torben-friis

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by torben-friis 6d ago
The road is neither public nor neutral, and that's where the analogy breaks. This road is owned by a casino, and its signs are scientifically placed so that you take the wrong turn and reach their business. They place guardrails in the
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by torben-friis 8d ago
Humanity is very biased for the culmination of work, considering everything that comes before and after busywork for the lower masses. Replicating a paper is just as valuable scientifically as publishing it, but how many careers advance thr
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by torben-friis 9d ago
>It's insane that there's more profit in duping your users to spy on them and sell their data/information, than there is just making and selling a great product. And it feels like an inflationary behavior: people need mar
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by torben-friis 14d ago
I'm not American, but if I'm not mistaken, you don't have election day off like in other countries, right? If so, how is that not clearly discriminatory for those who can't afford the time to go.
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by torben-friis 15d ago
I guess I don't exist...
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by torben-friis 2mo ago
Why are you assuming that a document likely to be picked up and a good document are equivalent? We might be in for tech docs becoming SEO (LLMO?) friendly slop.
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by torben-friis 2mo ago
A sum of people with this attitude is what a megacorp is and why they're hated.
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by torben-friis 2mo ago
About 300 survivors of different fate, according to this Spanish source (you can probably ai translate, there is a survivors section): https://www.armadainvencible.org/desastre-la-playa-streedagh... The short of it is that
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by torben-friis 2mo ago
>incident response is one area where we are frequently confronted with synthesis problems: we have to understand how the pieces normally fit together in order to make sense of what is currently going wrong. I'm not sure I can accept
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Isn't this mostly circular? Let pichai, nadella and friends hold the bag. We'll be fine.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
If they can set a single machine as target every few years and make it work, that would be a lot better than having no alternative. M1 support is pretty usable nowadays, and I would imagine at least a fraction of the work translates to fu
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Their amazing laptop hardware pushes you into their ecosystem. Once you're on macOS, might as well get iphone rather than Android and benefit from the synergy, same for airpods or the apple watch. The only reason I'd see support f
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
It is very possible to injure yourself with calisthenics. Shoulder impingement or tendinitis from pullups with too much intensity/bad form for example. Weight is weight.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Would the accused party have to prove compliance? Or would non compliance have to be proved by the accuser? Honest question, I'm not American.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
How many times have you seen an expert go "yeah these results are good consistently enough for a non expert to trust them without expert assistance"? There is a huge difference between having a chance of a good result, which can b
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
To the tv through the deck, is what I understood (maybe not using the smart features of the tv?)
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Economics is hardly a reproducible science, but an American company has basically instant access to 350 million consumers (and workers) with no language barrier and little inter-state red tape. It's hard to imagine that this isn't
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I know HN is mostly against regulation, but I'm very glad my country restricts mass firings, and particular stricter rules apply for companies that turn a profit. If you're generating benefits, there should be very few reasons you
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
It's a fascinating period to learn to navigate. It is very rare for a startup leader (usually very hands-on and practical minded) to be able to delegate and think strategically well enough to survive the transition. Sometimes they even
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Man I wish they would just chase fads. They chase the most morally corrupt version of a fad every time, it's like their business is black mirror episodes as a service.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Angel investor with Fintech background? Are they going to push for cashapp/bizum like features?
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I guess that depends on the kind of project, how common the intent is, how self contained, etc.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Absolutely! This is a point that tends to kill introverted/insecure people I think. They assume that asking for permission is making things easier for people, but there's a limit where you're not allowing others to delegate r
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
>the work of the editor does have value. it's just a different value. I mostly agree with that, with some caveats (in short, there's an uncomfortably thin line to appropriating the curated work, consciously or not). >and how
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I should have clarified or quoted, my bad. I was talking about the work references, mainly this paragraph: >was I tempted to use AI to speed things up? No. It would be like hooking a motor to a stationary bike and calling that exercise.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Yeah, the somelier argument. It doesn't work for me sorry, because you wouldn't accept a book by John, a friend of Hemingway, as a Hemingway book no matter how much he assisted in editing. Nor a Picasso museum exhibition is by Mar
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I think the argument is misguided, even if I agree with the principle: it is based in the effort one puts in and how it's similar to a sport. I don't care whether my favorite author sweated for months facing a typewriter, of he ef
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
During his first term, his continuous threats to north Korea were enough to force congress to restrict presidential powers (the whole fire and fury stuff), and that's not counting Venezuela, Syria and others.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
More than you can imagine. OKRs, brag documents, quarter reviews.... Kidding aside, I would be surprised if something larger than using it as a thesaurus/corrector is slipping by. Literature is genuinely hard.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I haven't seen any minimal sign that any of the fiction books I read lately was LLM helped. Writers seem like a particularly anti AI crowd too. Has anyone? Now I'm curious if it's just my particular bubble.

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