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by xtracto 2mo ago
I remember downloading MOD files. It was just a bit larger than midi, but sounded better. I had a PC but I think it was an Amiga thing
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by xtracto 2mo ago
HN unfortunately is not a forum for anything "deep", most conversations are shallow and temporary "fast". The /./Fark/Digg format brought us that. Discord "chat" format also doesnt work, it'
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by xtracto 2mo ago
We need to start talking about real Software Engineering concepts. The stuff we will write to guide agents to build our software. We will be building architectural blueprints for software "buildings" same as Civic Engineers and Ar
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by xtracto 2mo ago
To me, what makes it hateful is that it is EVERYWHERE. Reddit is full of it, LinkedIn is full of it, the web is full of it. Shit, even Facebook has it now. It's kind of sad. I compare it to when Memes started becoming popular as com
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by xtracto 2mo ago
Ooof. There's a whole lot of research related to multiagent Systems and Epistemic Logic (and plenty of other logics) from when the "original" MultiAgent Systems where studied. Im very familiar with van der Hoek and Wooldridge
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by xtracto 2mo ago
After many years of using that, the few times when I manually get to news.ycombinator.com I find it unreadable haha. Crazy how ones brain adapts.
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by xtracto 2mo ago
Somehow reminded me of: THERE IS INSUFFICIENT DATA TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.
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by xtracto 2mo ago
Back in the mid 90s when the web started to be all the rage, I remember reading a comment I thought hilarious and kind of right. Paraphrasing a lot it went like this: "Somehow, when people get into the internet, their IQ decreases li
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by xtracto 2mo ago
Love it. Im not American nor have my country any interest in this, but definitely promoting the webz narrative that this is nothing, storm in a teacup, nothing to see here , move along while keeping wacking key figures, would be a plausible
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by xtracto 2mo ago
> I want my browser to prevent random extensions from directly reading web page data This is so funny to me. Coming from a Netscape Navigator world, when extensions first came out, they were supposed to allow the user to add functionali
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by xtracto 2mo ago
I was thinking of this post that made the rounds here some weeks ago: https://simone.org/advertising/
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by xtracto 2mo ago
Spamming image based penny stocks emails also worked; doesn't make it right. Advertising should.be illegal.
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by xtracto 2mo ago
My first full time programmer job I got in early 2003. I had only 1 year left in University and a friend of mine was working in this "hotel reservation website" company owned by some gringos (this was in La Paz, BCS back in the da
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by xtracto 2mo ago
LinkedIn used to be good-ish before MS bought it, when connections meant a thing, and you could "ask Joe to introduce you to Mary" . The network was valuable. When they added the story /post section it became a glorified
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by xtracto 2mo ago
I tend to agree in the spirit of this. But more because I believe that Complied and statically typed rigid programming languages tend to be more "software Engineery" than dynamic. That is, as they are more "rigid" and ex
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by xtracto 2mo ago
I think the main advantage of Static-compiled-strongly-typed languages will be that it will allow the [automated] generation of comprehensive static analysis test suites to provide specific and explicit assurances about the code. That is, f
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by xtracto 2mo ago
A couple of years ago, my wife (around 40 at the time) was struggling to sleep (she had very light sleep and woke up in the middle of the night for no reason). She tried most of the things everybody recommends, melatonin, slow release, Gaba
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by xtracto 2mo ago
Great! I just spent the past 4 days in Helsinki for vacation (writing this from Silja ferry to Copenhage). Really lovely city , Allas pool Sauna is really a "something else" experience for a Mexican, and a friend of mine who live
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by xtracto 2mo ago
Maybe at some point it may even get the ternary conditional operator or a proper exception handling syntax. Those things that Golang defenders say "dont make sense" until it's implemented, then 'it always made sense&quo
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by xtracto 2mo ago
That was my first thought. In my experience, particularly with trading firms (the ones doing real science based prediction trading, not TA bullshit) do not publish ANYTHING at all, and haven't for 40+ years. Think Renaissance Techno
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by xtracto 2mo ago
Lol. As a Mexican "brown" I would feel safer from police in China than in the US.
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by xtracto 3mo ago
I think for profit Health Insurance is a straight 100% scam. The only service where you pay a company for a service and when you need that service they spend as much money as possible to avoid giving you that service. But... I've come
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by xtracto 3mo ago
>. In this case AI will be responsible for building better models, making people who own datacenters the winners. We need SETI@home for Open Weight models yesterday...
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by xtracto 3mo ago
I dream of some kind of "adjustable" ASIC layers, that have the most "computation demanding" layers as ASICs plus a bunch of configurable R+W circuits (FPGAs?) that can be written to upgrade the models to some extent. Wh
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by xtracto 3mo ago
Too bad the things that really matter don't make "sense" (mostly people talk about economic sense when talking about this). Increasing the temperature of the earth , and water usage are two things that using Space data center
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by xtracto 3mo ago
I dont remember why I was kind of barred from lobsters , but I applaud all this behavior you mentioned. In the end, that's how normal clickes of friends/interest groups form (or formed 30 years ago in real life.) If you got into
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by xtracto 3mo ago
Oh but it really is. An LLM is no magic wand. It's a model as its name rigthly indicates. Those of us who have worked in modeling and simulations know two principles of models: - garbage in, garbage out - all models are wrong, some
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by xtracto 3mo ago
>It's also, frankly, quite lonely. Programming with an LLM is an intensely solitary activity. > You and the machine, going back and forth, refining and prompting and reviewing. I just want to comment on this. Maybe im part of som
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by xtracto 3mo ago
Come on, ALL companies are psychopaths in their behavior. Their only objective is to make money to shareholders. So anything that gets in their way is fair game. They are relentless optimizers. After all, most people holding GOOG, MSFT, ME
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by xtracto 3mo ago
> I can’t understand how we got to this place with “app culture" Thie assertion is extremely funny to me. Historically we come from an "app culture". Back in the day, around 2000 or so, if you wanted some functionality,

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