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by tasuki 9mo ago
No, that's not ok. Many years ago, a friend of mine in the Netherlands had the same job as another guy, earning the same money, my friend being extremely thrifty, the other guy splurging. When they both found themselves out of a job at
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by tasuki 9mo ago
Where did you move? I understand you're retired: that changes the situation somewhat. When I lived in Amsterdam, we were renting a flat. The gentleman we were renting from told us our rent easily covers all his expenses in South East A
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by tasuki 9mo ago
I'm from Europe (a white male, if that matters to you). I have worked with several people from India (off the top of my head: Vimal, Hijas, Os). They were all competent, going above expectations. And not just that, they were very nice
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by tasuki 9mo ago
> This is how it works: Fame hungry tech bro Definitely not. Those people were already famous. And famous people turning their fame into cash has always been a thing. Not that I condone...
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by tasuki 9mo ago
I made a website for comparing the translations: https://enchiridion.tasuki.org/
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by tasuki 9mo ago
The thing I don't understand is alphabetic ordering of albums, which is the default most everywhere. Albums of a particular artist should obviously be ordered by when they were released (I don't care whether from newest or from
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by tasuki 9mo ago
I hope not - I'm just learning beam!
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by tasuki 9mo ago
> Well-written Python apps are very easy to understand, especially if they use well-designed libraries. Oh. Why haven't I seen those?
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by tasuki 9mo ago
That is the way!
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by tasuki 9mo ago
I thought the point would be that the number of lines of code a LLM produces to solve a given problem is... not low.
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by tasuki 9mo ago
Wow I never knew pandoc was 200MB! It's only a 26MB download, but 200MB binary is kind of insane... It is by far the biggest binary I have in `/usr/bin/` (the second being `blender` at 90MB - understandable I guess! - an
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by tasuki 9mo ago
> Another important distinction is that - no matter what your beliefs are - civilians aren't the target in Gaza "No matter what your beliefs are"? Some people believe that Israel is trying to make the people in Gaza starve
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by tasuki 9mo ago
> Writing code was always the easy part of this job. The hard part was keeping your code running for the long time. Spoken like a true SRE. I'm mostly writing code, rather than working on keeping it in production, but I've had
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by tasuki 9mo ago
Yes, in shell, but requiring 'comrak', whatever that is. I also generate[0] html[1] from markdown for my vimwiki. [0]: https://github.com/tasuki/vitwiki/blob/master/build.sh [1]: https:/&
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by tasuki 9mo ago
When and where from?
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by tasuki 9mo ago
The original author is a little surprised how little traffic this receives considering how often he sees people linking to it all over the internet :) Around 5k visits a month, including scrapers for LLM training. Somehow I still don't
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by tasuki 9mo ago
Many people do. He mentioned he considers partying more dangerous than climbing. I can't tell how dangerous his stunts are, but he's still alive, so perhaps he knows what he's doing?
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by tasuki 9mo ago
Hey, the last commit there is mine, fixing the line endings! FWIW, I also made a website with comparison of the different translations/renditions of the Tao Te Ching, including the one by Ursula K. Le Guin[0]. [0]: https://t
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by tasuki 9mo ago
> A formidable founder is one who seems like they’ll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in the way. This is rather dark actually. True, too. Props to Y Combinator for not trying to sugarcoat things!
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by tasuki 9mo ago
Consciousness is eternal. If your ego is an illusion, who gets reborn?
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by tasuki 9mo ago
I read it sitting. Does that count?
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by tasuki 9mo ago
> Profitable investment opportunities in the EU remain slim Is this investment advice?
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by tasuki 9mo ago
Also, it'd be interesting how many pre-2020 papers their "AI detector" marks as AI-generated. I distrust LLMs somewhat, but I distrust AI detectors even more.
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by tasuki 9mo ago
Thanks. Very interesting quotes... > He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. He’s a brilliant guy whether you like it or not. > He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great. And look, he was able to do tha
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by tasuki 9mo ago
> I gave it a very simple repository, said to write tests, and the result wasn't usable at all. Really wonder if I'm doing it wrong. I think so. The humans should be writing the spec. The AI can then (try to) make the tests pas
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by tasuki 9mo ago
Sure, if someone wants to get rid of their parents in a humane 21st-century way, by way of an elder care facility, it probably costs a lot. People used to die living with their family. Perhaps they died earlier, and sure there were some pro
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by tasuki 9mo ago
I was surprised to find my blog there. I did a git blame on https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb and it was in the initial commit, so I guess I'll never find out...
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by tasuki 9mo ago
> Women cannot cross the border since 2023. I have spoken with several Ukrainian women who have crossed the border several times since 2023. They live and work in Poland or Czechia, but go visit Ukraine once or twice a year. Note they&#x
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by tasuki 9mo ago
Very interesting! I was surprised to learn that the King of Canada sometimes even visits to do some kinging[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada
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by tasuki 9mo ago
> Here we have authoritarian leaning Trump starting to ally himself with totalitarian Putin and China against democratic countries I haven't seen Trump allying himself with China. Any references?

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