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cameronfraser··on Goodreads is terrible for books – why can’t we all quit it?
wow out of all the comments only one person actually answered the question
cameronfraser··on I reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives
My conclusion is that there isn't much value in evaluating 1000s of perspectives, they're the same exact arguments you'd find in any blog or technical documentation comparing the two.
cameronfraser··on Royal Mail to Issue “Terry Pratchett’s Discworld” Stamps
puts usps to shame with their themes like floral geometry and strawberries and schoolbuses
cameronfraser··on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism
this isn't a measuring contest to see which drug is worse, this is just acknowledging that people can have severe addiction issues with cannabis. Just because you don't die from withdrawals doesn't mean it can't lead to serious quality of life issues and poor mental health.
cameronfraser··on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism
dabbing all day and vaping oil is in no way comparable to caffeine, cannabis is way more addictive, side effects last longer than 3-4 days as well. People are extremely irritable having lost their main crutch for a month or longer. The fog doesn't lift for about a month. This article is talking about people actually addicted, not like they smoke once a day in the evenings or something.
cameronfraser··on ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution
Most of the plugins are garbage, I just want chatgpt to have up to date knowledge and working natively with more media types. I don't think I've used a single plugin I thought had good results but I love gpt4 for work
cameronfraser··on Sex workers worry that Threads could kill their business
On HN the zeitgeist decides what we see and don't see
cameronfraser··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
This was very illuminating thanks, learned something new
cameronfraser··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
> So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at least one of them was fast.

lol nobody would do this to solve this problem because it doesn't even remotely solve it or give the appearance of solving it, if anything it's guaranteed to make things go slower

cameronfraser··on Ask HN: How to switch software engineering domains
With things like computer graphics you're competing with a very different pool of applicants than you likely were before. People with PhD's and Masters in related fields. I have found success with positioning myself as someone who works on the edges of multiple domains. So if you were a web developer before it would be at an intersection of web development and computer graphics which could be web gl or operationalizing graphics applications for web or cloud integration. This won't work very well at larger companies that have a lot of clear boundaries between positions, but it will work at startups where boundaries are less clearly defined and people wear multiple hats. In summary, try startups and position yourself at the intersection of multiple domains to get your foot in the door.
cameronfraser··on Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’
No they didn't, https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
cameronfraser··on What Development Will Look Like in 10 Years
I like how the team composition is exactly the same but + AI, very illuminating
cameronfraser··on Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’
no it doesn't, I have barely even noticed there is a blackout because there is plenty of content from non blacked out subs. The only thing I've noticed is when I try to visit subreddits I like some of them are blacked out. A 2 day blackout does literally nothing, just virtue signaling
cameronfraser··on Why I'm Leaving Elm (2020)
why do these elm hit pieces keep getting dug up and reposted? It's almost always in response to some other elm post (there was one yesterday). People use elm in production at quite a few companies without worrying too much about the concerns laid out in the article, but it feels like people seem almost fervent in their need to justify their reason for leaving elm and why other people shouldn't use elm.
cameronfraser··on Charlie Brooker Got ChatGPT to Write a Black Mirror Episode
sry if I have reservations about the opinion of a non technical person about a piece of software they don't know how to use.
cameronfraser··on Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields
nerfstudio should work on 6gb of vram, i've used the nerfacto model extensively on a laptop with that constraint. Try reducing the num-nerf-samples-per-ray param and downscaling images
cameronfraser··on StackOverflow petition to allow removing AI generated content
depends if the answers are better than the ones by humans
cameronfraser··on Ask HN: Could Usenet get revived, to replace the soon to be unusable Reddit?
I don't think most reddit users care about reddit politics so no
cameronfraser··on Why does it take so long to schedule a doctor's appointment in the US?
Is a doctor really necessary for GP type stuff though? I've found physicians assistants to be just as effective and more readily available.
cameronfraser··on [dead]
It was probably a bug or unintended, I opted out a while back and nothing happened. I suspect anyone using it at work is opting out.
cameronfraser··on AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students
Look at the history of articles from restofworld.org and you might be a little more skeptical about their claims: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=restofworld.org A lot of sensationalized headlines with little substance
cameronfraser··on Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
no because there isn't a pattern of tech execs doing this
cameronfraser··on Elizabeth Holmes to begin 11-year prison sentence at end of month
United state prison is inhumane I don't care who you are or what you did, it's not an ethical form of punishment or rehabilitation.
cameronfraser··on I wish GPT4 had never happened
This article is bait and there is going to be many more articles just like it. Not even worth a discussion. The obvious answer here is to empower Priya with the tool so she can 10x herself
cameronfraser··on We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
Oh man I was totally in the camp of people that thought it could read URL's until reading this comment
cameronfraser··on AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
Everyone that knows what they are talking about have already been saying this. This is what the narrative actually is. Not AI replacing humans.
cameronfraser··on ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot
It's not a question of replacing people, it's a question of whether they can be empowered with the tool to do more.
cameronfraser··on HuggingGPT: Solving AI tasks with ChatGPT and its friends in HuggingFace
it depends on the problem?
cameronfraser··on ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot
Nobody is saying those humans are incompetent, they're just saying that most of the work out there is parrot work
cameronfraser··on Pairing With GPT-4
You have to chain prompts to get good results, also the way you say things can be important. Think voice assistants requiring some nuance to their instructions
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