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by pram 2y ago
If most people think the lobotomized and sanitized commercial model behavior is the product of "safety" and "alignment" and that isn't really the case, then the "AI safety people" have done an extremely po
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by pram 2y ago
Yeah I quit Expedia around that time, early 2020. They began this massive reorg merging a bunch of eng from VRBO and Hotels.com and whatever else together haphazardly. I went through 4 different managers under a year. Very “productive” !!!
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by pram 2y ago
While we’re on the subject: For the last ~4 months on my desktop, when I click a Twitter link, there is nothing displayed at all. Cleared my cache multiple times and everything. It works on my phone, it’s actually so bizarre it makes me lau
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by pram 2y ago
DA has been “declining, dying, or already dead” for the past decade. Not saying it doesn’t suck but ALL websites have an AI spam problem. Twitter, Pixiv, ArtStation etc are no exception.
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by pram 2y ago
There’s a gantry crane that moves the planes around.
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by pram 2y ago
The only thing OpenBSD protects you from is performance.
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by pram 2y ago
They’ve done it for every single M processor release.
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by pram 2y ago
Clip Studio is one Mac app port I’ve seen that was literally the desktop version moved to the iPad. It uniquely has the top menu bar and everything. They might have made an exception because you’re intended to use the pencil and not your fi
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by pram 2y ago
I stopped smoking cold turkey in 2013 and it wasn’t very hard, but I’ve never moved beyond the feeling of wanting to smoke. It definitely does something to your brain permanently.
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by pram 2y ago
Supposedly lying about the scale (and risk) of his positions to get more leverage from banks. It’s good old-fashioned fraud.
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by pram 2y ago
So is iOS/MacOS
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by pram 2y ago
Presumably so they don’t have to buy from NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel.
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by pram 3y ago
Makes me think of the pages on Hypnospace Outlaw, very good.
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by pram 3y ago
In a similar vein, my favorite wacky name is the contest winner for the waste management department rebranding in Austin: The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts https://www.npr.org/2011/02/06/133526
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by pram 3y ago
I’m into some pretty obscure keyboard layouts, you’ve probably never heard of them.
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by pram 3y ago
Amazing visualizations in the article, very impressive.
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by pram 3y ago
You can actually just do >file
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by pram 3y ago
Upvoted for implausibly specific domain knowledge.
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by pram 3y ago
“32 percent of organizations with a mainframe hired 11–20 mainframe related roles last year, while 35 percent filled more than 20 positions.” This doesn’t sound like a whole lot.
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by pram 3y ago
Yeah idk this is literally what happened on Tumblr before they purged porn. Accounts had to hit a switch if they were posting porn and it ultimately blocked their blog from public view and removed their posts from tags. This was prior to th
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by pram 3y ago
Yup still have my welcome email from the beta: "First off, welcome. And thanks for agreeing to help us test Gmail. By now you probably know the key ways in which Gmail differs from traditional webmail services. Searching instead of fil
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by pram 3y ago
I’ve read such insanely doctrinaire opinions here on HN like you must NEVER!!! ssh into a system, and instead have some rube-goldberg distributed contrivance for deployment and debugging and anything else. I presume this attitude is how we
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by pram 3y ago
Consider the bulldog: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hUgmkCgMWbg
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by pram 3y ago
Cortana was pretty much already that though! It had mercifully mostly been removed, but I guess it’s time for round 2.
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by pram 3y ago
AND there’s an Xbox and Foosball table in the lounge
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by pram 3y ago
It was pretty exhausting, involved, and complex getting my shitty 56k winmodem working in Linux. Looking at a FAQ about it gives me ptsd lol https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DialupModemHowtoOld
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by pram 3y ago
I’ve been getting Apple and Meta recruiter emails recently, in particular. I pretty much didn’t get anything in 2023 in comparison, which was ominous.
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by pram 3y ago
Yeah I spent literally dozens of hours of my life compiling different kernels with OSS and ALSA variations to get my sound card working lol. Really a 'you had to be there' thing.
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by pram 3y ago
Richard Fuld and Henry Paulson for sure. Kerry Killinger and Christopher Cox for the encouragement of the others.
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by pram 3y ago
Isn’t this really describing an LLM shell, rather than a “kernel”

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