abustamam

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by abustamam 5d ago
I was a programmer. AI is the evolution of my career. I'm in an interesting place. I've never been good at interviewing and I have certainly only gotten worse due to an admitted atrophy of thinking in "code." But I'
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by abustamam 5d ago
2 context free chats can go in very different ways even with the same words sometimes! I personally like the option to have context free chat or chats with memories. What I dont want is a chat based on memories that I didn't explicitly
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by abustamam 6d ago
Kinda reminds me of Gandhi urban legend in Civilization, where his "peacefulness" was so low that if it got lower he became a war monger. I thought it was true until I looked it up for this comment. Still, funny stuff! https:&#x2
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by abustamam 7d ago
Ive been getting AI political ads. I mean political ads are already shitty enough but now I'm seeing "<incumbent> is a wolf in sheep's clothing " with an Ai image of him wearing a sheep suit. It's true and ki
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by abustamam 8d ago
I like the idea of passkeys. And ive been seeing better support for them. I use Bitwarden as a passkey manager and it mostly works across devices. What's irritating is when the provider messes up passkey integration. As an example, rec
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by abustamam 9d ago
Which models do you like for planning? IME I haven't seen much success with using cheap/open models for planning, so I use Claude for planning still.
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by abustamam 9d ago
I rebind capslock on all my new computers, usually to ctrl or cmd.
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by abustamam 10d ago
I joked about vibe coding the solution to this but I did have Claude tell me how to fix it and apparently there is a config to change search sources.
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by abustamam 10d ago
The best propaganda is the propaganda you dont know exists.
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by abustamam 10d ago
Just yesterday this was trending on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710883 I think one of the best examples of propaganda in recent times is political figures pinning left vs right, when its really citizens vs gov
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by abustamam 10d ago
> the sexism is on another scale entirely Several nations that are predominantly Muslim have had female heads of state before the US has. If your perception of Islam is based on how Middle Eastern countries practice it then you are only
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by abustamam 10d ago
Just vibe code it my man! /s
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by abustamam 11d ago
Fundamentally I agree. But my point is that while it isnt inherently bad to think of something as anti-American, it is bad when politicians use that terminology to create divides and further their agendas. My statement about Islam being ant
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by abustamam 11d ago
As I mentioned in the other comment, Islam the faith and Islam the political system are largely different. Most Muslims (myself included) know a lot about the faith but know nothing about the jurisprudence. So I agree that Islamic jurisprud
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by abustamam 11d ago
> your faith is also a political institution This is half-right. Islam does have its own political system, but the faith is largely divorced from that system. I'm fairly active in my mosque and ive met a lot of community members run
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by abustamam 11d ago
I thought i was going to greener pastures when I switched from Windows to Ubuntu but Ubuntu native search is pretty bad too. I typed "printer" so I can get to my printer settings and the first three are printer icons/emoji. I
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by abustamam 11d ago
Suggesting a burner account to access the most basic functionality of a website is quite the technique to prove your point that the website is the most functional website.
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by abustamam 11d ago
I'm Muslim. Born in the US. I've seen politicians and right wing public figures call my entire faith anti-American. One of them just had a nice memorial for their one-year since their death. The term may have had an agreed upon me
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by abustamam 11d ago
Im too young to remember this but it would be an interesting idea if ISPs paid website hosts (kinda like cable companies pay networks based on viewership) The privacy implications of this are many, but the idea itself could be interesting.
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by abustamam 11d ago
??? Have you never tried to visit X on a mobile device? Functional is far from what I'd call it, given that you can't see replies to the tweet or indeed do much else on the site
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by abustamam 12d ago
You can always update your claude.md!
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by abustamam 12d ago
In a way, ads like that can be a bit scarier. We recently bought a house and through the next 3 months I got so many scary warnings in the mail, most of which looked legit and official, saying that if I dont visit sign up for X then I will
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by abustamam 13d ago
> But I wonder if he's becoming a bit of a meat proxy. A joke I recently encountered: --- A CEO proudly announced he'd bought an AI system designed to identify the company's most replaceable employee. It spent the night a
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by abustamam 13d ago
I'm building an app to help me manage my Toastmasters clubs. I'm using AI to do it because I honestly dont care how it's made, I'm the only user right now. I just want it to work. Thus far AI has allowed me to generate p
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by abustamam 14d ago
> stop trying to replace all human labor A lot of companies trying to replace human labor with AI are either lying (theyre laying off because they over hired and need to correct) or will regret it. That being said, what's the differ
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by abustamam 14d ago
Thats an interesting poster. Is it real? Im just trying to understand what an MTA employee would do with that information. This seems very portal-y. On the jamais-vu front, I once had to write "school" a few hundred times in deten
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by abustamam 14d ago
My wife swears that I have prosopognosia because whenever she shows me a celebrity face I'm like who's that? And shes like "Brad Pitt!" I dont think I actually have it, because there's enough times where I'm at
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by abustamam 14d ago
So you can move the entire ear rather than just wiggle the tip? I can wiggle one ear, very slightly, and it looks like im having an aneurysm when I do it.
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by abustamam 14d ago
Great story! I remember sharing my screen at work recently and the URL bar suggested https://thisisnotporn.com/ because I had been playing it a bit on my phone and my browser history synced to my work. I dont know if anyone
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by abustamam 14d ago
> People can suck when they are allowed or expected to suck. This is not a unique concept to software or any company type though. You don't have to look far on the antiwork subreddit to find people who work in all types of different

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