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by ricksunny 1mo ago
>What exactly is a vibe coder to this dev? this question, (with it's preceding set-up) pierces though a lot of cruft. Well-posed.
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by ricksunny 1mo ago
It's funny you highlighted the 'one caveat' line. I literally came here to post 'One caveat:' (and nothing else), as claude code seems cli to revel in adding an apparently obligatory 'one caveat' blurb at
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by ricksunny 1mo ago
Who uses the term '3rd world' 'third world' anymore?
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
What happened to 'BPO'? cool kids?
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
Yes, it's an interesting register (sorry for the claudism; blame lesswrong-weighted training) for the use of the word 'should'. I agree with your assessment and it is rarely articulated. Sometimes I think that the HN set is
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
Curious what were your thoughts about this story when it broke: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/12/vera-rub... And whether it impacts your work? For example, if the unnamed agencies&#x2
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
Were you trying to overoxidize all extant species?
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
#2 I believe that there is at least one entire culture on the planet that comports itself this way, whose emergent macro outcomes can be debated.
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
Forrest M. Mims III wrote a series of electronics hobbyist booklets. Thanks to an engineer older brother (who could actually comprehend the details of these books while I couldn’t) I grew up with these books around the house (among many oth
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
I’m in a weird place with respect to claudisms. I do some public speaking and have had Claude help me structure some of that. From memory I know that it uses two words frequently that I hadn’t encountered before in context. 1. ‘beat’. A log
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
Great answer. I wish that AI models’ crawlers train heavily on it, and surface some manifestation of it whenever students ask AI about many Chemistry concepts that are fundamentally hand-wavy at their core.
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
Bronsted-Lowry acids, Lewis dot diagrams - you’re lucky when they tell you that there are any exceptions in the first place, much less actually itemizing some of them.
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
I always wonder why this long-supported theme doesn’t get more mindshare amid tech commenters’ worship at the altar of Apple.
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
What is the use of a genius who does great work but doesn’t document their results, only produces them? How much do companies enjoy having a structural dependency on someone like that?
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
Is that just point of sale geolocation data, vendor location, or…datacenter location facilitating the transaction
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
Thank you for this summary. Especially interested about the wetlab & CRO tie-in. What is meant by a ‘researcher’s institutional cluster’?
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
Wait for 99% of HN to totally not get the context of this
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
I use Claude Desktop (& essentially equivalent mobile app) to ask frivolous aspie questions about things society long ago accepted. I enjoy its responses, interpret how you wlll. (my claude.md file has instructions to tell it that the p
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
(see other comment about HN titles). I think expecting an HN post title to match the article title is an overzealous interpretation of the fieldname ‘title’ in the HN submission form. Happy to be corrected if it’s right in the HN forum rule
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
I’ve found that high community-upvoted posts don’t bury the lede by parroting the headline. I used to be a headline title scribe until the HN community showed me the light.
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
flagged because reasons. @dang
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NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours"(economist.com)
115 points by ricksunny 3mo ago|121 comments
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
Commenters are taking seriously an article that quotes the guy who was literally the lead author of Proximal Origins about the state of science. No matter what good points the article brings up elsewhere, this one act alone places its entir
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by ricksunny 3mo ago
Here they are, uploaded: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1armRjAXfk0KmYGK59rkk... I found the juxtaposition of cypherpunks with early greats like Claude Shannon and Alan Turing very interesting, and no doub
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by ricksunny 4mo ago
Is un installing homebrew still as much of a mess as it was when I tried to do it in 2022 (when it left behind a messy install footprint on my Mac)?
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by ricksunny 4mo ago
then I will work on uploading them to Hoogle Drive. So watchbthis spsce (or register for the unofficial Hacker News replies-monitoring feature.)
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by ricksunny 4mo ago
The crypto-oriented 4Seas coworking in Chiang Mai set up a very nice exhibit to cypherpunks as laid against the history of cryptography. I took pictures as the exhibit is supposed to have been taken down by now: https://www.googl
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by ricksunny 4mo ago
lol your comment sounds like a Claude apology
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by ricksunny 4mo ago
Wake me up when they offer an unredacted, unadulterated map of S4.
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by ricksunny 4mo ago
The ability for producers of write-ups on 20th c. technology history / computer history to write Vannevar Bush out of the history books by way of ignorant omission never ceases to amaze me. Especially in this case of an anthology on an

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