pdinny

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by pdinny 2y ago
Retrospectively framing technologies that succeeded despite doubts at the time discounts those that failed. After all, you could have used the exact same response in defense of web3 tech. That doesn't mean LLMs are fated to be like web
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by pdinny 2y ago
Often the discussion around these kinds of tech/AI dwell on the wrong things: questions like "will GenAI put artists out of work?" or "should photographers worry about AI-generated headshots?" miss the point that he
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by pdinny 2y ago
This is my experience too. I frequently require a single queue for some very specific task but it does not form part of a greater application. My current work (data engineering) is such that I don't have a relational database instance
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by pdinny 2y ago
This is adjacent to "why would I need EC2 when I can serve from my laptop?" In terms of maturity of solution and diversity of downstream applications you'll go much further with BigQuery/Athena (at comically low cost) fo
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by pdinny 2y ago
I do sincerely apologise for omitting the word "often". My point remains that generalisations should not be made based on the views of a minority. I have noticed that US media in particular presents a very one-sided accounting of
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by pdinny 2y ago
This is, by definition ("the protesters" used to generalise to all protesters), a gross generalisation. Based on what evidence? All the protests I have been to people have taken great pains to make that distinction. Comments like
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by pdinny 2y ago
This type of conflation is extremely dangerous. Criticism of the actions of the government of Israel is not the same thing as anti-semitism (a real and very bad thing). To make this claim essentially gives the government of Israel the go ah
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by pdinny 2y ago
I think that dipping into the history of design (both industrial design and architecture) go a long way to explaining the general trends. It is important to also distinguish between minimalist design (motivated by aesthetic and philosophica
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by pdinny 2y ago
Thank you for this edifying comment. As someone who has, at best, an extremely surface level understanding of anarchism, I found some aspects of what I understood quite appealing but I thought that it may be impractical or too idealistic. T
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by pdinny 2y ago
The types of arguments discussed here ("once someone predicted a bad thing and didn't happen therefore no bad things will ever happen") seem to be based on vibes more than logical statements. Twitter is rife with specious arg
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by pdinny 2y ago
Microliths, if you will. Personally, I'm all for macroservices (no joke).
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by pdinny 2y ago
Apples in South Africa are not likely to come from the Netherlands. SA exports about $736m in apples and pears, imports about $284k, not from the Netherlands. https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/app
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by pdinny 2y ago
A more relevant measure might be median income per capita/household, adjusted for purchasing power. On that basis Austria does quite well. Additionally, quality of life amounts to more than measures for disposable income etc. If you co
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by pdinny 3y ago
There is important missing context from this extremely biased article that leans heavily on the opinion of an anonymous person. It has always been illegal to serve in a foreign armed force for South Africans. I forget the name of the act, b
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by pdinny 3y ago
I'd like to hear the fully-fleshed out position about why these particular examples are an indication of some broader, deeper problem. If possible, please do not use the word "woke" as a shorthand, explain it in full. Same fo
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by pdinny 3y ago
I'm a big Calvino fan and can thoroughly recommend Cosmicomics as a great collection of shorts. If you enjoy Calvino you may also enjoy Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges.
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by pdinny 3y ago
This is very cool! I came across this while scrolling to see how my Streamlit movie recommender on Show HN was doing. I'll spend some more time with your recommender and get back with some thoughts.
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Show HN: I built a Movie Recommender using only SQL(share.streamlit.io)
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by pdinny 4y ago
Putting aside all things Elon: Tesla was arguably incredibly overpriced (pick your reasons) and in a falling market that price is correcting. We like to construct simple narratives in which causes are few and their effects are clear. The re
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by pdinny 4y ago
While all of the mentioned companies are tech companies they also encompass other considerations. Many of the challenges that a company like Twitter faces are not purely technical. Twitter is in many ways like a media company and is also a
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by pdinny 4y ago
I agree that it would be nice if more platforms facilitated this kind of exchange . I don't see Twitter doing this at all. The majority of my observations suggest ideas being lobbed at high speed, attached to a heavy object. Besides th
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by pdinny 4y ago
I find the frequent invocation of a town square a bit perplexing. It evokes the idea of a place where strangers may gather to have an exchange of ideas, which sounds quite pleasant at face value. However this is not something that I've
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by pdinny 4y ago
I've found some really interesting reading on are.na. Something that I particularly enjoy about that mode of discovery is that it is more about curation and discovery. The smallness of the community (it feels small at any rate) means t
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by pdinny 4y ago
As mentioned in multiple other comments: context matters. Some commenters have presented more extreme contrasts of context (737 Max, B2B etc etc) but I also think the context matters even for products that might be quite close. While the sp
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by pdinny 4y ago
I strongly agree. The article presents the various media as existing with some inherent ordering of value or preference. Text is not less than Image in any sense, just as VR is not greater than Video. These media may have different characte
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by pdinny 4y ago
Hence the bait and switch. IMHO increasing the scope of Airflow (or any tool) is a challenging proposition. Would you rather use very few mega-tools with very broad scope (and potentially more challenging domain to navigate) or fewer more s
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by pdinny 4y ago
The post feels like a bait-and-switch in the sense that it presents itself as about Airflow's shortcomings but focuses mostly on problems that Airflow doesn't attempt to solve. Airflow can certainly be frustrating and it doesn&#x2
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by pdinny 4y ago
> TikTok doesn't feel social at all I agree entirely but I'd argue that this is a feature rather than a flaw. It's more like community TV than a place for dialog with social connections. > It feels entirely too performa
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by pdinny 4y ago
[GTA 6 - Jersey Shore - GTL] You get to play out storylines from Jersey Shore, with original voice actors. Mini-games include gymming, tanning, laundry, making food when you get back from the club. Missions at the club. [GTA 6 - So Many Sid
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by pdinny 4y ago
DAU and MAU are tricky metrics partly because even when they're known to be problematic (perhaps the definition of "active" is too permissive to be useful for certain purposes) they are very hard to change because they are re

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