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New comment by teacpde in "xAI joins SpaceX"

teacpde — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:39:01 +0000

that's an amazing read, lots of concrete and convincing challenges; but otoh, technology is evolving at such a fast pace, maybe it is possible for breakthroughs that we couldn't imagine now to become reality sooner than we would have anticipated?

New comment by teacpde in "xAI joins SpaceX"

teacpde — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:27:58 +0000

maybe I am a fool, does space-based AI make no sense at all?

New comment by teacpde in "Why we don’t use AI"

teacpde — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:00:36 +0000

> then have rest of the day off to enjoy things I like

But that's not what companies expect from you, even if you owns AI. They expect you to output more, and when you do, someone else is probably out of work.

New comment by teacpde in "Betterment Hacked by Crypto Scam"

teacpde — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:10:42 +0000

They just sent out email about the scam. I was so annoyed that even after opening the app, the notification icon still persists, wondering if the hack on the notifications exploits some loophole in the Betterment app

New comment by teacpde in "How I Left YouTube"

teacpde — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:31:42 +0000

I am at the stage of life where I appreciate this wisdom and desire the practice of it, but lack the will power to not get caught up “trying to win the game”. Once a while I get anxious about leveling and compensation, overwhelmed by comparison with peers. For people who had the similar struggles but managed to overcome, what worked for you?

New comment by teacpde in "Craft software that makes people feel something"

teacpde — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:33:59 +0000

> At the same time treating software like an art is probably not very useful. That code is (typically) not written to be looked at, but to make the computer do something useful.

FWIW you can argue the same for woodworking, a chair is typically not made to be looked at but for people to sit on. I tired to think what inherently makes writing software treated less than a craft than woodworking, but couldn’t think of any.

New comment by teacpde in "OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup"

teacpde — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:40:39 +0000

didn't even realize that, have to double check and saw the "read full story" banner

New comment by teacpde in "Rebuilding Netflix's video processing pipeline with microservices"

teacpde — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 21:18:26 +0000

So it only solves a tail problem. I would assume the percentage of subscribers with poor internet is low.

New comment by teacpde in "Meta's serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day (2023)"

teacpde — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:08:20 +0000

Surely there is a lot of workload is delay-able, but there is equal, if not more, amount of workload that do not have the luxury of waiting. Is it fair to say the serverless platform has no advantage for the latter workload?

New comment by teacpde in "Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death"

teacpde — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:02:42 +0000

I can understand the downvotes, but at the same time it does makes sense, especially given the target is a logician.

New comment by teacpde in "Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death"

teacpde — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:57:58 +0000

If I read the article correctly, Gödel's rationale is pretty much "The world is orderly organized, therefore after life is supposed to exist"?

I must have read it wrong, because I couldn't see the causality at all.

New comment by teacpde in "The Seamless Communication models"

teacpde — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:07:21 +0000

As someone working in tech and following along the progression of AI, I believe I have the right expectation. But still feels surreal seeing myself speaking a foreign language in my own speech style.

New comment by teacpde in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

teacpde — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 19:56:49 +0000

This is the most logical explanation I have seen so far. Makes me wonder why Dustin Moskovitz himself wasn't on the board of OpenAI in the first place.

New comment by teacpde in "OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role"

teacpde — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:55:06 +0000

Thank you! I have always thought Sam reminds me some actor, but was never able to make the connection.

New comment by teacpde in "Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year"

teacpde — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 03:26:40 +0000

Especially the opening scene with flying cars in the back.

New comment by teacpde in "Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched"

teacpde — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 21:06:22 +0000

The blog post speaks quality, but what's truly great is that the author knows when/why to stop the adventure.

New comment by teacpde in "WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight"

teacpde — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 22:43:29 +0000

Nothing, I believe this gets the upvotes simply because it is fun.

New comment by teacpde in "Show HN: Host a Website in the URL"

teacpde — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 01:50:43 +0000

This one is amazing, even just the fact that someone thought about representing images with binary format of prime number

New comment by teacpde in "Deno KV Is in Open Beta"

teacpde — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 21:57:16 +0000

SQLite is superb choice as a local storage solution, you don't need a transactionality requirement to use it as a KV store.

People choose NoSQL databases primarily for scaling reasons, which is not the problem here.

New comment by teacpde in "Teaching with AI"

teacpde — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:30:10 +0000

Teaching doesn't prescribe students to be younger than 18.