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by bobjordan 4y ago
I just found out about ChatGPT a few days ago. I tested it out by asking it to answer some stack overflow questions which I had answered myself on SO. In every case, ChatGPT worded responses in a much simpler/clearer way than I’d done
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by bobjordan 4y ago
From 30-47 I have only found it easier to learn new skills. I’m 47 now and even in the last 10 years, I learned a lot. Like, how to build a full stack web app which I’ve used with our customers for a few years, to deliver millions per year
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BMW's 3,854-Variable Problem Solved in Six Minutes with Quantum Computing(tomshardware.com)
16 points by bobjordan 4y ago|11 comments
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by bobjordan 4y ago
Keep a close eye on testosterone levels and consider TRT if they are low.
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by bobjordan 5y ago
"Right wing violence and extremism are the real world threat in America..." let me just ask you can you tell us how many people died in 2021 due to right wing violence and extremism? Meanwhile, in Chicago, "According to the
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by bobjordan 5y ago
Communism has failed every time its been tried but that fact is meaningless to people who demand to try it again. Same situation here, now we are dealing with a significant proportion of people that demand free speech for me but not for the
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by bobjordan 5y ago
Fava is a nice GUI that's built on top of beancount, see https://github.com/beancount/fava
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by bobjordan 5y ago
Seems a bit shortsighted to self-justify censorship by claiming both the ability to read minds and predict the future.
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by bobjordan 5y ago
I had the oddest experience in trying to upvote his comment. I’m on mobile so it may just be be that. But, when I upvoted, there was a small delay but it seemed to register a downvote. So I unvoted and tried again. Same thing. Anyway, assum
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by bobjordan 5y ago
Me in 2009: “I love twitter. I can follow so many people doing things I’m interested in.” Me again, today:”Deleted that shit and never going back.” The poor management brought me to that ending and I don’t foresee it getting anything but wo
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Comparison: Webb vs. Hubble Telescope(jwst.nasa.gov)
1 points by bobjordan 5y ago|0 comments
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by bobjordan 5y ago
This is just more of the pervasive attitude of grievance and blame gaming we have these days. Yes, some entrepreneurs come from rich families. But many more are for example, the immigrants that come here and have no choice but to become an
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by bobjordan 5y ago
I met the founder of Grabcad when he made a trip to Shenzhen China around 2012. I took away that he was trying to build the "github for CAD". We tried the Grabcad system out in our office for a while and it was useful but didn&#x2
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Drug dealer identified by cheese photo posted on encrypted message service(nbcnews.com)
2 points by bobjordan 5y ago|0 comments
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by bobjordan 6y ago
I've coded by myself for my own business, for the last 10 years. The best tool I found to give me objective feedback on my code is Code Climate. You can upload your code there and get a grade and feedback, which helped me improve immen
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by bobjordan 6y ago
Nice, look forward to checking this out.
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by bobjordan 6y ago
It took a while to know I needed it but eventually I found learning Docker and using docker-compose is definitely worth the investment. Just being able to run a script and startup revision controlled services like Redis, imgproxy, elasticse
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by bobjordan 6y ago
The fact that this was flagged and taken from the front page is par for the course, so sick of authoritarian technocrats.
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by bobjordan 6y ago
If a post author is promoting violence, lay the blame with the post author, not the social network. As I understand it the legal basis and protections for the network using this simple valid logic already exists. They’ve been operating with
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by bobjordan 6y ago
Well for one, they murdered an unarmed woman today. We've heard all year from the Democrats and the mainstream media how property destruction and trespassing isn't worthy of a death sentence. So there's that.
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Scientists Discover Mysterious Metal “Monolith” in Utah Wilderness(futurism.com)
2 points by bobjordan 6y ago|0 comments
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by bobjordan 6y ago
Bless Glenn Greenwald for taking a stand against journalistic bias.
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by bobjordan 6y ago
Sure they investigated, prior to the new evidence emerging.
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by bobjordan 6y ago
I see no proof the unbounded political activism is making the world a better place. For example, crowds running up onto people’s dinner and demanding fists raised in solidarity. I think videos circulating of that kind of stuff has somewhat
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by bobjordan 6y ago
I wonder if “Free Portland” would fly.
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by bobjordan 6y ago
I bought the xeon from Ebay at a discount about three years ago, when it was still fairly new. It was some sort of engineering sample and I paid about $3K for it while the list price was at least a multiple higher. We used it for CPU render
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by bobjordan 6y ago
I'm using a 22 core / 44 thread xeon workstation for development and my primary joy using it is being able to run my pytest test suites in parallel. I went from ~45 minutes to run the test suite to about a minute. It is also prett
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by bobjordan 6y ago
Sure, brute forcing it could work to an extent. But, for example, some users are nearly always among the top 10 reposes to a Donald Trump tweet. I suspect they are using some tools to enable it.
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Ask HN: How do some Twitter users respond so fast to get in the first comments?
2 points by bobjordan 6y ago|2 comments
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by bobjordan 6y ago
From my perspective as a person who's career has been in manufacturing, from the factory floor to supply chain consultant to factory owner who lived in China for 10-years, there is a distinct difference between definitions here of subs

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