thousand_nights

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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
the plurality of this website are californians so this whole discourse is about as predictable as can be
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
lol. yeah there is but instead of "farther from the population centers" it is "farther from YOUR population centers"
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
it's funny because you'd think these trillion parameter models trained on the entirety of humanity's written works would be amazing at writing, but instead all the models just converge to the same tired overly-enthusiastic ph
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
at my job we have some 7+ year old nextjs apps that don't receive new features but still do their jobs perfectly fine, and they keep changing random shit around for no reason, we've had to waste time on multiple refactors already
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
yeah the thing is, if someone can social engineer you on the phone and make you do their bidding, you've lost no matter what
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
an obvious tell from another tech influencer and Hn will eat it up
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
fr idg this obsession with lobsters/molting/claws/shrimps it feels like i'm going insane
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
> I have been experimenting with AI-assisted drafting for HN comments forgive the hyperbole but this seems completely insane to me. like is the purpose of a forum not to share our collective human experiences? or do you get off on some i
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
i think it's very hard to sing all the way up to the high C5 as a male, this doesn't surprise me at all
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
i've never had to use control + o before but with the latest changes, i give Opus a simple task that should take a few seconds and it's like "used 15k tokens" and "thinking" for three minutes with absolutely ze
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
music is a form of storytelling and expression of human emotions, i can't connect with some generated noise or go to its live gig
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
after seeing the recent surge of meme stocks, 0dte option trading, sports betting, prediction markets and funny internet coins, one thing is apparent is that people just love to gamble so i don't believe it will ever go to zero as it h
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
this is cultural appropriation, i learned to type like this on irc in the 90s also i don't want to be mistaken for a phone poster
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
i really dislike the constant appeal to authority of techfluencers on HN
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by thousand_nights 8mo ago
man they really butchered the user interface, the "dark" mode now isn't even dark, it's just grey, and it's looking more like a whitespacemaxxed children's toy than a tool for professionals
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by thousand_nights 9mo ago
i don't know, are we intelligent? you could argue that our input (senses) entirely define the output (thoughts, muscle movements, etc)
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by thousand_nights 9mo ago
i don't think i have ever even looked at what order the commits are, i only care about the diff vs the target branch when reviewing especially since every developer has a different idea of what a commit should be, with there being no c
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by thousand_nights 9mo ago
these models work best when you know what you want to achieve and it helps you get there while you guide it. "Improve anything you can find" sounds like you didn't really know
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by thousand_nights 9mo ago
sadly sometimes it's e-commerce websites where you actually want to buy their product and they interrupt you three times with "sign up to our newsletter and get 5% off with the code" modals, like they're actively trying
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by thousand_nights 10mo ago
the bayer pattern is one of those things that makes me irrationally angry, in the true sense, based on my ignorance of the subject what's so special about green? oh so just because our eyes are more sensitive to green we should dedicat
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by thousand_nights 11mo ago
nta you're replying to, but as someone who doesn't know rust, on first glance it seems like it's littered with too many special symbols and very verbose. as i understand it this is required because of the very granular low le
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by thousand_nights 11mo ago
yes, first thing i thought of. although i'm quite confident it's still outside the scope of our lifetimes, i do worry for future generations
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by thousand_nights 11mo ago
with gemini you have to spend 30 minutes deleting hundreds of useless comments littered in the code that just describe what the code itself does
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by thousand_nights 11mo ago
exactly, people have preferences, i don't get how this turned into white vs dark mode supremacy war with people seething and attacking each other over what should be a boolean config setting
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by thousand_nights 11mo ago
> If you can capture that market for next 20 years, it's worth $200 billion. that's like 5% of NVIDIA's current market cap. sounds like peanuts when you lay it out like that
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by thousand_nights 11mo ago
doesn't sweden just.. list everyone's full name, address, job, birthday, age and stuff on a public website? i always found this so weird, it's like a stalker's paradise
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by thousand_nights 11mo ago
yeah but the pharma comapnies are only in the business of selling drugs so they would need to diversify into retirement homes or somnething to profit from actually curing people
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by thousand_nights 11mo ago
as a casual observer living in the uk, what brexit has done is stopped the influx of highly educated and economically contributing people from the EU, and instead replaced them with people who are claiming "asylum" from asian and
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by thousand_nights 11mo ago
hello it's me the average voter my wealth is reduced
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by thousand_nights 11mo ago
are exclamation marks not allowed or is that just some absurd mistake by them?

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