zahlman

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541.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> It is better than getting fertiliser from fossil fuels, but it is still not great. Please explain how there is anything even remotely bad about it.
542.
by zahlman 3mo ago
"Weigh pros and cons based on the existing content of the context window, rather than attempting to search for related discussions online and import a consensus."
543.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> I guess part of it is also that I don't mind doing 'hand-edits' like for example LLMs love to say "// so and so removed" I just go and remove that manually later rather than being like "don'
544.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> A dithered image almost certainly beats a non-dithered JPEG compressed image in terms of file size, because you can JPEG compress the dithered image. For an algorithm like JPEG, if anything, you'd need to blur rather than dither
545.
by zahlman 3mo ago
Sure, but offering a weak file-size justification alongside that confuses the message.
546.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> DTF (direct to film) Very important clarification, there.
547.
by zahlman 3mo ago
I just now coincidentally fired it up as a guest and had no issue. Maybe only actual accounts are affected?
548.
by zahlman 3mo ago
(2015) per ChatGPT's best guess (which aligns well enough with my memory). Pretty sure it was not long after the .bike TLD became available.
549.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> Are you implying that something that gets reported on, shouldn't be on HN? > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they&
550.
by zahlman 3mo ago
Yes. The point is that every random going-on gets used as an excuse to rehash the entire conflict from 1947 onwards, and a lot of people are just not interested in that, and don't consider it relevant to the site.
551.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> There's no issue with this. This isn't the supreme court. Your income is not on the line. It's a code hosting repository. Go to GitHub if it bothers you. Codeberg is best known as a place for people to go when they'
552.
by zahlman 3mo ago
I honestly agree with the arguments they made to defend it, but then they tied themselves in loops trying to defend things like separate Greek and Cyrillic scripts and making superfine distinctions about how that isn't the same phenome
553.
by zahlman 3mo ago
Well, that's silly. The batter goes in the pan; the recipe is supposed to stay out on the counter.
554.
by zahlman 3mo ago
Okay, but I think we all want to hear the story about the time it failed.
555.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> Obvious exaggeration, but you get the point. From some very quick tests, I get the impression that having good grammar, punctuation etc. is really not important (although I try to do it anyway because I'm accustomed to trying to d
556.
by zahlman 3mo ago
The point is that you can properly describe what X, Y, and Z are . The irony to me is that a lot of what I'd tell people about this is exactly what I would have told them about writing Stack Overflow questions.
557.
by zahlman 3mo ago
The point is that every byte of it still means something to you even if you can't "parse" it.
558.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> This is because appending site: reddit.com to a search query is basically a surefire way to find results written by genuine humans. This take seems... very out of date. Anyway, old.reddit.com is still loading fine for me in a Private B
559.
by zahlman 3mo ago
Doesn't YouTube provide one automatically?
560.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> It's also totally valid to not use this feature and just fill the buffer with spaces at the beginning of your session instead; just know that in Vim it's not absolutely necessary. I actually set up a script to fill a temp fil
561.
by zahlman 3mo ago
Unless, you know, you configured it to work differently. I'm using [Compose]nd and [Compose]md . And a bunch of other cute things, like [Compose][Compose] for escape (with Caps Lock as my compose key).
562.
by zahlman 3mo ago
Long-term compatibility and the avoidance of vendor lock-in.
563.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> I could send the film off to a lab for developing and scanning, but this is the hardest way to make a GIF. … using multiple programs written by other people…
564.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> Discord, being the imperfect text platform, limits the text and leaves most interaction limited by awkward formatting. I don't think I understand your meaning here. I'd much rather use Markdown than BBCode or related.
565.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> But I have a growing sense that the core argument of The 4-Hour Workweek itself - the thesis that we should be creating loops of income-generating work that remove the human from the loop - is both obsolete and dangerous. Because of AI
566.
by zahlman 3mo ago
The first comment I saw there claimed: > Who was winning in remote work? The employees, their families, their kids, their wellbeing, their wallets, even cars went cheap because people don’t need to commute 2hrs everyday. Sure, remote wor
567.
by zahlman 3mo ago
How did the president manage to influence McDonalds' local business decisions? And how did that lead to McDonald's pulling out of the country?
568.
by zahlman 3mo ago
> Asking questions that are absurd is like interviewing developers and asking absurd questions on the grounds that it tests creative and critical thinking. Yes; what's wrong with that? Do you suppose that it doesn't test thos
569.
by zahlman 3mo ago
... Is that not how it should be interpreted?
570.
by zahlman 3mo ago
That seems to be how we signal "objectivity" nowadays.

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