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tomfunk | 2 years ago | on: Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming

i turned off copilot when i did a trial of an alternative and when the trial ran out i just stopped using either. i still use chatgpt over stackoverflow but i don't miss the proactive prompts.

tomfunk | 2 years ago | on: U.S. GDP Grew at a 5.2% Rate in the Third Quarter, Even Stronger Than Indicated

what financial instruments?

tomfunk | 2 years ago | on: Read “Gravity’s Rainbow” fifty years later

I think of critique in two ways: 1) Did the author, filmmaker, etc. effectively achieve what they were trying to do? and 2) Did I like it?

So, in the first sense, I don't think it is "bad" because I believe this is exactly what the author was setting out to do in writing it. In the second sense, yes, it is a bad book in that I don't like it.

tomfunk | 2 years ago | on: Read “Gravity’s Rainbow” fifty years later

my coworker begged me to read gravity's rainbow with him so i did. it was a slog. there are so many nuggets of interesting ideas and brilliant prose but the utter hostility to the reader made it possibly one of my least favorite reads in recent memory. i don't recommend it to anyone.

tomfunk | 3 years ago | on: Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it

iirc that's one of Michael Shellenberger's points in Apocalypse Never.

i feel like he has a specific agenda so it's hard to take everything he says at face value but that point seems reasonable.

tomfunk | 3 years ago | on: Private equity may be heading for a fall

The year the fund started (e.g. a 2022 vintage fund is a fund that started in 2022) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vintage_year.asp