timacles

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by timacles 7mo ago
There is certainly a shadow cabal of these elite billionaire types that avoid all public exposure yet are working very hard to destroy society and profit
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by timacles 7mo ago
A lot of the older folks are also not well versed in their language or whatever you want to call it, so they can’t even connect comprehend these guys are compulsive liars and paranoid man children with no scruples. They just think they are
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by timacles 7mo ago
Get ready for a lot more billionaires and a lot more poor people in the next 5-10 years
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by timacles 8mo ago
Yeah might not ever get fixed. It is the perfect tool for mass influence and surveillance of the people. The powers that he would never let it go
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by timacles 8mo ago
Its all basically: Sensationalist take to shock you and get attention
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by timacles 8mo ago
It’s 100% AI. lol it might even be a bot
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by timacles 8mo ago
Let’s just say there are a couple of guys, who are up to no good. And they started making trouble in our neighborhood. jokes aside it’s all because of hyper financial engineering. Every dollar every little cent must be maximized. Every pro
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by timacles 8mo ago
It lacks focus, pages of different views, with different metrics. Split out arbitrarily. That move around frequently. It seems like its designed without the guidance of a DB expert, rather just some people who have access to a ton of metric
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by timacles 8mo ago
Datadog's database monitoring implementation is a bit sloppy. But functional. This is something only pgAnalyze had for a long time. Hopefully they didnt just steal it.
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by timacles 8mo ago
I await (also doubt) the day this produces something truly useful and not just generic derivative functionality glued together
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by timacles 8mo ago
SMHing my head at my country right now. What have we become.
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by timacles 9mo ago
Thats really why governments are "racing" and backstopping the AI effort, its the most powerful propaganda tool ever invented.
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by timacles 9mo ago
Unfortunately the fabric of our society has started unraveling and 2026 is the year where predatory business models and abusive monopolies dominate
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by timacles 9mo ago
> If I'm honest, many of those hours reading through textbooks, blog posts, technical papers, iterating a million times on broken code that had trivial errors, were really wasted time, time which if I were starting over I wouldn&#x2
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by timacles 10mo ago
Technical Analysis isnt a system of predicting the future. Its an analysis of what has happened in the past. You are fundamentally misunderstanding what you're talking about. Its just a system of interpreting money flows and trends on
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by timacles 10mo ago
the dotcom bubble (and the current AI bubble) were based on excessively optimistic bets, by people who know/knew NOTHING about those technologies. It was exuberance by greedy wall street players and laymen looking to make a buck. Why w
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by timacles 11mo ago
People are missing some nuance here. 1. Frustration depends entirely on the expectations of the outcome of an action. 2. Frustration is a spectrum. 3. Frustration is necessary to engage your full focus If it were on a scale of 1-10. 4 throu
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by timacles 1y ago
One day we will look at social media, end less scrolling algos, 5 second clips as we do at cigarettes. It might not be causing cancer, but there is going to be a generation of people lacking emotional regulation because their dopamine circu
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by timacles 1y ago
One of the rare times HN can come together and agree on something. Which is: that this is a loose weekend project thrown together quickly that doesnt solve any problem in particular
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by timacles 1y ago
this part of LLMs is the pre-programmed human logic. The LLMs arent actually thinking, they're just going through a defined IF THEN loop based on whatever weights, if there is some ambiguity in a prompt the LLM is just programmed to pr
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by timacles 1y ago
You could probably start a company with that as your mission statement and get a couple million in VC
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by timacles 1y ago
Very few people have the internal discipline for Stoicism. Sure its great and wise and reasonable, but its basically life on hard mode. To be a stoic you have to be minimalist, have intense will power, and high tolerance for pain. How many
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by timacles 1y ago
I mean listen. If humans have to abstract a belief into something to get them through tough times then so be it. It does not help anyone to pretend that the universe is some sort of pure logic and reasoning machine and that a human can oper
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by timacles 1y ago
> A sufficiently good simulation of understanding is functionally equivalent to understanding. This is just a thing to say that has no substantial meaning. - What is "sufficiently" mean? - What is functionally equivalent
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by timacles 1y ago
> capitalism ensures that a dynamic and ever-shifting set of companies is thriving based on demand and efficiency That form of capitalism is dead. There is no free market anymore (if there ever was). We currently have crony capitalism t
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by timacles 1y ago
We are looking at the a reshuffling of the USA economic order. Small businesses are essentially being (slowly) completely erased from the US economy, and monopolies are all that will be left. The middle class is being wiped out. Wealth is b
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by timacles 1y ago
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by timacles 1y ago
What percentage of people would you say like working for fun? Would you really claim they make up a significant portion of society? Even myself, work a job that I enjoy building things that I’m good at, that is almost stress free, and afte
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by timacles 1y ago
Trust me they are exploring this
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by timacles 1y ago
Trump was given the power by some invisible forces who have been working for decades to develop plans to destroy the US. Trump is simultaneously a blunt force tool to destroy our institutions while also being a political wizard that always

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