jshaqaw

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by jshaqaw 24d ago
The proof is (or isn't) in the game. If the game is something genuinely great then this all worked and is important. If the game is a bloviated, boring, and derivative mess then it didn't. Without any proof point on the output it
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by jshaqaw 1mo ago
I am a bit over 50. Most new computer tech doesn't hit me like it used to but occasionally I still get hit with wonder. I got that feeling trying the Apple Vision Pro in store demo. 50-something me still can't believe I have AI at
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by jshaqaw 1mo ago
Pascal will always have my heart. My first bridge outside Basic (I was stuck with a home pc so didn’t go down the assembly rabbit hole like others of my generation). Turbo Pascal’s IDE. Add it possible for a kid to learn and create in a way
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by jshaqaw 1mo ago
Good points all. Please understand this is more of a general open source friendly criticism I made. There is good value in preserving access to codebases made for Wolfram language which is expensive albeit they do offer decent licenses no
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by jshaqaw 1mo ago
I’m going to get hate here but what the heck I have karma points to burn. What I have to say is not a critique of this particular project which seems nicely done but a general statement on open source. I’d rather see more open source proje
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by jshaqaw 2mo ago
I spend my weekends enjoying life and my family but I guess that’s just part of my objectively idiotic take on life.
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by jshaqaw 2mo ago
Obsessive hacker tools like Emacs are not a productivity enhancer. But If you find them fun go for it. You are allowed to have fun. You are allowed to enjoy your environment. If tinkering with Emacs is fun for you go for it. It's prob
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by jshaqaw 3mo ago
Data centers could pay locals a sufficient amount that it overcomes the NIMBY opposition. If you can’t pay locals enough while still generating value for external beneficiaries then the project simply isn’t economical.
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by jshaqaw 4mo ago
I usually throw my 5g scoop on my morning coffee where I don’t notice it exists. Any reason not to take it with coffee or am I doing it right?
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by jshaqaw 4mo ago
Data as an obstacle to legal AI is a human rights violation. As citizens we are subject to federal, state, and local law. This consists of statutes, regulations, and common law. It is insane that the content of this law is locked away behin
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by jshaqaw 4mo ago
One of my favorite books but it wasn't until I came back to read it 15-20 years later that I realized the whole thing is a tragedy. As a younger man I was high on the futurism. As an older man it's evident that in Stross' tel
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by jshaqaw 4mo ago
Got Zed for the first time last week. Turned it on and said “the visuals are so perfect I have nothing to change.” The defaults are amazing.
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by jshaqaw 4mo ago
Shaking down schools with kids' data. Losers.
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by jshaqaw 5mo ago
This is why I beg people to send me their raw prompts rather than the output of running that prompt through a generic LLM. Same semantic content in a half page prompt as the 10 page stochastic text expansion LLM memo version but 1. takes me
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by jshaqaw 5mo ago
Maybe ask your LLM to explain it?
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by jshaqaw 5mo ago
I beg people to send me their prompts rather than the stochastic text expanded drivel they send me as memos/plans/etc... Massive waste of my time responding to ghosts - actually taking 10 pages seriously that often the "autho
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by jshaqaw 5mo ago
The inevitable outcome here is that designed materials become so generic and infinitely produceable that they become worthless background noise. We are well on the way to that path. For almost all materials the only value of getting a serio
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by jshaqaw 5mo ago
Can we add to the software failure list that Finder is an underpowered mess? Like the author said, fixing Finder won't have a correspondingly visible ROI. But haven't any of the Apple developers using these machines just said &quo
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by jshaqaw 5mo ago
Cook was an able steward of Apple. Under his leadership the hardware side continued to iteratively improve nicely. Apple Silicon is good stuff. I am firmly embedded in the entire Apple ecosystem and have no reason to leave. I do wish Apple
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by jshaqaw 6mo ago
If you enjoyed coding for the sake of coding it hasn't gone anywhere. People still knit for themselves when they can go buy clothes off the rack. People still enjoy chess and Go even though none of them can beat a machine. If you enjoy
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by jshaqaw 6mo ago
A problem with mythologizing past defeat is it can lead to sacrificing the present and future. Some people have the need to live in a grand mythic narrative. Others just want decent lives for themselves and their children with security and
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by jshaqaw 6mo ago
Lotus 1-2-3 on PC Jr cartridge in the era before widespread availability of hard drives was the only good thing about that awful platform
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by jshaqaw 7mo ago
Apple hasn't been able to ship software in decades. They got bored of computing. Writing was on the wall when they started producing movies because Hollywood people are cooler than nerds and hey why earn a giant cash pile if not for so
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by jshaqaw 9mo ago
Since I sadly must return to the real world (but thank you everyone for the well spirited debate) -- string theory is funny to me because its a bit of a Rorschach test as such a tiny number of people who follow the subject can actually eval
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by jshaqaw 9mo ago
How many primary school students can't add fractions because string theory may be a less promising approach to a ToE versus loop quantum gravity or geometric unity? I know nothing about this stuff. You know nothing about this stuff. Si
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by jshaqaw 9mo ago
Again, I'll accept your premise for the sake of debate (which I welcome, and sincerely thank you for doing so respectfully). Let me try to rephrase where I am coming from. I'm going to accept there is a good argument that some sci
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by jshaqaw 9mo ago
Theoretical physics is subsidizing a handful of people sitting at white boards. Even accepting the premise that string theory is wrong I can list hundreds of ways the US budget spews money down black holes orders of magnitude bigger. The sp
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by jshaqaw 9mo ago
Would be interested to see real numbers around societal value from marginal added liquidity versus aggregate spend into the zero sum arms race. I have also seen enough to be quite sure that many hft strategies are quite normie investor pred
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by jshaqaw 9mo ago
This is interesting but also just hilarious at a meta level. I was a “low frequency” ie manual fundamental based hedge fund investor for many years. In general I think hft is a net benefit to liquidity when done in compliance with the text
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by jshaqaw 11mo ago
Turbo Pascal was such an amazing product for its time. Those of young ones may not realize how horrible life was before Borland nailed IDEs - especially on home systems which didn’t exactly have advanced terminal capabilities.

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