MichaelRo

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by MichaelRo 6mo ago
Well, Alt+Tab in Windows is supposed to switch windows. That's unless you're in Microsoft Edge where obviously, it switches tabs. Inconsistent and annoying.
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by MichaelRo 6mo ago
While I agree with the sentiment that sending manned missions to the Moon is kinda useless, unfortunately diverting those money to "noble purposes" is an utopia because that's not how things work. In practice if those billion
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by MichaelRo 6mo ago
Question is weather the guy who got his account banned and lost access to all his data, was paying Google for cloud / hosting services or not. If it was on the free plan then all bets are off. If he was paying for a service, I believe
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by MichaelRo 6mo ago
Kids today probably won't get what's the big idea with "just" some TV, no DVD playing capability, no computer games. But in the early 90s I would have sold a kidney for one of these, on a boring 8 hour train trip, they w
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by MichaelRo 7mo ago
>> then the software industry will enter into a self-serving productivity craze building all sorts of software tooling, frameworks >> Smart organizations will not just deliver better products but likely start products [...] This
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by MichaelRo 7mo ago
>> It just sounds like a giant scheme to burn through tokens and give money to the AI corps, and tech directors are falling for it immediately. Exactly this: "Jensen Huang says he would be 'deeply alarmed' if his $500,0
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by MichaelRo 7mo ago
Well, it's a skeptical take on AI so it will be downvoted to oblivion and buried.
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by MichaelRo 7mo ago
>> Teaching and research should be decoupled. This is like saying peasants growing vegetables in the field should not mix with philosophers questioning the secrets of the Universe. Problem is most research is just pissing in the wind.
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by MichaelRo 7mo ago
"They" want you to be! :)
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by MichaelRo 7mo ago
>> I wonder how this will work in practice. Say I'm a senior engineer and I produce myself thousands of lines of code per day with the help of LLMs as mandated by the company. LOL, it's the age old "responsibility witho
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by MichaelRo 7mo ago
Also I'm getting downvoted and don't really understand unless I fall back to experience from 30 years ago, after the Romanian revolution and fall of =~ 50 years of dictatorial regime (not that before that was much better, with sma
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by MichaelRo 7mo ago
Forgot they aren't already in EU.
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by MichaelRo 7mo ago
In Romania it took some 10 years to reach some degree of functional democracy after the fall of communism and the execution on Ceaușescu, who coincidentally, just returned from the crowning of Khamenei, while learning, dictator-to-dictator,
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
I dunno, maybe it differs by country/location but my perception is that school was never capable to educate beyond some basic mediocrity level. Mostly it's an institution imposed by the state to process the children while parents
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
>> The dream of running my own company got me to learn programming. 20 years later I'm an employee at a company still dreaming of running my own company. But now I can realize that reality and dreams are not the same and that&#x2
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
>> Would it really become a bottleneck ? Only if we force a human in the loop when it may not be really necessary. Honestly, I don't know what crack you people are smoking.
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
Referring to another article ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037628 ): "But Microsoft’s AI CEO is saying AI is going to take everybody’s job. And Sam Altman is saying that AI will wipe out entire categories of
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
Yeah well, the first time I tried to use a sling to trow a rock, I managed to knock said rock right on my head. Fortunately it wasn't too bad but it also market the last time I tried to use a sling. And also explains why the bow was mu
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
Strange that noone noticed the article saying "Nobody said 'Google did it for me' or 'it was the top result so it must be true.'" Because they did. They were the quintessential "Can I haz teh codez" S
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
>> I'm now in my 50s. [...] One thing I do now is try to look after all the youngest grads and new joiners. Its so cutthroat now it seems no one has time to help anyone else, so I like helping people get up and running and encour
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
First sentence is genuine and the last, with the Nobel prize, it's sarcasm, so you nailed it. But it confused a lot of Sheldons based on the number of downvotes I received.
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
Well I would definitely prefer to use globally popular established solutions like Zoom and Teams and the English language and America as a reliable democracy. Weather or not they get Greenland, Trump and his supporters in the US administrat
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
There's also some wisdom in that if you make kids later in life, you pass them the genes to survive (with 50% probability it seems) up to that age. So if you're in the kind of family that dies of cancer at 30, and make kids at 25,
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
"More than 36,500 Iranians were killed by security forces during the January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history," Too bad that this is also a first time in history, fo
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
>> And what's so special about books in particular, anyway? What's wrong with reading articles and webpages? Nothing, really, but I suspect that is declining too. I read historical books mostly, some 4-5 per year. Like last
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by MichaelRo 8mo ago
Modern equivalent, working on Linux with remote connection from Visual Studio Code is LLDB. Takes some effort to configure it but beats "printf" (i.e. logging) in the end.
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by MichaelRo 9mo ago
>> I finish a lot of work at 3 PM. >> I send it at 8:47 PM. >> Same document. Different optics. >> If I send it at 3 PM, it looks like normal work hours. If I send it at 8:47 PM, it looks like I'm going above an
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by MichaelRo 9mo ago
They've reached the bottom of the sack. Hope the Arabs are wiser than the suckers who burned out their money.
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by MichaelRo 9mo ago
> short of major algorithmic breakthroughs I am not convinced the global demand for GPUs will drop any time soon >> Or, you know, when LLMs don't pay off. Heh, exactly the observation that a fanatic religious believer cannot p
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by MichaelRo 9mo ago
>> “The only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish world, the only one that will not betray or deny him, is his dog.” Well, this is far from absolute, isn't it? :) There's a fair number of vicious attacks of a

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