Lyngbakr

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Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone(bbc.com)
25 points by Lyngbakr 12d ago|21 comments
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Is it all just vapourware?(kirahowe.com)
98 points by Lyngbakr 2mo ago|192 comments
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SpaceX shares sink after first earnings report reveals AI spending plans(bbc.com)
5 points by Lyngbakr 2mo ago|0 comments
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by Lyngbakr 2mo ago
But I think there will be a lag. The US has (willingly) forfeited some of its soft power and we may not see the impact of that immediately.
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by Lyngbakr 3mo ago
Even if you get it to the seabed, the majority will be remineralised there. And if you pump enough down there to bury significant amounts of organic carbon, the bottom waters will likely become hypoxic as a result.
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by Lyngbakr 3mo ago
While I like the idea of using small pockets of time for reading a few pages here and there, the practice I find more difficult. I need these few minutes for my brain to stop braining momentarily. I have tried carrying a book with me, but w
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by Lyngbakr 3mo ago
Jane Street uses OCaml in a domain where performance matters.* * https://signalsandthreads.com/performance-engineering-on-har...
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Poly/ML – A Standard ML Implementation(github.com)
75 points by Lyngbakr 3mo ago|25 comments
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by Lyngbakr 3mo ago
Something I couldn't find info about is how this is funded, given that it is ad free and doesn't sell user data. Is it supported by a nonprofit organisation or just paid for out of the developer's pocket?
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Oracle shed about 20k roles globally in the last year(bbc.com)
109 points by Lyngbakr 3mo ago|130 comments
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by Lyngbakr 3mo ago
It depends why you're doing it. Are you doing it for the product or the process? (Of course, they're not mutually exclusive.) I do it for the fun of building, in which case AI is irrelevant.
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by Lyngbakr 4mo ago
But the community repo in Alpine is vetted and reviewed unlike AUR, which is a wild west.
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by Lyngbakr 4mo ago
To be fair, the French riot in the streets when one of their teams win the Champions League[0]. I'm not sure it's a good metric. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r2ejg1w9xo
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by Lyngbakr 4mo ago
> You already know why, more or less. ChatGPT has over 900 million monthly active users. GitHub Copilot has 4.7 million paying subscribers as of January 2026, up roughly 75% in a year. You can’t imagine writing software without Cl
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Most people seeking green cards must now apply from outside US(bbc.com)
6 points by Lyngbakr 4mo ago|0 comments
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by Lyngbakr 5mo ago
> They are being told, on the one hand, that these tools are going to eliminate millions of jobs, and on the other that they have to use them if they don’t want to fall behind. I'm currently reading a fascinating book call
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by Lyngbakr 5mo ago
Wow — I'm user 404!
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From Data Unicorns to Data Giraffes(spacedata.substack.com)
2 points by Lyngbakr 6mo ago|0 comments
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Ne, the Nice Editor(github.com)
3 points by Lyngbakr 6mo ago|0 comments
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Cave under castle with prehistoric hippo bones 'once in a lifetime' find(bbc.com)
33 points by Lyngbakr 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Lyngbakr 6mo ago
I recently discovered Lorn and have been mainlining his back catalogue ever since whilst working. Thoroughly interesting and immersive yet not distracting.
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by Lyngbakr 6mo ago
Back when I used to use Stackoverflow, someone would always come along with a data.table solution when I asked a question about dplyr. The terse syntax seemed so foreign compared to the obvious verb syntax of dplyr. But then I learned data.
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by Lyngbakr 6mo ago
Agreed — I much prefer polars, too. IIRC the latest major version of pandas even introduced some polars-style syntax.
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by Lyngbakr 6mo ago
His books are perhaps in the same category as Nickelback albums: people love to rag on them, but if you look at the sheer number of units shifted, clearly lots of folks enjoy them.
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by Lyngbakr 7mo ago
Is the point of journalling for you to have memories to look back on or to help you process what happened during the day or another reason? (I've never tried it so I'm trying to understand the purpose.)
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Costs from Trump's tariffs paid mainly by US firms and consumers, NY Fed says(bbc.com)
3 points by Lyngbakr 8mo ago|0 comments
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Amazon joins Big Tech AI spending spree(bbc.com)
2 points by Lyngbakr 8mo ago|0 comments
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by Lyngbakr 9mo ago
What's the product/use case?
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by Lyngbakr 9mo ago
I have a PhD in a similar field to Earth Science and now I'm an engineering team lead at a company in a field related to my PhD. This is the second such role I've held like this and it was very much that I found a perfect position
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by Lyngbakr 9mo ago
The two aren't mutually exclusive.

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