tptacek

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by tptacek 3mo ago
That's an odd response, because fundamentally all I'm doing is making my computer work the way I want it to. It's the opposite of exhausting to me.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
These are all simple SwiftUI applications with minimal dependencies. My phone, by the way, definitely is a sandbox.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I'll make sure and let my GP know he was wrong.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Because I played a bunch of music while doing woodworking stuff and asked for more like that. Things like this are easy with a simple agent loop. It's not picking random music out of the sky; it's working from my Apple Music libra
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Have you raised kids? This is the least shocking expenditure I've heard of; if this had existed when my kids were born I might have shelled out for it.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
For basically anything but chicken I give exact gram weights of proteins and of any fats or carbs. I generally don't give it any precision about vegetables that won't drive protein, fat, or carbs. Most meal components aren't
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by tptacek 3mo ago
A typical (in fact, the modal) line from the database, which goes back to April, is "oyakadon 1/2c rice, 2 thighs, 1/2 breast, 2 eggs, bunch broccolini, std oyakadon broth", and the model works out for itself that these
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Things I've built in the last month or so: * A personal music player for Apple Music with an embedded agent loop, so I can say things like "I'm going to work in the wood shop, play woodworking-appropriate music and keep the p
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by tptacek 3mo ago
DRM also intensively targets the new-release window during which much of the returns on any piece of IP are made; the latency with which high-quality copies hit mainstream sites has monetary value as well.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
It's definitely a little bit funny. I think it's a good and interesting rule though!
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by tptacek 3mo ago
The point is that they just want your prompts, not your code.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
It's an HN-ism that it's OK for titles to make readers do a little work.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Also, the first OpenBSD hackathon was 1999; it was in fact semicryptographic (they shipped IPSEC) but they've had hackathons in the US since, and for a time developers were coming out to Calgary because that's where Theo was. The
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Wait, this is getting pretty twisty-turny here. The premise of the story is that the food conglomerates are adversaries of the Mexican government. That's why they're suing them!
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I don't think that's the case; "moral hazard" doesn't have a conventional colloquial meaning. If you use the term outside it's technical meaning you're just going to confuse people.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
It was extremely helpful to me, to the point where I could pinpoint basically all my insomnia nights (retroactively, not the night they happened) to accidentally turning F.lux off. But the research on it seems pretty clear, so I'm conv
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Just from the screenshots it looks like this has a bunch of features Night Shift doesn't have.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
The placebo effect is a hell of a thing, and is especially potent with sleep interventions.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Superintelligence != Super intelligence.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Subtextually, when people discuss AGI as a threshold, they're talking about superintelligence, which I'd roughly define as reasoning (not just applying algorithmic search) at the speed with which computers do lookups and computati
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Can you explain how the COM/ActiveX security history applies here?
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Title, which is already synthetic, should be "Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite for Analytics Workloads".
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by tptacek 3mo ago
AI comments aren't allowed on HN. AI submissions are.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
What exactly was the finish line for the Internet?
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Don't sneer at imaginary HN commenters. It's always possible to a point more persuasively than that.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Economists have a term of art for this phenomenon: "automation".
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by tptacek 3mo ago
It's a tiny fraction of the amount of work it takes to get people to build software to specifications. There is an entire professional discipline dedicated to this, and we're here just giving a name to the bucket of tools you us
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I'm just now seeing this because I periodically read all your comments, but, as the author of this post: what was your point here? This isn't a "schtick" from me; I wrote it once, after observing exactly the one thing th
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Gary Marcus is the cite I usually give.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
Right, that's what was so funny about it. Finding a counterexample: an incredible mathematical achievement. Verifying a counterexample: barely even a weeknight homework problem in an undergraduate multivariable course.

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