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by majewsky 11mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions
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by majewsky 1y ago
Not quite. The central argument is that LLMs tomorrow will be based on what LLMs output today. If more and more people are vibe-coding their websites, and vibe-coding predominantly yields React apps, then the training data will have an ever
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by majewsky 1y ago
If you're going to post AI slop, please read the room first.
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by majewsky 1y ago
> He's now automatically in the conversation for the Presidential primary for 2028. He was born in Uganda, so that ain't happening.
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by majewsky 1y ago
They said they have _an_ option. They did not say anything about it being "great".
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by majewsky 1y ago
> whatever gets taxed is discouraged Except when the behavior is too common, in which case it will become a relevant revenue source for the government, incentivizing them to encourage the vice. Case in point, here's the Japanese tax
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by majewsky 1y ago
Yes, this is where the term "security theater" comes from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
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by majewsky 1y ago
Shush! That's a feature to avoid the 10-second mandatory wait on intranet links that their safety checker cannot possibly reach. :)
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by majewsky 1y ago
[ ] Yes [ ] ~~No~~ (requires Premium subscription)
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by majewsky 1y ago
So this page does not open for you? http://neverssl.com/
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by majewsky 1y ago
TOFU does not help if the ISP is consistently malicious, and serves me the MITM certificate on first use.
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by majewsky 1y ago
False self-employment is judged solely by whether you spend 80% or more of your worktime working for a single employer.
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by majewsky 1y ago
> I have to say I find the liquid animations fun now. This might be the most harrowing review that you can give without realizing it. UI animations are supposed to get out of the way. If you can recognize them as "fun", the mos
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by majewsky 1y ago
If a US company hires you in Germany, either you get hired by their German branch or a personnel service provider based in Germany; and thus get paid "competitive" salaries typical of the country. Or you need to have some kind of
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by majewsky 1y ago
Why does this need accelerometer support at all? The OS has that data and can instruct the app to change aspect ratio. Then all the website needs to do is to body.addEventHandler("resize", onresize).
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by majewsky 1y ago
> That means anyone "old" (over 40) and doing corp mgmt was probably also a military officer. Absolutely not. It was very common in Germany to deny military service and instead do a year of civil service as a replacement. Also,
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by majewsky 1y ago
Also, part of the etiquette is to only post when you actually have something to add to the discussion. If you just want to say "thank you", that's what the upvote button is for.
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by majewsky 1y ago
Sora 1 is slightly more expensive than Veo 3, at $0.50/second: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-... (select "US East 2" as region; not all regions have Sora). Though
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by majewsky 1y ago
Eevee put it best: > I absolutely cannot fucking stand creative work being referred to as "content". "Content" is how you refer to the stuff on a website when you're designing the layout and don't know what
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by majewsky 1y ago
You might want to recheck your example. Four generations ago would be my great-grandfathers. They were my current age around 1920. The first transcontinental (not just cross-national!) telephone call took place in 1914.
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by majewsky 1y ago
I am interacting with AI daily through Google products. YouTube is consistently giving me auto-translated titles that are either hilarious or wrong, and I desparately want to turn this bullshit off, but I can't, because it's not g
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by majewsky 1y ago
You are correct that this is indeed a mostly unsolved problem. In chapter 15 of "The Mythical Man-Month", Fred Brooks called for all program documentation to not only for how to use a program, but also for how to modify a program
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by majewsky 1y ago
This is unrelated to the original assertion: "If they charged users what it actually costs to run their service, almost nobody would use it." 5 million paying customers on 800 million overall active users is an absolutely abysmal
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by majewsky 1y ago
That is not what GP was saying. They were saying that a foundation model company would say "$CURRENT_MODEL is so good that it is no use training $NEXT_MODEL right now", which I don't think is the current stance of any of thos
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by majewsky 1y ago
The amount of times I've seen Twitch streamers say "I want this game for myself to play off-stream, but I will play it on stream once so I can write it off as a business expense".
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by majewsky 1y ago
> Did you ever use DSL? Where I live (Germany), lots of people have vDSL at advertised speeds of 100 Mib/s, using pair copper wires. Not saying that fiber is not better, it obviously is, and hence the government is subsidizing large
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by majewsky 1y ago
It's not a function, it's a macro. Just a text replacement rule without defined argument types.
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by majewsky 1y ago
> going around reviewing other people's discussions isn't really a valuable role in society You are literally describing parenting, which has an extremely valuable role in society. On a broader note, I recently had someone quot
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by majewsky 1y ago
> Not a single comment is "Maybe I don't know enough about this to voice an informed opinion" Survivorship bias.
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by majewsky 1y ago
This is my version of it: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/sapcc/go-bits/easypg#WithTestD... The most annoying part of it is that Postgres absolutely detests running as PID 0, which makes running `make check` in

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