kmoser

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by kmoser 1y ago
In this case the person doing the mocking is the interviewer. I don't see why the interviewee doesn't just say, "I have no idea" and let the interview continue. Why would that be forbidden?
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by kmoser 1y ago
I was really surprised that China isn't much bigger than the US. I always assumed it was about twice as large.
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by kmoser 2y ago
I can't reproduce it, either, using FF 137.0.2 (64-bit) on Windows.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Took me a bit to figure out what the four circular icons on the bottom are for (magic wand, robot, envelope, crescent moon). I really wish they had tooltips. Still doesn't make sense to me why the magic wand just points to the home pag
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by kmoser 2y ago
> Am I missing something? The ability to put fake blue checks on your website isn't the point. Bluesky (and the web at large) is slowly becoming filled with spam and AI-generated content. Even if you're OK with more spam (not
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by kmoser 2y ago
I thought this was going to to be about how librarians were instrumental in forming the OSS, which helped the US win WWII (yes, this is real). https://www.harpercollins.com/products/book-and-dagger-elyse...
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by kmoser 2y ago
Their AI seems to have been trained on that one scene from Airplane (the movie). Not surprising since there are probably thousands of instances of that clip online.
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by kmoser 2y ago
In-person visits are of limited value when shady middlemen can give poor folks a fake ID and pay them a pittance to register as "you."
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by kmoser 2y ago
The illustrations are definitely the secret sauce that makes this so engaging and informative. I'd also like to see links to where I can learn more about particular topics online. For example: > Or maybe you’ve wondered why we call
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by kmoser 2y ago
Who knew that K-Mart music from 1989 would be the perfect sound track for vibe coding in 2025?
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by kmoser 2y ago
Also, most of the people seem to have been posing for the shot, which means they would have been relatively still.
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by kmoser 2y ago
I think that's an oversimplified metric when comparing the ability of an AI to analyze and describe code. Imaging you're reading a book on a challenging new topic. Even if the book is 100% right, there will be many passages you do
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by kmoser 2y ago
Interestingly, this method of validation is also used as a tactic for negotiating with terrorists and hostage-takers. But it would be an oversimplification to lump toddlers, bully politicians, and terrorists together since they have vastly
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by kmoser 2y ago
You can examine the code at any time, ask for an explanation, and even make changes yourself. In other words, you get out of it exactly what you put into it. If you choose to let the AI do all the coding and never dig into the actual code,
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by kmoser 2y ago
You just proved my point!
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by kmoser 2y ago
Where did you read this? "Purpose" is a very loaded word. If life has any purpose at all, it's to reproduce and propagate one's genes. Additional entropy just sounds like an inevitable side-effect of that.
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by kmoser 2y ago
> I typed in a simple program to generate an animated graphical pattern, a program I remembered from when I was about 13 [...] I'm astounded that anyone would be able to remember such a complicated program after several decades. Abo
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by kmoser 2y ago
This taught me that SVGs can be animated with CSS. Cool! I wonder if anybody has recreated vector graphics games like Asteroids using SVGs and animation. You'd have to use JS to change the shape and direction of the asteroids when they
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by kmoser 2y ago
They can mix it with ketchup (which, according to Reagan is a vegetable) to make a balanced, nutritious meal.
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by kmoser 2y ago
I don't think it's lack of empathy. Most clients aren't looking to screw you in advance; they just want the work done, but don't always have the money in time to pay for it (true, sometimes as a result of their own faili
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by kmoser 2y ago
Everybody needs to know their threshold for walking away, whether it's going too long without getting paid, having their pay delayed too many times, or other demands like being asked to work overtime, weekends, etc. If a company is tru
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by kmoser 2y ago
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601273
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by kmoser 2y ago
Pretty sure this is largely related to the industry and type of position you're applying for, and whether it's a big or small company. At a big company with known positions (e.g. junior, mid-range, and senior devs), salaries for e
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by kmoser 2y ago
I think you're reading too much into the meaning of "superhuman". I take it to mean "abilities greater than any single human" (for the same amount of time taken), which today's AIs have already demonstrated.
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by kmoser 2y ago
> Similarly, magician and paranormal debunker James Randi commented, “If Houdini had been a spy that would have gotten out. He never would have been able to sit on it.” If Josephine Baker was a spy, why not Houdini?
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by kmoser 2y ago
Nothing wrong with that as long as the expected behavior is formally described (even if that behavior is indeterminate or undefined) and easy to look up. In fact, that's a great use for LLMs: to explain what code is doing (not just wri
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by kmoser 2y ago
Contributing factors that I didn't see discussed yet are the increasing stratification of job descriptions, along with reduction in autonomy to break out of your stratum (combined with incentive not to). This creates workers with an ex
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by kmoser 2y ago
It's not just about how far the train can take you; it's also about how far you have to walk to your destination once you exit. For example, the squashed height of the new map makes it look like if you exit at Central Park South,
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by kmoser 2y ago
Not to mention failure to accurately print what you sent to the printer. There must be some use case where these "invisible" dots actually undermine the intended output.
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by kmoser 2y ago
The lines representing the routes now show a more schematic view which enables you to more easily tell how the lines connect and where/how to transfer trains. For better or worse, it prioritizes showing the routes and connections over

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