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by doom2 4mo ago
> Maybe I've chosen hardmode to learn C with LLM assistance May you speak a little more about how you're approaching this? I was thinking of doing similar
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by doom2 4mo ago
The annoying thing is how many businesses and communities rely on Meta platforms instead of their own websites and sometimes it's the only way to contact them. If I want to check if the small neighborhood grocery has something in stock
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by doom2 4mo ago
> There's no room for a middle ground or nuance anymore. You are either entirely in one tribe, or entirely out. A question I find myself selfishly asking a lot is: why do I have to be the one who is accepting or tolerant of others w
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by doom2 4mo ago
Why not both? I read an article recently about the Texas Senate race and one Republican voter they interviewed said it was about "the immigrants and the guns." So low information voters get a pass because they're awash in rig
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by doom2 4mo ago
I'm not sure what to believe. If the AI craze is what people here say it is, then RAM producers should be eagerly planning new fabs to spin up (you know, economics 101 increasing supply to meet demand). If RAM producers aren't pla
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by doom2 4mo ago
> The bad PE phenomenon buyout is annoying, but businesses that become miserable for the customers and employees are not stable long-term businesses What happens when those businesses are hospitals, for example? I've read too many s
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by doom2 4mo ago
This has been us the past few years: * Fall 2024: we had to get star bolts[1] installed to reinforce our front wall - $24k * Spring 2025: our (finished) basement flooded, requiring a French drain to be installed and the basement restored -
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by doom2 4mo ago
It might kill the console gaming market, too. Typically consoles get cheaper over time post-release. Instead, all the latest gen consoles are getting price hikes and at least one company is potentially pushing back the next gen release (PS6
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by doom2 5mo ago
> Democracy is more or less giving us what we vote for, we just vote for dumb things. Sorry, when did I vote in favor of the Citizens United , McCutcheon , or Buckley outcomes, all of which are tied to our current predicament of mone
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by doom2 5mo ago
> many of the public libraries around here are morphing into indoor playgrounds. If this is said as a negative thing, maybe we could mitigate it by having more free, publicly accessible third spaces. Or accept that libraries can also ser
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by doom2 5mo ago
It doesn't help when a political candidate campaigns on promises of "radical transparency" and breaking up "corruption" and "the deep state" in DC and then gets in power and is even less transparent, more
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by doom2 5mo ago
I don't think this is quite accurate advice. Go where the activity is. Around me, in a city of ~1.5M, the Meshtastic community is quite active. They've worked with local ham radio clubs. They have members setting up a larger mesh
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by doom2 5mo ago
Not directly related to your comment, but I'm confused why so many people say "BYD is subsidized by the Chinese government" as some kind of gotcha for why they're "bad". The US government subsidizes farmers. Co
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SpaceX IPO gives Musk power and curbs shareholder rights(reuters.com)
4 points by doom2 5mo ago|0 comments
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by doom2 5mo ago
From personal experience, I'd just say that the number of emcomm-focused hams I've encountered in the hobby has been quite small but even when I have, they are no more or less annoying than anyone else I've met who are involv
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by doom2 5mo ago
I really don't understand this line of argument and why you seem to be taking offense at an entire hobby. It's like asking why people who maintain home networking labs spend so much time and effort doing that when they could be pu
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by doom2 6mo ago
I thought prodiction markets benefit from insider knowledge. Isn't the whole point that insiders make bets, thereby surfacing knowledge and allowing for more accurate forecasts? So wouldn't we want more military service members ma
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by doom2 6mo ago
I wonder how the dynamic between members of Congress and their constituents would change if we had a larger Congress. Instead of the ~786k people per representative, having ~107k like the UK. Would it be feasible? Probably not. But Congress
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by doom2 6mo ago
> I've skimmed the thread here and I am now seriously considering leaving HN for the first time in about 15 years. I'm finding a lot of the comments here pretty reprehensible, but no more reprehensible than the collective shrug
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by doom2 6mo ago
> If we want men to take up certain roles, we need to pay more. Why is it only now, when employment rates are seemingly a problem for men, that we need to pay more in these professions to attract men that might otherwise not have conside
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by doom2 6mo ago
So roughly the average annual budget of ICE, just one component of DHS, before their $80B OBBB cash injection
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by doom2 6mo ago
It's funny because arguably a big reason Harris lost was unhappiness with the cost of living/the vibecession. Yet Trump hasn't managed to fulfill his promise of turning the magic grocery price knob down (they still seem quite
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by doom2 6mo ago
Hasn't seemed to catch up with Tesla, which is still highly valued despite making a pretty mediocre car compared to the competition. Even if one makes the argument that Tesla vehicles are of good quality, it's still a high valuati
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by doom2 6mo ago
Sure, I didn't mean to suggest that it would be easy or fast to increase manufacturing capabilities, just that the confidence I'm seeing around AI should extend to the manufacturers (if that confidence for the future growth and su
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by doom2 6mo ago
> Bottom line is that H100 prices are near 3 year highs, A100s are still profitable to run, B200 prices are increasing, no one has enough compute. Then why aren't the hardware manufacturers of components needed by AI companies makin
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by doom2 6mo ago
Don't console prices typically go down over the lifetime of a console? For example, the PS4 launched at $399 on 2013. By 2015 it was $350 or lower.
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by doom2 6mo ago
I'm also very skeptical of "everything eventually passes" as it pertains to hardware prices. Right now, prices are high because supply can't keep up with demand. But if/when supply increases to meet demand or demand
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by doom2 6mo ago
What's boring to me is how abstract many of the "AI success stories" tend to be, even on here. A whole blog post about some new way to use LLMs, or a best practice, or whatever, and no link to the code or dotfiles. I understa
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by doom2 7mo ago
It's still around and up to 6th edition! Catalyst Game hasn't been the best steward of the IP, with the rules still being internally inconsistent and usually needing a lot of house rules to fix.
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Ask HN: How are you using LLMs to learn a new programming language?
2 points by doom2 7mo ago|0 comments

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