wubrr

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by wubrr 8mo ago
That is a pretty convincing and intuitive take, thank you.
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by wubrr 8mo ago
> What does reading a great novel or starting a garden specifically accomplish? It accomplishes many things - specifically granting entertainment, pleasure, etc that practitioners like. > It seems to me that you are starting from the
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by wubrr 8mo ago
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by wubrr 8mo ago
So many allusions and claims such as your 'yes' in this thread, and yet, not a single actual link/reference to anything actually scientific/verifiable... Maybe you should actually share a link if you're so sure, ins
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by wubrr 8mo ago
There is a lot of scientific research/results based on actual measurable results and biology which supports the benefits of strength training. Can the same be said about meditation?
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by wubrr 8mo ago
Many things have been practiced/studied for thousands of years - that alone isn't interesting or valuable imo. What are the objective benefits of meditation - what is the exact/specific process and what specifically does it a
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by wubrr 8mo ago
The more explicit/detailed your plan, the more context it uses up, the less accurate and generally functional it is. Don't get me wrong, it's amazing, but on a complex problem with large enough context it will consistently sh
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by wubrr 8mo ago
It's ability to test/iterate and debug issues is pretty impressive. Though it seems to work best when context is minimized. Once the code passes a certain complexity/size it starts making very silly errors quite often - the s
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by wubrr 8mo ago
You can run a web UI locally, without exposing it to the public internet, and access it remotely via SSH. > which works equally well on everyone’s machine Why are you so sure it runs equally well on everyone's machine? Even big popu
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by wubrr 9mo ago
I've generally had better luck when using it on new projects/repos. When working on a large existing repo it's very important to give it good context/links/pointers to how things currently work/how they should
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by wubrr 10mo ago
Gemini weirdly messes things up, even though it seems to have the right information - something I started noticing more often recently. I'd ask it to generate a curl command to call some API, and it would describe (correctly) how to do
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by wubrr 10mo ago
Pure greed is stupid greed. Also, if the current level of AI investment and valuations aren't justified by market demand (I believe so), many of these people/companies are getting more money than they would without the unreasonabl
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by wubrr 10mo ago
Which is entirely unreasonable, and there's no need to make excuses or explain away this borderline psychopathy.
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by wubrr 10mo ago
Communication is not hard, it's very easy, but there are actors who's goal is to obfuscate communication and prevent others from participating. At the end of the day it comes down to who the decision makers are and how they are in
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by wubrr 10mo ago
The disconnect is more between long term business value, and short term benefit for the most parasitic and manipulative actors within the business. Engineering and business value go hand-in-hand in a healthy tech/engineering business.
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by wubrr 10mo ago
Apply that logic to any failed startup/company/product that had a lot of investment (there are maaaany) and it should become obvious why it's a very weak and fallacious argument.
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by wubrr 10mo ago
I don't know what you're basing your 'minority' and 'most people' claims on, but seems highly unlikely.
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by wubrr 10mo ago
> Also it doesn't count if the numbers get worked out over email but the handshake was in person. It doesn't count if 99% of the meetings/negotiations happen remotely if the last one happens in person? ok
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by wubrr 10mo ago
cope harder
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by wubrr 10mo ago
Yawn This is your original statement exactly: > "The Bay Area is special because of said history/staying power - which has systemic downstream advantages that *cannot be replicated*."
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by wubrr 11mo ago
> There was only one of those, and consequently there is only one Shenzen. Really? There was only one rapidly developing, densely populated region with a financial hub nearby (why does the proximity of finance even matter?), in the entir
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by wubrr 11mo ago
I'm giving you a specific example of why it's not necessary to be in any particular location to work in tech, or network, collaborate, communicate with other tech people. Directly contradicting your baseless assertion about how yo
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by wubrr 11mo ago
> You said tech hub. No, you said tech hub. Which is short of 'technology hub', which is not just limited to mobile apps. > You tend to do this a lot. "Many Stanford alums leave California" and "talent is bein
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by wubrr 11mo ago
Places where technological innovation and development happen have existed long before the internet and semiconductors. The industrial revolution didn't originate or center around the Bay Area. > The makeup of tech companies employee
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by wubrr 11mo ago
> Yes, that makes it nearly impossible for other places to become Shenzen. Even within China it's special. You're skipping n = 1 and jumping straight to k. How did modern Shenzen become what it is? Through specific reasons like
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by wubrr 11mo ago
> No one is arguing the historical & material reasons as to why Bay Area is the birthing place of many technological revolutions. You're kinda missing the bigger picture - the fact that Bay Area was not always a tech hub, and be
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by wubrr 11mo ago
You seem to assume dinner parties and in-person social engineering is the key to success. I guess I have a different opinion - the tech, the product, the efficiency is the key to success.
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by wubrr 11mo ago
I live a lot further from SF than Texas, yet I've been working fully remote for SF tech companies (among others) for 10+ years. If I need to meet someone in person, I make a trip (~few times a year) It's true that I can't bro
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by wubrr 11mo ago
> It's not at the same level as other large frontier models from American companies Cool story > The value of goods manufactured in the US has never been higher... Manufacturing has disappeared as a share of GDP, but that's
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by wubrr 11mo ago
> Exhibit A for Covid having not changed this is the continuing supremacy of Silicon Valley (tech) You mean like when China built chatgpt 4 in a weekend and open-sourced it for giggles? > Shenzhen (manufacturing) ..or you mean how US

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