jstanley

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by jstanley 1y ago
You don't have utilities? You don't have a computer? You don't wear clothes? You don't go anywhere further than you can walk?
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by jstanley 1y ago
Governments don't seem to be paying particular attention to which web sites they're killing, I don't see why we should provide them the courtesy.
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by jstanley 1y ago
When you say you build "prediction models" - what exactly is that? Is it just a list of possibilities for each word at each position? So for example forward[the][2] is a list of words that can come 2 places after "the"?
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Review: Ollantay(astralcodexten.com)
1 points by jstanley 1y ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 1y ago
The repo doesn't contain any code, and the description isn't clear enough for me to work out what you're doing, and the generated sentences don't seem like they mean anything. Where are you going with this?
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by jstanley 1y ago
> The U.K.’s fragile fiscal situation is back in focus as yields on long-term government bonds surged, topping their U.S. counterparts for the first time this century. But the chart appears to show the black line above the red line quite
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by jstanley 1y ago
hachyderm.io says it has a validated link to his homepage, but if you don't already trust hachyderm.io that means nothing.
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by jstanley 1y ago
I'm not sure I buy it. You don't get to be a billionaire by being net harmful, you do it by selling goods and services that people want, at scale, and capturing a portion of the wealth you created.
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by jstanley 1y ago
> Just stop doing algorithms While we're at it, shall we stop storing data?
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by jstanley 1y ago
I'm getting: > Secure Connection Failed > An error occurred during a connection to onemillionscreenshots.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). > Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP
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by jstanley 1y ago
Hah, cool, I had an idea for a similar project (although I'm not crazy enough to make 1000 pixels, or a robot to turn them for me). But I got as far as making a JavaScript simulation and realised I couldn't be bothered manually tu
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by jstanley 1y ago
So it seems like a "login server" is simply any server you can log in to?
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by jstanley 1y ago
Object oriented perl gives you exactly the same flexibility. If you have a module called "My::Module", and you call "My::Module->some_method", then you'd implement that like: sub some_method { my ($
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by jstanley 1y ago
Ha, (1.) was deliberate but I'd forgotten (2.)
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by jstanley 1y ago
> I don't miss perls halfarsed function args. You mean you don't like writing things like... sub foo { my ($a, $b, $c) = shift; ?
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by jstanley 1y ago
> instant is a very generous word to describe banking websites and apps! Sending a payment to a new person with Santander is going to take at least 5 minutes and 3 round-trips through SMS 2FA.
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Signals(37signals.com)
4 points by jstanley 1y ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 1y ago
Tautologically so! That doesn't show that LLMs are useless, it perfectly shows how they are useful.
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by jstanley 1y ago
You can type Ctrl-F to search for a phrase within a page.
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by jstanley 1y ago
You're going to ask everyone else to stop working while you test something? Even if they agree, what if they continue working in between your changes? What if they are halfway through something and the code won't even compile unti
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by jstanley 1y ago
Having a private local copy of the codebase is a feature . It means I can make whatever changes I want to the code without anybody else even knowing. And once I've finished mucking about with it and learning what I need to do, I can t
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Show HN: AI Test User – simulate your customer experience(aitestuser.com)
2 points by jstanley 1y ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 1y ago
> Seems like you should give the advantage to the people who are behind, not ahead... Lol? How did you work that one out? By extension, should the olympics be comprised entirely of each country's worst athletes?
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by jstanley 1y ago
Conversely, https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...
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by jstanley 1y ago
> The nibblings are collected in a bin below, allowing ... ...the child to spread them all around the house!
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by jstanley 1y ago
There are often comment threads where people are arguing past each other about whether Cursor speeds you up or not, and if so how it speeds you up. I recorded this session the other night to show some friends and thought it might be inter
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Screen recording of working with Cursor [video](youtube.com)
4 points by jstanley 1y ago|1 comments
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by jstanley 1y ago
Why?
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by jstanley 1y ago
Yes, I use Cursor every day. It has changed my life.
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by jstanley 1y ago
Proof by counterexample: I want this.

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