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by n4r9 3d ago
In my experience it depends on the nature of that client. A drawback to having a dominant client is that they have a lot more leverage in roadmap, prioritisation, and product fit. That can seriously impact the internal coherence and maintai
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by n4r9 5d ago
Maybe I misunderstood, but it seemed to me that the smoking example was evidence for your claim: > colloquially, people say something is bad when they mean worse than the alternative [as opposed to absolutely bad] I don't think it
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by n4r9 5d ago
Fine it has some cognitive benefits, but in terms of physical health it's absurdly net negative. Long term smokers have a huge likelihood of dying from a smoking-related illness. That's what people mean when they say it's b
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by n4r9 5d ago
LLMs require massive datasets and massively parallel algorithms for processing them.
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by n4r9 5d ago
I'm not convinced by the smoking vs caffeine analogy. Smoking has no physical upside and in the long-term is extremely detrimental to health. The formula vs breast milk feels more comparable to something like still vs sparkling water.
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by n4r9 6d ago
Achievement can be good. But an upbringing which heavily idolises achievement can well be problematic, and probably isn't worth it. And your arguments to the contrary feel epistemically circular. You're using your belief that achi
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by n4r9 7d ago
I'm not saying that any value judgement is a bad thing. (Although such a statement would be amusingly ironic). I'm saying that you're viewing your upbringing strictly through the lens it handed you. As far as I can make out,
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by n4r9 7d ago
> when you do work hard and you are satisfied with yourself Ime if you constantly need to prove yourself then you rarely feel this; when you do, the feeling is ephemeral. > achieving something to make your dead parents happy is better
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by n4r9 7d ago
> have high expectations of them and are gravely, mortally disappointed if they let us down That sounds like a recipe for long-term psychological complexes. I know plenty of high-achievers that don't constantly feel like they have t
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by n4r9 8d ago
> A cursed problem, in his definition, is an unsolvable design problem rooted in a conflict between two promises that can’t coexist. You made both promises, on purpose, and they contradict each other, and no amount of clever tuning gets
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by n4r9 9d ago
I put bad in quotes because you're claiming something is absolutely bad, but all your points are about how it is relatively worse than breast milk (which is a pretty high bar). Studies on the long-term health impacts of breast vs f
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by n4r9 9d ago
Mathematics also strives for correctness before aesthetics, but is often considered an art. Programming is little different imo. When you have scoured your deepest understanding for hours - or days - in order to rewrite a function so that i
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by n4r9 10d ago
It may be less nutrient-dense than breast milk, but that doesn't make it "bad"
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by n4r9 11d ago
> Vegetable oil is often the #1 ingredient and is not even close to having the same density as breast milk Density of what?
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by n4r9 12d ago
No, you're still missing the point. "Remarkable" and "incredible" are not objective ways to describe something.
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by n4r9 20d ago
Is it really free, open and uncensored if it suspends journalists for covering the ElonJet story, and artificially bumps Elon's own tweets?
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by n4r9 20d ago
It sounds like Asahi are holding themselves to a higher standard;hey won't violate copyright even if no one can prove it.
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by n4r9 20d ago
Remarkable, perhaps? I'd hesitate to use "incredible" because his background privilege and wealth makes it all... well, more credible; and using such an unalloyed, positive word feels wrong given the costs to his relationship
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by n4r9 20d ago
I suspect the US allows/ignores some nuclear programs if they think it's in their geopolitical interest. India is a counter-balance to China and Russia. Pakistan is a counter-balance to India. Keeping everyone armed to the teeth a
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by n4r9 20d ago
The very page you linked states that it's recognised as an empirical phenomenon by Adam Smith, who predates Marx.
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by n4r9 20d ago
Giving concrete examples of what work goes into the job would be more persuasive than ranting about how hard it is.
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by n4r9 21d ago
I'm not sure what you're saying here. That he's launched so many rockets to orbit is a fact. That this is an "incredible achievement" is a subjective interpretation.
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by n4r9 21d ago
The 1yo stage is surprisingly convenient for that sort of stuff. At ages 2-4 they're much more mobile and experimental and harder to watch. Then from 4 or 5 upwards they're at school a lot and starting to lose interest in what the
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by n4r9 21d ago
You both have valid points. One one hand, "implicit memory" [0] begins at birth and being around one's father building impressive things is a huge bonding experience. Research seems to say that even at 1yo these things imprin
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by n4r9 21d ago
"Incredible" is a subjective word. It describes how one feels about his achievements. It also has a strong connotation of positivity (you don't usually hear people say that the Holocaust was an incredible achievement despit
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by n4r9 22d ago
> there are only two things universities need to change to be perfect at preparing founders: they need to make students feel that starting a startup is something they can do, and they need to encourage them to work on their own projects
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by n4r9 22d ago
I would be the same way if either: I didn't have dependents and heavy responsibilities, or: I had enough in savings to last a few years without income. I'm fascinated to see where software engineering is going to go, but I can&#x2
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by n4r9 23d ago
> there has been little progress or few new fields in the past 10 years or so in business that ask for implementation of new algorithms Transit routing is still moving fast in this area. We're still figuring out the best ways to ret
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by n4r9 23d ago
> It's completely missed that small entrepreneurs may also want to take part There's truth to this but it's an overstatement as it stands. For example, GDPR rules are less strict for small companies.
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by n4r9 24d ago
> 1) “We were” (sorry I had to do it). He might be from around London

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