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Are you doing it to get money/success/fame? Stop. Data says no.
Are you doing it because you want to bring something new into the world? Acknowledge that and keep going as long as it's healthy for you overall.
CEL is much more computationally limited as it aims to keep evaluations in the microsecond range.
With OPA you can easily create policies that take tens, hundreds or even thousands of millisecond.
That comes at the expense of a lot of power though, so much of the complex logic that you can write in OPA simply isn't achievable in CEL.
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Most tech startups create a monopoly by hiding real-time access to user data behind closed down apps which can force-include ads in your feeds.
A simple EU regulation that requires offering real-time distribution of user data to third parties would massively level the playing field.
Or you can just add some randomness to the prompt by adding “Your random seed is mciifjrbdifnf.”
I just tested that and got 4 left and 2 right so it works pretty well.
As they say... every exponential is a sigmoid in reality.
I’d guess that they have a rating system and prefer assigning request to helpers who reliably perform well… which might be why I didn’t get repeat requests after my initial fumbling.
Human assistants might also just be worse than AI assistants.
When I received my first (and only) BeMyEyes request I spent the first minute or so figuring out how to work the app and the video delay.
“Let me turn the volume up” “Oh wait it’s on my AirPods” “Could you move it more to the left?” “No your left.” “No; not that far”
I’m quite confident that I was a less than optimal assistant and an AI might’ve well done better than me.
Hydrogen is very difficult to use as a direct fuel source. This recent video gives a good overview of all the challenges a hydrogen engine has to overcome: https://youtu.be/DGL5g91KwLA
I agree that it's a great book; but I wouldn't recommend it as an entry point into understanding purely functional data structures.
Okasaki fleshes out a couple of examples and explains his thought processes and heuristics for developing such data structures quite well; but they're very much still notes on the early-stage exploration of the concept.
From a historical perspective it's still a fascinating read though and definitely recommend it if you want to read up on the origins of immutable data structures.
As a long time RSI-sufferer that has tried everything I can confirm the KeyboardIO was also very nice... but nothing beats Kinesis Advantage. I think it's the domed arrangement as I did feel the thumb arrangement on the KeyboardIO was superior.
I agree that I'd like to see more LiFePO4 battery packs; but compared to an EV I'd much rather have this happen on an e-bike/monowheel I can just step off.
I once had I colleague that I had lots and lots of trouble engaging with. Over and over again I would try to get my point across but fail.
That was until I noticed that if I picked up the discussion again the next day he had internalized yesterday's conversation. From then on I worked perfectly fine with him building up shared understanding one point at a time.
I really wish for him, and me, that there was a word he could've used to describe his style of thinking. I'm sure it would save everyone many a frustration.
I once played with one of these where if you built the sand high enough the top would turn blue again and water would start flowing down from the top.
So... an overflow bug caused the mountain to overflow.
Still one of my favourite real-life bugs of all time.
The same applies to most Scala projects from the early days. It attracted many developers who just wanted to have a go at writing their own custom half-baked versions of their favorite parts of category theory for a simple line-of-business CRUD app.
I think both eventually found their niche and now have plenty of developers that stuck around write appropriate code in it. But when they were shiny and new they indeed both created their fair share of failures.
I think we should start thinking in battery cargo trailers. When do you want extra range and battery? When you're going on holiday. What do you want apart from extra range when you're going on holiday? Extra storage space!
So why not just start selling battery cargo trailers which can provide your main car with extended range when needed?
It's also much easier to swap and rent out physically, financially and emotionally than your main car.
The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile [1]
It's one of the biggest longitudinal qualitative studies on work life and company succes. It has given me by far the most valuable insight into what really matters in building happy and effective workspace.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11721498-the-progress-pr...
Have you tried VoiceCode? https://voicecode.io/
That in combination with switching to a Lisp (Clojure) almost made it feasible for me to code with RSI.
I just became a manager instead because I couldn’t work from home and talking like that in the office was a no-go for me.
If that’s your cup of tea you’d be surprised at how happy upper management is to have someone who’s actually good at technology be willing to engage with them.
I think the review actually says that for people who are naturally manipulative the book doesn’t necessarily add much; which I can imagine.
The book actually explains quite well which negotiation tactics don’t work when faced with life and death situations (hostage negotiation) and goes on to explain which ones do and why they actually work better in everyday negotiations as well.
Logo was the best!
I still remember my father ‘explaining’ me Pythagoras theorem when I was around 5 to show me how to draw the roof of a house on our hand-soldered Philips Apple II clone.
I’ve been hooked ever since.
The best thing was that 25 years later I opened a Logo emulator again and when faced with having to clean the screen somewhere deep, deep from my muscle memory the right command sprang forward: CLEAR
Interestingly that sounds like almost exactly the same points the book The Progress Principle brings up (which is based on one of the largest qualitative diary based research projects on company success.)
Yet if you take that view then by sharing in the mortgage payments partner A may have become landlord to partner B and renter’s protection might apply to partner B.
Sounds like you have what I call associative burnout.
It’s basically when your association with an activity becomes so negative that you no longer have the willpower to push yourself to perform the activity.
Your brain has basically puts work in the same category as holding your hand against a hot stove.
I was lucky to have my associations limited to certain employers and role descriptions but it was everything as real as the physical burnout I developed later on in life.
And as far as tips for recovery; the only thing I can think of is to learn to respect the association and stop trying to fight it with willpower. Just stay within the zone You do have motivation for/that does feel good and let it lead you wherever it needs to.
That might end up leading you to a different career but in my case it led me back to basically the same career but with a bunch of ‘red flag’ activities and behaviors (mine and others’) which mean I need to get the hell out of my current job.
Unless you go for Enterprise you can only have a single worker per site making QA and staging hell.
Their JavaScript environment/APIs are not standard and there’s no proper spec that I could find.
The debugging environment/IDE is decent for an in-browser one but we had some horrible issues with a stale version being loaded from local storage and accidentally applied to the entire site effectively bringing us down for several minutes.
On every change I also saw several error pages myself during warmup period which made me wonder how many customers were getting them.
This was all ~6 months ago though so things might have improved since then.
Performance wise we’re very happy with it though as it beats the Apache reverse proxy it replaces hands down.
AI carves away what it means to be human one trivial slice at a time.
That's how it always has been and always will be until perhaps one day there is truly nothing 'truly human' left to slice off.
You're saying your fff investors are giving mixed signals and you're not sure what to make of them.
We're not your fff investors so we can't unmix those signals for you; our guesses are worse than yours.
So just do what you'll always have to do when you need to get alignment/resolve conflicting signals: get everyone into a room and don't let the meeting end until everyone agrees on the right way forward.
Not to mention Eric's precursor to the Pebble called inPulse where they basically just shipped everyone a plastic brick, pretended nothing was wrong and then stopped supporting it.
ScamFunding the Pebble...
Having grown up with 1/4 Belgian and 3/4 Dutch culture I can very much confirm.
For me, the main thing is that the Dutch simply don't layer their speech whereas in most other cultures there is huge difference between what's being said and what is really meant by that.
In Dutch culture that basically doesn't exist except at levels where it's inevitable (politics, upper management) and even there it's much less subtle than it would be elsewhere and you need to carefully calibrate to see if your conversation partner picks up on it or not.
Given that there is no such double/hidden layer to use it's no surprise that we inevitably became more blunt and direct.
Perhaps it's a result from our long history as traders and the realization we can't possibly manage double/hidden layers for all the cultures we interacted with and thus ended up throwing out the concept altogether.
Something as simple as mandating that all of a user's activity (and with all I mean including e.g. click tracking on FB or external sites) and accessible information (i.e. posts the user can view) can be exported in real time in a machine readable format would basically do the trick.
It'd allow you to basically build your own Facebook app, migrate meaningfully to another service and build other services that meaningfully integrate with Facebook... and effectively turn FB/Twitter into public utilies and enable real competition to Google to appear by allowing users to share key data such as which result they clicked on in response to which query.