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by n_ary 2y ago
I think, my “very far away” was misunderstood. What I meant is that, a junior dev will hopefully go and do some research and try to find some reliable info before trying to implement something, while o1 just spits out statistical matches. o
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by n_ary 2y ago
I hate to break it to you but o1 is like far off of anything what you describe. Yesterday, I was testing some stuff and told it in very precise prompt to write a dripping bucket rate limiting middleware and it just literally named a var “bu
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by n_ary 2y ago
My Thinkpad can be definitely modified to insert an explosive object and it is fairly innocent looking as no one knows whatever the device has in it. Of course the scanner will detect some mild traces of certain explosive chemicals if the i
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by n_ary 2y ago
You can doubt, that is your prerogative. The closed nature of the aircraft induced twice as more fear than in a crowded open area. Also, even if we assume everyone is rational, the person holding the prohibited object is not guaranteed to b
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by n_ary 2y ago
That is AirportSecurity101 training for anyone working in aviation. I have performed the training in non-English, not sure I can quote it from somewhere online unfortunately. It is internal training material.
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by n_ary 2y ago
Well, by regulation, an aircraft is a “national property”, so a blast in an aircraft is seen as “national incompetence”. The security check is just a filter, an attack there is seen as general terror. The stakes are very different. It is al
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by n_ary 2y ago
> I don't entirely understand, embedded software developers tend to get paid far below similarly-senior desktop, mobile, or web developers I disagree. At my workplace(regulated industry), Embedded software engineers are paid 2x-5x o
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by n_ary 2y ago
Probably they have more things in store than they offer publicly?
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by n_ary 2y ago
How about a third mindset, where after a bad habit, I do a good habit and feel that my bad is compensated by good one? It will continue to encourage subconsciously that bad habits are o.k. if I do something else to compensate it. For a simp
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by n_ary 2y ago
How do I know that, you will handle my passport data with care? Banks I can trust(despite numerous leaks), you as a random social media or online service with zero regulation, I won’t. Plus this opens up immense ways to sue you for collecti
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by n_ary 2y ago
Usually they cold call or email with prices/quotes/offers(see my previous comment to parent), and somehow they harvest of buy the contacts of businesses and employees. I sometimes suspect that, there are some ways to collect these
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by n_ary 2y ago
Well, about that thing. Some of our local companies in machining and other things somehow buy private emails and phone numbers. While I work at a place that do not directly need such services, my spam box and my work phone(mobile) blocklist
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by n_ary 2y ago
I am still very curious about why the micropayment failed. I recall mass outrage at Brave for tying the concept with “cryptocurrency” but at the time the concept(minus the crypto and brave holding the tip unannounced if the site didn’t join
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by n_ary 2y ago
> I am wondering where exactly are the AI products ChatGPT is most popular and often in news, because it is the first of its kind(after siri/cortana) which was accessible to general public. I think, I have seen at least 100+ indie a
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by n_ary 2y ago
Crypto currency promised to overthrow the bankers, so they are bad and their energy waste is also bad for environment. AI intends to overthrow expensive people(costs) and make the bankers as well as investors plenty money. Climate change ca
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by n_ary 2y ago
It is indeed dumping. Scale out so big that previous competitors can't keep up, then squeeze hard shaking out other competitors(taxis/rentals) as well as your own minions(a.k.a. gig economy workers) for blood. > If there are no
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by n_ary 2y ago
> If you're referring to a broader set of AI companies, then most of the more "normal" AI companies have raised far less money, and are usually eyeing more clear use cases and are sometimes already generating real revenue.
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by n_ary 2y ago
if we adjust for the inflation from sailing age and today ... it actually looks same to me.
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by n_ary 2y ago
> which means different parts of the bridge were moving in different directions, putting strain on it. Thanks! But how was this not noticed[1] by the maintenance and renovation works? I would assume, such patterns should show visible cra
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by n_ary 2y ago
> Insurtech utilises technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, blockchain, and machine learning, to support the insurance industry. What is this strange mismash of terms thrown around? I always assumed(limited lia
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by n_ary 2y ago
For me, it seems that most of the notion users in my circle(very small one) are non-technical people. Even if your AI vomits some other user’s private data, it’ll be considered a glitch and will be forgiven because non-technical users does
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by n_ary 2y ago
Notion is cool and many new project owners/managers love it while grumpy oldies live by Jira/Conflience. However, Notion kind of gives me the vibes Evernote cult of the ancients we have forgotten. That being said, I used Notion on
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by n_ary 2y ago
Now this here is the beginning on real innovation of AI. With AMD coming in(albeit late and slowly), meta with LLama improving, we will soon see some real adaptation and development in next few thousand days. At this moment, I see OAI as th
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by n_ary 2y ago
While you may see that I vigorously comment against all the AI hype, I do not believe AI is as useless and wasteful as crypto currencies. Beyond the LLM fad, AI is also being used in other pharmaceutical and scientific research as well as m
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by n_ary 2y ago
I have actually used it to rent VPS, buy game keys(mostly steam), donate to some OSS devs who were promoting crypto currency, donated some to random friends(all of whom lost interest or their wallet secrets), converted to other currencies,
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by n_ary 2y ago
Why am I even not surprised? The only time HP disappointed me was in cryptocurrency era where they failed to react in time and integrate a crypto wallet to print txn or facilitate blockchain printing ledger or something. HP appears to integ
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by n_ary 2y ago
> I _really_ worry about these tools crippling an entire generation of programmers. Isn’t that the point? Degrade the user long enough that the competing user is on-par or below the competence of the tool so that you now have an indispen
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by n_ary 2y ago
I agree to most of your opinion but > I'm worried that this adventure might lead to human extinction Is buying into Sam’s marketing and selling dreams to MBAs. Recall that, crypto in last decade promised to make global current finan
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by n_ary 2y ago
At IBM[1] and eventually to all the businesses that buy from IBM [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41646967
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by n_ary 2y ago
Giving away is sort of beta testing and free marketing for adaptation. Just like OpenAI(who last released GPT2 as ~open), Meta can do the same if llama becomes valuable. However, meta already has moat(user data), so I somewhat expect llama

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