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631.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Don’t know how much longer that’ll last though.
632.
by hinkley 9mo ago
When the VC money runs out, the AI will have to get twice as good in order to make the price work out to be the same. Or they'll keep the price and enshittify the results.
633.
by hinkley 9mo ago
I used to daydream of a 'dark web' but for humans not criminals. But at this point I don't know how you'd keep slop out, given how high human collusion has gotten of late.
634.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Autocorrect is going to make me sound like a dumbass anyway.
635.
by hinkley 9mo ago
And Sturgeon tells us 90% of people are wrong, so what can you do.
636.
by hinkley 9mo ago
A flavor of the Primary Attribution Error perhaps? It’s not a snug fit, but it’s close.
637.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Based on the programs I was nudged to as a child, it was a surprise to no one but me that I scored higher verbal on the SATs than I did math, which I would have told you was my favorite subject. Despite the fact that French was my easiest s
638.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Specifically, the guy referred to in this link (who didn’t post the link), is someone who resubmitted the same PR while claiming to be human. Though he apparently just cloned that PR and resubmitted it.
639.
by hinkley 9mo ago
This is the first bone they’ve identified. That means no other bones were identified in the last 2200 years.
640.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Napoleon tendered a prize to anyone who could figure out how to make shelf stable food for his armies. One of the first major milestones in canned food was someone claiming that prize, but he used metal cans (no lining) and so the food wasn
641.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Something often left out of fiction about war is how easily a moving army can overwhelm a local ecosystem, particularly if its supply lines sag. You might not even be their target, and yet you will be pillaged. No more easy hunting for you
642.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Every rocker with a hit song with high notes has to change the song in order to still sing it in concert. Layla, Take on Me, Dream On, Don’t Stop Believin’, etc. If you watch reaction videos from vocal coaches hearing singers for the first
643.
by hinkley 9mo ago
The paywalled, appeal to authority article?
644.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Yes, let's look to the founder of Palantir for life advice. Great plan.
645.
by hinkley 9mo ago
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
646.
by hinkley 9mo ago
I’m not watching Rust as closely as I once did, but it seems like buffer ownership is something it should be leaning on more fully. There’s an old concurrency pattern where a producer and consumer tag team on two sets of buffers to speed up
647.
by hinkley 9mo ago
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear%3A_Polar_Special Top Gear drives a heavily modified Toyota Hilux to the North Pole.
648.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Hill climbing algorithms. We were warned about those in undergrad classes. Others were not.
649.
by hinkley 9mo ago
¿Por qué no los dos?
650.
by hinkley 9mo ago
And yet, birthrates jacked up for 2 decades after communism collapsed, stayed high until the bank crisis, tanked both times Trump came into office, recovered a couple years into Covid.
651.
by hinkley 9mo ago
We decided that brain drain wasn’t something we wanted to do anymore. We also have an uptick of expats as people worry this is 1937 all over again.
652.
by hinkley 9mo ago
As a math enjoyer who got burnt out on higher math relatively young, I have over time wondered if complex numbers aren’t just a way to represent an n-dimensional concept in n-1 dimensions. Which makes me wonder if complex numbers that show
653.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Once MRR becomes a priority over investment rounds that tokens/$ will notch down and flatten substantially.
654.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Oh, the PROM, not the prom.
655.
by hinkley 9mo ago
Sequential is a fuzzier word. It can imply that a series of steps feeds output from step A into step B and so on. But at the same time it can also drift into areas typically defined as linearization. Where a task runs in parallel but applie
656.
by hinkley 9mo ago
I think I would argue that we already see the sea change in the later Dune books The inner systems become hidebound as they continue to reach out they find that not only has someone beaten them there, they have become Other as well as antag
657.
by hinkley 9mo ago
When “I” means me then this usually works for me. But when “I” becomes “we”, sometimes this goes off the rails because someone introduces a bin with breaking changes that silently fucks up projects that dev doesn’t really know about, or for
658.
by hinkley 9mo ago
For a couple of known cyclists, 63 and 72 is a bit worrisome.
659.
by hinkley 9mo ago
I have a vague recollection of someone using a cheap old saddle and a rubber mallet to unstick a seat post. Friends don’t let friends put aluminum posts in steel frames. Especially if those friends ride in the rain instead of wussing out an
660.
by hinkley 9mo ago
I’m a little surprised to learn that Jobst Brandt outlived Sheldon Brown. He was 9 years older than him and Brown died at 63.

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