kmoser

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by kmoser 1y ago
> 9. A minimalist ebook reader that lets me read ebooks, but I can highlight passages and have the model explain things in more depth off to the side. It should also take on the persona of the author. It should feel like an extension of
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by kmoser 1y ago
That's not good taste, it's good engineering.
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by kmoser 1y ago
Who better to talk to about crimes than those who commit those very crimes?
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by kmoser 1y ago
That will never happen. We may approach that state asymptotically but since AI output is stochastic, and humans' goals change over time, humans will always be part of the loop.
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by kmoser 1y ago
It's simpler than that: the assumption is that a bag will hold something of value, whether laptop, purse, wallet, cash, or otherwise
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by kmoser 1y ago
Not so good if the charger prongs start banging into the laptop's jacks and ports.
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by kmoser 1y ago
Actually, a light saber is 100% safe since it doesn't exist.
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by kmoser 1y ago
When you chop, you're applying force almost entirely vertically. When you slice, you're applying at least some force horizontally. That horizontal force can be transmitted through the knife to the food to the cutting board, causin
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by kmoser 1y ago
Even worse on Firefox/Windows: play button doesn't activate when clicked
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by kmoser 1y ago
If your previous job title was "Doer of a Thing" then a prospective employer is more likely to consider you for a job doing the same (or similar) thing, as it shows you have prior experience doing a thing.
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by kmoser 1y ago
> if (success = true) // Oops! Hence the better way of comparing literals or consts to vars: if ( true = success ) // Compile-time error will enlighten you
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by kmoser 1y ago
I remember when Outpost.com's initial gerbil collision tests led to public outcry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZIwetqq3H8
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by kmoser 1y ago
Reminds me of the old "Press Enter to exit" messages.
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by kmoser 1y ago
"My" is used to make it clear that it contains the user's pictures, not pictures from other people, Apple, the Internet, etc. Just "Pictures" would make it more ambiguous. (Not saying it's the right thing to do
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by kmoser 1y ago
Yeah, if somebody is really that computer-illiterate, you'll also need to tell them where on the screen to look since they're likely overwhelmed by all the other things. These tend to be the same people who, unfortunately, haven&#
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by kmoser 1y ago
That power is actually less fragile than ever, given there are for-profit entities ensuring their continued existence. The State doesn't need to deploy mass surveillance tools when they're built and maintained by private industry.
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by kmoser 1y ago
Apparently the author is still of the mind that physical fitness takes a back seat to the other types of fitness. Anyone who has suffered from an extensive debilitating injury or illness quickly learns that it drags you down spiritually, em
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by kmoser 1y ago
I have a simpler way: keep your phone on the ringtone settings page, and just tap one of the ringtones when you want it to "call" you.
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by kmoser 1y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to write a browser plugin to prevent keystroke monitoring. I realize this might break some sites that rely on intercepting keystrokes, but assuming that doesn't matter, is it even possible? I found a pr
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by kmoser 1y ago
> Spiral is our database built on Vortex [...] No surprise there's nothing to look at, since it's basically a press release posted on their blog.
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by kmoser 1y ago
The appeal of something like PHP these days is not that it has any particularly unique features, but that it is ubiquitous, has withstood the test of time (meaning it's relatively bug-free), is well supported (meaning it won't dis
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by kmoser 1y ago
I don't understand the author's use of being childless, or having blue hair, as a pejorative. Also, do they mean having blue hair in the sense that you're old, or that you're young and dye your hair unnatural colors on p
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by kmoser 1y ago
Agreed, but my experience is that many formatters will try to "help" by formatting non-code, thereby breaking something.
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by kmoser 1y ago
There are annoying edge cases where formatting does matter, such as whitespace around HTML text nodes, e.g.: <span>foo</span> vs: <span> foo </span>
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by kmoser 1y ago
> required a credit card to prove your identity Given the relative accessibility of stolen credit card info, isn't the CC-as-ID requirement easy for a criminal to bypass?
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by kmoser 1y ago
This is a good example of what I find frustrating as a patient. Sure, cancers like that may be a tiny proportion of all skin cancers, but if I have it then it's 100% of my skin cancers. And given how serious skin cancer can be, I&#
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by kmoser 1y ago
Posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45155877
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by kmoser 1y ago
I think writing an inspirational message, and knowing a stranger will read your exact words, is just a fulfilling as being on the receiving end. For that reason I recommend you lose the AI component, except perhaps as a translation mechanis
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by kmoser 1y ago
Website footer seems to have Careers and Contact links
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by kmoser 1y ago
At 27:50, he relays a story about a grad student who did an experiment to see what the audience retained better: the slides, or the presenter's words. It seems the slides won out. So apparently the slides are the star of the show, wh

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