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by greg7gkb 20d ago
Wait wait - your argument is that lower-level languages, having too many footguns , will be written "perfectly" by LLMs? Seems to assume a LOT of growth in the quality of LLM output. Also, how does this perspective help for (A) e
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by greg7gkb 1y ago
I agree with you however I've also not found a better substitute. Any candidates?
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by greg7gkb 1y ago
> very real national problems that this might address. This is a dubious claim to begin with. If you believe that 'trade deficits are bad,' can you explain why? Post Covid, the US economy has emerged in significantly better sha
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by greg7gkb 4y ago
Related: The Foundering podcast did a great series on the origins of TikTok and how it evolved from a Silicon Valley startup into the juggernaut it is today. https://open.spotify.com/show/6hETi9oBd26vc0bRgXYN5W?si=d87d.
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by greg7gkb 4y ago
Just happened to read a report on this exact topic last week: https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low
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by greg7gkb 4y ago
You can still have less successful businesses failing (trees dying) without entering a recession (forest fire). Nice analogy but I don't think it proves that recessions are necessary.
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by greg7gkb 4y ago
I've used various forms of these audio tools in the past (MAX, PD) and this is a very impressive piece of work. First, I haven't seen one implemented with web technologies before, and after running through many example projects th
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by greg7gkb 5y ago
As an engineering manager, I would absolutely love to hear this from a report. It provides immediate clarity to me on how to provide great projects and work options for you. However, there are a few points in your post that may be conflatin
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by greg7gkb 5y ago
You don't need to be competitive to be successful or happy. My first question is: what do you want? If you enjoy life in the most boring way, then it sounds like something in your life is already fulfilling. Boring and exciting are ent
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by greg7gkb 5y ago
> Netflix is on the very fast downward slope I don't think the data is proving this out at all. Streaming will probably be a winner-take-most market and Netflix is on track to remain the leader. We'll see what total 2021 subscr
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by greg7gkb 5y ago
Of course market cap is not the same as the equity value of a company. However market cap numbers are useful in comparing public companies to one another, and for broad categorizations of the scale of a business. Ref: https://www
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by greg7gkb 5y ago
I think another way to characterize 'riskiness' is the volatility of a portfolio, IOW how much does it swing up and down over time. So everything else being equal, two funds with the same ROI may still have different levels of vol
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by greg7gkb 5y ago
I'm super tired of people conflating civil rights + first amendment protections with the idea that speech anywhere, by anyone, on any platform, deserves to be protected. The goal of the first amendment is to protect the citizens of Ame
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by greg7gkb 5y ago
Slight tangent but I thought this guide to Rolex labels and features was pretty interesting - even for a non-watch-head: https://www.gearpatrol.com/watches/a539980/the-complete-role...
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by greg7gkb 6y ago
This isn't a case of who's right or wrong. The success of Bitcoin is entirely based on belief, which doesn't have a right or wrong answer, particularly this early in its history. Bitcoin is successful if enough people agree t
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by greg7gkb 6y ago
I had a similar experience with 'Da Funk', which was released when music videos could still break out an artist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmi60Bd4jSs It was so weird but not enough to be off putting - it ju
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by greg7gkb 6y ago
A lot of folks mentioning Madvillain here but he went by a couple of other monikers too, also producing incredible albums: King Geedorah - Take me to your leader [2003] https://open.spotify.com/album/1mrhahrlJu5JfzgeV6C
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Akira – Animation the Hard Way(youtube.com)
2 points by greg7gkb 6y ago|0 comments
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The Startups We Lost in 2020(techcrunch.com)
1 points by greg7gkb 6y ago|0 comments
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by greg7gkb 6y ago
Correct. His channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdcemy56JtVTrsFIOoqvV8g
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by greg7gkb 7y ago
It's a guide, and once it's been used a few times the language can be adapted to sound more like your nature voice but still conveying the same information.
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by greg7gkb 7y ago
What are some good alternatives then?
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by greg7gkb 8y ago
I don't believe this claim is correct... all 5 submissions were made by different users.
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by greg7gkb 9y ago
There is absolutely 'growth' without consuming resources. Economic growth also includes improvements in efficiency, which typically reduce the amount of physical resources used. Also, look at the transition in our lives from physi
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by greg7gkb 10y ago
Who would license content to a company without any DRM protection?
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by greg7gkb 10y ago
Soundboks link does not work. It points to https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/974 which is locked.
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by greg7gkb 10y ago
Netflix Senior Android Engineer - Los Gatos, CA [Onsite, Visa Transfers] ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Netflix is the leading video streaming service globally and the Netflix Android app is one of the most widely used and hi
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by greg7gkb 10y ago
Netflix Senior Android Engineer - Los Gatos, CA [Onsite, Visa Transfers] ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Netflix is the leading video streaming service globally and the Netflix Android app is one of the most widely used and hi
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by greg7gkb 10y ago
Netflix Senior Android Engineer - Los Gatos, CA [Onsite, Visa Transfers] ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Netflix is the leading video streaming service globally and the Netflix Android app is one of the most widely used and hi
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by greg7gkb 10y ago
Netflix Senior Android Engineer - Los Gatos, CA [Onsite, Visa Transfers] ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Netflix is the leading video streaming service globally and the Netflix Android app is one of the most widely used and hi

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