CobrastanJorji

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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
This is beautiful, and I like it a lot, but I was slightly disappointed to find that they do not function by increasing the voltage as the day goes on. But then I remembered that that's how pins work. It IS measuring voltage!
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
Android vendors have been notorious about updates for a long time. Part of that is supposedly because all of the phone companies want to distinguish themselves from each other, and so they all want to fork the default Android UI so they can
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
Figure a "mental health crisis" human conversation takes 30 minutes. Three million incidents per week would require 37,500 qualified mental health counselors on the phones working a 40 hour shift that week. Figure they make $75k&#
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
It is true that more than half of respondees reported that they never saw a violation. However, the 44.6% was the category of "respondents reported knowledge of Honor Code violations that they chose not to report," and the 0.4% wa
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
When I was at Georgia Tech back around 2002, the freshman Java CS course introduced a brand new and improved cheat detector, and they immediately caught over half of the class for cheating. It was disastrous. The penalty for being caught ch
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
Even more astounding is the reporting number. If 44.6% of students saw an honor code violation and didn't report it, and 0.4% of students saw an honor code violation and did report it, that means that 99.2% of Princeton students that p
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
Law of Demand. Cheaper gold supply means that the demand for it grows tremendously. Or something.
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
Imagine that you decide that you would like to try farming, and you buy some geese. One of the geese, for whatever reason, begins to lay golden eggs. Your little farm is now unbelievably profitable. It is as profitable as your thousand clos
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
> I don't like the kind of senior developer that says "I found this new tool and it’s pretty cool ..." Remember that the first half of this statement, the part listed here, is great. I love playing with new tools. The only
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
I love the scale that FAQs for things like this provide, as well as the variety of questions. Q: How many objects are there in SpaceEngine? A: The entire Hipparcos catalog of stars, all known extrasolar planets, over ten thousand galaxies,
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
It's a shame that the article is so interesting in telling us about snake oil salesmen and the shenanigans and questionable claims involved in the trade, but it neglects to explain the direct origin of the phrase "snake oil salesm
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
I'm proud of you for building this. It's very high quality. There are academics out there being paid to do worse work on less important things. And look at those citations! I kind of suspect that in a century or two, some historia
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by CobrastanJorji 5mo ago
Oh hey, that's a nice idea! Unlike some of the terminal projects I've seen recently, it addresses a problem without entirely reinventing the idea of what terminals can do.
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
Yeah, they knew what it meant.
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
Okay, then the part where I translate or extract text from an image or summarize a site is the part where I need Gemini.
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
What part of rendering a web page needs a local disk cache?
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
100%. "Researchers Discover Chrome Uses Your Hard Drive to Silently Make a Copy of Everything you Look At Online" is ominous and scary and also an accurate description of how caches work. There's enough scary and bad AI stuff
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
The problem for the individual farmers is that they own a farm covered in peach trees, but they can't profitably sell peaches. The money will let them remove all the peach trees and then develop the land for some new crop. This is also
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
The key quote is in the increasingly prescient 1979 IBM training manual: "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." That manual aged much more gracfully than the 1930s &
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
I worry about these remediation measures. The problem described is that the increased reliance on AI has increased cognitive debt, and the solution is to write tests that better capture intent and to update design documents continuously. Bu
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
Well, partly it's an audience thing. Hacker News has a lot of folks who work at tech startups, and if you work at a tech startup, dilution is nearly always a very bad word for you.
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
> We just want local software. You just want local software to...send commands to your Cloud providers?
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
Amazing. I was never any good at Nethack. I think I just get impatient. I could regularly get a bit past Medusa but anything past that definitely involved save scumming. I was always a little jealous of the folks who could ascend regularly.
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
They did! The TI-89 is how I aced the AP Math exam. The TI-92 had recently come out, and it had a QWERTY keyboard and could solve symbolic calculus problems like "find the derivative of 2x^3". This was a problem for the AP exam, s
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
That's super cool, thanks for the information and also thanks for doing that!
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
Can you tell me more about what a volunteer court watcher does? That sounds fascinating. What do you do when you see something questionable in a court? Are there broader organizations you raise concerns with or submit statistics to?
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
Let's see...2^241 or so possible 256 bit numbers, so that's 256 * 2^241, so that's....10^50 yottabytes. Obviously we're gonna need cloud storage for all this, so let's say that's about 2 cents per gigabyte&#x2F
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
What's really fun is that, if you win and do anything about it, Bitcoin's value immediately crashes.
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
I don't see why you should prefer jobs for humans. If a robot can do a job as well better and more cheapy than a human, it should, and that goes trebly for any sort of safety-focused job. The right fix is eliminating the need for make-
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by CobrastanJorji 6mo ago
That's presumably the trick, and it's not a subtle one; it's why the article puts it on quotes in the headline. Google gets to claim that it stood up for principles because it boldly insisted that the government obey the law,

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