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by d--b 7mo ago
Are they taking 30% of the payments?
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by d--b 7mo ago
As infuriating as it may be, it's a good occasion to learn to let go. Rationally, you're paying way more than the liquid in the glass, so just mentally tell yourself that the haircut is included in the price, and that's fine.
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by d--b 7mo ago
Definitely better products. The main effect is that you build things a lot faster. The secondary effect is that, since you can code a lot faster, you are no longer scared of large refactors, ports to other languages, and all that kind of te
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by d--b 7mo ago
That's definitely it. This probably means that OpenAI et al are fine-tuning salesman-like LLMs to "fix" that problem. Can't wait for the future.
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by d--b 7mo ago
Thanks for the kind words :-)
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by d--b 7mo ago
It’s called karma? We, software developers, as a profession took over countless crafts. It started with people doing calculations by hand, then moved on to people typing on typewriters and continued from there. People used to edit films wit
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by d--b 7mo ago
For those of you who want to experience 24-tone composition, listen to Angine de Poitrine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so
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by d--b 7mo ago
> Misconception 1: specification documents are simpler than the corresponding code That is simply not true. There is a ton of litterature around inherent vs accidental complexity, which in an ideal world should map directly to spec vs co
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by d--b 7mo ago
That sucks. At least they had a purpose, a vision. Now Zuckerberg is going to be all sour about it and even more cynical about everything. They’re going to go back to what they know how to do: optimize for attention and sell personal data.
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Ask HN: Quick technical questions about LLMs
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by d--b 7mo ago
I guess I don’t see how allowing some phone owners to root their devices introduces security flaws for those who don’t. Maybe there’s something I’m missing here.
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by d--b 7mo ago
Take with a spoonful of salt. Those trading firms that make these claims have skin in the game.
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by d--b 7mo ago
Of course Apple doesn’t want people to use their device in a way that’s not how they designed it. They’re very anal about the user experience, they don’t want kids to install ArchLinux on their grandparents iPhones, and have the grandparent
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by d--b 7mo ago
It’s only about the right to use your device as you see fit. It is kind of silly that people buy raspberry pis to run their NAS, while they trash ther infinitely more capable iphone every couple of years.
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by d--b 7mo ago
That law is perhaps an annoyance for Apple, but it can't cost them billions, can it? I seriously doubt that it would cost Apple more than the several hundred million dollars Meta still needs to funnel in order to get those laws passed
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by d--b 7mo ago
The guy posted a Ask HN there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361235 https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...
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by d--b 7mo ago
South Park season 28 has Peter Thiel as an exorcist trying to cure Cartman's devilish obsession with 6-7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_season_28
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by d--b 7mo ago
I sometimes wonder who is insane enough to be behind these schemes. I mean what degree of alienation does it require to setup a website that claims to be about an advocacy group for children safety, while it is in fact a fake site for an or
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by d--b 7mo ago
Re-posting findings, cause somehow OP's message was downvoted: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...
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by d--b 7mo ago
To be honest “no dummy” is how you would swear at a 4-year-old. I often use things like: “I’ve told you no a bilion times, you useless piece of shit”, or “what goes through your stipid ass brain, you headless moron” I am in full Westworld m
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by d--b 7mo ago
What’s remarkable to me, beyond the total incompetence and stupidity of all the police people involved, is how incredibly aggressive the intervention was. This is bank fraud case, for god’s sake, not an armed robbery. I don’t know the scale
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by d--b 7mo ago
https://github.com/Luka12-dev sigh
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by d--b 7mo ago
OH so that's why it's called Perplexity!
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by d--b 7mo ago
Well, it's not such terrible news, is it? I get nostalgia for the 90s/00s, but that time was never coming back anyways. The best we can hope now is for people to be less online. And if it comes from people drowning in AI crap, I t
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by d--b 7mo ago
They seem a lot more common in OP's conversations than in any regular engineering conversation though. Like I've been an engineer for 20 years. I don't remember the phrase used in my work context, ever.
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by d--b 7mo ago
And on top of that, Anthropic does not run their own compute clusters do they? They probably get completely ripped by whoever is renting them the processors. $200 worth of actual computation is an awful lot of computation.
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by d--b 7mo ago
Honestly, I think meeting people at 38 is really hard. Especially if your social skills are somewhat rusty. I think a lof of the advice is well-thinking, but it's not very good as things aren't that easy. I believe that the easies
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by d--b 7mo ago
IMO, There are worse things to be addicted to. At some point you’ll outgrow it.
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by d--b 7mo ago
it’s just that “high yield” refers to subprime crap. credit card-like rates of like 16%.
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by d--b 7mo ago
Dude, don't put safe and high-yielding next to each other. It makes your post look like a scam. 1% spread is in fact, pretty small, so yeah, it probably isn't very risky.

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