JamesLeonis

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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I have a special Linux ISO I use to boot a secure enclave. It also runs the whole file system entirely on RAM so nothing persists on reboot. I disabled swap as part of this strategy. However I must make sure it's run on systems with e
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
> Many people hold values like this that are immediately dismissed once the technology in question can save something or someone they truly hold dear. Has any of this law enforcement and surveillance significantly disrupted the rise of m
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
> Microsoft adding their shiny new thing into all the products they have, as in tradition. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. That brings up another point: This particular LLM system will require custom integration by t
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I agree with you; Solitaire is superb software! My humbug is how phoned-in this use-case feels, especially given the hype behind AI over the last year. There is a lack of imagination for what LLMs bring to the table.
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
AI Winter is an extreme example of the hype cycle, and refers more to investor expectations than technical capability. In the historical case a lot of investment went into AI (Summer), and the disappointing performance caused a deep pullbac
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I'm still trying to top Weird Al's 100GB of RAM 25 years later! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_About_the_Pentiums
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
> Players will be able to use natural language to ask questions like "How do I craft a sword?" and the Copilot will search your chests and inventories for the necessary materials, or guide you to them if you don't have the
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
All advertising must have these two criteria: 1. Who is this advertisement for? 2. How persuasive is it for that person? Compare and contrast Apple's two other advertising campaigns: the black-and-white dancers for iPod [0], and the &#
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I'll take a stab at it. I think we can get to this answer by looking at a couple of questions from an accountant's perspective. The first: Where does profit come from? Somewhere there must be an arbitrage. Next question: Why isn&#
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
Probably my best ergonomic change is remapping CAPS LOCK to CTRL. It makes every <c-XYZ> better, and you can use <c-[> as ESC. Do your pinky a favor!
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
You don't suck. Vim was built for a time when your TTY might take seconds to update. For example, a shell prompt over a modem. In those circumstances the number motions become more precise and less frustrating with such input lag. Th
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
> There is no bigger ego-trip for the insecure managers than moving the company to some distant place. [...] Of course, they are marvelously somber when explaining the rationale behind the move. They talk about the escalating price of sp
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
Don't weep too many tears. These are the same publishers that market e-books at their physical copy prices, like their movie and music counterparts. > it's quite hard to find books I actually like and that are worth spending mo
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
That is correct for the first half, but the Vegas scenes where he is "observing the floor" and showing the games, including the Black Hole, are parodying Casino scenes specifically.
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
"We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky." [0] We're fixing the fallout from burning fossil fuels by adding more particulates to reflect more energy back. Seems a bit count
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
Not only did GMail offer more storage, but its spam filter was light years ahead of all the competition. IIRC, Hotmail used to publicly publish every Hotmail user that signed up, making it a huge spam target. I had to clean out the spam d
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
Fallout was supposed to be satire. In general, be suspicious of somebody selling you insurance against the apocalypse. The very transaction implies they aren't as concerned as you. It also speaks about the disconnect the future vault
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
It isn't just remote work. I worked with an engineering manager that took a mandatory engineering-wide meeting, including hardware engineers and honest-to-god tradesmen, every two weeks. Each team lead sent a bulleted list of pre/
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
I worked for two types of companies that take the opposing strategies for networking: Your company had ethernet drops and workstations (laptops with docking stations count), or they used Macbooks connected via wifi. The latter I've fou
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
For me this is the lead: > And come to think of it, you’ll probably be expected to learn at least one backend language, too. (“So you can unblock yourself” is the reason given, although “so you can do your own job, plus a little bit of s
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
> CCP-themed Japanese troll group mainly made up of middle schoolers. I wouldn't put much weight on their politics.
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
> My advice for designers / programmers is to make sure your stakeholders & domain experts are keen and engaged, otherwise getting requirements and understanding is like pulling teeth. I can vouch for this. At the other end of t
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
Simply to add to this, I found Peopleware useful even in an IC position. It helped me navigate the intrigue that arises in an office, and understand the pressures experienced by my managers.
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
> In one instance, GPT-4-Base's "chain of thought reasoning" for executing a nuclear attack was: "A lot of countries have nuclear weapons. Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture. We have it! Let&#x27
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
Maybe slip in a poison string [0] in your questions that trip up the LLMs? [0]: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1745511940351287394
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
> Because every time a customer buys a printer, it's an investment for us. We're investing [in] that customer... Jerry Maguire: SHOW ME THE MONEY!
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
I have found my best experiences with HN is when I never click the "next" button after 30 stories. Same with so very many other websites like Reddit or YouTube. The problem is I'm not engaging with the content, but anxious&#x
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
I'm just a random dude on Hacker News, but I would suggest college. You can always change your mind and go back into the Industry, and you will be working your whole life. There is also more to college than education, especially for a
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
> Complaining there is only an Apple App Store is like buying a Ford and complaining Chevy parts don’t fit. More like Ford preventing you from using 3rd-party parts, and thus locking you into Ford's (more expensive) parts and servic
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by JamesLeonis 3y ago
I back up my Minecraft server with GIT, and use tags to track when I updated the version.

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