Awesome post - really insightful!
Readit Newsgregrata commented on How to make a living as an artist essays.fnnch.com/make-a-l... · Posted by u/gwintrob
I hate to do meta-commentary (the content is a decent beginner level introduction to the topic!), but this is some of the worst AI-slop-infused presentation I've seen with a blog post in a while.
Why the unnecessary generated AI pictures in between?
Why put everything that could have been a bullet point into it's own individual picture (even if it's not AI generated)? It's very visually distracting, breaks the flow of reading, and it's less accessible as all the picture lack alt-text.
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I see that it's based on a conference talk, so it's possibly just 1:1 the slides. If that's the case please put it up in it's native conference format, rather than this.
Wow. Yeah. That's unreadable - my frustration and annoyance levels got high fast, had to close the page before I went for the power button on my machine :)
(and yeah, I don't love the term "Vibe" - but it's kinda established at this point, so I'm just going with it...)
Been working to write books for a while now using LLMs. Wasn't very good until recently- the newer models with the larger context windows are pretty good at it, and Cline is amazing (and not just for coding!)
gregrata commented on Ask HN: How to get back in employment market after working on side projects? · Posted by u/logicallee
As many have said, don't treat them as side projects. They were apps or products you were working on - if they were at all "real" (e.g., had users or customers) than it was a startup you were trying to get off the ground (a lot of startups are bootstrapped that way).
I've done a lot of this in the past - I built a platform and apps for consumer-focused location aware in the early 2000's, and another app that ended up with around 12 million users.
When I interviewed at Microsoft Research, we barely talked about my "day job" (fairly straightforward C#/.NET enterprise stuff). They ended up focusing on the side stuff - because it was just me doing the design/architecture/coding/company, it was innovative, it was interesting - and I was super passionate about it.
gregrata commented on Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing medium.com/@probonopd/bri... · Posted by u/panic
Uhhhh.... holy crap, sorry... but what is the author smoking? I started out with PC's in the early 80's. They were HARD to use (granted, as a pre-teen, I fell in love right away - but I was already a nerd). They were not intuitive. They didn't do very much. They generally sucked for most people, unless they were using a word processor (and even those were tough for some people)
Today, everyone can use one. They are very powerful, do a lot of things, and are comparatively simple to use - I mean, my MOM can use the damn things, which she never could have done in the 80's and 90's. And with very little support for me!
Oddly enough, in the case of other "Anonymity-Enhanced Cryptocurrencies" ("AECs"), the DoJ has taken the position that they'd rather not recirculate them. See <https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1314254265251225600>, where it's reported:
> In most cases, the Department [of Justice] does not liquidate seized or forfeited AECs, as doing so allows them to re-enter the stream of commerce for potential future criminal use.
So note: if the DoJ auctions these off, it's "good for Bitcoin", as it provides further confirmation they consider them a normal form of property whose legal uses outweight any illegal uses.
On the other hand, if they refuse to auction them off, it's also "good for Bitcoin", as it permanently reduces the circulating supply, making all other units incrementally more dear.
I'm sorry - but - HUH?
> re-enter the stream of commerce for potential future criminal use.
Because of course if CASH re-enters the steam of commerce is somehow different?
gregrata commented on From McDonald's to Google protocol.com/kelsey-hight... · Posted by u/kelseyhightower
Great over all story. Not sure what the McDonalds part has to do with it - a huge number of kids start there. I did - and in the next 40 years I've been Chief Architect of a startup, found my own startup (with a install base over 12 million), and am currently a Principal Architect at Microsoft (and was a lead in Microsoft Research a few years ago)
All good - and I look back at my McDonald days (somewhat) fondly, and it was good experience at doing fairly unpleasant work - but my nights hack and phone freaking and coding had 100x more to do with my success then that first job :)
I've started leaving my phone out of my gym time as well. It feels like the right thing to do, but it definitely feels odd or like I'm different somehow. At the gym I go to everyone listens to music while lifting and it's almost surreal to look around while resting between sets to see everyone is dialed into their own little world.
I wonder what gyms looked like in earlier generations (I'm only 27). Did people talk more?
shrug before I used my phone for music, I used my iPod. Before that, my Walkman.
Personal music at the gym is not new or anything specific to phones