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by kerblang 7mo ago
> Absolutely not. Can also be dismissed without evidence
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by kerblang 8mo ago
I don't [think] there is some threshold of extreme skepticism at which someone suddenly reverses polarity under skeptical duress and flips over into a mark. Rather, you just have a mark trying to be good at skepticism and failing horri
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by kerblang 8mo ago
One might argue that this corresponds to the general shift of the political left towards these things. Old pre-turn-of-century tech was a much more libertarian left. Notice how a lot of the 50-something gen-X CEOs (and others) were once &qu
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by kerblang 8mo ago
But Github's publishing is at least _highly_ portable. You could move the same web site to a vanilla nginx setup on some random domain. The nice part here is that you can update your site via git version control, and have easy rollback
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by kerblang 8mo ago
I suspect the author is struggling with their own sarcasm.
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by kerblang 8mo ago
> Naturally, AI is expected to play a significant role in all this, making people better at their jobs and more end-user-focused, he said. > However, Pandya said IRS leaders are telling employees that AI won't endanger their jobs
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by kerblang 8mo ago
I'm starting to realize that an LLM isn't gonna take my job, but it's beginning to make the job aggravating enough to quit anyhow. So many managers have decided they're going to have an AI Miracle and aren't interes
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by kerblang 8mo ago
Let me get something straight: That essay was completely fake, right? He/It was lying about everything, and it was some sort of... what? Did the 80 million people believe what they were reading? Have we now transitioned to a point wher
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by kerblang 8mo ago
Try buying an LED flashlight.. when the LED circuitry/bulb goes out, the whole thing's a brick, battery, assembly, everything. You have to throw it all out. The bulb assembly is usually fused to the frame so that it's hard ju
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by kerblang 8mo ago
Is this supposed to be a distributed DB that auto-synchronizes instances? Documentation doesn't seem to say anything about that. If not, it seems like it would be quite a bit of work to implement the synchronization... and I don't
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by kerblang 8mo ago
Short answer: No, things have not gotten easier. The toolchain is insanely huge. A computer science graduate is woefully underprepared for the tool tsnuami that will completely swamp their careers. Many of these tools are worse than no tool
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by kerblang 9mo ago
I'm not being rude to parent poster (instead, am agreeing) or the person who wrote the article. I might have been rude to all the people/bots who insist the article's author is lying because it contradicts AI-everything.
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by kerblang 9mo ago
sorry, ref. other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kerblang#46467770
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by kerblang 9mo ago
Late reply: Ah thanks Being a lazy slob, I never saw fit to make a dedicated repo (or even, directory) so I have no place for a readme. After all the whole thing fits in one script. Gron is a great name and the output looks pretty good... I
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by kerblang 9mo ago
This widely circulated claim ignores the fact that math is not science.
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by kerblang 9mo ago
I made a silly groovy script called "mommyjson" that doesn't try to preserve JSON formatting but just focuses on giving you the parentage (thus the name) including array indexes, object names, etc., all on the same line, so t
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by kerblang 10mo ago
Okay are we just saying they just discontinued one electric F150 in favor of another? Meh. Edit: Oh, an EREV is fancy way to say "hybrid" ok
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by kerblang 10mo ago
Kafka is really not intended to improve on this. Instead, it's intended for very high-volume ETL processing, where a classical message queue delivering records would spend too much time on locking. Kafka is hot-rodding the message queu
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by kerblang 11mo ago
> it’s why Subway sandwiches are so soggy I have NEVER had any such problem. Subway puts what you want on the sandwich. You tell them directly. You watch them make it. If you ask for soggy things on your sandwich, it will be soggy. I do
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by kerblang 11mo ago
Since the author brought up Nazi Germany... they did it too, same Great Depression. It's how they restarted factories and secretly rearmed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefo_bills
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by kerblang 11mo ago
> Because his first experience with this debate was forcing PHP on engineers who knew that would be a bad choice Ummm... No, I think it was about forcing Perl on engineers who had been using PHP.
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by kerblang 11mo ago
Slaves that cannot die. There is no escape.
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by kerblang 1y ago
Also, docker.io is rate-limited, so if your organization experiences enough growth you will start seeing build failures on a regular basis. Also, quay.io - another image hoster, from red hat - has been read-only all day today. If you'r
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by kerblang 1y ago
Still, if every automobile owner instead had a horse, would methane emissions due to horse-farting worsen modern climate change or improve it? - Keeping in mind that your horse farts even you're not travelling - And that methane is a g
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by kerblang 1y ago
My driving nightmares, in order: - I am utterly fucking shitfaced drunk and having great difficulty with reality in general - I am completely blind, albeit sober - I am driving from the back seat, for some reason (trying, at least) - I am g
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by kerblang 1y ago
He got the guggenheim fellowship in 1967 when he was 45, only a couple years after he had considered giving up.
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by kerblang 1y ago
I do think this is one of Redford's very best films. A lot of detractors make the mistake of assuming the character is intended to represent an expert & experienced sailor, leading to a complete misread of the story. It is possible
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by kerblang 1y ago
Are other AI companies doing the same thing? Would like to see more articles about this...
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by kerblang 1y ago
gzip + ccrypt -> thumb drive Also cozy if your data fits. No monthly fee, just the cost of new/recycled thumbies
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by kerblang 1y ago
Journalists & executives see you as a sort of savant who spends all your time encoding & decoding the little bits and bytes - mostly a construction worker. They correctly recognize that we ought to be able to build some sort of robo

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