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by rappatic 6mo ago
LLM-written code, LLM-written blog post… Why even bother?
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The Lunacy of Artemis (2024)(idlewords.com)
1 points by rappatic 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 6mo ago
Oleophobic coating is standard on phones and tablets, which is part of why they don’t pick up fingerprints as easily. Some brands offer coating you can DIY yourself (eg ProofTech OLEOPEL) but these seem mostly designed for phone screens. I
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by rappatic 6mo ago
Similarly, it's possible to take the derivative of a song. You can use a Fourier transform to express the song's waveform as a series of sin and cosine functions, then take the derivative. Imagine, for the sake of simplicity, you
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by rappatic 7mo ago
Google and lots of other firms use a "leap smear" to hide the leap second from end users, essentially "smearing" the second across the hours before and after each leap. https://developers.google.com/time&
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by rappatic 7mo ago
Well yeah, when you exclude all the successful and profitable sectors things do start looking bad. Just in: most people are actually short! Excluding people over 6 feet tall, the average height is only 5 ft 8!
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by rappatic 7mo ago
I guess it shouldn’t be surprising for this post to be LLM-written when the author’s point is that they use LLMs to write a bunch of social media posts, but it still makes me a little sad.
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by rappatic 7mo ago
The M1 Air didn’t have MagSafe, but yeah agreed
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by rappatic 7mo ago
> just unify the two already Yeah but some people buy both, and apple wants to keep it that way
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by rappatic 7mo ago
This is the way. Vote with your wallet!
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by rappatic 7mo ago
"ChatGPT, write a letter to my company about laying 40% of them off but don't capitalize anything"
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by rappatic 7mo ago
i'm gonna write this terrible news in all lowercase cause it's super aesthetic. maintain a bit of professionalism for the 4,000 people whose lives i'm throwing into turmoil? i don't think so, i have my shift key taped ov
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by rappatic 8mo ago
There's no real arbitrage opportunity because he booked the hotel and flights on points. It likely would've been considerably more expensive overall if he'd booked in cash.
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by rappatic 8mo ago
> His organization says 32 states currently don't have a single competitive congressional race I agree that the system is broken, but this is not a very fair statistic. 5 states have only a single seat in the House of Representative
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by rappatic 8mo ago
I think this article should’ve used the Cauchy sequence method to construct the reals instead of Dedekind cuts. It would’ve built on the earlier mention of equivalence classes.
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by rappatic 8mo ago
This reminds me of my undergrad “discrete math” lecture notes, where my professor wrote the following in the unit on sets: > This brings us to a fun problem for you to think about in your spare time: are there any infinite sets that have
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by rappatic 8mo ago
That link leads to a PDF which says "The 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report found that 65% of child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited from Facebook, with 14% being recruited on Instagram." This is
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by rappatic 8mo ago
Half of these examples aren't even lies. The right column of this table is full of whataboutisms and fabricated statistics. For example, > Zuckerberg: "We don't allow people under the age of 13 on our service. So if we fin
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by rappatic 8mo ago
Counterintuitively, I feel like this will not be super useful, at least for me. My bottleneck is MY ability to parse and understand LLM-generated code. The agent can code a lot faster than I can read and understand its output.
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by rappatic 8mo ago
Oh wow, the "Postgres for Developers, Devices, and Agents" company wants us to use Postgres?
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by rappatic 8mo ago
This happened in 2019. The wheels of justice turn very slowly.
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by rappatic 9mo ago
Yeah lord C++ is a gigantic language
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by rappatic 9mo ago
I love the variety of people that come to HN. There are real farmers weighing on on the plausibility of this.
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by rappatic 9mo ago
Our machines all have CPUs that can execute on the order of 10^9 instructions every second. Why waste time worrying about a few hundred processes that use next to no CPU time?
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by rappatic 9mo ago
> The house has lessons for how we can heat our homes more efficiently today The problem in Europe isn't keeping warm in the winter but keeping cool in the summer. In part thanks to their near-total lack of AC in residential buildin
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Students aren't asking for help anymore. That could be a good thing(practicespace.substack.com)
3 points by rappatic 9mo ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 10mo ago
> Many humans do a really bad job at driving, so I'm not sure we should try to emulate that Agreed, but there are still really good human drivers, who still operate on sight alone. It's more about the upper bound, not the human
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by rappatic 10mo ago
In the current state of self-driving tech, lidar is clearly the most effective and safest option. Yet companies like Tesla refuse to integrate lidar, preferring to rely solely on cameras. This is partially to keep costs down. But this means
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by rappatic 10mo ago
> the company will be delaying initiatives like ads, shopping and health agents, and a personal assistant, Pulse, to focus on improving ChatGPT There's maybe like a few hundred people in the industry who can truly do original work o
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by rappatic 11mo ago
Why is everything named Gemini these days?

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