massagedpelican

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by massagedpelican 7d ago
20% more expensive than stripe, no?
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by massagedpelican 7d ago
the main purpose of that data is for fraud detection, anything downstream (i.e. selling it to advertisers) is just the cherry on top. Merchants are always financially incentivized both implicitly and explicitly to do anything that would red
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by massagedpelican 23d ago
I think "the engineer themselves" is much closer to the abstraction layer I'm referring to. Imagine for a moment that, rather than using a compiler to translate c++ into assembly, that it instead has to be done by a person on
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by massagedpelican 23d ago
I think this expresses what I've been trying to form in my mind. I've been trying to map the LLM advancements and the current state of software development onto prior technological improvements. History is littered with similar ca
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Why Big Tech's AI Spending Is $3T Higher Than It Seems(wsj.com)
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by massagedpelican 2mo ago
How would one go about determining what effect to add for each cassette type? I don't know much about cassettes, I'm curious if this was something that could be done by ear or if these are commonly held opinions about the sound of
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by massagedpelican 2mo ago
I truly hate to suggest this, but the meta vanguard nails this to a tee. https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/oakley-meta-vanguard-rev...
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by massagedpelican 2mo ago
I've been chewing on this for a while, but I don't think the thought is fully formed. I'll rough it out here anyways, it certainly isn't a novel or unique one. I think my main issue with vibe coded apps is that the signa
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by massagedpelican 2mo ago
I think it's hard to say one way or another. My guess is the latter, or perhaps the audience isn't even aware it's vibe coded. I (like many other software folks) are aware of AI-isms in writing, so when I see something that i
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by massagedpelican 3mo ago
Effective altruism. A lot of the folks working on AI at large tech companies are disproportionately represented in the movement. There's a lot of overlap between EA and the rationalist community as well. The wikipedia page is a good pl
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by massagedpelican 6mo ago
On a recent trip to Japan, my partner and I visited the Kyoto Railway Museum ( https://www.kyotorailwaymuseum.jp/en/ ), which features many of the trains and predecessors listed in the OP. Seeing it at the end of the tr