miqkt

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Perception of Time Is, in Fact, Warped(noemamag.com)
4 points by miqkt 7d ago|0 comments
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by miqkt 3mo ago
Only scored 93... One of those, "yclept" I've never ever encountered before (as a native Australian English speaker) and only lucked out by way of elimination.
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by miqkt 4mo ago
Love the principle, preach! I think I've been following this subconsciously as LLM artifacts reached some threshold of pervasiveness across the work I do. If I can sense (maybe eventually I won't be able to because of how capable
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by miqkt 6mo ago
Ah, time to copy this into the custom instructions for an LLM to amuse myself with.
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by miqkt 7mo ago
Tried out a few prompts and the suggestions that came back didn't even seem in the ballpark of what I would've expected. Interesting idea nonetheless. https://everynoise.com/ is still my favourite for discovering
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After Babel Fish: The promise of cheap translations at the speed of the Web(hedgehogreview.com)
70 points by miqkt 1y ago|16 comments
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Git-Range-Diff(git-scm.com)
2 points by miqkt 1y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Has Gen AI changed the way you approach code reviews, if so how?
2 points by miqkt 2y ago|0 comments
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The Science of Word Recognition(learn.microsoft.com)
2 points by miqkt 2y ago|0 comments
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Recognition-by-Components Theory(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by miqkt 2y ago|0 comments
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Shouting in the Data Center [video](youtube.com)
1 points by miqkt 3y ago|0 comments
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Theory of Constructed Emotion(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by miqkt 3y ago|0 comments
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by miqkt 3y ago
The last impactful one on me was Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Definitely disrupted my perspective on work and the monotonous, sometimes futile, insanity that some of us subject ourselves to in order to make a living.
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Runtime (NVM for Windows Successor)(github.com)
1 points by miqkt 3y ago|0 comments
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André Gorz Was the Theorist Who Predicted the Revolt Against Meaningless Work(jacobin.com)
4 points by miqkt 3y ago|0 comments
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Numbering Should Start at Zero(cs.utexas.edu)
31 points by miqkt 3y ago|54 comments
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Amdahl's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by miqkt 3y ago|0 comments
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by miqkt 4y ago
1. Resume seeing the world. I haven't taken a trip abroad since the tail end of 2019. 2. Cultivate a mutual and meaningful friendship with someone. A non-existent social circle and approaching my fourth decade doesn't make this an
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by miqkt 5y ago
Interesting, I never thought about allergies. I've had not one but two turbinate resections, each time with a different ENT. From memory, neither had even bothered to really stress some of the risks others have pointed out. I think my
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by miqkt 5y ago
> Notice subtle changes in behavior: the most useful hint here is when someone who used to be very vocal about an issue stops complaining. This point resonated greatly with my own observations, both of myself and of other colleagues with
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by miqkt 5y ago
One of my previous stints was with a small team that was building a cloud-based payroll and HR platform for the Australian market (potentially going abroad as well). It definitely opened my eyes to how complicated award rules can be. I also
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by miqkt 6y ago
It looks like `.git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD` doesn't exist, which might explain why a fresh clone results in a detached HEAD (i.e. Git should default to being on the branch referenced by this entry). As for how you
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by miqkt 6y ago
Oh wow, stay safe! Thank you for sharing your experiences and the YouTube channel recommendation. I've been alternating between the interactive lessons on http://learnrussian.rt.com/ and "The New Penguin Russian C
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by miqkt 6y ago
D3 for work, and Russian out of pure (seemingly masochistic) interest. I'm a native English speaker and Russian would be my fourth language. Perhaps I'm simply approaching the limits of my language ability, but the grammar rules w
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Ulysses Pact(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by miqkt 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you manage mentally context-switching between technologies?
3 points by miqkt 7y ago|1 comments
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String Interning(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by miqkt 7y ago|0 comments
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by miqkt 7y ago
Alas, I'm in a similar situation with my current stint and looking for an exit. The most maddening part for me is to literally sit around helpless and unable to do any development because you need to wait for your IT support ticket to
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by miqkt 7y ago
> I don't know if I'll ever be able to master any language anymore Even with just a handful of languages in my toolbox, I feel this way too. A mixture of unease and anxiety. In addition to syntactic variations, I find that the
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by miqkt 7y ago
I share the sentiment about the amazing scores that many JRPGs come with. They really do help with the immersion. Of somewhat recent JRPGs, I found NieR:Automata to be a superb masterpiece, both in the musical compositions led by Keichii Ok

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