1. cejast May 18, 2025 parent

   What's even more interesting is that if you turn off watch history, they disable the home feed altogether. They just give up trying to show you anything, which has been great for keeping me off YouTube.
2. cejast May 3, 2025 parent

   That is a very broad generalization. Even if it was 'put into some fund', that equates to a capital investment which can be used to deliver value elsewhere.

   Money is complicated - the only way in which I would see it get truly wasted is if you took it out as cash and burnt it. Even then you'll be (marginally) raising the value of all other money left in the system.

3. cejast Feb 11, 2025 parent

   Unless you have a crystal ball there is nothing that can give you certainty that will continue at the same or better rate. I’m not sure why you took the second half of the comment more seriously than the first.
4. cejast Feb 11, 2025 parent

   Nobody can tell you whether progress will continue at current, faster or slower rates - humans have a pretty terrible track record at extrapolating current events into the future. It's like how movies in the 80's made predictions about where we'll be in 30 years time. Back to the Future promised me hoverboards in 2015 - I'm still waiting!
5. cejast Jan 26, 2025 parent

   I don't think it is an illusion. It can remove a lot of barriers to entry for some people, and this is probably what you're seeing in the anecdata.

   For example, my brother. He is what I'd refer to as 'tech-aligned' - he can and has written code before, but does not do it for a living and only ever wrote basic Python scripts every now and then to help with his actual work.

   LLM's have enabled him to build out web apps in perhaps 1/5 of the time it would have taken him if he tried to learn and build them out from scratch. I don't think he would have even attempted it without an LLM.

   Now it doesn't 'code everything' - he still has to massage the output to get what he wants, and there is still a learning curve to climb. But the spring-board that LLM's can give people, particularly those who don't have much experience in software development, should not be underestimated.

6. cejast Nov 19, 2024 parent

   I went through the process of buying a car recently, and the dealer, before we even begun to negotiate on price, was describing how their pricing system has all 'moved to AI'. I was suspicious, and after querying him about it for a while what he described essentially just boiled down to something a spreadsheet could do.

   Now I don't dispute that AI has and will continue to automate jobs away like this. But I do think we are in an era where the lines between 'classic' automation and AI automation are blurred for quite a lot of people and without any concrete details I suspect this case leans more towards the former.

7. cejast Jun 17, 2023 parent

   Go and it’s standard library. ‘Elegant’ is pretty subjective, but it’s a treasure trove of learning how things work under the hood. I’ve learned loads about networking, compression, encryption and more by browsing through it, because the code is super easy to read and understand.
8. 40 points Jun 18, 2022

   Ask HN: Good resources for programmers to learn about UX/design?

   16 comments cejast
9. cejast May 5, 2021 parent

   > One feature that cryptocurrencies gain from their decentralised computing design is that they become very robust to potential attacks from national governments.

   I was always under the impression that they would be more susceptible to attacks from national governments, since they'll have greater access to the resources needed for a 51% attack.

10. cejast May 18, 2018 parent

    I thought this was what logrotate was for?

    https://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate

11. cejast May 3, 2018 parent

    The worst thing about impostor syndrome for me is knowing whether you're actually suffering from it, or whether you're actually an impostor.

    It really is a vicious cycle.

12. cejast Dec 29, 2017 parent

    Sounds interesting, where can we play?
13. cejast May 3, 2017 parent

    This is exactly something I've been looking for to experiment with user segmentation, but crucially for fast, ad-hoc segmentation. Seems to bear some similarity to what Facebook [1] does for its audience insights.

    [1] https://code.facebook.com/posts/382299771946304/audience-ins...

14. cejast Jan 29, 2015 parent

    agreed, some explanation on what's actually wrong here would be nice
15. cejast Jun 18, 2014 parent

    I think pre-judging someone, based on them walking in with a suit to your chilled out startup environment, is just as bad as the big corporate companies judging someone for not wearing one.

    I mean in the end you're looking for the right person for the job, not their expertise on what to wear, right?

16. cejast Dec 23, 2013 parent

    I'll look into it, I'm getting the same error while the page loads as well however it should work after it's loaded, and you select genres and then click 'Go'.

    I probably will add functionality for IMDB/Letterboxd and other services, this was just a quick put-together :)

17. 1 point Dec 21, 2013

    Can't decide what to watch? I built this to help.

    2 comments cejast github.io

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