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by wincy 3y ago
I read somewhere that saying things are important for your career makes chatGPT do a better job (probably on Hacker News), so I sound like someone on a children’s show and often say something like “this is important to my career, let’s bot
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by wincy 3y ago
I play D&D because I’m hyper competitive and D&D doesn’t trip that “competing against other people” that makes me short circuit (and often spend a ton of money, Magic The Gathering especially got me so I won’t play that at all anymo
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by wincy 3y ago
Have you used it? I’m never ever canceling my GitHub Copilot subscription. It’s revolutionary.
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by wincy 3y ago
Tongue in cheek, although it works better than you’d expect at first blush. Add the word “mad” to the beginning. If it sounds scary it’s a real science, if it sounds silly and makes you laugh it’s not. “Mad chemist” sounds scary, what if th
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by wincy 3y ago
If it makes you feel any better, my daughter is about to turn five and has spina bifida. She is quite the chatterbox, but due to advances in modern medicine, got a brain shunt put in at a very early age so she’s normal intelligence for her
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by wincy 3y ago
Having whitish skin is pretty much the only criteria for whiteness in the modern world.
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by wincy 3y ago
In a year or less we’ll have an open source model solving captchas that you can download off of Huggingface. Heck, it’s probably there right now.
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by wincy 3y ago
How are blind or deaf people supposed to ever interact with the world we’ve created?
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by wincy 3y ago
Maybe everyone else on Hacker News are all super geniuses who don’t benefit from it, but I’m a developer about 9 years into my career and have found ChatGPT4 to be absolutely astonishing for helping me learn new skills and improve my produc
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by wincy 3y ago
Okay to be fair she was on Ubuntu. She doesn’t seem to have issues with macOS at all though, aside from the one time I had her using a VPN and it expired which is totally on me and disabling it was nonobvious.
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by wincy 3y ago
I don’t even use the same OS at work. I use macOS at home, but work at a Windows shop on a Dell. I guess this is because in college and my first few dev jobs used Macs. A nice side effect is my wife hasn’t had any tech support complaints si
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by wincy 3y ago
We had an in home care nurse who watched our disable infant daughter go on a trip to Abu Dhabi trip, and brought back bed bugs. The nursing company tried to act like this was our responsibility, and tried to act like it was our fault, as if
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by wincy 3y ago
It’s way easier to just give up the scientific mumbo jumbo and be wholly uninterested in the topic as regardless of any free will or not I’m going to keep on existing and acting as if I have free will. So the question literally doesn’t mat
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It’s very important your children be taught whatever it is the government wants them to be taught! Which went very well for Germany in the 1930s…
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I asked it about string formatting deduplication and it suggested using a HashSet since it deduplicates strings, and I’m like “are you sure that’s the best way to do this?” Then it apologized and gave a much more “standard” way the second t
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by wincy 3y ago
They are making such an outsized impact for me. It’s like I have someone I can bother literally all day with the smallest questions about how to write code. Generics, templates, abstractions, data modeling, SQL, writing scripts, just absolu
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by wincy 3y ago
Hah yes I needed to send a fax to the government for my disabled daughter’s medical benefits and it would have been $70 at UPS. I couldn’t believe it. I sent it certified mail for $6 instead.
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I’d imagine Linus Sebastian (of YouTube Linus Tech Tips fame) is taking home more money than the recently appointed CEO of the Linus Media Group. But that’s also a weird situation because he basically hired the CEO to free himself up to do
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by wincy 3y ago
That’s pretty cool. I’d never though about bogons and debogonizing before, it’s like chasing off all the squatters on your property and more keep coming. You need some fat pipes and beefy servers to be able to handle all the bogus traffic
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by wincy 3y ago
I ate a diet where 80% of my calories were from fat and I struggled to eat more than 1300 calories in a day. I think unless you’re eating cheesecake every day (hyperpalatable foods where carbs + fat calories are near a 1:1 ratio) you’re not
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by wincy 3y ago
Talk about sated, I lost 80 pounds eating fatty meats and kimchi every day for six months. I literally couldn’t eat more than 1200 calories or so. People who haven’t updated their nutritional information priors live in this weird world wher
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We did because the schools followed the food pyramid. So they pushed foods on us that were low fat and high carb (like the ‘healthy’ chocolate skim milk, and no whole milk). Margarine instead of butter. Government food recommendations are H
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It was definitely an interesting article but the first sentence of the article proper really grabbed me. The weird thing to me about the world is you can have an event that literally millions of people watch around the world, and if you had
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by wincy 3y ago
Isn’t SAP absolutely massive? Surely they count as big tech. Edit: for anyone wondering SAP has ~110,000 employees worldwide, Google has ~180,000, so comparably mega scale tech company.
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But I literally have two computers? Why would Bethesda care that I’m playing Starfield while my kid is playing Stardew Valley? ConcernedApe certainly doesn’t care. If I’m trying to play Starfield in two places at once sure, I get why that
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by wincy 3y ago
As my little ones have gotten older it is a little annoying my kid can’t play a game on the steam deck hooked up to the TV downstairs while I want to play Baldur’s Gate 3 on my main PC. I own both games, what the heck?
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by wincy 3y ago
There are a few major missteps Apple made over the years that make me hesitant to buy any games on iPhone or iPad. With my Steam catalog I can download something I bought in 2004 and still be confident I can play it. I spent $20 on Monster
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by wincy 3y ago
On Halloween, my grandma (I’m in the US) would dress like a witch and use dry ice carbonate homemade root beer she’d dole out to kids from a giant bubbling black cauldron. I thought grandma was an actual witch for a while there.
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I’d hazard you can’t get a world record without a human being in the car? I’m no mechanical engineer, but I could definitely make something without a human inside of it go from 0-100 in less than a second.
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Isn’t this the diet that killed Steve Jobs?

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