maxsilver

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by maxsilver 2mo ago
This, but unironically https://youtu.be/G__PVLB8Nm4
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by maxsilver 2mo ago
> Does anyone watch scheduled television anymore except local news and sportsball? Yes, especially for folks not at home. It’s common to see multicast used in places where internet bandwidth is constrained, but network maybe not so much
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by maxsilver 2mo ago
Sometimes yes absolutely. Netflix shows often have a "house look" to them, because they enforce specific camera requirements and have a standardized / commonly-reused lighting setup - https://partnerhelp.netflixstu
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by maxsilver 4mo ago
Yeah, it quickly becomes a "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" thing between junior devs and LLMs. I will say, if you use a Mistral model, and if you insist your CSS framework is Bulma (tell it, 'no tailwind', &#
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by maxsilver 4mo ago
> these bots really want to just barf out tailwind-style crap. I get it. The LLMs struggle most with state. They don’t have a real fix for that yet. People generally compensate by shoving everything into context, and making the context
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by maxsilver 4mo ago
> Importantly, I think AI companies are motivated towards the overengineered solutions as they increase the buyer's token spend. Yes that, and also, the more complicated the solution, the more likely no one reads or reviews it too c
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by maxsilver 4mo ago
> Also, when did we stop liking to learn? When the economy got so bad for so many people, that every waking moment has to be either chasing fresh cash (or spent in recovery from cash-chasing, worrying about new cash) , to the point they
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by maxsilver 5mo ago
> iMessage is taking twenty minutes to sync a message between your laptop and your phone sitting six inches apart. The iMessage one is super common, and is Apple's fault. Easiest way to reproduce it is to have two Macs. (got a deskt
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by maxsilver 6mo ago
> Honda was never in the large SUV game. (The Honda Pilot and Honda Passport stare at you, with deep resentment)
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by maxsilver 8mo ago
It's kinda okay at JS + React + Tailwind. (at least, for reasonably small / not-crazy-complex projects)
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by maxsilver 8mo ago
> Housing is too expensive because it's illegal to build enough of it. A lot of us are in the US, where (except for SF and handful of specific cities) housing is legal to build practically everywhere, municipalities are handing out
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by maxsilver 9mo ago
> I'm not saying culture is irrelevant but saying china's success is due to "Chinese way of thinking" or america was dominant because of the "american dream" is an adult believing santa-tier take. I don&#x27
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by maxsilver 10mo ago
I get it. I agree with most of this article. But also like, nothing went away. If you pine for the days of Java and Maven, you can still do that. It’s all still there (Eclipse and NetBeans, too!) If you don’t like using Node and NPM, that’s
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by maxsilver 10mo ago
Yeah, honestly, GDPR isn't perfect legislation, but it's pretty close. You could just copy-and-paste GDPR into the US and, with actual enforcement behind it, most of the egregious violations would be fixed pretty quickly.
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by maxsilver 10mo ago
> A 4K netflix stream caps out around 15mbps Yeah, but that's just because Netflix streams are ridiculiously over compressed -- they use extremely low quality encodes. It's technically a "4K" stream, sure, but at a bi
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by maxsilver 1y ago
I think the big problem DoorDash and the like have, is they obfuscate the capacity connection between real restaurants. In the real world, if you drive up to a McDonalds, and there's a line around the building for drive-thru, you can m
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by maxsilver 1y ago
(re: drive-thru) You're going to be waiting aorund in a really long queue for Starbucks regardless. Might as well wait in line in a comfy/cosy car where a barista will hand you your drink, than walk inside into a hot, loud, crowde
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> I know incentives are common I'd go further than common, I don't know any major data center built in the last 6 years that didn't get them. 36 out of 50 US states give away public money to privately owned data centers r
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by maxsilver 1y ago
Homes also generate property taxes and sales taxes (from the occupants inside of them). Cities nearly always make money selling to new homes -- low density suburbs are highly profitable for municipalities, even on utilities alone, both
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> That would be so out of place in midwest USA, where cynicism is rampant Well yeah, the Midwest USA is full of drastically under-employed individuals holding advanced degrees who still can't find any decent work, and yet still have
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by maxsilver 1y ago
We need labor more, and labor investment always involves substantially more risk for that person, than any capital investment ever carries.
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> Why haven’t AMD/Intel been able to catch up? Is x86 just not able to keep up with the ARM architecture? When can we expect a x86 laptop chip to match the M1 in efficiency/thermals?! AMD kind of has, the "Max 395+" i
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by maxsilver 1y ago
This is also why I went into the Philosophy major - knowing how to learn and how to understand is incredibly valuable. Unfortunately in my experience, many, many people do not see it that way. It's very common for folks to think
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by maxsilver 1y ago
Both Roo and Continue support local modals (via LM Studio). For Continue, you add a fake account (type in literally anything) and then click 'edit' -- it will take you to the settings JSON, and you can type in LM Studio as your so
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> people don't just wake up and decide one day to be irrationally evil with no reason, if you believe that then you are a fool The problem with this, is that people sometimes really do , objectively, wake up and device to be irrati
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by maxsilver 1y ago
They just fired a lot of the gaming studios they used to own. (Tango, Arkane), and cancelled most of their major upcoming projects (Everwild, Perfect Dark, the new MMO, etc) And - while there are rare examples otherwise (like iD software),
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> In fact, I don't think I ever understood how Neo could control the machines in the real world. In fairness to the Wachowskis, they do literally explain this in the movie, in literal dialog, in the third Matrix film. --- Neo: &quot
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> you can just write papers all day that say all kinds of things, never test or even predict anything, and still have a successful career. That's how you get (snip) thousands of COVID papers that present model outputs but never val
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> I wish academia were more rigorous about not taking sides. I feel like they’ve been injecting their own ideology unnecessarily for a while. I don't think this is true. I think academia is still pretty good (not great, but pretty g
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by maxsilver 1y ago
> people whose income or status in society depends on their production of ideas, without needing to test if the ideas actually work. In general I'd agree -- but academic researchers (and the projects previously funded by the Natio

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