rwhitman

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by rwhitman 2mo ago
I'm fairly certain it's just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks, on an individual basis.
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by rwhitman 4mo ago
Having doubled down on using mostly Claude (+GPT and Gemini) professionally in strategic consulting work for about 2 1/2 years I can say with certainty that the irrational exuberance of the tech leadership echo chamber towards abdicati
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by rwhitman 4mo ago
I've known Webflow for a while as a business, and even pitched it to large companies like Maersk and Nielsen as a Wordpress alternative. I was on the sales side so it always seemed like a great cloud option that was in the territory of
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by rwhitman 4mo ago
The uptick in Indeed job listings is not a reliable indicator of job growth. AI has simply made it easier to render JDs and screen candidates at scale. Wouldn't it be expected that software companies would be better at leveraging the t
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by rwhitman 4mo ago
I've found this several times as well. I googled something to dispute a comment in reddit, and google "confirmed" it as accurate, citing what the person said in that exact reddit comment. Google has become the ouroboros
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by rwhitman 4mo ago
I feel like there is such a huge opportunity for small niche community social networks right now. The major social networks are such a cesspool of nonsense and brainrot.
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by rwhitman 11mo ago
Exactly, and main reason I've stopped using GPT for serious work. LLMs start to break down and inject garbage at the end, and usually my prompt is abandoned before the work is complete, and I fix it up manually after. GPT stores the in
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by rwhitman 1y ago
My thinking was that there was an exception handling and the error message was getting muddled into the conversation. But another commenter debunked me.
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by rwhitman 1y ago
> “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I loved the beetle article, thanks for that. They're so well tuned at predicting what you want to hear that even when you know intellectually that they'r
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by rwhitman 1y ago
Wow this is incredible. I saw the emergence of that spiral cult as it formed and was very disturbed by how quickly it proliferated. I'm glad someone else with more domain knowledge is on top of this, thank you for that brain dump. I ha
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by rwhitman 1y ago
If you want to go down a rabbit hole examining people in this disturbed place in realtime search reddit for the Cyclone Emoji (U+1F300) or the r/ArtificialSentience subreddit and see what gets recommended after that, especially a few m
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by rwhitman 1y ago
Japan, the Nordics, S. Korea and Central Europe, all countries with a demographic crisis. They need those babies.
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by rwhitman 2y ago
I haven't been particularly active on HN in a long time, but I've been tinkering with this manifesto for nearly a year and thought it belonged here. I've grown a bit frustrated with how much "Magical Computer" think
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Software Is a Mirror, Not Magic. Thoughts on the Magical Computer Myth(globalgum.com)
2 points by rwhitman 2y ago|1 comments
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by rwhitman 3y ago
Not looking for a job, but as a parent of a toddler just stopped by to say thank you.
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by rwhitman 3y ago
Not sure why this is news worthy. When my Prius catalytic converter was stolen, the mechanic i went to in Silver Lake offered to put one of these on my car and I did. A lot of mechanics in LA will do this for the car models that get them st
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by rwhitman 3y ago
Here's some reading material for you, from reputable sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894421/ https://news.mit.edu/2014/inside-adult-adhd-brain-0610
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by rwhitman 4y ago
I just yesterday went to a Korean restaurant in Orange County CA that had robot waiters. It was very exciting since I haven't witnessed it in the real world, and my daughter was in awe. Not quite sure how efficient it really was, more
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by rwhitman 4y ago
The Apple Weather app UI has far less granular detail than Dark Sky iOS app for hourly predictions. I liked the hourly view of temp, humidity, precipitation. We lose that in Apple Weather and its the main thing I check in the app. But the r
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by rwhitman 4y ago
I rely on Otter pretty heavily these days. 100% agree that recording and sending the transcript to meeting attendees without their knowledge is a really bad move from several angles. I work sales calls set up with Calendly and Otter joins t
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by rwhitman 4y ago
I feel like this saga is going to conclude with a Hulu/Netflix/HBO documentary where they end the series with an interview of Ryan Breslow in his jail cell.
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by rwhitman 4y ago
I work for a team that specializes in middleware development - eg the cases where Zapier really falls apart and needs a more thoroughly architected solution. I've spent a lot of time inside this topic. The thing that will disrupt Zapie
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by rwhitman 5y ago
America is in a honeymoon period with remote work. Most people do not have separate dedicated workspaces in their homes, or worse have roommates, kids etc and must make office space in the bedroom. Rolling out of bed to your desk every day
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by rwhitman 5y ago
It's 2021. There is very little opportunity left in SaaS that hasn't had mind boggling amounts of investor capital thrown at it. These are your competitors. In every single conceivable niche. Not bootstrapped companies. Venture ba
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by rwhitman 5y ago
I highly recommend hitting rock bottom, because when you get there you know everything after is up.
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by rwhitman 5y ago
I've run little businesses, been self-employed as a freelancer and agency, run startups, been in management at small businesses and other intrapreneurial roles maybe 22 years now - and I still don't feel like I have great "bu
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Ask HN: How do you track/report open source licenses for legal?
1 points by rwhitman 5y ago|0 comments
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by rwhitman 5y ago
The related articles at the bottom of that post are revealing.. painting a picture as something of an epidemic of drone swarms that government agencies are unequipped to make sense of. Some at sensitive sites such as a missile base on Guam
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by rwhitman 6y ago
This is entirely about the same politics of safety we're seeing play out with the pandemic. If jaywalking was legal, the sacrifice is that we'd have to drive slower to watch for pedestrians. As Americans our priority has been indi
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by rwhitman 6y ago
My parents were antique collectors. They were very proud of a glow-in-the-dark fireman's helmet circa 1940's that my dad bought. They told me it was radium paint and to keep away from it. I will say it does it's job. That hel

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