jahewson

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Software engineer. 20 years of coding. Startups. SF Bay Area.
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Comment · 11 months ago
This would be a $1000 custom part in a Miele appliance though.
Comment · 11 months ago
Engineers use their ingenuity. That’s it.

If physical engineers understood everything then standards would not have changed in many decades. Safety factors would be mostly unnecessary. Clearly not the case.

Comment · 11 months ago
Maybe we could keep the conversation out of the gutter.
Comment · 1 year ago
It reads like a sales call where they’re getting customer pushback and responding with something quantitative - not a good opener at all, especially for this audience. The GPT tone pushes it over the edge.

What they built looks great and I don’t disagree with their take in substance, but you get one chance to make your open source announcement good - don’t blow it like this.

Comment · 1 year ago
I very much dislike the way this article blurs religious and doomsday thinking with conspiracy theory thinking. There’s nobody conspiring on the other side of AGI. Other than that it makes many good observations.
Comment · 1 year ago
Isn’t this a counter factual that can’t be proved? How do you know it won’t deter other companies?
Comment · 1 year ago
What would you recommend instead?
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes I think that’s what it is - only the writing on the map uses a horizontal baseline whereas the real script uses a sloping baseline so it looks weird here.
Comment · 1 year ago
Being able to give a good speech is merit when the goal is to select a leader.
Comment · 1 year ago
Where do you guys get this nonsense from? Is there some sort of conspiracy theory factory? Do you have any idea how the rest of the world behaved during this time period? You are aware that the Muslims literally had multiple empires?
Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
Non-secretary women were not in short supply at NASA at this time though. The work of Virginia E. Morrell and Bonnie J. McBride a few years earlier, at this same research center springs to mind.
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe they did…
Comment · 1 year ago
Car companies, including Hyundai, pay fines of that magnitude every few years for various issues. Yet the issues keep coming.
Comment · 1 year ago
Bad news for Schrödinger?

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