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spacecadet

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About spacecadet

Take my hand, not my picture...

Empathy for people, sympathy for machines.

Hacker, not a craftsman.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49035005

    It's a skill issue... governance and culture skills. Doesn't matter at this point what model you use... a thoughtful harness with appropriate levels of HITL and strong security, go…

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    Comment #49034873

    20 years ago when I use to instruct a 101 class on programming, in the first 2 weeks, I made everyone write simple programs with paper and pencil. Students thought that was insane,…

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    Comment #49034822

    idk discipline? try retraining your brain on non-digital activities. Pick a long running non-digital activity and gitrdone.

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    Comment #48997682

    You might also like my AI written zero player game/sim: https://github.com/derekburgess/simcraft The whole thing originated years ago to see what LLMs were capable of. Just spent a…

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    Comment #47452655

    You all are being idiots. Im done. There is so much nuance to all of this that I did not include. Key words are Flattened by Regulation... Have you ever read a damn rule book? Stoc…

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    Comment #47437586

    Oh really?! I said my statement was oversimplified. Not all groups have the same requirements. NASA Spec is very regulated for instance... But I knew a comment like this was coming…

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    Comment #47437019

    Writing code doesn't reliably work... However, as we converge toward a more collaborative development environment, code is more important than ever. Testing, sales, etc. more impor…

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    Comment #47436578

    There we go, gluten for punishment, you spiteful nerds.

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    Comment #47436545

    Racing competition is flattened through regulation(oversimplified). All drivers have the same car. Drivers skill and fearlessness is the deciding factor. I came here to basically s…

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    Comment #47433975

    Introduce them to jailbroke LLMs.

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    Comment #47433965

    Oh now this gets up votes? Few weeks ago nothing but down votes. I guess I'll see you babies at the raid on the OpenAI data center?

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    Comment #47424366

    As I said, from AGI to IPO and everyone will forget and move on.

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    Comment #47403347

    unlikely, people tend to assume wrong about me... as an outlier and all...

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    Comment #47403328

    No. I no longer believe in VC or PE. Evils that hurt society more then benefit...

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    Comment #47388711

    I realize this sounds one sided. Ive also founded companies and worked across the range of startup to faang. Everything has changed... For the better if you ask me.

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    Comment #47388698

    Do you have a race car or race team? Happy to onboard you, otherwise, not here.

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    Comment #47388473

    Im an 20 year veteran of application development consulting. Contributor level... not talking head. I do more estimating than anyone you likely know. Consulting is cooked. I just A…

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    Comment #47377855

    Classic hacker news comment mate. Your system sounds great to me, curious what you have going on!

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    Comment #47377760

    Not bragging, but I lucked out... Upgraded to 192 and 10tb of M2 SSD's last year and its the first time in my life my workstation has appreciated...

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    Comment #47375809

    Many kit builders with flashy PCs are only running 32gb. If you look at datasets like Steams, most people are still on 16 and 32. Hell 4% are still on 8!

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    Comment #47375781

    Arrival is one of the best films ever.

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    Comment #47372564

    It always has been.

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    Comment #47372322

    People don't think anymore, they just react... Im pretty sure Im done engaging on this platform for that reason. Nearly every comment is met by some crass remark that clearly demon…

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    Comment #47364396

    You and I have the same point of view... Try thinking instead of reacting...