in_absentia

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by in_absentia 11d ago
And yet, looking at the thread the day after, no one has done that before giving their take.
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by in_absentia 12d ago
If that's what you want, I'll save you some tokens: #!/bin/sh while read question; do echo "Put it into VFIAX"; done
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by in_absentia 12d ago
Now, compare this to a recent story that seemed to claim the opposite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139102 I don't have the time to review the underlying research and decide which one is more correct. My pers
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by in_absentia 12d ago
Probably not. Plumbing pays pretty well and it's almost never a parent's dream. It's probably below being an office assistant. We just attached a stigma to everything blue collar (= "uneducated").
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by in_absentia 12d ago
Strongly disagree on that last part. Unlike software engineering, where training is nearly non-existent and we expect everyone to show to their first job interview knowing about the big-O complexity of sorting algorithms, traditional manufa
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by in_absentia 12d ago
> I do not know what you are talking about. What are you talking about? Show me one survey that shows DIY crafts as a whole becoming more popular in the past several decades. It's just not a thing. People increasingly don't h
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by in_absentia 12d ago
First, PCBs: neither do I, I'm not sure why you're assuming that's the position I want to take. This has nothing to do with 3D printing or mail-order metal parts. Second, I don't think there's a revolution for the g
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by in_absentia 12d ago
I'm not sure if it's that simple. Many space-intensive DIY hobbies are on the retreat simply because more people are moving into cities or very dense suburbs where you have no practical opportunity to, say, build a woodworking s
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by in_absentia 13d ago
It's a two-way street. When someone tells you "don't do that", they usually mean they don't want to be on the receiving end of what often amounts to LLM-powered literary diarrhea. Yes, in theory, the quality can be
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by in_absentia 13d ago
I think it's hard to generalize because people have different approaches to writing, but to me, there's a marked difference between iteratively polishing my own text and editing for someone else (and that includes LLM output produ
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by in_absentia 13d ago
This absolutely doesn't look like AI writing and this is a pretty weird signal to use. I have a much better theory: as it happens, Substack automatically converts "--" to em-dash as you type. I'm guessing the author knew
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by in_absentia 13d ago
I wonder if the author is right; using a slightly wrong capacitor for the clock (keeping in mind that they're usually +/- 10% or worse from the factory) may produce a different oscillation speed, but usually not an outright failur
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by in_absentia 13d ago
> Why not? You're only addressing one half of my argument. The answer to this is obvious: the default state is that things don't get done unless we have a reason. So there is a motivation at play and it's perfectly OK to i
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by in_absentia 13d ago
Right, but neither is an LLM because most of the time, it conflates "helpful" with "sycophantic" by default (i.e., it loves the thesis of your essay even if it's dumb). If you prompt it to be critical, it often de
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by in_absentia 13d ago
Long-form comments in the code are AI-written too, so I assume the whole thing is vibecoded. I guess my question is why. This is obviously not a piece of software anyone will ever use. If the author didn't do this for themselves - to l
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by in_absentia 13d ago
This is a bit like telling the owner of a tiki bar that they don't need to use the Papyrus font, or a kindergarten that they don't need to use MS Comic Sans. The default style exists because AI-naive people with unsophisticated ta
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by in_absentia 14d ago
I sort of agree, but I also think the advice here is circular. To look at the style suggestions produced by an LLM and decide that you agree with some of them in spirit, but want to put it in your own words, you already need how to know ho
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by in_absentia 15d ago
> The problem here is that AI isn't just a problem, it also revealed a problem: too much emphasis on publishing papers and churning out new results. I wonder how it revealed it... oh, right, because AI labs rushed to churn out new
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by in_absentia 15d ago
For my social circle, the distinction falls almost perfectly along the line of people who see software engineering as a craft / passion, versus those who see it as something that needs to be done to get paid. The first group is general
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by in_absentia 15d ago
> Hacker culture has been co-opted by a broad spectrum of folks Seeing ourselves as better than the unwashed masses and dunking on noobs has been one of the defining characteristics of the hacker culture for as long as I remember. So was
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by in_absentia 15d ago
A lot of algorithmic trading is short-term, essentially trying to guess what other parties may be selling or buying so that you can front-run them and then collect a fee. Kinda like ticket scalping, except we accept it and have a retro-just
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by in_absentia 15d ago
"No one could have anticipated the market crash of 2028."
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by in_absentia 17d ago
I think the parent is talking about wearing two watches. But I'd guess that the overlap between people who like expensive (almost always synonymous with mechanical) watches and who want achievements for sleep patterns is pretty minimal
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by in_absentia 17d ago
> Architecture is optimizing for people inhabiting the building For the most part, it's about optimizing construction cost. Everything else is secondary. The reason you don't see ornate stonework is mostly that skilled labor is
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by in_absentia 17d ago
Most everything took a hit. Roughly half of the front-page content throughout the day is AI press releases, AI product marketing, vibecoded projects, and essays about AI. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but there's not much
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by in_absentia 17d ago
HN is not a forum for the global IT workforce. It's a portal attached to a VC firm, populated to a large extent by people in the SF Bay Area who work in big tech or various VC-funded startups. I've gotten some traffic from HN befo
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by in_absentia 17d ago
It is understandable in some narrow sense because you want the outer surface to be nick-resistant, so you need to make it out of reasonably thick metal. Plastic rings would look terrible after a couple of weeks. But it's really hard to
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by in_absentia 17d ago
Having principles is about making choices that are difficult, not about making choices that are easy. "I didn't really want to build a panopticon, why didn't the government stop me" is not a particularly sympathetic posi
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by in_absentia 17d ago
Many geeks are the embodiment of the "don't trust the government" / "don't trust corporations" counterculture, but when equity grants entered the equation, we architected much of the modern techno-surveill
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by in_absentia 17d ago
I honestly don't know what explanation is worse when these pieces about the value of human expression are generated by an LLM. It's gotta be malicious trolling or complete delusion.

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