elwell

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   by elwell 3y ago

   Why does everyone have to disclaim that they would be a fan Meta/FB? We already know that everyone hates Meta on HN; gets kind of old, just express your unbiased opinions.
2. 212.▲
   by elwell 3y ago

   Is it possible you and your parent (my child) are deepening the sarcasm to indistinguishable degrees? I think not, but I like to imagine.
3. 213.▲
   by elwell 3y ago

   DO NOT RUN THAT or risk breaking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act! It sends a 'reverse ping' from Google to you, and it effectively hacks their server to initiate it.
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   by elwell 3y ago

   > you're getting paid $900K a year but you're also investing $600K a year in OpenAI It might sound simple, but I've never viewed startup equity like that; thanks for the slightly different perspective.
5. 215.▲
   by elwell 3y ago

   me trying to figure out how to undo my ping to google.com
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   Google Analytics – Universal Analytics Sunset [video](youtube.com)

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   by elwell 3y ago

   It was kind of cryptic; I suppose I copied it there just to mean whatever the reader thinks it means. But, something along the lines of: much more important than physical birth is spiritual birth.
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   by elwell 3y ago

   --Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You mus
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   by elwell 3y ago

   Perhaps our consciousness existed in some spiritual way, but no memories got translated to our biology.
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    by elwell 3y ago

    Anesthesia, black out drunk, and what about: before birth (and I mean eternally before, not just 9 months)? Perhaps our consciousness existed in some spiritual way, but no memories got translated to our biology.
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    by elwell 3y ago

    Credit card fees (arbitrarily chosen by credit card companies) are a source of inflation because they get integrated into sales pricing.
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    by elwell 3y ago

    As much as I hate ads, as a thought experiment I wonder how much less or more the world would have progressed without that form of information dissemination (paid advertising specifically).
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    by elwell 3y ago

    I don't think it gets me to buy things I wouldn't otherwise, but it directs me to certain brands subconsciously (more ad time, more trustworthy (...not saying that's necessarily accurate...)).
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    by elwell 3y ago

    HTMX is HTML is XML
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    by elwell 3y ago

    Also got sucked into Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Classics translation) due to dang's bio. My favorite story is Cinnamon Shops; a few minutes into reading it, and I'm relaxed, like a kind of meditation.
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    by elwell 3y ago

    And if the LLM is the explainer, it can lie to us if 'needed'.
17. 227.▲
    by elwell 3y ago

    I don't like XML syntax.
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    by elwell 4y ago

    It's all fun and productivity, until the LLM takes your prompt for a social network and runs away with it to earn some crypto for itself, and you realize you've been Winklevoss'd by a computer.
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    by elwell 4y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35085544
20. 230.▲
    by elwell 4y ago

    Or just use Clojure and slap a `p` on your `map` function.
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    by elwell 4y ago

    The problem is that humans are often selfish.
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    by elwell 4y ago

    > the concept of a "photo" has become increasingly blurry nice.
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    by elwell 4y ago

    Does no one have latent fears from being asked to make tweaks to atrocious Dreamweaver-generated websites?
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    by elwell 4y ago

    Here's a lunar landing copy I made 15+ years ago, Java *applet*: https://github.com/celwell/space-landing
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    by elwell 4y ago

    > Java is almost 30 years old. Java has changed substantially over that time period though
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    by elwell 4y ago

    https://peel.fm/2d38f70
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    by elwell 4y ago

    I didn't realize how nice I had it with Clojure until I went full-time Java.
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    by elwell 4y ago

    What if the new version could learn by verifying various outputs of the old version for internal consistency (or lack thereof)?
29. 239.▲
    by elwell 4y ago

    Probably related to a protection against abuse as a proxy or scraping.
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    by elwell 4y ago

    Why not {highest title} + {highest on pay band for that title}? Why not make more money earlier?