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by prewett 7d ago
That's about $675k/year, assuming a 35% tax rate. I think that is a small fraction of HN users, but more to the point, if your argument is that the phone is not expensive if you make over $500k/year, I'm not sure that is
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by prewett 16d ago
This is sort of tangential to most of the comments, but his comments on temperature made me wonder if humans have a similar sort of temperature. If you put me in the same conditions, I'm likely to make the same response as I did before
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by prewett 16d ago
It's great for stuff I don't care about, like figuring out complicated SQL queries, and then turning them into sqlalchemy! There's nothing so unfun as spending a day trying to get a complex query working, as you slowly discov
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by prewett 16d ago
> A LLM is more akin to a senior pair programmer. I don't know, it seems more like every question goes to a contract agency, where a random programmer answers it. Generally they are very good at bringing up relevant things you'
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by prewett 20d ago
Right answer, but the anti-captialist reasoning is rubbish. The simple reason why you do not want to short a stock is that it can go up infinitely, and nVidia has a four year history of going up. There is also good reason to think nVidia wi
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by prewett 1mo ago
There's already a noun for this: "resources"
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by prewett 1mo ago
I believe that according to Catholic and Orthodox thought, God is Being itself. If you're familiar with Plato and Aristotle, God is the Form of Being. If not, I guess you could say God is Being as a noun, or God is where the idea of Be
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by prewett 1mo ago
A six week retreat to Bali might alleviate the surface boredom, but it will just self-medicate the emptiness that causes the boredom, though.
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by prewett 1mo ago
Money buys convenience and comfort, but it does not buy friendship, belonging, love, virtue, or purpose. The latter have usually been seen as more essential to the good life. You can look at the wealthy and get a sense of this. A lot of the
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by prewett 1mo ago
Maybe even something like a small LCD display, and it could be touch sensitive so you could switch directly to an agent? Like ... the Touch Bar? :) (I always liked the idea of the Touch Bar, but in practice I only used it to change the volu
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by prewett 1mo ago
Technically the first two are still true... No one has seen the edge of the earth because a sphere has no edge. No humans have ever flown, although we have created metal machines to do and when we pilot one of those we call it flying, which
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by prewett 1mo ago
Using LLMs for hobby programming is like using a computer to solve sudoku puzzles. The whole point is to do it yourself. Personally, I find that when I start thinking "hmm, I wonder if I could write a program to automate this" is
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by prewett 1mo ago
Whether that is true depends on what kind of place you want to buy and the amount of the loan. In Boston's north shore, the only available apartments are triple-deckers where you can hear your neighbors, for $2500/month, while hou
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by prewett 1mo ago
Early in the Industrial Revolution people voluntarily moved from the countryside to the cities despite all that, so apparently a lot of them thought it was an improvement. Some of the cities were proud of the soot, since it showed that they
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by prewett 1mo ago
> Neptune's inner moons may be the only place in the solar system where we can directly observe that material [from the insides of a past moon] Clearly this means that we need a Neptune orbiter mission! And soon, I'm not gettin
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by prewett 1mo ago
You could try contracting. Perhaps you would like places that are not pure software (some kind of hardware, either electrical or mechanical, that needs software for UI). I'm at one currently, and one of the hardware guys is using AI to
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by prewett 1mo ago
Because confusing two people because of having the same name is much less likely for European names than for Asian names (there are only about 100 Chinese family names, for instance), so it's an indirect dig that Apple wasn't payi
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by prewett 1mo ago
Not the GP, but I have one non-partioning AIX trivia I discovered by accident. Turns out that malloc(0) returns NULL on AIX, but non-null on Linux, SunOS, and Irix. (I was surprised multiple ways on that one!)
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by prewett 1mo ago
Do they see coming the predictable failure-modes of left-wing economies, though? History seems to suggest not. Also, did "the entire left-wing" see specifically a debt crisis through bad assumptions of creditworthy mortgage securi
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by prewett 1mo ago
I hope you've taken a good look at the alternatives, because historically they've been terrible. Unless you mean "not capitalism but still market economy", or "European market economy 'socialism'", al
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by prewett 1mo ago
(somewhat tangential) We've got too much subtle deception going on, let's call it what it was: the Panic of '08. Because there was definitely some panic going on. Solvent companies like GE were days away from bankruptcy becau
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by prewett 1mo ago
But were the internet companies of 2000 the ones who became the most valuable? GOOG, yes. Netscape and Yahoo, not so much. Amazon yes, pets.com, not so much. Sun is no more, Cisco to two decades to return to its dotcom bubble levels. Netfli
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by prewett 2mo ago
Listening to "Fiddler on the Roof" and klezmer music unsettled to me the idea that major is happier than minor. I still think minor tends to sound "sad", but those wedding songs and the Russian dance in FotR are clearly
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by prewett 2mo ago
The scoring is the same as a project from a year or two ago that used AI generated videos, I wonder if this a rework of that? I think this is a definite improvement, if so. I think the "top nn%" is misleading if you do terribly, t
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by prewett 2mo ago
I guess I'm not impressed that some totally different alloy is stronger than steel. You can't change both method and alloy and claim that the method is better. Presumably the paper compared the same alloy using the normal and the
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by prewett 2mo ago
It's in the beginning of the Prose Edda. It's part a genre one could call "universal history", which is tying your group's history into the narrative of the world. It was pretty common in medieval Christianity; I&#x
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by prewett 2mo ago
Spending is also a noun. A gerund used to be the way you nounify a verb. “Ad spending” is perfectly grammatical, unlike “ad spend”. This seems to be part of a broader trend, not just business. One group of pastor-students would talk about g
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by prewett 2mo ago
I think it is used sort of the same way that fundamentalist Christians take the Bible "literally", as in, there's just the literal meaning of the words, no deeper symbolic meaning, usage of literary themes, allusions, etc. Fu
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by prewett 2mo ago
Who's defrauding poor people? The risk/reward is much better for defrauding rich people...
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by prewett 2mo ago
Landlords of Adam Smith's England and what "landlord" means in contemporary America are two different things. None of my landlords have charged to use pre-existing natural resources, they charged to use a decidedly non-natura

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