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by adriand 1y ago
Protest! People power is the best way to resist autocracy especially in the early stages when resistance has a chance of success. Don’t ignore the fact that protests are happening. Musk is fleeing Washington because the backlash successfull
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by adriand 2y ago
That sounds like so much fun. How much of a demand does it place on you physically, ie how fit do you need to be to do it well?
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by adriand 2y ago
It’s absolutely terrifying. What they did to Kilmar Abrego Garcia could happen to anyone, US citizen or not. They have admitted be was rendered to a gulag accidentally but are also saying that now that he’s there, there’s nothing they can d
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by adriand 2y ago
Well, it’s better than what I came here to do, which was to leave a snarky joke along the lines of, “Sounds like we just found another place we need to tariff.” But in the interest of keeping the discussion productive, I’ll refrain from doi
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by adriand 2y ago
Paid Copilot is pretty crap too to be honest. I don’t know why it’s so bad.
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by adriand 2y ago
VS Code with standard copilot for tab completion and Aider in a terminal window for all the heavier lifts, asking questions, architecting etc. And it’s cheap! I’ve been using it with OpenRouter (lets you easily switch models and providers)
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by adriand 2y ago
Hopefully steep tariffs on Switzerland will bring watchmaking and watchmakers back to America.
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Slopsquatting: AI Hallucinations Fuel New Class of Supply Chain Attacks(socket.dev)
12 points by adriand 2y ago|2 comments
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by adriand 2y ago
My point is not that the statement was made in bad faith or was grossly derogatory. Personally, I am not gravely offended. However, I do think it's impolite and casually dismissive of an entire nation. In other words, I think it's
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by adriand 2y ago
That sounds a lot like the classic “I have lots of black friends” line. But even if you do have Indian friends, there is a big difference between joking with friends vs what is suitable for publication in the public sphere. I would also not
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by adriand 2y ago
> The primary architect of trumps tariff strategy in his first and second term is Peter Navarro. He's also a complete and utter liar. I happened to come across him speaking on Fox News when he stated that "Canada has been taken
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by adriand 2y ago
Knowing how to code, and having a lot of experience and an "intuitive" sense of what is a good idea and what is a bad idea, also puts you in a position to question the advice the AI gives you. Just now I was asking Claude to help
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by adriand 2y ago
Just yesterday I was trying to find a file in Finder, using the search, and it could not find it even though I was just one directory up from the directory it was sitting in. It made no sense to me at all. Reading these stories, it’s clicki
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by adriand 2y ago
Hence why Canada is now considering bailing on its purchase of F-35s. The prospect of getting cut off is hardly theoretical: the US already partially halted support for Ukraine's F-16s (I'm not sure where this stands at this preci
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by adriand 2y ago
Thanks for the update. Vibe seems off. ;) My thinking on this has shifted a bit, I'm now just thinking I'll set up on Digital Ocean's Toronto data centre. I believe (assume is the right word, I guess) that they have a Canadia
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by adriand 2y ago
I'm in the exact same boat (Canadian + same requirements). If you settle on something I would love to hear your experiences. While looking around I did find a Canadian provider: https://www.fullhost.com/cloud-paas/
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by adriand 2y ago
> Sounds a bit wrong, I want to put American first. That would require labelling the spacecraft transgender, then cutting its budget.
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by adriand 2y ago
That was extremely long and I skimmed the second half (the “post breakout” portion) but the first half was very well done, and did not strike me as implausible.
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Ask HN: Recommendations for a non-US cloud option
10 points by adriand 2y ago|3 comments
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by adriand 2y ago
I’m not a marketer, I’m just curious! I write code, not blogspam.
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by adriand 2y ago
What are the effective marketing channels for specialized/niche B2B companies these days, now that - presumably - the long tail search result strategy is no longer effective? A friend of mine was telling me that his company was very pl
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by adriand 2y ago
> Whatever Leijen said, I'm pretty sure it wasn't that What makes you so sure? This is Hoare's apology for creating the null reference: > I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference i
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by adriand 2y ago
> and generally were more cruel to them then we are Strongly disagree with this part of your statement. The scale of suffering from industrial animal processing far exceeds anything from past centuries. The one-on-one cruelty of past cen
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by adriand 2y ago
As was noted elsewhere (I forget the source), it's zero sum: anyone who makes money is making it off someone who is losing money. In fact, it's less than zero sum because of platform fees.
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by adriand 2y ago
That’s the conventional wisdom but I think it’s worth challenging it. Or at least, if by “productivity” you mean “work” (I think there’s an important distinction there). There is nothing wrong with your work being the focus of your life. Ma
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by adriand 2y ago
Not sure why you picked up downvotes on this comment because I think you’re right. 5 ms is not at all a lot of latency. I think even very exacting professional musicians would be hard pressed to detect it. At 128 samples and using the Push
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by adriand 2y ago
Content moderation on text input is how I would assume it would be done, essentially the same way LLMs work now. But to be clear, I am not advocating for it. I’m just asking if they do it.
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by adriand 2y ago
Do these services restrict the content that their AIs give voice to? If so, what are the typical restrictions? Like do they seek to prevent their tech being used for scamming, erotica, hate speech, etc? Or is it pretty much anything goes?
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by adriand 2y ago
The only good news here is that it's possible that the body can clear the plastics. This is from the linked study: > While we suspected that MNPs might accumulate in the body over a lifespan, the lack of correlation between total pl
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by adriand 2y ago
Feels like only a matter of time before these crawlers are blocked from large swathes of the internet. I understand that they’re already prohibited from Reddit and YouTube. If that spreads, this approach might be in trouble.

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