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browski

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    HN, iPhone apps, and web apps, video games, Star Wars and comic movies, more cars and trucks than ever I am raising my kids to show zero respect to elders given in to nihilism to p…

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    Fwiw I find social media scores corny Just stokes addiction to a false sense of empowerment and social contribution Downvote away to hide from ideas and opinions you don't like. Co…

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    They aren't destroying work. Humans can still work on their yards and homes and yadda yadda They’re destroying labor exploiting knowledge "jobs" which is of course something NY Tim…

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    Programmers do not build a computer. EEs and computer engineers do that. They are driving (lol) towards the sale of a computer with a model on chip without a programmer salary and …

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    What makes computers useful is solving problems I don't care if they adhere to written and oral traditions of the past or some other means I need to add and divide and test values …

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    > A decent model with a great harness beats a great model with a bad harness. Agreed. I don't use off the shelf skills and such. I craft my own that best serve the abstract problem…

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    Comment #48885425

    Never marrying may reduce risk of dementia: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/202504...

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    Comment #48885328

    Nvidia makes real things, grinds to push computing forward and are coincidentally wrapped up in the latest hype cycle in a big way Software-only startups make nothing but hype and …

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    Comment #48883149

    Yeah how many of us know how to build an ICE engine or shoes of any meaningful quality We set upon end of human craftsmanship decades ago Math is probably the easiest to reclaim gi…

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    Creative writing has gone from Shakespeare and Poe to corny simile; "life is like a belly button." Worked for Forrest because the character was intended to be simple. A cave isn't …

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    Yeah. Hiked on and around them in PNW mountains. And?

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    Altman showing how desperate he is to get into hardware. He knows local models that supplement models in chip are the end of OIA

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    Yeah I am mostly retired in late 40s having saved as much as possible as fast as possible and have time on my hands. Am exploring social media I largely ignored while staying busy …

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    Outsiders need to append a "for NYC". They didn't here because for them as representatives of NYC that's all they are speaking to. Technical pedantry like this just displays poor l…

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    That's a self selecting vain perspective to conclude with. Code is just storage medium. The hardware ultimately decides a lot that's out of our hands anyway; hardware never runs co…

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    Education is too obsessed with reading. It's passive cognitive copy paste. Writing seems way more important. Requires reading and establishing one's own voice. But writing in schoo…

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    > I vehemently disagree that people working at big companies are stupid, or making themselves stupid. There are VPs and SVPs at Adobe and Salesforce that are smarter, more knowledg…