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I met him once at a conference in 2013. One of the most fun and human people in greater tech I had the honor to talk with in person. I can highly recommend his writings.

I wonder how many engineers are left from that era that could even help with setting up a manufacturing site. Probably not many. I for sure would pay a lot of money for a new hires 16:9 tube solely fo…

In modern AA/AAA titles there often is way too much filler content for my taste; clearly not respecting my time. Also tutorials (Pikmin 4 recently put me off again because of that) and way too mu…

They fundamentally don’t but a high quality / high refresh OLED display can come very close and if implementation done right IMHO can even surpass experience in some cases. I still play old games…

Also timers; reminding to constantly switch up positioning. Standing, sitting (especially with legs up), now and then lie down position even (e.g. for when reading specs/documentation). Switching…

Difference between parental experience can be wild . Sometimes up to literal survivorship bias talk from other parents; can be mildly annoying but ultimately I always feel happy for them and their ki…

Whatever happened to the oath of the engineer? I’m not buying that this issue is only about psychopathic business people. Neither domain nor pay grade leave room for “professional” excuses here. Oh an…

Yes, hence the questioning.

Is it description of culture or is it framing? I can’t say, most of this isn’t something I can relate to (fortunately). The Internet is a collider, smashing contexts together and at an ever increasing…

I’ll summarize then: “A GPT-4+ like and OSS LLM based personal assistant that can be trained and run on soon-to-be common personal computing devices.” Lots of people are probably already working on th…

I’ve got two downvotes here, really curious on the why? It’s clearly not only the hardware that is “still too slow” at this point? Again just for training then, why does a LLM basically need the whole…

Although most distros should work out of the box these days (I think?) nothing beats these smaller ones for interested people and especially “younglings” to try out; “running from a stick”. My first c…

We unfortunately do live in a post-post privacy world now: so LLMs (and personal assistants based on them) with higher-than GPT-4 levels of quality that are so efficient to train and use that we can t…

An increasingly good question to ask oneself these days: how could this be done without direct usage of LLMs / without ML even? Then as a second step ask yourself how potential assistance from …

I always like to point out to fellow devs that there are a lot of Bad Companies out there. It’s not an easy task to find a good one. I haven’t needed to work from some remote open space office since…

Lifelong "tech head" yet I've slowly come to the conclusion that we've increasingly reached the point where smartphone usage is "barely/rarely" OK for adults let alo…

They also lag on the dataplane side do they not? AFAIR nvidia bought the main (remaining?) infiniband supplier and seamlessly integrated it with all their data center offerings? Cue Jensen Huang "…

Somewhat related: did Power arch really reach it’s “EOL” by now? IIRC IBM was still doing something with it at least? Anyone in the know? > So amd64 isn't as good as arm64, riscv64, mips64, …

Geographical differences certainly ring true but I think it’s a bit of a generational thing as well?

Hokuto Shinken self-application; all the neuralgic points, and with determination and lots of force.

It’s very telling yes: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458#F1 …

Also there can be so much elitism, "old boys networks" and general arbitrariness under veneers of "scientific objectivity".

> Where many modernists greeted the Great War as a moment of disenchantment and disillusionment, a young Tolkien, who fought in it, took it as a spur to a mission of re-enchantment for a world desp…

Exactly; almost no skin in the game here . What are lawsuits and fines to someone who buys 40B companies out of boredom / like we comment on HN. Responsibility and repercussions must become much…

Lack of skin in the game is evident, especially with institutions. Whether it's Tesla or the government, responsibility is diffused. True accountability should hone in on the “natural person”. Th…

Let it crash!