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The 75km is a rough estimate. There are so many twists and turns, and logs to hop over, giant boulders to climb on top, plus there’s ~100 ladders over the whole train, some in better shape than others. Your actual traveled distance is closer to 90km.

5-6 days is a reasonable amount if you are not insane. The second time I did it, there was a couple that ran it in two days. Only saw them at the start, but presumably they made. The reason they did 2 days is because you can pay to rent a tent + food about half way through. So they were running with just a two litter bottle of water and presumably some snacks.

But if you want to actually enjoy the views … even 7 days is not too slow

Not like AI revolution will be better handled. It will be even worse because there are very obvious economic incentives to handle badly

I wouldn’t say the handling of COVID was smooth to say the least.

Yes we handled it, we are still paying the bill for that handling (inflation).

I think AI will have the disruption level of COVID, but there will not be an end in sight, 5%, 10, 20, 50% of people will lose jobs and even if they can refrain and handle it, it will take 5-10 years for those people to handle it. Can the countries have people on unemployment for that long ?

Here is a challenge, what is the longest “shortest path” across all wiki?

Have you played around with the shortcuts app on the iPhone ? It is pretty powerful for something that is highly constrained to a few select operations.

It’s not full out programming but it is a good entry way once you are done with scratch.

(Canada perspective) - it’s on the lower end of the software engineer. If a software eng makes 80-120k in non faang, you are looking at 70-100k. Those are just example numbers, it’s been about 5 years since I worked in that industry.

There are two paths in this industry though, work for the factory itself, very cushy job, sometimes unionized. You’re responsible for fixing small things as they come, but overall I don’t think much is expected since you’re one of the few in the factory who can program those machines so if you give a time estimate there’s nobody to argue. You likely stay in the lower end of the pays scale.

There is the consultant route, which can be gruelling, but you make closer to the higher end of the pay scale. Here it’s just a programmer shop, much is expected of you because you’re billing by the hour, also you will travel about 1/3 of your time, because you need to go from factory to factory to fix/install new code or machines.

Can you explain a bit how somebody can stop others from trying to triangulate?

I assume the further away your system is from non technical customers, the more type 1 you can be.

I assume nvidia video card designers can be type 1, because other technical people will be interacting with their system. And if those people don’t do read the docs, and interact exactly how they should, it just won’t work.

Now if you work at adobe and are designing the video editing software that deep down actually uses those video cards, well you need to be type 2. The success of your product is more dependent on how well “the software does what the user intended” where intended might be a very subjective thing, likely based on other features that other similar software has, not related to anything technical.

I would say electrician? Your biggest risk is electrocution and asbestos exposure.

Did anyone use this for an actual project. I am wondering how those chatX applications actually help.

When I had to use a dissasembler the issue was not commands, because those become muscle memory after a few hours of use. (LLM solutions are anti muscle memory because for the same prompt you can get diff results)

The issue I had was wrapping my brain around what is actually going on, keeping track of pointers, addresses and so on.

Maybe this chat solution can help with some of that, but I often am not sure what I actually am looking for so I can’t ask for it. Until I gets to “fix the bug/ find the overflow” I just don’t see the extra value.

I don’t quite understand why people should work harder than their parents.

Isn’t the whole point of progress that ... you know … we progress towards something better ?

What is the point of the productivity gains we had due to automation, if we never get to enjoy the benefits of that ?

Every parent wants their child to have a better life than them, better life to most means more opportunities. More opportunities to do what exactly ? More opportunities to work more hours ?

I understand the economy does not quite work like that, but I still think it is something we should strive for.

I had to try it because I could not believe it. Yea you get a poop emoji back …

Hopefully research like this will even out access to the new tech. Maybe once we figure out a pretty good architecture we will have something like chatBot.train(…) where we just feed some data for the fine tuning.

One at home, one with me for Spotify in my pocket.

Ah ok, yes the shoulder surfing is definitely a problem.

Hard to mitigate somebody looking over your shoulder, this is the case with most password managers, but I understand why this is a more likely scenario.

Yea you can get very good results with older cameras. You only see the difference when you really push it to the limits of what a camera can do: Low light, in flight bird photography, sports, high dynamic range etc

I used keePass before LastPass, but the issue was with keeping the file synced. I had it in Dropbox and I was able to open it no problem from the phone, but making updates from phone was a challenge. Maybe I was not using a good app but it was a hassle to keep it synchronized.

But anyway, somebody could cut off your access to Dropbox, but it’s less of an issues since you have a backup.

Can you explain how this hack would work ?

Would someone need to steal two of your devices ?

I was under the assumption that you need to be logged in with touchid/faceid/pin code to get the unlock code

We can use the same argument for any other cloud password manager. If google/Apple blocks my access, well it’s those services I am trying to log into in the first place so the point is moot.

Also I have recovery keys for the more important accounts printed and stored in a safe box.

I have my old iPhone with no sim that I mostly take to the gym to protect the new one.

I was not planing to move there, maybe just visit someday.

But I am curious where this is going …

I have been using the Apple manager since LastPass got hacked recently.

Hot take , but … I like the lack of integration in other operating systems/ browsers.

I see my phone as a Secure Enclave, and my passwords should be disconnected from potentially insecure systems. I see the phone as those keychain one time passwords where you have to press a physical button to get a key.

Is it inconvenient to get a password, yes. But it offers the piece of mind that I only have to worry about iPhone/Apple exploits, instead of chrome+firefox+windows+Linux+Apple+iphone.

I don’t think in this case Apple is not doing the integration because of this security feature, but I think it is a feature non the less. Of course you can always choose not to install the extensions even if they existed, but the point is that if they existed it would lower security.

I think this some of this is actually forced upon us by technological advancement too.

I started doing photography over the pandemic, I started with a 2009 dslr, because that’s what I had lying around.

Because I did not even know how to expose a photo, it was great, and it felt like it did everything I wanted. I was very used to the layout, the functions, and although it was only 12MP, it took some of my favourite photos. All with lenses worth <300$.

Later I received a new mirrorless, 4K shooting, 24MP camera. I changed brands, So some of it is on me, but I had to buy new lenses as well. Getting new $150 lenses was not possible, and it felt wrong to put $150 lens on a $2000 camera.

So I got a few lenses to match. Not only that, but my 2012 MacBook Air was not able to run the latest Lightroom, and the older Lightroom version I had was not able to decode the new raw image format.

So I had to get a new computer as well.

All in all, a gift, that although is very much appreciated, cost me a lot more than the gift itself.

I have no regrets now, the newer sensors, the better tracking, the better lenses, all allow me to take much better photos. But if I would have stayed with my old camera, I would have never known what I was missing.

Maybe apple will have a bigger effect on ai adoption than any other company.

Local inference is huge for anything that requires even a little bit of privacy.

Google earth was super cool when it came out.

Being able to spin a globe, find our house, visit any place in the world.

Maybe it was less useful compare to maps, but definitely more fun.

I think that’s actually really not a limit.

We don’t teach babies by throwing lots of data at them, instead we teach them by giving them useful data.

The loop I see is: - train on a lot of existing data - run out of useful data - people use ai and give feedback (we’re here) - perform reinforcement learning on the data collected

Loop over the last two steps.

There is already more than enough data available, it’s just not nicely labeled to say if it’s high quality or should be discarded. Those last two steps will implicitly do the labeling.

You now have the ability to teach it new things. Given you have the compute resources

You’re also not trying to get a full CICD pipeline complete with unit/integration tests, crypto signatures, ability to flip features on and off with a click , monitoring of the cicd pipeline, scaled so 1000s of engineers can work at once etc

Prices are already increased. We had pretty bad inflation for the last year.

At some point some of the zombie businesses need to die and make room for the profitable ones that can pay their workers.

I’ve been there for a while. It’s getting out of hand, and has been since COVID.

During COVID I felt good about tipping because small businesses and restaurants were struggling, so it felt like I was doing something positive.

But then businesses got greedy, not only did they increase the prices (+50-100%) in some cases, but also increased the pre-programmed tipping percentages. Pre COVID used to be (12,15,20), now it is more like (18,22,25).

With the increase in prices I would actually tipping more $ even if they kept the percentages the same.

But it’s the greed of increasing percentages that is getting out of hand.

And also where tips are expected. Getting a drip coffee, a place where they just hand you the cup but you pour it yourself asked for a tip. What exactly did you do as a server in this case?

Getting an ice cream … you scooped it up and handed it to me. That’s your job, I am not sure what you did beyond your job description to get a tip.

I’m at the point where I just hit no tip out of spite for places that I don’t think deserve to have a tipping option to start with.

Restaurants, haircuts and bars are fair game, but I still think service has to be above par for more than 15% tip.