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by erikig 1y ago
As far as alternatives go, there was an interesting post a few weeks ago on using Bluesky as a commenting platform. It improves discoverability and adds a social aspect to comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826
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by erikig 1y ago
Having an accountabilibuddy definitely helps establish and maintain compliance.
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by erikig 1y ago
There's an errant semicolon in the URL, the correct URL should be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet
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by erikig 1y ago
I read this as "AI Mode is God". Strangely I was unperturbed, quietly resigning myself to our new deity.
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by erikig 1y ago
TLDR; 1 in 5
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by erikig 1y ago
AI ≠ LLMs
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by erikig 1y ago
I remember wondering how this was even possible because it came out around when we were studying operating systems in uni. Dan Hildebrand (RIP) did a great job of sharing the QNX architecture overview [1] which got cribbed into my OS thesis
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by erikig 1y ago
The wing-integrated jets, while not the most efficient, maintainable or powerful, are the best looking piece of commercial jet engineering in my eyes. Composite winglets are a distant second.
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by erikig 1y ago
A quick online search revealed that the HIV prevention drug Yeztugo (lenacapavir), is priced at $28,218 per year in the US. This translates to $14,109 per injection, as it is administered twice a year. I wonder what this will look like worl
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by erikig 1y ago
Yep, makes the site look like it was rendered on an old browser on a CRT.
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by erikig 1y ago
tldr: OCaml and no non-competes
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by erikig 1y ago
I'm optimistic and I can only hope that the limits of what one can wear on the face for longer time periods will create a consequent limit to the distracting features that can be packed into a daily-use device.
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by erikig 1y ago
Red Wrench films did a comparison of the B-17 and B-24 bomber's results based on flight characteristics, bombing accuracy, loss rates and more. Even though more B-24s were produced than B-17s the latter had much better results. https:
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by erikig 1y ago
Wishing him the best, I recently watched some flights of the B24 Bomber "Witchcraft" which that team maintains and flies regularly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcZmiFMlR3g https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by erikig 1y ago
Honestly, its a pretty solid hedge if you believe in any version of the rapture.
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by erikig 1y ago
Every time I work on a website's UI/UX I have that image of Zeldman staring at me from "Designing with web standards" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/df/Designi.
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by erikig 1y ago
:)) the two neurons required to get this took several mins to connect.
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AI models decide on increasingly complex trolley problems(youtube.com)
6 points by erikig 1y ago|1 comments
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by erikig 1y ago
It’s interesting to see how ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok and Gemini approach these problems. I’m also looking forward to the historical changes too.
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by erikig 1y ago
I believe the goal here is to compare them against similar models that are being optimized to run offline or on mobile hardware.
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by erikig 1y ago
Oh, also I noticed that you have a great network of useful utilities. For SEO, I'd recommend creating a categorized utility directory (even if it is static) where you first list your own utilities and then charge other utility creators
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by erikig 1y ago
Congrats on launching and on the great name. I'd suggest auto tabbing when users fill out an hour e.g Entering "7" in the hours field should auto-tab to minutes field. Entering "30" into minutes should auto-tab to t
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by erikig 1y ago
He was the head of one of the largest and oldest institutions that was working to handle its successes and failures as it worked to modernize.
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by erikig 2y ago
Kudos! I just went through a "See it in action" demo and this is pretty great for job seekers. The UI works well to track the agent's and candidate's speech modulation. From the business side, how will you monetize given
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Why Trump's tariff chaos makes sense (big picture)(moneymacro.rocks)
9 points by erikig 2y ago|3 comments
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by erikig 2y ago
They are surprisingly capable given how long they’ve been around and they allow you to eject and fully manage your code via git. I’d say try them out and share your experience.
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by erikig 2y ago
Thanks for sharing, the ArsTechnica article does a good job of bridging the info from the press release and the research in the Nature paper while addressing the setbacks in the field.
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by erikig 2y ago
I believe the chip is 8 qubits not just one.
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by erikig 2y ago
A single entity that has the world mapped down to the street, that knows your search history, that has a device in your pocket and that owns a number of robotics interests is not one to be trifled with.
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by erikig 2y ago
The multimodal capabilities especially on next action prediction are quite impressive; watching the github to see if & when they'll open source this: https://github.com/microsoft/Magma Also, I wonder why they

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