sesteel

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by sesteel 1mo ago
I think I am going to move into a rural area and be a glassblower. I'll never be Chihuly, but my work will be my work.
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by sesteel 2mo ago
I agree with this. When people say speed, they often mean cycle time. How fast can I iterate towards a working solution to a problem? A low cycle time can hide many flaws in your staff and hiring. Experienced developers can go slower an
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by sesteel 2mo ago
I think it is more than just money. Having a hand in steering the ship that they think will change the world is pretty attractive. I came out of retirement just to watch the spectacle.
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by sesteel 2mo ago
The person who wrote the guide is more unusually interesting than the guide itself. I knew something sounded familiar.
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by sesteel 2mo ago
The respect only goes as far as to listen to what they have to say. We navigate our experience based on the whims of the rich so it helps to know what they are thinking, but it certainly doesn't confer much respect. Most are complete
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by sesteel 3mo ago
I am pretty sure human level intelligence is emergent from language use. The more complex the language the higher the intelligence since language is itself a tool used to not only to communicate, but also classify the human experience. Wi
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by sesteel 3mo ago
Looks like we may be going to go back to the geocities days of primitive websites. I use still use hugo to generate my personal site automatically from markdown upon PR approval.
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by sesteel 4mo ago
Why wouldn't you? From both emerge intelligence.
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by sesteel 4mo ago
Agreed. For all we know, humans are only considered intelligent locally among ourselves, not universally. Every time we learn more about the universe, we seem to also learn how insignificant and wrong we are.
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by sesteel 2y ago
It has made me stop using Google and StackOverflow. I can look most things up quickly, not rubber duck with other people, and thus I am more efficient. It also it is good at spotting bugs in a function if the APIs are known and the APIs v
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by sesteel 2y ago
I cannot tell you the number of times I thought I invented something new and novel only to later find out it already existed. So, while it is true that you can sometimes find paths untraveled, many things related to first principles seem a
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by sesteel 2y ago
Looking at this thread, it is a wonder that any PRs make it through review. I started calling these kinds of debates Holographic Problems. - Spaces vs Tabs - Self documenting code vs documented code - Error Codes vs Exceptions - Monolithic
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by sesteel 2y ago
I've taken up a new career as an AI influencer.
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by sesteel 2y ago
Maybe you'd know, but why would one choose to not sort favoring larger counts and drop the bottom half when full? It may be obvious to others, but I'd be curious.
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by sesteel 2y ago
I was taught the universe was a computer in 3 different college courses 25 years ago. Not exactly a revelation. "According to the best physics, the universe: isnt programmable; doesn't evolve deterministically; isnt described by
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by sesteel 3y ago
The problem exist for corporations as well. A teenage girl, who was a former classmate and friend of my daughter, was murdered at work because she turned down a man's advances. She made formal complaints, but the bureaucratic corpora
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by sesteel 3y ago
To look and feel important. I worked for a company that moved to a building simply because the CEO wanted the sign to be seen from a major highway. My 20min commute would become 1 hour or more. I left upon hearing that rationale.
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by sesteel 3y ago
The article talks about AMD announcing a chip supporting 192GB memory.
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by sesteel 3y ago
What Amazon is missing is buyers. Actual professional buyers who evaluate products and make determinations if products meet standards and deserves to be placed in front of customers.
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by sesteel 3y ago
I am confident that prompt engineering is not a long term solution for anybody. The cost of creation is moving towards free. Anybody with an idea will increasingly be able to make whatever they want. The best one could do is to try to in
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by sesteel 3y ago
Yep! The singularity concept people talk about relies on a feedback loop like you described. So, she isn't wrong, per se, but just telling a fragment of the story that exist today.
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by sesteel 3y ago
Why not pin your business model as the top post for awhile until it catches on?
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by sesteel 3y ago
Why do you believe that? Having been in and worked around it, its success is a function of money and will. I would not call it competent, but that is a personal opinion having worked in competent effective organizations in the commercial
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by sesteel 3y ago
My exposure to the internet came via MTV in 1994. I got a call at the house one day and they offered to pay for our internet if I agreed to comment on music videos in an online chatroom. I got free CompuServe for a year and a t-shirt.
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by sesteel 3y ago
This deserves to be upvoted more. Trading your life for financial gain has diminishing returns. You'd think everybody's goal would to be free of servitude.
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by sesteel 3y ago
I did that with a potato back in the day.
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by sesteel 3y ago
I just started hearing about WASI. I think I've been living under a rock.
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by sesteel 3y ago
When I see statements like "garbage-generating machine", I immediately think that the person making such a statement may not be aware of the capabilities of GPT-4.
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by sesteel 3y ago
Look up HSMs.
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by sesteel 3y ago
A lot of the experimentation I've done is too long and complex to fit nicely in an Ask HN post. People have the tendency to move the bar when assigning intelligence to AI. GPT4 is different. Here is a post from earlier today that mi

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