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by andy99 10mo ago
I don’t think this is LLM written but unfortunately it heavily employs the “it’s not X, it’s Y” that is now so ubiquitous. Unfortunately very hard to read because of it. Overall I agree with the premise.
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I found that to be really bad writing When it comes to exploring the deep sea, unless you suffer from thalassophobia (the fear of large bodies of water), it can be quite fascinating. What purpose does this serve, other than to introd
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by andy99 10mo ago
There is one of these in Montreal, the city has put up some changing cabins and signage for it, it appears very popular - I don’t surf but regularly see lots of people there. https://maps.app.goo.gl/MY7u35offdfV1e4MA
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by andy99 10mo ago
Interesting that it looks like News and Elections were where people thought AI would have the most negative impact. I’d consider it to be almost inconsequential for both, compared with stuff like employment and customer service - including
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by andy99 10mo ago
I had (the same) Samsung android phone from 2017-2025. I bought an iPhone, mainly because of privacy concerns (for which I consider apple to be the least bad mainstream option, not good). But I couldn’t get over how bad the ux is compared t
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Isn’t that The Gods Must Be Crazy? https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/
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by andy99 10mo ago
It sounds great to me. I travel regularly for work, and when doing so I work and sleep with no social life. I get as much work done as possible and then I go back to my house and family. I don’t need a big room or anything really, because I
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by andy99 10mo ago
I just checked this link and every day in Jan was under £40 https://zedwellhotels.com/locations/london/piccadilly-circus... Edit, Jan 1 is £48
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by andy99 10mo ago
I love the idea, I don’t expect people are respectful enough for it to work where I am, I’d be worried about being stuck next to somebody watching videos on their phone at full volume all night. Also Choose a cosy London capsule hotel i
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> Japanese passengers “are going to get out of the aircraft,” Mr Careen said, while travellers in North America appear most likely to delay evacuating to retrieve their belongings. I’d speculate that Japanese passengers expect to promptl
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by andy99 10mo ago
It’s enterprise software so product managers don’t decide anything. They’re just an automaton charged with implementing whatever complied with the RFP terms that were written by the vendor to wire the procurement. It’s basically a problem w
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by andy99 10mo ago
Meta’s campaign to corrupt the meaning of Open Source was unfortunately very successful and now most people associate releasing the weights with open source.
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by andy99 10mo ago
When something has an 30 TOPS NPU, what are the implications? Do NPUs like this have some common backend that ggml/llama.cpp targets? Is it proprietary and only works for some specific software? Does it have access to all the system RA
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by andy99 10mo ago
s/is ruining/has ruined/ ?
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Intuitively it wouldn’t be surprising that there’s some symbiosis going on somewhere and that there would be beneficial parasites. In reality I have no idea.
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I didn’t really understand the other thread, nor did I know who Rob Pike is. Based on this, it looks like he got an automated email from a harmless experiment and had a hissy fit about it?
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I remain baffled about these posts getting excited about uv’s speed. I’d like to see a real poll but I personally can’t imagine people listing speed as one of the their top ten concerns about python package managers. What are the common use
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Why do you consider what is being done in the references above to be a scientific approach?
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LitBench: A Benchmark and Dataset for Reliable Evaluation of Creative Writing(arxiv.org)
3 points by andy99 10mo ago|0 comments
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I’m with you, I’ve had a range of professional jobs, but rarely much meaningful correspondence via email. There are definitely emails that might announce some deadline or deliverable, but the “email” part of the work might be adding a calen
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by andy99 10mo ago
I guess software is going to be like furniture - there was some (possibly imagined) period where it was very well made and bought for the long term, and (obvious where this is going) now there’s lots of ikea crap that is easy and cheap but
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Actual link: https://gunbench.vercel.app/
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The conspiracy theorist inside me is telling me that big AI companies... I don’t believe in conspiracies but I do believe in incentives sometimes lining up. Now that there is a RAM heavy cloud application, cloud providers are sudden
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This from a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081
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This isn’t that. I understand if you came to a US store with Canadian dollars, they’d be unlikely to give you the posted exchange rate for them, if the took them at all. Here we’re talking about paying with a credit card that will automatic
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> they tried to coax me into using my local currency instead of GBP and hid a £20 spread I’m finding this more and more. Uber does it, and even Walgreens does it when I’m in the US and tap my card it suggests that I pay in my home curre
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Chemical Hygiene(karpathy.bearblog.dev)
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Network effects
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Thank you, I didn’t understand this either. So am I right to take away from this that the blog is complaining about Bear Blog (about which I know nothing, is it just hosting, a framework, or does it have a front page like HN somewhere?) hos
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by andy99 10mo ago
Because AI can generate meritless works far faster than anyone can judge their merits. Asking someone to read your AI thing is basically asking someone to do the work for you. If you respect your colleagues time, you should be sharing your

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