2mol

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by 2mol 1y ago
> Is “unagentic engineer” a euphemism for human/not-AI? No, it refers to people that are not "high agency", i.e. they might be smart and competent but need guidance on what to work on, as opposed to taking initiative thems
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by 2mol 2y ago
That's beside the point, we all know that one terrible engineer who is just incredibly productive and completely lacks any self-critical instincts. With LLMs this type of output becomes much more easy to produce, so what are you going
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Tell HN: Merry Christmas
3 points by 2mol 2y ago|0 comments
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by 2mol 2y ago
Great article. I have an observation to the "engineers should know this and do good engineering" though: I work for a payments company and there is a fundamental career problem with becoming the ledger ninja: It's not enough
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by 2mol 2y ago
I mean, tigerbeetle looks extremely cool (I've watched the project develop since its inception), and I trust them to be rock-solid. But saying "just use this project that is very new and unproven, written in a new and unproven pro
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by 2mol 2y ago
These kind of tools (and the aesthetic) make me so happy for some reason. Another one that's pretty impressive and very lovely looking is Crocotile: https://crocotile3d.com/
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by 2mol 3y ago
All of this information and then they missed updating the favicon of the very page the article is published on :)
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by 2mol 3y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917820 ?
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Poking (fun) at the content filters of DALL-E 3 and GPT-4(backdoor.page)
3 points by 2mol 3y ago|0 comments
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by 2mol 3y ago
Sorry if this is ignorant, but I never understand what serverless Postgres means. What's different from a hosted Postgres instance? Some scaling characteristics or the fact you interact with it via an API instead of some library, ORM,
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by 2mol 3y ago
Maybe as a slight input to why your comment would get downvoted: You're expressing a few semi-related frustrations, but it reads pretty incoherent, since you seem to assume folks already know the concepts you're talking about and
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Shamir Secret Sharing(max.levch.in)
12 points by 2mol 3y ago|0 comments
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by 2mol 3y ago
A while ago my team needed exactly this kind of auth solution, so the eng team reached out to Ory to clarify some technical questions that weren't covered by the docs. We were super enthusiastic about Ory. It looked solid, was open-sou
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by 2mol 3y ago
If you're into historical recipes, I can't recommend the "Tasting History" channel on youtube enough. It intersperses replicating the recipes with a whole load of historical context and nuance. "The Forme of Cury&qu
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De-Extinction? Surely You’re Joking(cell.substack.com)
70 points by 2mol 4y ago|89 comments
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Lojban(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by 2mol 4y ago|1 comments
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by 2mol 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintings_by_Adolf_Hitler
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Darwin Correspondence Project – full set of 15000 letters available online(darwinproject.ac.uk)
1 points by 2mol 4y ago|0 comments
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by 2mol 4y ago
Wouldn't that be very illegal and noticed by every airport you ever land in?
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Hackaday Supercon Badge 2022 [video](youtube.com)
2 points by 2mol 4y ago|0 comments
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by 2mol 4y ago
Can you elaborate? I have no idea what any of this means in context.
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by 2mol 4y ago
If I have a dozen projects on my machine, they will all need different versions of various dependencies. How is the system's package manager going to help me with that?
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by 2mol 4y ago
It's generally agreed that it is totally safe (it solves the crossloading issue). I think we can all stick with the proven safe knots that we are comfortable with, and the fact it makes partner check a bit trickier applies also to the
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by 2mol 4y ago
The yosemite variant is fine, but maybe we shouldn't take the world's best climber as a reference who has a lot more context and experience to make very measured tradeoffs: > IMPORTANT: This knot is methodically NOT recommended
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by 2mol 4y ago
Nobody does a bowline, that's insane because you can't ring-load (cross-load) it. [0] Europeans sometimes do the double bowline (traced), but the naming is ambiguous in english, so you have to google double bowline on a bight. Ame
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by 2mol 4y ago
Which templates do you use?
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OpenAI(scottaaronson.blog)
209 points by 2mol 4y ago|152 comments
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by 2mol 4y ago
This is really great! I was fortunate enough to do my master's under a professor who included these visual representations in his lectures. I loved enough to write my thesis on the next step generalization, hyperelliptic curves. You mi
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by 2mol 4y ago
I love F#, but honestly Microsoft really hadn't built up the kind of trust back then (and maybe even now) to make this an even remotely realistic scenario.
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by 2mol 4y ago
I filled out the form to get access, and I got it about a day later. It's free, and it didn't ask me about anything else. As far as I can tell it's above beta quality, so definitely not vaporware.

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