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by ripe 5d ago
Great essay! Thanks for posting it. I didn't know that Kool-Aid involved points and rewards, never having seen it as a child. The manager saying, "you've got to drink the Kool-Aid" was funny and made my day.
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The powerful millionaires hiding in plain sight(npr.org)
4 points by ripe 12d ago|1 comments
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by ripe 12d ago
"The top two aren't very surprising: legal services and financial services. But then the list gets more interesting. Number 3? Auto dealers. Number 4? Consultants. Number 9 is restaurants. Number 10: Accountants. Number 13 is fabr
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Physicist does the math on Star Trek's "Picard maneuver"(arstechnica.com)
3 points by ripe 15d ago|0 comments
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by ripe 15d ago
> saying it is "written by LLM" is not useful and misses the point. It is useful to me. I see too much slop every day and would like to filter it out from my life. I appreciate the tip, and to me, that is the whole point.
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by ripe 15d ago
> forward only the best, strongest arguments for any given position... A weak argument gives unnecessary purchase to unscrupulous haters who might use that weaker argument as a low-grade "straw man" to dismiss the whole positio
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by ripe 16d ago
Neki is a sharded Postgres implementation. It introduces one level of indirection between the application and the Postgres shards. Found this from neki.dev.
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by ripe 18d ago
For people like me who have no idea what this is, I looked it up: DaVinci Resolve is a proprietary application for non-linear video editing, color correction, color grading, visual effects, and audio post-production. It is developed by the
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Saturday Evening Post Will Stop Printing After 205 Years(nytimes.com)
14 points by ripe 19d ago|3 comments
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by ripe 20d ago
> a lot of code doesn't need to be understood Really? I am having difficulty thinking of any examples of code that doesn't need to be understood. If it isn't understood by someone, then how is it even working? If you mean
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by ripe 21d ago
Thank you for summarizing! TIL about the Falcopolis in Angola.
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Trump has asked Apple to change Lake Ontario name to 'Lake America' on its maps(apnews.com)
1 points by ripe 25d ago|0 comments
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Welcome to the Porcelain Insulator Collector's World of Mud(insulators.info)
17 points by ripe 25d ago|6 comments
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by ripe 25d ago
From the overview site: Glass insulators were first produced in the 1850's for use with telegraph lines. As technology developed insulators were needed for telephone lines, electric power lines, and other applications. In the mid 1960&
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What's Next for Robotics? Humanoids, Physical AI – Or Both?(prism.adlittle.com)
2 points by ripe 29d ago|1 comments
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by ripe 29d ago
From the article: There’s good reason for a less-than-sunny outlook toward humanoids, experts, including Meige, argue.
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by ripe 1mo ago
Pretty good. Regarding Eliza, a version comes with Emacs, too. It's the "doctor" application. (The original Eliza was written as a generic engine running a pattern-matching "script"). A quibble: the creator of Eliza
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What datacenters look like in neighborhoods(usatoday.com)
5 points by ripe 1mo ago|1 comments
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by ripe 1mo ago
Article contains mostly aerial views of datacenters in the United States.
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by ripe 1mo ago
This artist was featured in an article in this LA-based magazine: https://mymodernmet.com/manabu-kosaka-paper-sculptures/ Unfortunately, the interviewer doesn't explain exactly how the sculptures are made: what ki
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Data annotation is creating jobs(nytimes.com)
3 points by ripe 1mo ago|1 comments
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by ripe 1mo ago
From the article: (good photos, too) In the fast-growing field of data annotation, workers in a small city in south India train A.I. to improve how it performs tasks traditionally done by people.
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by ripe 1mo ago
> empirically-minded work Yeah, I understand that this testing-oriented constraint method is what AI coding enthusiasts are pitching. Sure, it's different from pure vibe-coding as originally defined, but nobody is seriously suggesti
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by ripe 1mo ago
> LLMs are great with focused questions, up and down abstraction layers and across all kinds of concerns. Stack up these focused concerns into a rich understanding of what you are doing or writing. I agree. This is much better advice tha
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by ripe 1mo ago
Insightful: > the term “vibe-coding” suggests a kind of laissez-faire attitude where you don’t really care about the outcome and you’re just having fun. That’s what the phrase meant when it was coined, but the world has moved on. In many
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by ripe 1mo ago
You're right that people have never devoted much time to digging into the details. But also, I think the weather apps on phones today are a lot more likely to be used than the weather page in a newspaper used to be. So it's a new
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Weather apps are crushing America's small businesses(businessinsider.com)
4 points by ripe 1mo ago|5 comments
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by ripe 1mo ago
The cloud icon of doom, by Emily Stewart From the article: "When a little rain icon pops up on the ubiquitous weather apps on any given day, it can cut business in half, she says, whether any rain falls or not." ... "when he
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by ripe 1mo ago
> this website is "better in the app" Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1174/
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AI Hype Is Running into Reality(nytimes.com)
6 points by ripe 1mo ago|1 comments

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