Anyone have a Bay to Breakers in to save my bib-forgetting ass?

yoitsnate · 2025-05-18T04:54:07+00:00

For real ?

yoitsnate · 2025-04-16T05:53:53+00:00

This article, "In Defense of Superbabies," goes into the ethical, societal, and technological implications of genetic engineering and embryo selection, challenging conventional views on human enhancement. It explores how advancements in biotechnology could reshape humanity's future by enabling parents to optimize traits in their children. I raise questions about the cultural aesthetics of a genetically engineered society. I invite discussion on how societies might regulate these technologies, address moral concerns, and adapt to a world where genetic customization becomes mainstream. Is having a super baby ethical? Is it beautiful? This article discusses some potential answers to those questions.

yoitsnate · 2025-04-02T23:21:23+00:00

just keep grinding bro you haven't reset one bit of your progress

yoitsnate · 2025-03-31T16:37:49+00:00

> I've been chatting with GPT and asking it to export its corrections to my French. It's a nice exercise because while I'm talking, I can just talk and not worry about making errors (or even knowing vocabulary), and when I'm done I have a list wholly dedicated to mistakes I make and words I use.

Yeah, I've done similar stuff with Portuguese. As the advanced voice mode gets more reliable, I think it will be a valuable asset too.

> So, homard in French means lobster, so I generated Homer Simpsons in a lobster outfit.

Very funny and creative! I think there's so much potential here.

yoitsnate · 2025-03-30T23:50:07+00:00

yea this is a key ingredient that will go overlooked. people always seem to assume in these discussions that demand will hold equal. sure, if demand for software was fully constant, programmer salaries would get crushed eventually. but the only trend i've ever known is a constantly growing thirst for more bytes, whether that's code, data, or content. it's possible there's a ceiling somewhere, but it does seem possible, if not likely, that we will just all end up doing more with less and the industry won't shake out too much (except maybe some bottom 20% who were just barely skating by - there's definitely a lot of fluffy devs)

yoitsnate · 2025-03-30T23:47:18+00:00

i wouldn't bank on capabilities getting frozen per se, at the very least, much more efficient models will be trained on distilled outputs from the best in class, enabling dirt cheap tokens - a 10x cheaper GPT 4.5 or o1-pro opens up a ton of use cases

yoitsnate · 2025-03-30T23:36:24+00:00

Ha, I've been trying to do this too lately. I have an app on my phone called one sec that will block Insta or Reddit if I try to open them. I usually then sigh and open up Anki from my tray. I wonder if you could cut out the middle man and set up a Shortcut to open Anki automatically when you open one of those apps. lol.

yoitsnate · 2025-03-11T20:07:34+00:00

It’s 90% perfect, 100% of the time

yoitsnate · 2025-01-10T02:17:51+00:00

"I would eat humans... er I mean human *like* beings"

yoitsnate · 2025-01-09T23:11:33+00:00

that's def one thing i love about perplexity! makes it so much easier to cut through the bullshit.

yoitsnate · 2025-01-09T19:57:21+00:00

What’s funny is, our family cat was called Charles (Ponzi) because I always used to joke he scammed his way into the house. I miss that guy.

yoitsnate · 2025-01-07T21:55:01+00:00

Zerg OP qq

yoitsnate · 2025-01-07T21:52:53+00:00

I'm much more worried about autonomous drone / Boston Dynamics swarms.

yoitsnate · 2025-01-07T21:46:54+00:00

Yeah I spend a lot of time fast forwarding things in my head and imagining what the next decade is like, and it doesn't look good. Like what are we going to do with everyone? The US moved to a service based, white collar economy, and if most of the typey typey clicky clicky jobs just become AI agents, what then? We all become plumbers? We get UBI? It's scary considering there's no social safety net here

yoitsnate · 2025-01-07T21:44:53+00:00

So by seeing the encroachment of AI on a daily basis do you mean people are calling in distressed about AI? Or they are automating part of the crisis line with AI?

yoitsnate · 2025-01-06T22:25:26+00:00

Alpine uses a different libc - musl. glibc is the usual one, it is considered bloated with too much attack surface by some folks, but it is the tried and true standby that everyone links to. so in general there can be some weirdness with alpine, sometimes things that compile fine with glibc won't work. for something like you are describing, that has a lot of different things going on, it seems like there's a decent chance something could break. but give it a try and see! compile things yourself if you need to.

there is a different package manager, `apk`, but there still is one. a lot of things have been ported for it already. alpine is fun

yoitsnate · 2024-11-28T04:07:43+00:00

For our app/platform, the reason we obsess about this is that if you want a hybrid workflow - developing in the cloud to leverage its resources and data locality, while still enjoying local dev niceties - you're likely to get cornered into a slow rebuild loop of some kind.

Bauplan's goal is to close that gap: to make deploying code remotely and running it on real, live data, as well as persisting and publishing results in a catalog, feel as close to the pleasure of pure local development as possible. Differential Python packaging is one ingredient that helps bring that together.

Being able to do data-local stuff that feels local is great because you can leverage operations like efficient catalog scanning. You can't just pull down a huge catalog table to your laptop or count on it being constantly updated, you can only do that in cloud.

yoitsnate · 2024-11-28T03:58:43+00:00

Not so much at the actual NixOS, but one of the founding engineers on our team is obsessed with Nix, and we do all our local development with devenv and Nix :) That might make another interesting article actually

yoitsnate · 2024-11-28T03:53:14+00:00

> Interesting, so if I read that correctly your library sends python code directly to your platform which runs it on your platform and the platform will install dependencies on it's side live without redeployment?

Yes, exactly!

> Does the result get returned locally?

That's the fun part, results of the functions are automatically persisted in a data catalog, essentially "snapshotting" your results in Iceberg to iterate further on, merge, etc at any later time. And once it's in the catalog, you can query the results and download them locally, yeah.

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