NiloCK

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Toward Disposable Software(paritybits.me)
6 points by NiloCK 4y ago|1 comments
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by NiloCK 4y ago
Holy smokes!
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by NiloCK 4y ago
I think moreso it's a yet-another reminder that we will never have networked things that don't have second order effects.
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Has the Copilot SEO spam war begun?(paritybits.me)
41 points by NiloCK 4y ago|5 comments
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by NiloCK 4y ago
FYI gpt4 is being packaged by duolingo to do just this in their $$ tier.
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by NiloCK 4y ago
People have this weird disdain for memorization. Memorization is the same as knowing. Can you imagine that there have been points in your job that would have gone smoother if you'd known more?
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by NiloCK 4y ago
I have a half-written article about this, but I didn't have any good notion about quantifying the problem so this article is very welcome info to me. My own angle is that copilot has shifted the incentives around this practice, maybe s
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by NiloCK 4y ago
Almost every day there is a front page story on HN about some service shutting down, some account being locked without recourse, some purchased (licensed) media being clawed back from its owner (user) because the usage no longer serves the
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by NiloCK 4y ago
> Intelligence is not a prerequisite to speak fancifully. I don't even disagree necessarily, but this is an amazing example of AI goalpost shift in action.
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by NiloCK 4y ago
I think the point is that if remote roles have 10xed in this time, the number who consider themselves remote-only have 20xed.
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by NiloCK 4y ago
Replies will still post from the reply page, but the reply page itself won't load.
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Ask HN: Can we enable reply links during noprocrast cool-down?
1 points by NiloCK 4y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Where did the verb “vendoring” come from?
2 points by NiloCK 4y ago|1 comments
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by NiloCK 4y ago
One sticky note costs you more than $12!?
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by NiloCK 4y ago
It's both less and more specific than that. Subreddits are ideal (or at least best-yet) implementations echo chambers. A particular idiosyncratic groupthink emerges for each subreddit, and the platform then filters incoming communicati
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by NiloCK 4y ago
Maybe you know something but I don't, but I believe the comment you are replying to was a compliment and not a sarcastic dig.
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by NiloCK 4y ago
ahem: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119
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by NiloCK 4y ago
It absolutely should be! This also applies to "open source" vs "Open Source". The former has regular connotations from regular English usage. The latter, and only the latter, should refer to the proprietary definition of
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by NiloCK 4y ago
> more impersonal and less supportive community on Stack Overflow Surely this is maxed out already!
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by NiloCK 4y ago
Looks great at first glance, but as far as ctrl-f can tell, there is no login and I assume no ability to post / reply, and no respect for noProcrast settings. Any interest in adding logged-in-user effects?
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by NiloCK 4y ago
Thanks! I'm a hoarder of tiny ambitions, so my todolists are chronically growing, rather than shrinking. The deterrence for adding new items looks like this: n = # of currently listed items (items not done or struck as obsolete who are
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by NiloCK 4y ago
I have two monitors that have always blanked whenever I ... move too much? This information may just settle YEARS of idle speculation and curiosity on my part. Hooray!
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Show HN: Tuido, a Terminal Todo List(github.com)
8 points by NiloCK 4y ago|2 comments
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by NiloCK 4y ago
This is detailed pretty will in the book Scarcity, which highlights similar psychological effects among people who have not enough money, not enought time, not enough prestige, not enough room for caloric intake (dieters), etc. I wish this
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by NiloCK 4y ago
A lot of textbook exercises begin with a prompt like "solve for x", where x has no existence outside the scope of each given exercise. The information that is produced has no inherent value, but I'd be surprised to hear many
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by NiloCK 4y ago
> If you retract papers that were just 'wrong' you would be retracting at least 50% of the work published in a lot of fields. Wouldn't that be a win? Don't people read & reference these published, reviewed, non-re
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Ask HN: Are there alternative TLDs in the spirit of .dev?
1 points by NiloCK 4y ago|3 comments
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by NiloCK 4y ago
> Inattentive drivers are not a new problem created by tesla. Obviously not a new category of problem, but what sort of ballpark figure could we put on the number of inattentive drivers created by tesla? As a percentage of sales?
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by NiloCK 5y ago
I'm working on a GPL platform + framework for mass-collaborative interactive tutoring systems. Think: a wikipedia + stackoverflow interface / workflow, for producing outputs like duolingo, khanacademy. github.com/nilock/
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by NiloCK 5y ago
Context for non-Canadians: there was a federal election five months ago.

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