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by zerobees 4mo ago
You're arguing with LLM-generated text and yes, I don't think the photos actually show that. They don't seem to be making any political point at all. The thing to understand about the USSR is that Moscow was a flagship city o
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Replying as a person who acted a hiring manager for decades: their loss. Hiring for technical roles, I love long-winded answers as long as they are coherent. I don't want slogans, I want to understand how you reason through problems
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by zerobees 4mo ago
I'm not as negative about this, but with the benefit of hindsight, it's easy why the current initiatives didn't go anywhere. It's not that people are not willing to make sacrifices. We repeatedly did this in times of fam
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by zerobees 4mo ago
You're being pedantic. By your standard, I also have a relationship with the DMV, and to avoid a "toxic relationship" (parent's language), I should be honest with them about all the times I rolled past a stop sign.
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by zerobees 4mo ago
The parent was talking about giving a diplomatic answer about your attitude / use of AI. I'm not talking about Enron here.
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by zerobees 4mo ago
> Have you considered just answering truthfully? ... That sounds not like a job but a toxic relationship. It's a job, not a relationship. It's best not to confuse the two. In any workplace, you will occasionally have to do thin
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by zerobees 4mo ago
I don't think that's fair. There's a lot of talent and grit behind ffmpeg. But for better or worse, getting the code to do what it's supposed to do requires a different mindset than getting it to not do anything else (
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by zerobees 4mo ago
My impression is that in the past year or so, IEEE journals have been leaning pretty heavily into low-quality, AI-generated articles. And looks like this author produced not one, not two, but three career advice columns in a single day - im
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Ffmpeg has an exceptionally terrible track record when it comes to security. People have been throwing fuzzers at it for as long as I remember and coming back with a nearly inexhaustible supply of memory corruption bugs. Here's an ef
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by zerobees 4mo ago
I disagree, for two reasons. First, blogging is nearly-free for people who have non-demanding, well-paying jobs . Sure, I find it tacky when an engineer working at Google is asking for donations, but I accept that for some people, a small
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by zerobees 4mo ago
I do. I'm familiar with his research from the pre-Google era, and that's that.
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Right. I have respect for Rene, but going by the "HN quitting manifestos" like this, Google has lost its moral compass at least 50 times at various points in the last 20 years. The company is constantly changing, but also hasn&#x2
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by zerobees 4mo ago
No. There was no "unit". This was before the days of modular PC PSUs and switching wall warts (which started proliferating only later). So it was just a custom circuit that used commodity components. For these components, the volu
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Outside of some niche specializations like cryptography, math isn't practiced because of "consequences". Most mathematicians take pride in their work not having any obvious practical applications. They're also overwhelmi
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by zerobees 4mo ago
> Arguments about beauty don't lead anywhere constructive because they are too observer- and context-dependent. Meh. You can successfully argue that there is no objective anything . It's all just our perception and the emotion
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by zerobees 4mo ago
This has been available in the US for a long time. I had it on the car I bought in 2016, and on another I bought in 2023. It's just not mandatory, so it usually comes as a part of some safety / driver assistance package. And even
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by zerobees 4mo ago
> Gift your house to the city with a deed that says they have to rent it back to you forever for $1 a year? What if I write a note saying that you need to pay me $10,000? That's not a contract, that's just a fever dream. But if
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Having had a subscription to Hack-a-Day for a long time, I firmly believe that the vast majority of "weird one-off" Raspberry Pi projects don't actually need anything as capable as a Raspberry Pi SBC. It's just a matter
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by zerobees 4mo ago
It is a property of any large bureaucracy that a large proportion of the bureaucracy exists to serve itself. And it's not BS, it's a natural consequence of growth. Imagine you start in the mode of "moving fast and breaking st
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by zerobees 4mo ago
In common with most of Europe, German legal system is not based on case law. It's more firmly rooted in formal laws and regulations and judges are not required to follow precedent.
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by zerobees 4mo ago
> It’s all about who’s ass you kiss and who’s ass you don’t ... I think it’s exceedingly rare that a CEO is actually competent at their job. But... that is kinda the job? CEOs are, first and foremost, the public face of the company. They
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Skepticism against AI text detectors on HN is as old as time, and frequently comes from people with some vested interest in filling up the internet with slop when you look at their business ideas / projects / blogs. I've done
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by zerobees 4mo ago
It reads that way and Pangram says it's AI. And my experience says that if you see an AI-related headline on HN, there's a 50%+ chance that it is AI-generated and meant mostly for clicks.
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by zerobees 4mo ago
This article appears to be 100% AI. I guess there's some irony that a company ships an AI feature and someone else uses AI to come up with criticisms of that feature. But the article... doesn't actually say anything? It's jus
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Given that the US govt is reportedly talking to OpenAI about taking a stake, your only choice might be Zimbabwean dollars.
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by zerobees 4mo ago
Forums of the early 2000s were almost always sorted by recency, not upvote count. They also typically weren't dominated by vendor press releases and news stories, whereas domains such as anthropic.com, blog.google, openai.com, along wi
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by zerobees 4mo ago
The people on this site are, overwhelmingly, the people who already "came together" to build businesses like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, and so on. We pretend we're the victims, but none of these platforms would have
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by zerobees 4mo ago
The LWN article is incorrect in saying that it "must copy the entire process state (including memory) for the child process". There are some kernel structures and page tables that need to be initialized, plus you need a new stack,
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by zerobees 4mo ago
I know that people with strong feelings one way or the other will comment here, but note that this is specifically about problems with known answers that can be inferred from existing literature (e.g., training data). This is an interesting
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by zerobees 4mo ago
I get what you're saying, but I think there's a contradiction between wanting to be a passive index-fund investor and having opinions like that. The core tenet of index investing is that the market knows better than you.

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