georgespencer

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by georgespencer 4d ago
Nice to see you!
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by georgespencer 14d ago
> If you don’t like it […], then maybe just […] stay silent. You might consider following your own advice.
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by georgespencer 2mo ago
…and for no discernible reason, too. Ordinarily, irritating stuttering pages like this at least do some sort of visually fun thing. This is just a diabolical Framer design with a ton of needlessly overlapping nested containers. I deleted mo
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by georgespencer 2mo ago
The author needlessly and inelegantly deploys “incident” and “cyber” twice in one sentence.
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by georgespencer 2mo ago
> We consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities, and are responding accordingly. All the AI in the world and they still can't write.
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by georgespencer 3mo ago
As someone who has used Ashby pretty regularly over the last several years, I suspect I’m not alone in wishing they’d let the AI make the technical and product decisions. It’s a product that feels like it’s designed and built by the C or D
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by georgespencer 4mo ago
Given the abundance of vaguely similar local-first AI memory layers, it might be a good idea to add a "Why Mnemo" section right at the top of README.md to explain why folks should consider using it.
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by georgespencer 5mo ago
OP's Github profile looks very fishy.
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by georgespencer 5mo ago
Notion’s macOS app is some of the worst software I’ve ever used. If there is a platform design idiom, they likely break it without a second thought.
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by georgespencer 6mo ago
> And then guess who bought Beats for their exquisite metal weight technology? That's right, it was Apple. It's self-evidently extremely disingenuous to claim that Apple bought Beats for their "exquisite metal weight techn
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by georgespencer 1y ago
neat
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by georgespencer 2y ago
I think either Adam Bryant (organizational psychology at Wharton) or Erin Meyer (same at INSEAD) turned me on to this idea. I think it's generally a good one to (very slightly) accelerate new working relationships to a place of trust,
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by georgespencer 2y ago
Happy to skinny my reply down to simpler words for you, just in case you're genuinely here to join substantive discussion of technical topics, and simply suck at it: 1. Why do you think Vision Pro is a COVID product? 2. Why do you thin
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by georgespencer 2y ago
> And so can people know if they (and their friends) will buy and use a $3k - or $1.5k - VR headset. This is not the claim being made by the parent I responded to. Right out of the gate, OP said: > I told my friends that the vision pr
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by georgespencer 2y ago
It's unclear whether you are misusing Vision Pro to mean the entire category of AR/VR headsets, or the specific model Apple launched this year. > unlikely to succeed or at least succeed culturally I think by success you mean &q
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by georgespencer 2y ago
It's all just car. Goal is provide driving. It doesn't matter whether it's a Ford Model T or a Honda Civid. Goal is driving. Car go drive. It's all just phonecall. Goal is provide phonecalling. It no matter whether it iP
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by georgespencer 2y ago
> ...which is intended to indicate disdain towards people who produce or consume pornographic material. The only intention was to rejoin OP's "hog cranking" euphemism with some fun ones from the English lexicon. (That it a
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by georgespencer 2y ago
> Spec-wise, that laptop is almost identical to any other laptop Post-M series I hear this from time to time and always ask people to show me something in the same weight class with equivalent battery life, performance, and screen qualit
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by georgespencer 2y ago
Truly a golden era for fast-forwarding through videos of dead-eyed men and women rutting on camera. (Thank you – I genuinely learned a lot from your reply.)
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by georgespencer 2y ago
> they are literally all the same shiz Oculus Quest 3 screens: LCD displays with a per-eye resolution of 2064×2208p (4.56 million pixels per eye) Apple Vision Pro screens: micro-OLED displays with a per-eye resolution of 3,680x3,140 (11.
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by georgespencer 2y ago
Have spent extended periods in the last 12 months with Pipedrive, Attio, Salesforce, and Hubspot, if this helps: Pipedrive - simultaneously lightweight and no-frills whilst impossibly slow and antiquated. The simple act of navigating throug
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by georgespencer 2y ago
Neither a Vision Pro owner nor much of a hog cranker, so this comment may be something of a 'premature ejaculation', but I don't think there's any prospect of native applications designed to aid manipulating oneself to i
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by georgespencer 2y ago
> Are you still using your Vision Pro? > [150 words about a totally different product and platform] Vision Pro isn't something I would use regularly, but you're bringing opinions about a 14" CRT monitor to a thread soli
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by georgespencer 2y ago
Amazing! Congrats on launching. Company motto: "dumb enough to actually have attempted this already".
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by georgespencer 2y ago
That is a long time – bet it felt even longer to the poor PowerBook DRI at Apple who had to keep explaining to Steve Jobs why a G5 PowerBook wasn't viable!
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by georgespencer 2y ago
> This is marketing we're talking about, people see "supercomputer on a chip" and they get hyped up by it. That is also not in dispute. I am disputing your specific claim that Apple somehow suggested that the G4 was of c
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by georgespencer 2y ago
> Apple marketed their PPC systems as "a supercomputer on your desk" It's certainly fair to say that twenty years ago Apple was marketing some of its PPC systems as "the first supercomputer on a chip"[^1]. >
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by georgespencer 2y ago
They do both. Source: just got served an A/B test talking to GPT-4 using the web chat interface.
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by georgespencer 2y ago
> Why do so many go devs feel the need to make statements like this This is a common conceit when writing for the sort of audience who might, for example, nitpick something as utterly uncontroversial as an author's disclaimer ackno
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by georgespencer 2y ago
Obligatory link to Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

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