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by dilippkumar 2y ago
There’s a lot of negativity around this ruling here on HN. As a not-lawyer, non expert, I welcome this ruling. The strongest argument I can make in favor of this come from the dissenting opinion by Justice Kagan: > This Court has long un
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
I had ChatGPT-4o translate this to contemporary english > We assume, as stated earlier, that electrical fire is a common element, equally shared among the three mentioned individuals before any operation with the tube begins. Person A, w
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
Back when in-person interviews were a thing, I’d use the opportunity to just look at the office space. Specific red flag signals: 1. Dominated by Windows 2. Too many people in formals 3. Nobody wears badges (and other indicators of a lax se
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
I thought Ford Prefect was responsible for this one.
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
I don't have any equipment to calibrate it or measure it's calibration against. However, when I leave the windows open for extended periods of time, the CO2 levels hit levels that are within 50ppm of [0]. (I live in a different ci
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
Tangential, but I've had this monitor[0] at home for about 2 years and I can recommend it. I live in a place that's generally cold for a large part of the year, so I have all windows shut for most of the time. I've discovered
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> Seems like a startup mentality to me. Good insight :) I'll leave it at that. Indeed, it started with the Eisenhower Matrix, but the problem for us was that everything is Urgent in some sense. Things that aren't urgent don&#x2
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Just want to point out how nice it is to read justified text. It absolutely makes a huge difference.
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Over the past several months, we have converged on a set of slides that we fill out at the start of a week. Slide 1: To do list. Slide 2: <Fill items from the todo list into this 2x2 matrix> | | Not importan
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
There have been several comments along the lines of: "Why should I trust apple and their security, but not that of a third-party web browser?" I don't have an answer for you. But I want to recommend this talk from 7 years ago
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
I can offer a reading list. Hope this helps. 1. The Mom test - Rob Fitzpatrick 2. Never eat alone - Keith Ferrazzi 3. The Tim Ferriss podcast - Episode #717 with Noah Kagan 4. Crossing the chasm - Geoffrey Moore 5. Competing Against Luck -
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
IBM is currently shipping Power10 while Raptor ships Power9 in the Talos II. If I understand correctly, they had issues getting to a fully open source firmware solution for a Talos III with a Power10 in it. This actually made me hold off on
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
It was already available on a public torrent and therefore this additional torrent on a public torrent site changes nothing. Previously you weren't getting any revenue from torrents. Now you're monetizing a fraction of the populat
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> If you're waiting for either GEB or Ulysses to hurry up and get to the mother fucking point, you're going to be waiting a long time. Ok, for us the lazy, what is mother fucking the point of GEB? A single HN karma point from m
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
I'll bite - people torrent because they have no other options. People will pay for content if they're able to access content after paying. So, here's my offer: I will build a torrent streaming site where the torrent file cost
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
This is extremely meme worthy material. Would you mind sharing the source?
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
I run OpenBSD on my laptop. I love it, but I would recommend that beginners read some warnings on the label. First, you will not have bluetooth. Second, it is slow in ways that will matter. As in, you will feel it, but not be annoyed by it
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Not GP, but I understood their question as follows. Assume you collect some kindergartners and top NBA players into a room and collect their heights. Now say you pass these to two hapless grad students and ask them to perform K-means cluste
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
This doesn’t fit into the rest of the discussion above, but the Malazan series absolutely blew me away with a subplot (!!) about ancient hominids making epic sacrifices to allow modern humans to exist. This is (a) set in a fantasy world (b
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
Some of the modalities in multimodal are non-linguistic. For example, image or video input. In those cases, is it still a language model?
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
+1 for Kagi. But also, for the past few months, I’ve completely stopped searching the internet. ChatGPT-4 does the job way more effectively and I don’t see why I would go back to searching the internet (assuming the chatgpt experience doesn
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
As an immigrant, this stood out to me: > ... I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all current United States citizens and lawful permanent residents who ... > ... This pardon does not ap
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
At the end of 2015, I started writing down what I wanted to achieve in the upcoming year in a spreadsheet every December and began reviewing the previous year’s spreadsheets in 2016. Over time, I’ve learned that my success rate at achieving
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
It doesn’t even have to be software. This camera tracking a goldfish to pick stocks is AI by this definition: https://youtu.be/USKD3vPD6ZA Update: A coin toss meets this definition.
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> Suppose you are buying a new laptop ... does anyone else feel sad that their operating system has effectively turned into some weird social media marketing tracking data harvesting hybrid of a thing? I purchased a thinkpad without any
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
nvim is worth the investment if your answer to any of the following questions is yes: 1. Do you work on really large codebases every day? 2. Do you type as fast as you can think and frequently need to wait for the UI to catch up with what y
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> and that therefore wink and nudge something something aliens. You had me till this. The conspiracy theorists actually make very good points. They’ve been vindicated by discoveries at Gobekli Tepi and others that basically demolish the
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
As a long time follower from the first "On the metal" podcast and as someone who has been cheering for you silently from the sidelines - Congratulations! You all have arrived. Wishing you decades of prosperity and good fortune.
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> After two decades of JavaScript and decent experience with Go, this is the most significant source of frustration and friction with Rust. It’s not an insurmountable problem, but you must always be ready to deal with the async monster w
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by dilippkumar 3y ago
> It seems odd that self driving cars have been skipping this step. [Citation needed]

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