plomme

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by plomme 1mo ago
Hah! This happened to me when digging around after a production incident. I worked on it on and off over the working week, and after a while it started saying (paraphrasing) "You've been at this for five days and done what you can
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by plomme 1mo ago
Very good write up, as always, from Red Blob. It turned my high-level assumption on Google Maps pathfinding upside down. I thought, recalling algorithms class, that Google Maps worked so fast due to "optimal substructure" of short
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by plomme 1mo ago
To paraphrase a famous quote: You have to be lucky every time, an attacker only has to be lucky once.
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by plomme 1mo ago
See https://qntm.org/mmacevedo and despair
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by plomme 2mo ago
I wish I knew! My money is still mostly in index funds and real estate. My sneaking doubt is whether the index can keep growing, because doesn’t that depend on infinite growth based ultimately on mostly finite natural resources, manpower, a
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by plomme 2mo ago
Does it follow that the price of the index should go up in perpetuity because workers are motivated?
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by plomme 2mo ago
This has been my investment philosophy as well, but I'm starting to realize that this is forgetting that "past performance does not guarantee future results". It only works when the index goes up, and I don't see any fun
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by plomme 3mo ago
Ok. How do people find the required service when the need arises? Surely the company will need to have a website that displays what they offer? Or a physical storefront showing what goods they sell? That is marketing, and, I would say, not
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by plomme 3mo ago
I don't know anything about alzheimers but I'd hope someone that does would engage with David SJ's points instead of dismissing him on lack of authority alone.
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by plomme 3mo ago
> I would always feel bad in those cases, because it's clear they spent a lot of time, and I'm going to have to say "no" and they will feel like they wasted a ton of effort. I get this feeling, too. I do however think
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by plomme 4mo ago
Sure, but LLMS and image generators are not the death of "consensus reality". Healthy democracies will still have investigative journalism, public debate, trustworthy institutions, etc.
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by plomme 4mo ago
You're right. But I'd rather be uninformed than misinformed.
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by plomme 4mo ago
I think it may turn out postive; That the less we are able to take images and video at face value the better. Motivated actors have been able to doctor, fake, or spin media content since time immemorial. But peoples default mode was to trus
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by plomme 4mo ago
I’m not saying he’s wrong about the core thesis here, but using Claude Opus 4.6 as a “mic drop” with a chart showing it being twice as good as the last model feels in my experience way off.
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by plomme 4mo ago
Flash is amazing , and what made me drop VSCode. Flash feels like an innovation and basically lets me move my cursor at almost the speed of thought. Highly recommend people try it out and play with it! BTW: The Vimium extension [1] for Fir
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by plomme 5mo ago
To play devils advocate here: could it be a good thing? That way they would be incentivized to think about the long term actions of their actions, like not dying before getting affected by global warming etc. And once aging is understood an
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by plomme 5mo ago
Hah, that reminds me! My first work issued Mac didn't have the ESC key, just the touch bar. IIRC a program hung in fullscreen, freezing both the app and the touch bar. So I had to reboot to get out of it because the esc key didn't
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by plomme 5mo ago
Given the title I was hoping the page would say something about the “how” you scale wax sealed letters but cool niche business! I’ve waxed and sealed a bunch of letters in the past and it’s a huge PITA (at least the way I did it). Would hav
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by plomme 5mo ago
Love that you made homemade Club Mate! My favorite soda by far. I didn’t realize it was just tea before now. They have made a sugar free version now as well, but that not as cool as making your own
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by plomme 5mo ago
How do you “get away” with that? Working remotely? What do you do instead with your time? Are you hiring? Lol
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by plomme 5mo ago
The biggest cost when bootstrapping always seemed to be your salary to me, not infra costs. How long can you pay your mortgage and feed your kids off what should be your retirement or rainy day funds?
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by plomme 5mo ago
I never understood this take. Why do you think an employer would waste resources like that? I’m not saying that bullshit jobs don’t exist but I think you are off by an order of magnitude, and even that mostly applies to white collar workpla
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by plomme 6mo ago
A point I didn’t see sibling comments make is that the dentist often has to file between teeth for them to sit and align correctly. They did so several times in my case. I would not want to do that to myself!
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by plomme 6mo ago
The existence of incentives can encourage crime. Why would anyone throw a game if there wasn't an upside? Nobody does anything for "free", and by creating a market you are providing liquidity leading to more "labor"
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by plomme 6mo ago
I don't think anyone objects to curing cancer and better figuring out how our bodies work, but getting into conciousness/ mind uploads/ simulated humans is another can of worms ethically speaking. I'm assuming you'v
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by plomme 7mo ago
How are you doing speech-to-text with Claude Code?
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by plomme 7mo ago
In case you, as I, has not kept tabs of the progress of cloning since Dolly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/29/horse-clonin... or https://archive.is/dwHsu . Horse cloning is
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by plomme 7mo ago
Well you are in luck because that was the point of Schroedingers cat; it was constructed to show the impossibly odd implications of quantum mechanics. From the wikipedia page: “This thought experiment was devised by physicist Erwin Schrödin
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by plomme 7mo ago
The romans did care about property lines! Romes’ second aqueduct was held up when land owner Crassus refused to give up private land for its construction. Check out the article for a fascinating read: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by plomme 7mo ago
I think it’s naive to think that not every part of our jobs will worryingly soon be automated. All the way up to and inckuding CEO. This is not exciting.

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