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by schrodinger 9mo ago
I do—all the time. Why not? I also use en dashes when referring to number ranges, e.g., 1–9
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by schrodinger 9mo ago
FYI: did you know for (2) you can say "Hey Siri ask ChatGPT if Liam Neeson is alive" and it works perfectly?
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by schrodinger 9mo ago
Just don't buy what you don't like. There's no throat shoving going on.
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by schrodinger 9mo ago
It's an externality because the entity that sold it to you doesn't have to pay the consequences of dealing with the trash. OP said "dispose of it properly," which could mean a lot of things, all of which are better than
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by schrodinger 9mo ago
What ads?
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by schrodinger 9mo ago
I'm confused—how does putting in a master switch for those who want to opt-out entirely from the AI revolution occurring at the moment not matter? Are you saying that new features will fail to respect it?
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by schrodinger 9mo ago
Voters: please reconsider your ups and downs. I think the “Are you an expert” question triggered a lot of downvotes when it was in fact asked in good faith to judge the person’s perspective of easy and hard.
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by schrodinger 9mo ago
I generally agree, but see some more nuance. I think feature-flagging is an overloaded term that can mean two things. First, my philosophy is that long-lived feature branches are bad, and lead to pain and risk once complete and need to be m
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by schrodinger 9mo ago
Edit: “I’m sure you’re fine if your email is real” should be “…phone number” (It’s too late to amend my comment)
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by schrodinger 10mo ago
As a hiring manager, I just want to give you a heads up that we are getting tons of fake applicants—like 5–10%—that end up being a real person on a video chat isn’t some AI assistant that uses a teleprompter interface to tell them what to s
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by schrodinger 10mo ago
I see your point, but disagree on a practical level. Libraries are being used while you’re in “developer” mode, while programs are used in “user” mode (trying awkwardly to differentiate between _being_ a developer and currently developing c
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by schrodinger 10mo ago
The motivation isn’t there to create new languages for humans when you’re programming at a higher level of abstraction now (AI prompting). It’d be like inventing a new assembly language when everyone is writing code in higher level language
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by schrodinger 10mo ago
Genuinely curious — how did you isolate the effect of comments/context on model performance from all the other variables that change between sessions (prompt phrasing, model variance, etc)? In other words, how did you validate the hypo
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by schrodinger 11mo ago
Bet you never thought you'd have a "when I was a kid" attitude… :)
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by schrodinger 11mo ago
and vice versa: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976597
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by schrodinger 11mo ago
I love this. As another poster brought up, plenty of people buy enjoyable cars and motorcycles for the pleasure of driving. Why not add a little spice to life?
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by schrodinger 11mo ago
Fair point perhaps, but was clearly intended as sarcasm: > a society that glamorizes everyone driving the biggest trucks and carrying the largest rifles
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by schrodinger 11mo ago
This was very confusing! I meant it’s easy to inspect your script’s logic — look it. Bunch harder to audit the code in dependencies though…
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by schrodinger 11mo ago
Sorry I was half asleep! Meant that you can easily look at the code in the script and audit what it does – you can just run `cat` in it and you’re done! But it’s much harder to inspect what the imports are going to do and be sure they’re fr
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by schrodinger 11mo ago
The script is just a cat or vim away from audit. Its dependencies on the other hand…
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by schrodinger 11mo ago
Rule 35 of the internet? Every discussion will eventually devolve into the United State's horrible usage (or lack thereof) of public transportation.
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by schrodinger 11mo ago
Having replied in good faith already, I also want to call out that your jab about trucks and rifles adds nothing to the conversation and is merely culture-war fuel. > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.
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by schrodinger 11mo ago
I'm not following your logic. Having nearly triple the population density in Rheinland makes trains way _more_ feasible, not _less_. That means on average you have a train 1/3 the distance away from you. That's a big differen
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by schrodinger 1y ago
This needs more than just an upvote — that's one of the best software engineering books I've ever read!
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by schrodinger 1y ago
I'll start: Nuclear fission delayed 25 years. WWII fought without atomic weapons. No decisive end to the war instantly cementing the US as the undisputed global superpower and ushering in Pax Americana. No mutually assured destruction
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Ask HN: Delay one major discovery by decades–what changes most?
5 points by schrodinger 1y ago|1 comments
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by schrodinger 1y ago
Apologies, now that I've been Beider-Meinhoff'd, I've realized you're correct and I've been misreading en dashes and em dashes. Thank you!
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by schrodinger 1y ago
Most of that money goes towards the driver, last I checked in on unit economics. It costs quite a bit of money to pay a person to go to the restaurant, wait around, and then bring it to you — far more than the "delivery fee" that
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by schrodinger 1y ago
It's the opposite — you're legally protected to resell anything you buy and the seller can't stop you. I'm not sure if food has any caveats, but in general, IP law cannot stop you from reselling an item. It's called
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by schrodinger 1y ago
In my experience the em dash is still correctly used, the modern style has just evolved to put a space around it. So: * fragment a—fragment b (em dash, no space) = traditional * fragment a — fragment B (em dash with spaces) = modern * fragm

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