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Comment · 2 days ago
> No, it was enforcement against the ultra-wealthy and corporations

This is how income tax was sold to the American public. When it originally started it really only did effect the top earners, but as the years rolled on and inflation happened it impacted more and more people. The reality is these tools that target only the 'wealthy', if they're successful are used to target everyone.

Comment · 5 days ago
Sports betting enters a new era where leagues will have partnerships directly. How long before championships are scripted?
Comment · 8 days ago
Is anyone actually no longer saving for retirement due to the advances in Ai?
Comment · 8 days ago
Thank you Disney!

This was exactly the push I needed to cancel my subscription. We already own all the Disney DVDs that we actually love, and there hasn't been anything good released by Disney in ages.

Comment · 23 days ago
I disagree with the author. I think as LLMs get better at coding it will be more likely that that fewer devs will be required to keep systems running and progressing, the bottleneck at my company is already new revenue generating ideas. We've seen a roughly 30% increase in speed of new features, so the same number of devs are building a lot quicker. I expect that to continue to increase. I also see a lot of Devs simply trusting that the code is correct, they are losing touch with the code.

I don't think I would encourage my kids to get involved with programming, instead I would encourage them to become entrepreneurs who might use some coding.

Comment · 1 month ago
amen.
Comment · 1 month ago
In college I did an apple fast twice. Only eat apples and drink water for 3 days. You have to be careful doing this because you can end up very dehydrated. Whatever you eat after the 3rd day is the best meal of your life even though it's typically very simple. I would usually have something like a soup or very basic sandwich, it was still usually the most tasty thing I had ever eaten.
Comment · 1 month ago
I have a client that uses webflow and they author everything in the edit mode and the site is constantly breaking. They just email me to update everything now.
Comment · 2 months ago
Many grocery stores will already give you a per oz or per unit price so you can compare pricing for different brands that have different sizes. It's a very handy feature.
Comment · 2 months ago
The importance of walking can not be overstated. Walking for 30 mins every other day will dramatically improve your life if you are sedentary. If you can't do 30 minutes, start with 15.
Comment · 2 months ago
I'm building a product and exploring these questions in that domain. I'm thinking about it a little differently. I have a known set of hardware sensors that I'm collecting all the data from. Per sensor the data has a strong schema with a timestamp, what is interesting is the insights that can be gleaned across sensors. So what sensors do you have that you want to record, have a strong schema against that sensor, now have something you can use to tie across sensors, now you can use LLMs to query the data and draw interesting insights
Comment · 2 months ago
A lot of the joy I used to have doing this job is gone. I wrote some recursive code to turn nested API parameters into Elastic search queries, it was the last really cool thing I did pre-Ai. Sometimes I look at that code with a fond nostalgia, I'll never write code like that again unless I go out of my way to do it for fun. I don't even know what being a software dev will look like in a year from now.
Comment · 3 months ago
Stacked PRs have been great, a huge boon for me. I was using it before the UI support, just on the command line. `gh stack rebase` is too useful.
Comment · 3 months ago
I think we're going to get to that point on the 'S' curve. I also think the moat for a lot of companies is going to be their process and data, self hosting tuned models could be increasingly viewed as a trade secret.
Comment · 3 months ago
What kind of hardware are you using and what is your token generation speed (tok/s)? Every time I've tried to run local models, even on my beefy mac book (128Gb Ram), I've been very disappointed at tok/s speed.

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