kentonv

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by kentonv 3d ago
I'll take that as a "no".
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by kentonv 3d ago
Dario has been writing long-winded essays like this since long before AI existed. I strongly doubt he's the type of person to delegate it to AI now. "Pacing the frontier" sounds like something that was carefully wordsmithed i
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by kentonv 7d ago
Is your "point" actionable? Are you recommending any change of behavior or policy?
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by kentonv 8d ago
But that's such a waste! 5 whole people taken out of the economy, no longer producing value, just going around consuming resources in retirement. How is that any better than me spending to build a nice house that facilitates my family&
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by kentonv 8d ago
If you had ten million dollars, what would you spend it on?
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by kentonv 8d ago
Yeah I just think it's fun to tell the story.
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by kentonv 8d ago
No good reason, I'm just not familiar with power rails, nor was my contractor.
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by kentonv 8d ago
Sorry.
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by kentonv 8d ago
LLMs will tell you whatever you want to hear. You subtly direct them with the way you ask the question, and then they give you the answer you want. That's basically what they're trained to do. So of course they always give you the
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by kentonv 8d ago
I never use AI to write! But also I wrote this in 2024, which was before I used AI to do anything.
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by kentonv 8d ago
This may be hard to remember but in 2005 (when I joined Google), everyone pretty much universally loved them and thought they were making the world better. I left in 2013, in part because the company was gradually turning into something dif
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by kentonv 8d ago
I just feel like, the whole point of travelling is to experience different environments. Isn't it more fun to stay in a different fancy hotel every time, than to be in your same old yacht you've been in many times before? I'm
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by kentonv 8d ago
FWIW, the 4070 was $600 at the time. You could indeed build a great gaming machine around a 4070 at much lower cost, but a few things inflated the price for me: * I included the fairly nice 4k monitors ($750) in the price. * The motherboard
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by kentonv 8d ago
Hmmmmm..... Just kidding. Gotta say I never understood the appeal of yachts. What does a yacht give you that a fancy house doesn't? It's on the water? So what? It's not like it goes fast enough to be a worthwhile form of tran
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by kentonv 8d ago
All the long cables are Monoprice.com "slim run" fiber optic cables. The HDMI pretty much just works. Even at 8k resolution. Note that last I checked, Monoprice's DisplayPort cables (as opposed to HDMI) only supported an olde
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by kentonv 8d ago
You can get ultra-long HDMI and USB extenders that use fiber optic cables. Monoprice.com in particular sells these under their "slimrun" line -- that's what I used in the house. They are often technically not spec-compliant b
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by kentonv 8d ago
Oh, we figured this out, maybe I should update the page. It turns out at installation time the installer set all the fans on "high", and I left them that way stupidly thinking: "Well, I like circulation, and the power meters
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by kentonv 8d ago
My dad was able to pay for me to attend the University of Minnesota. More importantly though was that my parents fed my childhood fascination with computers, making sure I had the opportunity to learn to code early (a volunteer at my school
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by kentonv 8d ago
If you read it in context, I am making a comparison between computers and cabinetry, and noting how absurd it is that the technological marvel that is a computer costs a similar amount of money to the cabinet holding it, which is just some
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by kentonv 8d ago
Views on wealth haven't changed. The reactions to my first (much smaller) house in 2011 were very similar.
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by kentonv 8d ago
Oh hello! This is my house! Thanks for posting! Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156977 Unfortunately this new thread was posted while I was asleep, and so I haven't been online to answe
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by kentonv 8d ago
It's because this latest thread was posted while I was asleep. :/ HN is a massively nicer place if the author is present to interact. The people who are inclined to criticize don't want to do it to people's face, and the
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by kentonv 10d ago
It's true that every now and then they do some sort of prompt engineering on Grok that turns it into mechahitler for a few hours, and it's quite weird and disturbing. Most of the time though, it's actually pretty reasonable.
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by kentonv 10d ago
If you keep your feed on "following" instead of "for you", then the algorithm is irrelevant. TBH I'm pretty confused why anyone uses "for you". For me at least, any time I accidentally wander over to that
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by kentonv 10d ago
AFAIK Jack Dorsey has not been affiliated with Bluesky for quite some time. I was thinking of Jay Graber, but actually she's not CEO anymore either. I don't know anything about the new guy TBH. EDIT: Oops, I think I misinterpreted
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by kentonv 10d ago
The CEO's antics, no matter how disturbing, simply aren't most people's top concern when making a product choice. This may seem crazy to the hyper-political crowd but most people really do not see themselves as being part of
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by kentonv 10d ago
"Long abandoned" is a fair characterization of Sandstorm. There is a loyal community of enthusiasts trying to keep it alive, but realistically not a lot of progress has been made. (Though, AI has helped them make more progress lat
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by kentonv 10d ago
Current status explained here: https://sandstorm.io/news/2024-01-14-move-to-sandstorm-org
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by kentonv 12d ago
Also: https://capnweb.com/ (shameless plug)
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by kentonv 27d ago
Thanks!

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