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by strogonoff 5mo ago
Why infrasound effects matter: https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?t=461
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
I dabble in correcting other people’s spelling on occasion (can’t help it). Somewhat frustratingly, the usual reaction is “language evolves” and “everyone uses it this way” and “if it is understood, it does not matter how you wrote it”.
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
Our experience doesn’t become unimportant just because it’s lost in translation. It’s a paradox that we can’t know what X feels like to another person because communication is very lossy, but that does not warrant dismissal. We are not p-zo
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
Somehow it fizzled out for me somewhere in season 3. These days I can see myself powering through with some skipping, but I would probably rather rewatch The Wire.
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
I couldn’t make it through Breaking Bad, but I couldn’t put down Better Call Saul. Different boats for different floats.
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
In a way, simplifying the judgement call to the black-and-white approach “either you change all instances or none” without considering nuance is also a way of managing the mental overhead. Making a simple call lets you spend all your nuance
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
The only way the “using LLM to create derivative works is the same as human being inspired” kind of argument works is if you consider LLMs to be conscious human-like beings with free will and capable of being inspired.
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
Consistency reduces the mental cost of acquiring and maintaining an understanding of a system. In a real sense, moving from one approach to two different approaches, even if one of them is slightly better than the original one, can be a dow
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You don't have to be filthy rich to enjoy an airport shower(nytimes.com)
2 points by strogonoff 6mo ago|0 comments
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
Fair point, though it’s isolated to a footnote.
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
Betting against what is widely considered as “expected”, “reasonable” is such a major source of profit when one can influence the income. Whether it’s a temperature sensor one can breathe on or movement of troops one can control or influenc
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
I don’t expect most side-projects to be built with LLMs now. I would expect LLM uptake to be higher in the workplace (where it’s mandatory and/or people operate on the “the ends justify the means” paradigm), but outside of that there’s
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Interview with 0.1x Engineer [video](youtube.com)
3 points by strogonoff 6mo ago|0 comments
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
The “it does X for you” aspect of technology is not completely without its downsides, for various values of X. For example, take “X” to be “walking”. Do we have the technology that allows us to pretty much never have to walk? Sure. As far a
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
Comparing LLMs to movement aids is an interesting analogy. Imagine a world in which they are similarly prescribed to people who legitimately need them to function, and withheld from the general public to keep people healthy and keeping pu
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
If one claims that an error at a railroad gate can be catastrophic and therefore FSD should be disabled in that situation, how does one ethically reconcile that with enabling FSD on any regular street with pedestrians? The principal differe
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
Often (not always) the top bun is the worst offender, but it’s most certainly not just about the buns: if you look closely, the unique characteristic of Japanese McDonalds (separating it both from McDonalds in other countries as well as fro
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
If it’s easier to just write a function view, then sure, just write a function view. I did phrase it specifically: if you want to take stock logic and just override a specific part, then CBV is a pretty intuitive way of doing it. My point
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
There are very specific reasons to use Django’s class-based views, so much so that it doesn’t really strike me as “multiple ways to do one thing”. Case 1. You are simply writing a view. Request comes from the router, you want to run some lo
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
Point taken, having a new OS forced on you in the middle of work is stress but trying to fight a big corporation over this may be even more stress. Honestly, though, after seeing the next Tahoe-only generation of Apple Silicon come out a co
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
> The one outstanding benefit is that it will now autocomplete codes sent via text messages, just like iOS. Like the sibling comment, I believe I had this happen in Sequoia, too. That said, input appreciated.
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
I stated that I would likely migrate eventually, but on my own schedule, perhaps mid year or autumn. Switching the ecosystem over this is on the cards (I am being essentially handed a different machine than what I dropped off, after all), b
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Ask HN: Apple force-updated me to Tahoe. Worth fighting?
3 points by strogonoff 6mo ago|6 comments
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
Technically, any given technology by itself is neutral. However, it tends to amplify some human tendencies or others. Great power, great responsibility, all that. (Depending on various definitions, to some people specifics of this amplifica
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
I see, so I might still need to hunt down non-daemon but hung processes even after I kill tmux server in which I ran them. Might explain a couple of odd occurrences in the past…
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
Each time I see “cyber” used in a headline (so far it happened once) without any other hints that it’s about security, I am initially confused. What is wrong with the term “infosec”, exactly? Clear, logical, well-known and most widely used
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
TIL. I didn’t know it’s the responsibility of the parent, thought OS automatically handles child processes.
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
Is it possible for a multiplexer process to die, but in such a bad way that its child processes continue to run? I’ve been relying on the fact that in the worst-case scenario (if a pane hangs and tmux session becomes unresponsive) I can j
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
There’s many ways tmux could be used, but when it is part of IDE the most important usability tweaks that make tmux rock for me personally are: — session configuration save/recall (with pane layout for each tab and directory for each p
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by strogonoff 6mo ago
Strictly speaking, there is no “actual casual evidence” for anything, because there is hardly any stable definition for what casual evidence exactly is. Establishment of causality is commonly considered as requiring repetition and probabili

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