Massdrop (Drop?) has had filler garbage for quite a while. I think (maybe one) part of the issue is mechanical keyboards got much more popular and drops were less necessary for good stuff.
I've been to dozens of rationalist meetups (I don't know why), people are constantly talking out of their ass while constantly referencing contrived rhetorical devices. A lot of "just asking questions", confidently asserting solutions to e.g. palestine, cartels, etc. and contending with things TV pundits say.
I like some of Scott Alexander's writing, but "rationalists" in general online or IRL have not been very impressive to me.
The time and QoL I save will always beat hypothetical missed promotions at a current employer. For me, I don't think there's an exception to that rule. If I want more money I can ask and if it doesn't show up I can leave.
This is the sort of question I would ask of the export route (vs the much preferable self-host route), thanks for testing it out. If one could export office formats, e.g. docx for docs that'd probably be the best.
The more I look at this app the more I'm impressed, though.
This is very impressive, but if I'm going to go through the pain of not using gsuite/O365, I'm not going to consider something I can't self host or export to one of those quickly if your saas fails.
I can type 100wpm but I want to type faster so I love this kind of thing, but I noticed it stopped responding keyboard input after a minute or so. Thanks anyway!
It's also way harder in the US to go back to school as a working professional. Most people can succeed in university, but the window to do it with the least struggle closes after you're adulting hard, have a family, etc.
I describe it to the youth like this: Getting a degree might not be the fastest way to riches for the exceptionally entrepreneurial/resourceful (who are few,) but it's still by far the most reliable way to reach financially comfort or affluence in the US if you weren't born into it (or if you're entrepreneurial it amplifies what you can do.)
I did a few years of college and got an associate's before dropping out, didn't finish my degree until quite a few years later. I've been fortunate and have privilege, but I most likely would have done better financially if I'd finished a STEM degree from a state school earlier.
The drama is mostly because lots of people don't like writing tests, and lots of folks at one point or another have seen unit tests that are questionably valuable or past the point of diminishing returns I think of tests that require a bunch of scaffolding to mock out any meaningful logic in order to test a single, simple if statement that invokes some other business logic that is already meaningfully tested on its own. At that point, it's easy to say "Wow, a couple of E2E tests would have caught the whole shebang!" Maybe I've just been burned by how easily one (read: I) can accidentally write pointless unit tests in Python.
I think the unit testing "debate" when it comes up tends to be very handwavey, like this article (which I still think is thoughtful.)
A developer bemoaned to me the threat of being legally obligated to make major chat apps interoperate because it would be too much effort and would stifle innovation, and I found that rather pathetic. If we couldn't figure out how to create protocols that connect these "modern" apps, especially given that they have mostly converged on the same set of basic features, it'd be a pretty strong indictment of the industry. To be clear, I hope it is mandated and if it is I'm sure it'll be achieved easily.
I understand what you're saying now, my comment was pretty flippant in retrospect. I didn't mean to devalue the NYT's work, my suggestion was hypothetically intended to liberate the free moat OpenAI got from the fruit's of NYT's labor. In retrospect it's obvious that putting GPT's model in the public domain is also putting NYT's work in the public domain, but that hadn't occurred to me. Thanks for the food for thought. Now I kind of like the idea of destroying the existing models if a royalty system can't be figured out, sort of a "reset" to force them to do it properly.
To illustrate, this is one of my favorite (humorous) lines from it, in the introductory chapter: "In the Eastern Empire, Greek civilization, in a desiccated form, survived, as in a museum, till the fall of Constantinople in 1453, _but nothing of importance to the world came out of Constantinople except an artistic tradition and Justinian's Codes of Roman law._"
Maybe getting too off topic for the thread, but it feels like equating machine and human output reaches a level of nihilism even I shudder at. I think (hope) there is intrinsic value in something being made by a human being even if a machine could do comparable work 100x faster.
I'm not sure the analogy really fits. As I see it, hypothetical farmers aren't an elite class that gets rich from copying and transforming the communications and creative output of billions(?) of unknowing people.
NYT's ask and my own are never going to happen, but I think forcing the models to be public domain would be the best outcome. It was trained on the creative output of a substantial portion of everyone online going back decades, including my own.
I haven't seen substantial evidence that he is exceptionally "smart" to the point that we need to utilize his brain in particular while he's in prison.
I hear this refrain a lot, but the reasons I've gotten for native apps vs webapps were not very compelling to me. I'd be interested in a detailed comparison of some real examples of native and web (or react native-like or webview wrapper) apps and the practical differences (excluding obvious ones like hardware access.)
Mutt is very well known. People are very opinionated about the way they use email. If you want to build an email client, I would go familiarize yourself with the massively popular mail clients like mutt, Thunderbird, Outlook. A lot of effort has been spent learning how to do email.
You'll need a new theory. I've worked with two late millenial/gen-z developers who couldn't hold up a slack conversation to save their lives, so we went to zoom very quickly when they needed anything.
But it's not a dichotomy between 3 hours or instantaneous. It's a dichotomy between instantaneous and when someone has a break in flow to peek at messages, which IME is more like 15-30 minutes (and i think it's probably fair to ask people to peek around that frequently if they normally wouldn't)
"that's just you" is dismissive and inaccurate. I can only listen to music when I'm slacking and if I begin to do real work the music I normally enjoy becomes an annoyance and I have to turn it off.
(Not an ios developer, have worked with ios teams) Swift build times are notoriously awful. I don't know if most developers have much influence over that.
Are you using a pinebook pro? I used Manjaro for a while there because I couldn't get OpenBSD working. Eventually I switched to my thinkpad (and frankly I'm using my AMD gaming computer running popOS lately despite the trust issues running games) Any particular difficulties running either BSD for daily driver purposes?