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by bad_username 4mo ago
Open... "the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle" Close... guess I will stick to HN
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by bad_username 4mo ago
People who like squirrels should get degus. Degus are not propely squirrels, but close cousins, and they are brilliant pets. Their intelligence is outstanding.
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by bad_username 4mo ago
Old man here, it has never been perfect, but it used to be vastly better than today.
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by bad_username 4mo ago
Honestly to me it seems that the objectively unprecedented migration levels in the UK of the last decade (caused explicitly by government policy) are better suited to be called "extreme" or "far" than the demands to roll
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by bad_username 4mo ago
I use Windows 10 with a relatively obscure firewall software with a per-process/per-service whitelist, and try to not be stupid on the Internet. I also do regular backups. This should cover most of the risk model applicable to me. Has
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by bad_username 4mo ago
> Cancer is not one thing, I know this is a popular "well actually" to do, but it is not always useful in a conversation. Yes, all cancers are different, but yes, cancer is also one thing: unchecked, harmful division of cells.
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by bad_username 4mo ago
Not the same thing, but I found a way to distribute markdown sources (with images) within the PDF files generated from these sources. The trick is to generate the PDF normally, then zip this same PDF together with the sources again, with co
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by bad_username 4mo ago
I use "comment-driven development" by building out the skeleton manually, writing comments instead of code, and letting the agent fill the code in (and then repeat, until done). It is a "lower level" of AI usage, compare
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by bad_username 4mo ago
I am on an enterprise environment. I had non stop issues with OneDrive, such as OneDrive process always pegged at 100% CPU, files not synching, files going cloud-only and inaccessible without Internet, and issues in git repos. I go out of m
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by bad_username 4mo ago
ChatGPT hallucinates when asked to hallucinate
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by bad_username 4mo ago
I wish <smug></smug> was a real HTML tag
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by bad_username 4mo ago
I haven't yet tried to solve this at any scale. So my models are ChatGPT (plus) in the browser, or Sonnet/Opus 4.x in Zoo Code.
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by bad_username 4mo ago
Most diagrams I come across are basically boxes and arrows which are representable with mermaid flow charts without losing information. The layout of the mermaid will usually look differently, but that is not typically what matters. ChatGPT
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by bad_username 4mo ago
> we don't send images to the model at query time. We describe each image once, at indexing time, with a cheap vision model, store the descriptions as text, and retrieve them alongside ordinary text chunks This is what I've bee
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by bad_username 5mo ago
Will not the landlords eventually pass the expense of the new tax on to you, the tenants? They won't like dip into their savings to pay it, will they.
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by bad_username 5mo ago
> honest, unbiased, astroturf-free That is not the case, sorry. Pre-2015 Wikipedia was as honest and unbiased as we can get. Now the political, historical, philosophical segments of English Wikipedia is very biased and I cannot recommen
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by bad_username 5mo ago
What if management pushes stupid decisions and blames you for the second order effects? Happens often.
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by bad_username 5mo ago
> furiously hammering on my laptop “WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO???”. The recipient of these tirades is, you might have guessed, a coding agent. It’s completely pointless, I know. I believe it's worth than pointless. IMO adding such thi
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by bad_username 5mo ago
We may be in the last Golden age of AI, where experienced professionals still exist who can code manually, and AI already exists who can code automatically, and when the former use the latter skillfully, wonders happen. This magical interse
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by bad_username 5mo ago
My experience with ChatGPT as a search engine - it is totally paranoid about checking and re-checking its answers by referencing them in multiple places (I usually read its thinking output). I have not seen an outright hallucination for at
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by bad_username 5mo ago
I think the article has the correct message, but I disagree with this: > It’s just incapable of the thing that makes a real architect valuable: saying “no.” From my experience Claude is excellent at saying "no". It won't s
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by bad_username 5mo ago
Some people are always prepared to throw political talking points at you, even if you just want to talk about the weather or whether to swear at judges, or something. Can't imagine the perpetual stress of such mental state.
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by bad_username 5mo ago
Adding my vote to "win2000 is peak UI" pile. I would genuinely use it today. There is one hickup though: the Win95 theme relies heavily on the pixel grid for its readability and aesthetics. Displays with very small pixels will eit
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by bad_username 5mo ago
If it is untenable for a country to defend its boundaries, why is it tenable for you to lock your house?
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by bad_username 5mo ago
I can feel Galactus's pain.
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by bad_username 5mo ago
In the age of toxic empathy, "think about the children" is a very common tool for nefarious uses.
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by bad_username 5mo ago
This is part of an organized media campaign against Substack, trying to look organic, punishing it for keeping ideological neutrality.
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by bad_username 5mo ago
Justifying one's crime because other crime exists - isnot a winning position long term.
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by bad_username 5mo ago
> I get the sleep data from my Garmin* watch. Every watch and ring calculates sleep slightly differently, and to be honest, I don't fully trust any of them on the exact sleep stage I was in at any given second. I love my Garmin, but
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by bad_username 5mo ago
So if you are intolerant (to the intolerant), then by definition you have to be intolerant to yourself, don't you.

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