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I shipped 2,000 pull requests through production last month [video](twitter.com)
1 points by nomilk 5d ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 5d ago
^^ this is actually a great lesson in the power of marketing. In this case, something as simple as a product name.
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by nomilk 6d ago
I recall my friend's older brother and his friends all loving chronotrigger some 3.5 decades ago. Is it worth playing today? (I don't have any gaming consoles, and use macOS) (I've never played an RPG, except for Disk 1 of th
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by nomilk 6d ago
> But AI has absolutely no problem with going with the cheesiest, most overused trope I genuinely wonder if this can be addressed (at least partially) as simply as prompting: "don't rely on overused tropes", or something t
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Free to Choose (1980) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nomilk 9d ago|0 comments
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How to Improve Outbound Sales – YC Partner Christina Gilbert [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nomilk 13d ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 14d ago
I refer to tools like LLMs, unfortunately (not search engines). If anyone knows of a search engine that returns 100 results, I'm very keen to learn of it
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by nomilk 14d ago
> Combined with earlier moves like removing &num=100 Removing this made google search horrible to use. I often use command+f to quickly identify relevant search results, but doing it on 10 results at a time is so laborious that I jus
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by nomilk 15d ago
1. Humans use AI 2. AI requires power^ 3. AI companies purchase/produce power 4. Humans complain that AI uses power (but continue to use AI) ^Same for water This is a silly 'news cycle' witch hunt that no economist takes even
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by nomilk 15d ago
> Performing security verification > Verify you are human Does anyone else command + w on first sight of a cloudflare screen?
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by nomilk 16d ago
Feels like W goes back (instead of forwards like in an FPS), and S goes forward. Is that intended or just my keyboard being weird? EDIT: ah, by setting 'Speed of light' parameter to 40km/hr I find it a bit more intuitive
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Booking.com Fails Tourists [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nomilk 17d ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 19d ago
Why did it fail? I remember seeing the launch announcement for SolarCity and being wowed (logic: every house needs a roof, so why not make the roof from solar tiles instead of regular tiles and get free energy). I guess the unit-economics d
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Laffer Curve(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nomilk 19d ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Resources for how to get good at sales
1 points by nomilk 19d ago|2 comments
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by nomilk 19d ago
There's a hack: if the platform appeals to some of the most sought-after women, it can win, since the most sought-after men will follow, and the marjority women/men will follow chasing the first two groups. (same dynamic is used t
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by nomilk 19d ago
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqirVc5SlW0&list=PLrDd_kMiAu...
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From NAND to Tetris (book and course) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by nomilk 19d ago|1 comments
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by nomilk 20d ago
> I was contacted by an organization that wants to warn you that AI is an existential threat. Now, I've myself warned of the dangers of AI, so I'm sympathetic to that message. But they wanted to tell me what I was to say, down
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I was offered money to scare you of AI [video](youtube.com)
4 points by nomilk 20d ago|2 comments
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by nomilk 21d ago
The question: > am i missing something here? I have a rails app, and it sends text messages (booking confirmations). It happens to use AWS SNS for that. I noticed today that not all messages are going through (it sends, but not all will
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Am I missing something? Is programatically sending SMS globally this bad?(chatgpt.com)
1 points by nomilk 21d ago|3 comments
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by nomilk 21d ago
> Sign up to view your results! That's probably enough to stop 99% of users in their tracks.
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Solving Chess(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nomilk 21d ago|0 comments
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by nomilk 22d ago
Tangental, but my LSP config breaks every few months. I don't bother to fix it anymore, I open an LLM in ~/dotfiles and complain until it works again, usually in a few minutes. What's interesting is observing how much work th
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by nomilk 22d ago
A whale just means the market gets more mis-priced, creating greater incentive for correction, which typically occurs. Let's for a moment say you're right, and prediction markets do have a flaw (that if someone wants to spend a lo
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by nomilk 23d ago
A partisan bet makes the opposite position slightly more profitable, attracting bets which equilibrate the market back at fair prices (i.e. realistic probabilities)
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by nomilk 23d ago
A great irony here is that Kalshi and media generally are competitors. When I make important decisions (e.g. understanding politics, where to travel and setup companies), I always value betting markets over hearsay (aka media). The former
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by nomilk 23d ago
Claude is flakey atm too, as is Grok. I wonder if one LLM going down causes a surge in traffic to the others. https://status.claude.com/ Via Grok web UI, I was seeing this mid-request: > Grok has been disconnected. Pleas
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by nomilk 23d ago
Seems the expectation is the purchaser uses the info/parameters in the 289gb file to decide which videos to download, then uses the /v1/video/info endpoint to download individual videos.

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