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I’d love to be doing more hacking like this. How do you go about advertising it? In the sense of, what should I be reading to find out about it?

If that wasn’t pretty widely true, would the meme exist?

People with a lot of personal agency in this way will also slow things down by expecting rational decisions from management and asking questions when they aren’t. I think this makes for a fantastic partner, peer or co-worker but a horrible employee. So I don’t think it’s too surprising that most hiring managers will be actively filtering them out.

As someone who does very highly value this way of thinking though, how would you try to detect it in an interview setting as an interviewee? That’s like asking them if they have good culture.

Shopify has tried a few times to build a tool like this but hasn’t ever managed to get any traction. I think that missing any curation at all could be what eventually kills it. Their current attempt is https://shop.app and a query for red shoes is mostly red shoes.

Is the compiler available yet to mere mortals like myself or just a handful of friends still? I love the philosophy and would absolutely take a day off work to play with it but being a private developed publicly makes it feel a bit too marketing/advertisement to go out and ask for it.

The task of parsing the input is the only transferable skill in the whole thing.

Could be worth it the price if the top one is an extension you own and lets some specific “partner ads” through.

You can get a local chatbot running in seconds with this tool: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama

None of the open models available to these local tools benchmark as well as the closed OpenAI model but the benchmarks are weird. In my own poking around, some models are definitely less coherent or more detailed for some specific prompts but it’s mostly the same.

No insider info again but, IMHO, Half Life: Alyx was a genre-defining success that has not yet been matched but even that did not hit the bar expected of a Half Life 3. It’s an impossible expectation and they don’t have a financial need to try.

Targeting services with the router doesn’t work against downloaded content. The OS sleep times can be bypassed by changing the system time and disabling wifi. There are also the free web proxy websites that let you bypass a whole lot of other things too.

I encourage this hacking spirit in them though and let them have a whole day if they find a new workaround. Right now, I have the unlock code set to all-zero but they haven’t figured that one out yet!

Best advice for getting them off devices I have is to take them away. If you need them distracted for a bit, a larger screen like a real TV or desktop doesn’t seem to hold them as tightly too.

For me, missing a night of sleep has a much, much larger cognitive effect than missing a cup of coffee. What I was trying to express was that the percent change is much higher, not that it’s infinite.

Trying to be more practical and a touch less sarcastic for a minute… I find, on average, I tend to get about two hours more work done on days where I spend at least 45 min in the gym and that includes the hour or more loss from the activity itself. Skipping caffeine on the other hand, doesn’t have any effect unless I’ve missed sleep the night before.

If you are thinking of dipping your toes into supplements though and don’t really want to exercise or sleep, I’ve found Creatine to be really helpful in that state. Definitely a stronger effect than caffeine but takes a lot longer to kick in!

The best place to start is the Beginner’s Guide put together by the Nootropics subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/wiki/beginners/

TLDR: Your starting point is exercise, sleep and sunlight. Nothing after that really has as large of an effect.

From what I understand of this, what they mean when they say “social media” in this context is more like amped-up high school politics. It’s a platform for gossip, bullying, cliques-forming, etc.

If you’re thinking of the stress from that as a kind of training regiment, what would someone look like who thrives in that environment? What does success look like? Less coddled is an interesting take on that.

I’ve tried to dig a bit through the libgen fiction archive. Surprising to me, I found that the vast majority was Romance novels. I’ve since heard this from others too that most published books are Romance.

If this collection is trying to solve the problem of having large tagged and sorted data for training, even if it can’t be commercialized, it might also be introducing another where the data still needs to be weighted and filtered. Not to knock on Romance specifically but even training on all scientific papers ever written, whether peer-reviewed, highly cited, retracted, debunked, etc. might explain some hallucinations it ends up making.

Instead of having your backend download and retransmit the file, you could return a redirect to it instead? Plus maybe lower the poll rate from a few times per minute to once an hour or so to avoid the need for caching to save battery.

Changing hardware would mean a recall and this doesn’t seem to warrant it.

Thanks! It sounds like the metric is something like specific consumption divided by global production. I imagine the reason for that is because specific consumption over specific production would only highlight export economies?

I think we’re more likely to advance on the production side with improving yields and reducing waste rather than trying to reduce consumption though. This metric wouldn’t really show progress in that direction.

I read once an explanation of Brazilian soccer greatness as being because they played a hacky sack game which was bouncing a soccer ball across their knees kind of.

Talent is transferable skills. Getting good can’t come without practice but you don’t have to be practicing the exact thing.

Both Canada and the US share an overshoot date of March 13th. Assuming roughly equal consumption but very different population density, I wonder how they came to the exact same day?

There’s a very high overlap between VR sickness and normal motion/car sickness. That is also unsolved but with a much larger user base!

I’ve heard that a lot of Shopify sites will have the auto credit card processing disabled for new orders. So that a real person can validate the order before hitting Stripe or whoever with it. Fraud orders are usually easy to spot by shipping addresses and you can get a good sense for it pretty quickly. It isn’t quite chicken sexing!

Maybe the hot take here is that the best way to ruin your own business is to automate credit cards?

How about some sort of pedestrian sky bridge? No vehicles but also no carried skateboards for fear of dropping it.

I hadn’t heard this before as a casual Rust user but found this: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/02/01/rust_core_team_de...

Is there more to the story here that I’ve missed?

I personally found the opposite with office politics. People are a lot more comfortable being under-handed when they’re at a distance.

Aspartame has a negative effect on the myelin sheath of neurons: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6014252/

As far as I know, all of the sugar alternatives have some (usually neuro?) downside that makes them scarier to me than sugar!

Because I was curious and you didn’t link to it, here is A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks by EF Codd: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf

If the constraint is time and money, maybe that could be the answer instead of a hard no? Like, “the project you’re currently on is making X dollars per day and the new idea has to at least match that.” You might start getting more interesting proposals if you train your people to pitch them properly.

Deadlines are a tool to increase stress. Some people respond to that stress by focusing on the work so deadlines are a very important tool for them. For everyone though, constant and persistent stress in not healthy long-term. Use it carefully, responsibly and in moderation!

A habit is something you’ve done so often that you don’t need to think about it. Your brain can shut down into zombie mode and it’ll still happen. This is different from a deadline at midnight which is about ramping up stress to get your brain into a hyper-aware mode, opposite of zombie mode!