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by hennell 1y ago
Maybe it's the hacker news app but I can't even scroll this article on my phone without clicking on one of the adverts. I once glimpsed the third paragraph but ended up on Amazon 8 times before giving up.
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by hennell 1y ago
So because you got a good response the conclusion is invalid? How does the user know if they got a good response or a bad one? Due to the parameters passed most LLMs are functionally non-deterministic, rarely giving the same answer twice ev
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by hennell 1y ago
>Recently, I realised I no longer enjoy programming. You don't? Sounds to me like you just don't enjoy prompting. Try doing some programming again. Engage your brain with a challenge and try to solve the problem itself not just
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by hennell 1y ago
Cloudflare sees a lot of the web traffic. I assume these are the biggest bots they're seeing right now, and any new contenders would be added as they find them. Probably impossible to really block everything, but they've got the w
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by hennell 1y ago
Reddit is so dependant on the subs you're in. Some are pretty pleasant, some promote argument, some are just silly, some offer valuable advice. Any sub with too many people tends to deteriorate but there's loads of fun niche subs
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by hennell 1y ago
I think it's sort of like those no-code style things like powerautomate and wsiwyg editors - it removes the pesky syntax and understanding bits of code while still giving you a custom app result. Except here it replaces drag and drop o
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by hennell 1y ago
It's an interesting article although I think it's rather telling that the authors search of "postgres slow database" seems to disappear in the LLM section. It mentions the adds disappeared, but no mention of the solution
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by hennell 1y ago
This is very weird to me as a Brit as I think my first Nokia phone ~20 odd years ago I had to do a phone code on to get the IMEI as it was what you needed if it was stolen. Hadn't realised that wasn't a global system, but not sure
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by hennell 1y ago
It's not hard to follow - traffic summons system relies on the summoned having a license. They don't track people down or chase them, they enforce by voiding the license. They have no process for people who are driving without a l
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by hennell 1y ago
I think the thing with "manifesting" is it's almost impossible to write something down a 100 times a day, everyday without also doing other things about the goal, as it's on your mind so much. Obviously if you write &quo
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by hennell 1y ago
Were bosses being paranoid that workers were setting up their own businesses though? I thought they were more concerned workers wern't working? This rather suggests workers can actually work very well at home - well enough to set up th
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by hennell 1y ago
I got an alias setup for my uni address. Although it asked where it should go, so I just directed it directly to my Gmail. My inbox was closed after graduation. My forwarding alias worked for years after. Unrelated fact, a university ending
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by hennell 1y ago
My windows desktop remains pretty organised, occasionally there might be an app appear. My mac however I gave up on, it's just a mess of screenshots and files you have to drag n' drop from somewhere and the desktop is just where t
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by hennell 1y ago
Ironically the only real call for an update check every 5 mins would be so you can quickly fix a problem like everyone downloading the update every 5 mins.
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by hennell 1y ago
I have the latest S25 (regular not the oversized +) and it does a lot of AI first like things. It can see what's on the screen, summarize your day, circle to search etc. I disabled most of it within a few days because it mostly gets in
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by hennell 1y ago
There's a great podcast called "How To F#€k Up An Airport" which details the many _many_ problems building a new airport in Berlin. One of the funniest to me was that the architect didn't like the forced shopping path of
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by hennell 1y ago
This is a fascinating view to me. What exactly do you think it's cheating? The physical experience is different maybe, but take a 100 people reading and they'll have a different physical experience in the process of reading. Are s
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by hennell 1y ago
>Ideally you'd continue to pay for the subscription but never watch anything. There's a good planet money episode about the economy of gyms. Many really want members , not users. But members who never used would (eventually) c
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by hennell 2y ago
Many people including doctors and health professionals apply restrictions to their diet including avoiding complex carbs or proteins, or reducing their salt or sugar intake while talking about balance diets. No complaints. But when I decide
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by hennell 2y ago
I'm not sure how a system would work that didn't auto issue the absolute maximum number of tickets possible. Random lottery to auto discard tickets? A max quota leading to a lawless time in the late evening? But if that has parame
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by hennell 2y ago
> To begin with, the group that knew the story was AI-generated had a much more negative assessment of the work, rating it more harshly on dimensions like predictability, authenticity and how evocative it is. [...] > Nonetheless, part
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by hennell 2y ago
Marquee still works, we just don't tell marketing. https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_marquee
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by hennell 2y ago
onmicrosoft is "on microsoft" and is used behind the 365 company workspace. I have a onmicrosoft email for a 365 developer account, and anyone who connects to our company via teams seems to get a "{original_email}@{company}.o
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by hennell 2y ago
I have a few Google home mini's and an Alexa. All have deteriorated since I bought them, becoming worse at both what they offer, and how well they understand or do what they still can. My first google mini I could ask for a recipe and
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by hennell 2y ago
As mentioned in the post FOIA tends to only include existing records/information, it doesn't extend to producing new work. So producing a new report would be considered too much work. (But fighting a lawsuit to not reveal the sche
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by hennell 2y ago
DMY is the most common format internationally. There's a growing move (and ISO standard) for YMD but its a slow change, I think it's only North America that uses MDY.
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by hennell 2y ago
I remember being in maths class with a kid next to me who was a maths wiz. He could see what I was doing, was available to help almost the whole lesson, far easier for me to ask then the teacher who had many other students. In theory a much
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by hennell 2y ago
Aside from some of the long gaps between text I didn't think it was so bad. And I wholeheartedly approve of a process that checks the preferences of the target audience even if it's not what I (or they) would pick. However I can&#
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by hennell 2y ago
And thus we have the AI problems in a nutshell. You think it can reason because it can describe the process in well written language. Anyone who can state the below reasoning clearly "understands" the problem: > For example, in
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by hennell 2y ago
English does a lot of shorting, rhyming nicknames. We even like to lengthen the rhyming part back out to be even more confusing. • Richard -> Rick -> Dick • William -> Will -> Bill -> Billy • Robert -> Rob -> Bob ->

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