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Yup, it’s a great UX and it makes the media experience feel finished, not hacky.

As a musician, I can agree with this 100%.

Cause all the kids are hooked on crack.

Floppy disks were ubiquitous when I was in college. When I got into Linux, I did an experiment raw writing zeros to floppies with dd to see what percentage of them had I/O errors. …

We could probably debate this ad nauseam, so I'll just give you my most compelling arguments. 1) Writing code the "old fashioned" way (i.e., a Python program that does X, Y, Z) all…

The craziest for me is companies that sticking stochastic agents into automated business processes and expecting stable/reliable outcomes. Businesses want deterministic processes i…

It’s been wildly successful. Poorly run projects tend to fail.

Someone has to look out for the big guys! /s

Lots of people have solar. Green AI, imagine that!

There are plenty of honest millionaires, but no honest billionaires.

I have been working on a language learning app for myself, and I am using a textbook that I like as the basis for an Anki inspired “learning tree”. This is working pretty well beca…

Context here (Patrick Boyle): https://youtu.be/IHD8BDFYyGI?is=dnpBeOoxH7LUJknm

A huge chunk of SoaceX value in their filing is attributed to their AI technology (aka Grok). I believe it’s 90% or more… Now, it seems they’re leasing the infrastructure required …

Yeah, but then it’s either an arduous manual review or incurring a bunch of token usage to review something that may be slop.

Neurotone.ai || Remote (Americas East / Western Europe) || Full-time || neurotone.com We build AI-assisted auditory training for people with hearing loss. Our product is live, in c…

Big dreamers, which is awesome, but they need a disciplined PM type team member to bring them down to Earth (ROI analysis on their roadmap).

I tend to agree, but the gains will come at the expense of the early adopters. Then again, this has been the case in so many industries throughout history.

For a preview of how this will go, take a look at this: https://accounting.penrose.com/

Got it, thanks.

Overkill in what way exactly? The LOC of the project shouldn't have any bearing on most people's usage of the project. SQLite is one of the well tested and mature projects in the w…

For someone complaining about slop, I found this unreadable.

A job from hell is a bad job by definition.

We can thank RFK for anti-vaccine leadership leading to changes to the childhood vaccine schedule which make preventable diseases harder to stop. You can celebrate more cures all y…

Related question, is it at all feasible to store cache locally to offload memory costs and then send it over the wire when needed?

Care to share the link? I'd like to take a look.