jamesknelson

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by jamesknelson 23d ago
> But what about _stop_ fossil fuel usage? And how do you propose we do that if we’re not the ones selling the fossils? Fossil fuel usage is for the most part, a transaction between willing participants at a fair market price. Will you b
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by jamesknelson 3mo ago
So reading this, I know it’s probably a human posing as an LLM. But the problem with formats like this is that I don’t actually know. If a human said this to me in real life, and I laughed, it would probably help build a connection with tha
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by jamesknelson 5mo ago
What regulations would you suggest would be the software equivalent of a fire code? What kind of penalties would apply for not meeting these regulations? Who would be responsible for enforcement? Do you propose this should apply internation
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by jamesknelson 5mo ago
GPUs do have a use in warfare though. I mean, LLMs are basically offensive weapons disguised as software engineers. Sure, LLMs can kind of put together a prototype of some CRUD app, so long as it doesn’t need to be maintainable, understan
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by jamesknelson 9mo ago
Importing might be banned until the US loses access to its main source of GPU manufacturing. And what are the US going to do about it? Defend Taiwan? With missiles made with components and materials processed where , pray tell? The US doe
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by jamesknelson 2y ago
Nuclear wasn’t completely replaced. The graphs you link to show that Germany’s electricity generation have dropped to the level it was at in the year 2000, and that’s before the last of the nuclear plants were turned off. As a result, Germa
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by jamesknelson 2y ago
That assumes that once a golden goose dies, there’s an infinite supply of replacements. There’s a reason we’re comparing these companies to a mythical creature after all: if sustainable businesses producing valuable things were easy to crea
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by jamesknelson 2y ago
> If your intention is coding something complex, you should try a model finetuned for that Is there any consensus as to the models most suitable for coding complex things?
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by jamesknelson 4y ago
Yes, it does, but some of us actually consider this to be a feature. The issue with reversibility is that it’s not just reversibility - it’s also the power for the authorities to take your assets from you. The question isn’t “do you want
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by jamesknelson 4y ago
Thank you so much for this post, and Hello from Tokyo! I'm currently working on an old fashioned website editing app, with a UI styled after today's note taking apps. I'm hoping that being able to work on my blog across devic
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by jamesknelson 4y ago
This is an issue with more than just the tech industry. It’s an issue with modern society itself. Take the GDP, the number that when it’s first derivative goes negative, we shout “recession” and use it as an excuse for all manner of harmful
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List of Cognitive Biases(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by jamesknelson 4y ago|0 comments
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by jamesknelson 5y ago
There’s nothing that makes it inherently impossible to put bills this way in cash, though. For example, in Japan, you can pay bills by taking them to the local konbini - which is probably no more than a couple minutes walk away - then handi
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by jamesknelson 5y ago
To add to this point, it’s quite likely that the vast majority of JavaScript developers are using generators and symbols, whether they realize it or not. The reason is that your build system of choice will typically have been compiling asyn
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by jamesknelson 5y ago
I’m in the same boat here. I had a list of ~15,000 blog readers at some point, but gave up sending emails when most services wanted to charge me $1000~$2000/year, even when I only wanted to send 1-2 emails a year. If there are any serv
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by jamesknelson 5y ago
This treatment is based on the work of Dr John Sarno - who I first heard of here on HN almost 10 years ago. And of all the wonderful things I’ve discovered on HN, Dr Sarno’s work is probably the one that’s had the biggest positive impact on
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by jamesknelson 5y ago
The issue I imagine here is that calling the bank can be costly both in hold time and in phone fees. If banks were able to remove this disincentive to call by ensuring that their phone lines have zero wait time, and offering to immediately
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by jamesknelson 5y ago
> The mystery that remains is where does the money go? A share buyback just shifts the decision of reinvesting profits from the firm to the investor, so when Apple buys back shares where does that capital go? This was my main question fr
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by jamesknelson 6y ago
Coming from someone who grew up in a car culture city, learned to drive at 18, bought my first car at 19, and drove most days of the week... I'm much happier without a car. I don't want to have to own one again. In hindsight, car
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The Myth of Westernisation(aeon.co)
1 points by jamesknelson 6y ago|0 comments
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React: it's technically backwards compatible!(jamesknelson.com)
7 points by jamesknelson 6y ago|3 comments
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by jamesknelson 6y ago
Was just thinking that we're probably due for a major release sometime now that Concurrent Mode seems to be starting to mature a little (disclaimer: it's still experimental, don't use it in production yet, etc.) I'm sure
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What the “this”?(frontarm.com)
1 points by jamesknelson 6y ago|1 comments
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Composing Components with Pseudo-Selectors(frontarm.com)
2 points by jamesknelson 6y ago|0 comments
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Ignaz Semmelweis: an early pioneer of hand-washing(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jamesknelson 6y ago|0 comments
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Tesla Solarglass Roof(tesla.com)
2 points by jamesknelson 7y ago|0 comments
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by jamesknelson 7y ago
Reading this, I found myself nodding along after I replaced: - musician to developer - online music to open source project - performance to consulting/training/conferences It’s funny thinking about all the similarities between the
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by jamesknelson 7y ago
Actually... they have built such a system! It’s long gone now, but some major cities used to have a mail delivery system built on underground pneumatic tubes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Y
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What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Fairness(nytimes.com)
2 points by jamesknelson 7y ago|0 comments
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What books should a technical founder read?(quora.com)
1 points by jamesknelson 7y ago|0 comments

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