NikolaNovak

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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
Agreed, Books on specific programming language were indeed tricky. I found books on architecture, systems, or patterns, were more available. E.g. On relational database optimization principles, or Unix system administration, or graphics alg
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
Beyond the slowing you to type, the key part of the good books was the considered and mindful order of presentation. This is what had me spending money when I could get the reference manual for free - a guide , a book that taught me un
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
Exactly. My first computer had 48k, yes K of ram :-). My first PC has 2MB and made all my friends jealous as they had 1MB. Amiga 500 at the time had half. I am keeping a piece of paper that came with my Tex Murphy game which stated that one
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
I was a poor refugee, but different people take such situations differently. For my family, it was a stern adherence to law and rules, an extreme low risk approach. For others, granted, it was dismissal of law and rules. Certainly, being po
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
The results are there... but for me, yes indeed, the first entry is "Got it. Consider the previous prompt disregarded. How can I help you today?". Then there's about half a screen of blank space (?), then traditional result
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
They are tiresome but also understandable. I do not want to read AI generated content, even when its correct, because at that point what's the value? I'm reading results of somebody else's prompt, might as well use my own. I&
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
Thx! You got a new, albeit small scale, patreon - this is awesome :)
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
Pardon a simple question - this implies nested virtualization, or is the second step emulation? The download is a Linux VM, gotcha. Are other OS-s nested virtual machines inside that Linux VM, or emulators (in which case, holly mackerel, th
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
I genuinely believe he wants to go to Mars. Desperately. He's fundamentally a very smart socially inept largely sociopathic emotionally immature obsessively driven boy who read a lot of Heinlein as a kid. Everything about him indica
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
I genuinely don't know how to make a non-sarcastic statement about Mr. Elon Musk's promises. I especially struggle to not make a Venn diagram of people who still take Mr. Musk's promises seriously, and current state of Americ
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
Jets are faster and louder for sure . The margins, that completely depends on the pilot and act design. You can make margins arbitrarily small at any speed :). (As an imperfect example - a world rally car going through a 80kph blind corner
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
Interesting, because I find hacker news to have both more adoption but also more disdain (as two overlapping subgroups of IT workers / geeks) for AI, and is more informed and worried about future. In my non-IT life: 1. Vast majority
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
I love it when there is a little Cessna 150/152 with aerobatic designation even though it's engine cuts off when you go inverted (carburated design). The sheer pluck of those pilots! I was once given a Cessna 150 aerobatic experie
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
Let's recognize this is subjective :) I've been to a few air shows and even f22 with its vector thrusting, is not (to me) as impressive as the little prop aerobatics doing things that make me (even with a bit of flight training) w
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
There are a LOT of air shows where military airplanes are a small or zero component. I'm totally in agreement that armed forces are there for reasons you described. But an "air show" is a massive and sometimes separate Venn d
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
For whom? For the audience - we love airplanes and love seeing them. I personally prefer the ground portion of air shows, where I can see and sometimes touch the airplanes up close, talk to the pilots and engineers, and generally have a nic
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
1. Fascinating overall 2. "they can align over 80 per minute or about 40,000 per day." - terrifying, as I assume this is a metric workers are held against :O 80 per minute is less than a second for what sounds like several movemen
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
I'm assuming that's a troll / sarcasm / fake... But that could just be my last vestige of faith in humanity. Edit: aaaand... That's another little sliver of my faith gone : https://www.theatlantic.com&#x2
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
Turning advanced voice still leaves "regular" voice interaction which are actually (for me:) much much better - it's just the regular response, verbalized :). Voice quality isn't worse, it just doesn't try to summar
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by NikolaNovak 5mo ago
Fwiw - I found the advanced AI voice feature to be actually detrimental. It's good if you just want a single sentence answer. I've turned it off though when I want a more detailed, structured, considered answer.
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by NikolaNovak 6mo ago
I work in IT, have all my life, but these stories still have a sense of bizarre unreality to me, a dream sequence that isn't of real world. I understand that some companies and people find it extremely empowering and accelerating and c
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by NikolaNovak 6mo ago
Sorry, are we saying Valve Gabe Newell? That's blowing my mind from both timeline and area perspective.
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by NikolaNovak 6mo ago
Doesn't a headset with directional boom microphone do the trick? I may be misinterpreting the problem statement though :-).
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by NikolaNovak 6mo ago
... I don't think this is going to be Hacker News fascinating discourse, but the current USA administration is so openly, brazenly, continuously, gleefully corrupt; continuously fire people with ethics and competence and bring in the i
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by NikolaNovak 6mo ago
I think we are conflating usage vs consumption. I think HN probably uses GenAI more than average population. But I think HN consumes less GenAI content than average population. Look at Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, TikTok, etc. All I se
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by NikolaNovak 6mo ago
Well, I mean, drats . I too always assumed Ibuprofen was safer than Acetaminophen; not the least because of massively oversimplificatic "reduced inflammation - GOOD!" 'Logic'. I'm 47 now and have probably preferred
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by NikolaNovak 6mo ago
While I agree with you, hacker news audience is not in the middle of the bell curve. I get this sounds elitist - but tremendous percentage of population is happily and eagerly engaging with fake religious images, funny AI videos, horrible A
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by NikolaNovak 6mo ago
It's a work laptop - I'm surprised none of the coworkers said "you'll get in trouble when you return it". I don't know WHY... But corporate bureaucracies have logic of their own.
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by NikolaNovak 6mo ago
One of first games I ever played at my dad's work when I was probably 6 or 7 years old. I've always enjoyed flight Sims, understanding this dubiously qualifies :). I've enjoyed the strategic aspect of fuel and bomb management
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by NikolaNovak 6mo ago
I use onenote as a personal note taking system. For shared artifacts we use word, excel or PowerPoint in corporate onedrive and it works shockingly well, with minor but important caveats - you can't usually edit the same exact box at t

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