shrikant

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by shrikant 5d ago
I call this (well, in my head) the Sam Altman Fellow Kids style. It's clearly a deliberate affectation that they're putting on because other words are properly capitalise (COVID, PIP, I, his own name, etc.). The author's othe
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by shrikant 9d ago
As always with smallish tools/services like these whipped up with an LLM, I find there's more value in seeing the "source code", i.e. the prompt itself. Turns out it's quite useful in this instance, and I just made
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by shrikant 23d ago
What harness do you use for Gemini? Antigravity?
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by shrikant 24d ago
Also, that user's last four (three of them in the last hour) submissions have all been similar "finding" reports from a Claude-generated mystery research group website. All which contain exclusively AI slop articles. Ugh.
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by shrikant 24d ago
Pretty sure that OP ("jakobgreenfeld") is the "founder". That user's last four submissions have all been similar "finding" reports from a Claude-generated mystery research group website.
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by shrikant 24d ago
Agreed, I thought the subject matter was interesting enough to try and labour through the tedious prose, but once I got to "Their scale is the point." I just had to stop and just skim the rest.
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by shrikant 1mo ago
Yeah Ctrl/Cmd+F works just fine on Firefox as well.
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by shrikant 2mo ago
Especially since all OP seems to do is churn these out and exclusively only post them? Ugh, these AI thought leaders...
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by shrikant 2mo ago
Yeah when I worked at Deloitte Consulting, we had similar training that said something to the effect of "don't put something in an email that wouldn't feel comfortable as a newspaper headline".
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by shrikant 2mo ago
I believe the bigger failure mode in that scenario is the fact that the site was storing user passwords in plaintext (either directly or effectively). Users tend to reuse passwords, so when there's a breach, more than just the user acc
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Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, BBC finds(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by shrikant 3mo ago|0 comments
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Wez Furlong returns to WezTerm maintenance(github.com)
5 points by shrikant 4mo ago|0 comments
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TCS ties up with Anthropic to roll out Claude access to 50k employees(moneycontrol.com)
3 points by shrikant 4mo ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 4mo ago
Well, there's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution...
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Anthropic enables self-service data analytics with Claude(claude.com)
2 points by shrikant 4mo ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 4mo ago
Oooh now I'm wondering if this may have contributed to their Docker image distribution service getting disrupted earlier today... https://status.redhat.com/incidents/jn6r256zc62c
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by shrikant 4mo ago
Wow, why do you think the communication was so off? (I don't know much about French) My guess would be that the intervewing manager was just translating English sentences directly into their French worded equivalent without actually fo
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by shrikant 4mo ago
I can easily remember a few multi-hour AWS incidents from the last few years, since I've had to handle the resulting fires at my various employers at those times. Not sure how you missed these, or do they not count as "global outa
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by shrikant 4mo ago
Page 68 of this PDF ( https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05... ), section G2 titled "Testing and Operations Data" has some high level information. I know the details because I d
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by shrikant 4mo ago
The core data platform for NHS Test and Trace was not Excel based at all. It was a reasonably simple but solid AWS setup using S3, Glue and the smallest Redshift instance at the time, on top of which were Tableau/Quicksight/Power
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Muxy – A macOS terminal built with SwiftUI and libghostty(github.com)
3 points by shrikant 5mo ago|1 comments
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by shrikant 6mo ago
Standard BTF nonsense. (BTF = Blue Tick Fucker, an initialism I'm trying to get to take off, primarily in my WhatsApp groups where there's loads of self-proclaimed geopolitics experts claiming to know exactly what's going on
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by shrikant 6mo ago
Yeah I can see that, even when a recruiter contacted me a few years back for a data engineering position, they were looking strictly for experience in JVM-based languages.
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by shrikant 6mo ago
I tend to bounce around between Ubuntu Mono, Fira Code and Comic Mono. Comic Mono is not amongst the participants in this game, and my finalists were Ubuntu Mono and Fira Code, so I guess I'm pretty pleased that I've stayed consis
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by shrikant 6mo ago
...or you keep fighting forward with the migration, because if it's seen as a failure then some pretty big heads will have to roll...
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by shrikant 6mo ago
Just fyi, myopathy is a general term for diseases that affect some types of muscles, while myopia is short-sightedness -- assuming the latter is what you were going for!
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by shrikant 6mo ago
Baffling to see this, in every place I've worked at that used Lotus Notes, it was an absolute dog on the system. Clunky, slow, and ground everything else to a halt. And this was the case even on a relatively modern laptop in 2019. Not
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by shrikant 6mo ago
> Doesn't pay attention to plot > Claims plot is terrible People who complain about aspects about movies they didn't like should all be as forthright as GP in explaining why exactly they didn't like that aspect, so I ca
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by shrikant 8mo ago
"He says it like it is! No wait, here's what he actually meant..."
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by shrikant 8mo ago
Reminds me of this post: https://dannorth.net/blog/the-worst-programmer/ Discussed here a couple of times as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361947 , https://news.ycombinat

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