NikolaNovak

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by NikolaNovak 2mo ago
Thinkpads are saying hello :) Not to turn this into a Web fight or anything, but come on... Even my t420S from 2011 could be upgraded with ssd and more ram and is still used :). My daily driver is t480, 8 years old, my wive's x1 carbon
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by NikolaNovak 2mo ago
Too late to edit, but - all of that was before I read the openai / hugging face kerfuffle. If openai cannot contain it's own agentic ai, it's pure hubris to think I can give it access to a mailbox and bank account and be sa
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by NikolaNovak 2mo ago
Good morning! It is possible you replied before my edit to clarify - it's not necessarily a "never" thing, I rarely do universal / categorical negatives, but it's a strong "not right now" :) Agree that lif
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by NikolaNovak 2mo ago
As I said, my knowledge is very superficial - my background is relational databases and old school system administration, without much mathematical background since 3rd year linear algebra :-) Fundamentally, LLMS are statistical and not det
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by NikolaNovak 2mo ago
The cyberpunk dystopian agentic future we live in is fascinating to me. I use LLM daily, did since gpt 3.5, but still in a very conservative, controlled mode. I may rapidly be becoming the "old guard", the clueless grampa who is o
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by NikolaNovak 2mo ago
Isn't tanning basically body's reaction to cellular damage? It reduces further damage but that's due to damage done? (It's largely irrelevant to myself, I pretty much burn immediately and don't / can't rea
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by NikolaNovak 2mo ago
I gave up half way through. There was a lack of direction (for me) and too many permutations of clicks, characters, items and locations. The humour was ok, the story I was willing to give a chance. But I didn't want to resort to a walk
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by NikolaNovak 2mo ago
I enjoy Vitalic, not sure if he's newer but has decent body of work :)
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
I think a mixture of BBC, cnn, al jazeera, economist, will get a casual reader to a decent spot, and they're all mainstream media. Possibly guardian but emlarhically not their opinion pages (I agree with them, but even so they're
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
The two statements are not inherently contradictory. Removing / reducing / "doing something about guns" may well be hard, and it is beyond fascinating to many of us that majority of people / politicians / ent
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
I imagine even in such a job, your shift lead, team boss, or warehouse manager or whatever, would be able to confirm "yes, Bob worked here in truck driving capacity from 2022 to 2024". References have many levels of usefulness, bu
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
Can you elaborate? Many companies don't allow details, but are allowed to confirm a person was employed in a specific role. That's in many cases a sufficient to serve as a reference. E.g. In my company we have a very strict policy
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
It's a data point, not a final or primary determinant. Vast majority of corporate team members or leads are not allowed to say anything bad or much other than whether that person was employed or not. Nevertheless : 1. If a person has a
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
Fair warning; any links to specific cases (not the law itself)?
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
It is my limited understanding that as much as many of us groan at the notion of Spacex becoming "an AI-first company", markets in general, and Musk investors in particular, are slurping it up. Musk is very very very good at promi
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
There's the internal reality and external perception. As an outsider, it feels all levels of USA government are constantly fighting and going back and forth and back and forth over big topics like minority rights, marriages, religion i
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
I feel "about a 8 floor building" would be a good ROM :)
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
I think parallel comment has a much better answer than I could provide - EU is a set of heterogeneous political units which each have multiple nested political units within. Given complexity of USA states rights and legislative bodies, vs m
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
Hi! Thx for sharing :). I've read the "how revival works" section, but still have no idea "how the revival works". ("We've used ai" is all I got from both this intro on HN and the we pages I read, th
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
That's implementation details though; one can absolutely think that "EU is a good idea" and "specific EU systems need improving" simultaneously, without contradiction. It's like thinking "I like Canada and
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
What is "normies" in this context? I'm neurodivergent, and on various nerdom bell curve tails, including know more than averga bear about technology societal implications and misuses, but I still wouldn't use that term;
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
It is my limited understanding this is other way around - you plan your vacation, you get it approved, then on your vacation an emergency vote to reduce your salary is called and you automatically voted yes.
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
When I go into listening node, I listen . Actively and intensely. Apparently it unnerves people. My wife coaches me to give occasional Yes,Go On, or UhHuh. But it's a conscious, learned, active mechanism for me. Intuitively, I'll
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
This is fascinating to me. Whether that's due to my slight autism or massive nerdery, I don't want more realistic voice. I already switched to non-advanced voice in gpt, and I cannot imagine wanting the mmmhms, the yesses, the lau
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
I don't agree with OP, and I'm willing to hear why you're correct in that assessment, but can you elaborate? To be explicit about each other's assumptions, I think Race (however ill-defined or specific construct as it ma
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
I agree ; that's the principle of democracy :) And it works both ways - people are allowed to care about something, express that, and others are allowed to not care about it, and express that :) (in this case, as I mentioned in sibling
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
>>I think “when you buy a product, be it a game, a house, a car, a computer, a tractor, washer, TV, it should continue to operate without rent-seeking behavior” is the best type of straightforward, uniformly-applicable pattern of regu
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
Yes; and to make it extremely politically explosive, I do enjoy observing American politics and seeing each side (there are, brilliantly, two, because there ARE only two sides to every story and they neatly correlate with each other 100%:)
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
Absolutely. I've done the inflation calculator and I'm painfully aware of my lower effective compensation / purchasing power.
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by NikolaNovak 3mo ago
Not in all / not anymore. I'm in Canada a 300k IT/consulting company and rated top performer several years in a row. No raises last couple of years, before that it was 0.49 and 1% respectively. This year there was zero salary

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