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by floren 1y ago
Did you prompt an LLM for a list of reasons why cat waste smells bad? If so, why did you think it was a good idea to paste that here?
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by floren 1y ago
Oh, your XOURR smart vacuum got remotely disabled? Unfortunately the XOURR company has ceased operations so no refund is possible, but luckily there's a sale on IWEEET robot vacuums now, and I hear they're very reliable!
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by floren 1y ago
Which is fucked, and it pisses me off when halfwits imply that the US is "behind" because we haven't funnelled our whole society into a fucking phone app (yet).
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by floren 1y ago
He knows there's no "I" in "ethics"
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by floren 1y ago
> Then you need to fight with a bunch of arcane 90s Unix programs to actually not be gaping security holes that will allow people to relay off of your MTA how many decades has it been since this was actually the default config?
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by floren 1y ago
Oddly, switching to a custom Lisp Machine-inspired keyboard has been better for hand/wrist pain than my Ergodox or the Kinesis Advantage I used before. It's a staggered key, non-split, flat QWERTY keyboard. I think maybe they&#x27
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by floren 1y ago
what's the saying about every accusation being projection?
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by floren 1y ago
Unfortunately as they say, the market can remain irrational longer than I can remain solvent.
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by floren 1y ago
I don't think that's a problem for him.
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by floren 1y ago
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by floren 1y ago
Honestly I don't know how date parsing code coped back when we ticked over from 999 to 1000, a lot of monastic accounting software must have shit the bed. Anyway I'm creating the Long Long Now Foundation to solve the shortsighted
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by floren 1y ago
When you put it that way, it's amazing Bezos hasn't already moved.
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by floren 1y ago
Wave was extremely cool and I wish it had stuck around. Hope it was as fun for you to work on as it was for us to use.
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by floren 1y ago
I hand-wrote code in the late 00s. Java, assembly, C. The graders gave us some grace since we couldn't test, but you were expected to be pretty accurate. Hell, one quiz was just 20 identical pages on which we iterated through the Tomas
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by floren 1y ago
We came up with some simple coding exercises (about 20 minutes total to implement, max) and asked candidates to submit their responses when applying. Turns out one of the questions regularly causes hallucinated APIs in LLM responses, so we&
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by floren 1y ago
"nation state" has a particular meaning and it's not just "a smart-sounding way to say country" but it tends to get used that way.
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by floren 1y ago
no you don't get it, the unions are going to tamp down on all the incredibly innovative ideas the Uber drivers are coming up with. Mostly mine seem to innovate new ways to fail at hiding that they've been smoking in the car...
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by floren 1y ago
> Seeing the real Apollo 10 (I don't remember which module) sticks very clearly in my memory. The only part that made it back to Earth was the Command Module, so if you saw something from the actual Apollo 10 mission , it was the C
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by floren 1y ago
100x of zero is still zero
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by floren 1y ago
A phone playing music from its speaker doesn't sound amazing but neither did handheld AM/FM radios or clock radios. Especially since the station you wanted to listen to always seemed to be just slightly too far away and you'd
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by floren 1y ago
Not to toot my own horn, but I've been fiddling with a now-discontinued, very cheap pair of display smart glasses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087803 You can send low-resolution images to them via Bluetooth.
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by floren 1y ago
Adjusted for inflation the Model T cost about $25k. A new car doesn't cost $2k today. Are LLMs phones, or cars?
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by floren 1y ago
As a robot-obsessed kid I remember surveying a lot of these (I definitely read through this site at one point too) and realizing, damn, they really are all toys. I'm not sure any of them actually could do anything useful, even the ones
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by floren 1y ago
That feels like an orthogonal problem to whether or not POSIX is implemented, though.
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by floren 1y ago
> made me realize how extremely unixoid almost every OS I know is It's a bit disappointing that every time somebody decides to write their own kernel, the first thing they do is implement some subset of the POSIX spec.
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by floren 1y ago
I really want a display + camera + audio. Halo offers those, but the Brilliant Labs model of releasing a single run of a product and then immediately moving on to the next iteration kind of sucks -- and they're going to do it again wit
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by floren 1y ago
I have a Monocle! It's much worse than this device. The battery only lasts about an hour, and you can't do real images.
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by floren 1y ago
I'm still figuring out how to integrate this with my existing wearable system. I've been using a Vufine monocular display which is nice as a real HDMI screen but the wire is clunky. So far I'm experimenting with extending the
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by floren 1y ago
I wouldn't really have any reservations with the glasses insert in, I think it would protect well enough.
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by floren 1y ago
I would really like to get a PineNote but by the time I came to that conclusion, tariffs made it very unappealing :(

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