve how I begin a working
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Marc Andreessen Grants $50K BTC to Autonomous AI Agent on Twitter(decrypt.co)
6 points by gcp123 2y ago|2 comments
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by gcp123 2y ago
Unfortunately the linked article is the best public write-up I could find on this story. Much better background context comes from this 15 min podcast episode that didn't have a transcript to directly link to, so here's a link to
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by gcp123 2y ago
Wow, just when I was looking for a reason to fire up my old 1998 bondi blue iMac G3, this pops up. What a weird, wild, and specific project!
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by gcp123 2y ago
Apple is doing everything it can to add friction to this process for Epic. It rejected this store because of the button design. Then approved it “temporarily” after Epic brought attention to the triviality of the decision. Temporary, pendin
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by gcp123 2y ago
The gist of it in plain english: 1. Our genes change as we age with some becoming more active, while others become less active. 2. The researchers found a special protein called AP-1 that acts like a master switch. As we get older, AP-1 bec
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by gcp123 2y ago
Author makes a good point. "1700s" is both more intuitive and more concise than "18th century". The very first episode of Alex Trebeck's Jeopardy in 1984 illustrates how confusing this can be: https://ww
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by gcp123 2y ago
Agreed. First couple paragraphs of the post had me like, wtf am I reading right now? Threw the article into Claude and had it succinctly summarize the key ideas the author was trying to convey. Thankful for the clarity that provided and tim
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by gcp123 2y ago
Why? I don’t need to equally and freely share the expertise I develop by consuming publicly available information. In fact, I personally profit from it. Should I compensate every YouTube creator, author, journalist, for the money I’ve made
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by gcp123 2y ago
Even as an Apple fan myself, he's tough to stomach.

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