kirth_gersen

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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
Your writing seems "good enough", and your images are very good especially if they are AI generated. However, your titles aren't very eye catching. I scrolled past all the article titles and none of them really motivated me t
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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
Agreed. Dystopian is too far. However, I do think that college parking is low-key a predatory racket. Students are a captive market and the school supplies the parking. They know the enrollment numbers, they make you buy a parking permit, s
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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
I've attended four different colleges in several different states and I've never seen a college campus with enough parking. They manufacture this problem and then profit off of it. Students are a captive market. They have to atten
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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
What about just applying a defensive coating of an oil to your windshield. Maybe WD-40 or graphite lubricant. I imagine that'd make it pretty hard for the thing to stick. Or perhaps clear lamination strips in parallel rows thick enough
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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
Not entirely sure that Recall won't essentially sidestep most of the protections of the EU privacy laws by touting that the data is stored locally and so it is "yours". Never mind that this basically provides a huge incentive
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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
It seems they are at least aware of this, as their repo page says, "Privacy-focused: Your data is stored locally on your device, and you have the option (soon to be implemented) to encrypt it with a password for added security. No clou
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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
Yes, it is very easy. I wrote something similar back in 2020 iirc. It only took a few hours. The idea was to have an app that you dumped all your work pdfs into to make them searchable within. It would pull the text and then you could searc
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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
Probably because you said you "can solve the majority of leetcode hard problems in under an hour". That could easily give the impression that you have practiced them. If you haven't practiced them, then how do you know you ca
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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
Evil AI Overlord: "Silly humans! The only way to defeat me is to stop being bigoted and to transition to clean energy!" Humanity Collectively: "Oh no! Our only weakness!"
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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
Yes. The information on choices can be freely available AND you can have your choices limited to a set of options that individually you find unsatisfactory. These can both be true at the same time. For example, what if their trip was for wo
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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
We have always had a cognitive bias towards believing glib explanations. We just hold AIs to a higher standard than we do actual human beings. The bias is particularly biased towards attractive individuals we want agree with (so they like u
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by kirth_gersen 2y ago
Testing is difficult. It has both the problems of perverse metrics as well as all the problems inherent in coding itself. Unit tests aren't rubbish, they just aren't the only type of testing needed for complex projects. They are a
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by kirth_gersen 3y ago
A better punchline: "Fool! That's how we ended up with four editors in the first place!"