malux85

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by malux85 4d ago
I would argue that purpose death is a normal step towards enlightenment and it was only the fierce, unrelenting, all consuming drive of capitalism in the western world over the last 4 or 5 generations that have pushed everyone to define the
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by malux85 6d ago
Is it just me or does the design of the iPhone Duo look terrible with those big rounded corners? You know how children's toys have big soft rounded corners and overly colored glossy finishes? It feels to me like the iphone has become &
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by malux85 9d ago
After having 120Hz for 2 years, Im never going back to anything lower. At 120Hz I feel connected to the machine
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by malux85 11d ago
> In my experience, work, even when meaningful, is quite separate from self actualization. I guess it depends on your temperament - I am very very high in industriousness and moderately high in curiosity, but the industriousness override
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by malux85 11d ago
40. The luxuries I am grateful for: Sleeping in as much as I need Working on something meaningful that pushes at the edge of my self actualization Not ever having to worry about bills The love from my partner Having the ability to help othe
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by malux85 16d ago
Spineless pandering
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by malux85 20d ago
Because in that situation you still have to interact with humans in customers, governments, other companies, investors and all the other places?
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by malux85 20d ago
Well then you and I differ - I certainly dont turn to the market to define what is good, I guess thats what happens when you worship money, or are operating on the engineers fallacy where you ignore things that are hard to quantify numeri
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by malux85 20d ago
No I didnt, I said "A good CEO" you missed the GOOD qualifier, and then immediately described a bad CEO
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by malux85 20d ago
Exactly. Being a good CEO means reading the body language of your programmers so you can tell when they need support. It means communicating competence to investors and customers. It means making complex decisions with incomplete input, a l
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by malux85 25d ago
I am firmly realistic on the overhyped nature of AI, but which discoveries in the last 100 years are not "a composition of solutions humans have developed and documented elsewhere" ? Is that basically every new discovery? And unde
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by malux85 28d ago
Reminds me of Seven of Nine on voyager "Cheating is often more efficient"
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by malux85 1mo ago
I'm not convinced that one-shotting things is anything other than a vanity-metric. Maybe in the distant future where quickly building a visualisation to help explain some concept would be valuable to one shot quickly - but "One sh
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by malux85 1mo ago
Of course the law constrains. The speed of light is a law that constrains the speed of the lawnmower.
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by malux85 1mo ago
The lawn mower is operating within the laws that constraints it (laws of physics in this case) and not a greater sense of morality. Lessons: - The only way to constrain what the lawnmower does, is make sure what do desire is enforced by law
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by malux85 1mo ago
Why do numerically illiterate people like extrapolating from tiny samples to everyone?
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by malux85 1mo ago
Model routers - send all of your data through a third party who totally swears not to peek at it. If youre doing anything high value (advanced research, classified work, high value industrial research, health data) then sending your data th
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by malux85 2mo ago
That should keep the lights on for another month! /jk
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by malux85 2mo ago
Load all of your debt onto another enormous country. Go to war with them, make debt elimination one of the terms of peace
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by malux85 2mo ago
The demo video is a great example of one thing I have been saying for ages - the quality of the LLM output depends heavily on the communication skills of the user. Some people say AI is great and some people say AI is terrible - but how can
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by malux85 2mo ago
Software development and running simulations. Not totally autonomously, I have 20 years experience as a developer and I review and edit all the code and simulation results, so it's not really me "handing off" the work, it&#x
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by malux85 2mo ago
Picassos bull is just 10 lines, and is recognizably a bull. I think an important aspect of the AI enabled future is going to be good taste, good aesthetics. With AI its too easy for someone with no taste to say "omg, add X ... omg add
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by malux85 2mo ago
6-8 running nearly 24/7, any more than that and there's too much for me to review
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by malux85 2mo ago
DJGPP (with rhide) was my first IDE, love!
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by malux85 2mo ago
I would say thats a different thing entirely, an amateur in the original sense of the word Latin amator, French amateur, means lover. In this sense, it means somebody who is doing something because he/she loves it, not as his/her
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by malux85 2mo ago
> I haven't once come across one of these mythical perfectionists that everyone is constantly retelling cautionary tales of, who endlessly rewrites perfectly serviceable software and never releases Oh, I have. A LOT! In my friend gr
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by malux85 2mo ago
Android was acquired, and it was java from the start in the source company.
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by malux85 2mo ago
Hacker news is a community of curious, technical people, the technical parts alone of getting this all working in the browser and maintaining compatibility with the binary formats, is pretty interesting and cool!
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by malux85 2mo ago
Typing speed only really matters for juniors and going into intermediate developers, after that point thinking methodology - abstraction design, data structures, system design, complexity isolation, matter way, WAY more. 50% because by the
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by malux85 2mo ago
After getting a tiny amount of traffic from HN, its now crashed. Beautifully poetic. I think theres still a lot of room for traditional engineering - methods that have been robust enough to stand the test of time are enduring because they w

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