melvinroest

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by melvinroest 1y ago
So... I just use Apple Notes and almost never reread my notes. The search functionality is almost always enough to find what I'm looking for. If I really need to dive deep/search deep, then I just open up the SQLite db that's
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by melvinroest 1y ago
Thanks, here it is. I tested the link this time :) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1c3AdAfB4J7iaZ0F9scVC5?si=...
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by melvinroest 1y ago
> the organized chaos that it brings to my table actually _helps_ me regain a bit of my higher-order thinking Same. My favorite playlist that I made for this is called Break Through The Galaxy [1]. It pushes me to think beyond my boundar
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by melvinroest 1y ago
Fun! I see some overlap. Will check it out :)
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by melvinroest 1y ago
DnB is my jam, I’m a fan of sub focus and wilkinson. Here is 37 hours of DnB [1]. Here is 30 hours of mostly house [2]. [1] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6a14gkr30nOOr8Eu9T34tE?si=... [2] https://open.sp
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by melvinroest 1y ago
> I would've lasted probably about one day working for Jobs, before quitting I bet! lol. Haha you rebel! ;-) Isn’t this actually an incentive to keep your employees at least happy enough so they won’t quit? A company in the same ind
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by melvinroest 1y ago
> Having a happy team is a sub-goal of the higher goal of 'accomplishing the task' (getting the work done) In a pure capitalist system, sure. However, no country lives in a pure capitalist system. The US comes closest in this s
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by melvinroest 1y ago
Feels like datumprikker.nl which is a Dutch app that has been around since 2007.
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by melvinroest 1y ago
> I was criticized for pointing out spurious nonsense in LLM slop I can see that you experience it as such but I think it's more of a spectrum. Often times, LLMs give good answers. Often enough times they don't. One needs to ke
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by melvinroest 1y ago
Hmm, it's not the best example yea. It's just that ChatGPT understands math notation a lot better than Google. If needed, you can always let ChatGPT do a Bing search.
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by melvinroest 1y ago
"No one is entitled to answers" feels very definitive, defeating and tiring. Especially because you don't explain your own thought process. Could you please assume a good faith discussion?
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by melvinroest 1y ago
Could you point out what you mean? It's really hard to follow you. You say it's nonsense but it is not clear why. Then I write down a response that took me quite a while to format correctly (and to look up) and you then say "
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by melvinroest 1y ago
"I'm not sure how historical the notation is." I conflated this with another ChatGPT conversation where it gave 3 possible historical sources for another symbol that I fell over and then had trouble proceeding.
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by melvinroest 1y ago
Is it? I didn't bother to check as it wasn't too relevant. I wasn't stuck anymore. Worst-case it's a memnonic that is untrue. Best case: it is. For actual derivations I check the work. This is what it wrote by the way. I
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by melvinroest 1y ago
I'm learning math through Math Academy, ChatGPT and YouTube (mostly 3Blue1Brown and similar channels). Without that specifc combination, it would've been hell. Now it's just nice. A few years I did it with something similar t
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by melvinroest 1y ago
> I find LLMs very useful when I need to learn something new, e.g. a new library or API, or a new language. It is much faster to just ask the LLM how to render text in OpenGL, or whatever, than read through tons of terrible documentation
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by melvinroest 1y ago
The way I'd create extra functionality is to give command-line access with a permission step in between. I'd then create a folder of useful scripts and give it permission to execute those. You can make it much more than just a cod
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by melvinroest 1y ago
ah yea, fair
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by melvinroest 1y ago
Native Dutch speaker here. I find German softer on the ears too. Except for Dutch in the South (Belgians and South NL), that's soft on my ears too. But not my accent, we are descendants of monsters. Why otherwise would we pronounce the
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by melvinroest 1y ago
Ah, I read "pausbaar" as the "ability to pause" since "pauzebaar" would be odd to say :')
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by melvinroest 1y ago
I became a data analyst. A bit more numbers, a bit more presenting and less coding :)
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by melvinroest 1y ago
> I think the analogy/ substitution falls apart in that singing is generally not very stable or lucrative (for 99.999% of singers), so it is pretty rare to find someone singing who hates it. I tried to cover this particular case wit
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by melvinroest 1y ago
I replaced "code" for "singing" to make a point. > This comment section really shows the stark divide between people who love singing and thus hate AI-assisted singing, and people who hate singing and thus love AI-ass
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by melvinroest 1y ago
This is the way. I feel like a kid too again. It's way more fun actually. As a kid I got too frustrated for not being able to install my WAMP stack.
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by melvinroest 1y ago
Fair question. So far I've seen two things: 1. Code doesn't compile. This case is obvious on what to do. 2. Code does compile. I don't work in Cursor, I read the code quick, to see the intent. And when done with that decide t
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by melvinroest 1y ago
> The rest is boiler plate, cargo-culted, Dockerfile, build system and bash environment variable passing circle of hell that I really could care less about. Even more so, I remember making a Chrome extension and feeling intimidated. I kn
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by melvinroest 1y ago
Just writing a comment here to support this idea as much as I can on HN. I also upvoted all the comments mentioning that he should have a grant. In my opinion, he really should have.
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by melvinroest 2y ago
I always thought if I'd create an editable game or app I'd grab Pharo for it. But now I have 2 languages to pick from! Well, probably Lisp would work too. So 3 really.
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by melvinroest 2y ago
The HTML part of it perhaps but tiddlywiki is also about connecting ideas. I think this focuses much more on the standalone HTML part of it. In the same vein, one could also distribute P2P apps via a standalone HTML file by hooking it up vi
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by melvinroest 2y ago
> Really the hard part of BI is that folks who need the info don’t wanna learn SQL. Data analysts are fine with SQL though. Every "get into data analysis as a career" course will teach you SQL (about 70% of what the querynomico

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