ENGNR

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by ENGNR 4d ago
Fable still better for planning, Astra faster overall but misses things. Maybe that’s behaviour not raw intelligence but it’s noticeable
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by ENGNR 2mo ago
Switching to Codex if their subscription includes 5.6 and Anthropic’s doesn’t include even some small quota of Fable. I’d be using local LLM’s if I didn’t want any access to frontier
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by ENGNR 4mo ago
House tax changes... strong yes Share tax changes... ugh My hope was cashed up bogans would start betting on shares instead of housing/crypto. At least it could be funnelled into something productive
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by ENGNR 4mo ago
Australia also has a 60 year productivity low and a government that is boosting taxes on capital gains on shares/business to basically a worldwide high. So take our experiments with a grain of salt!
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by ENGNR 5mo ago
It's frustrating that even brand new Unifi devices that claim to support IPv6 are actually pretty broken when you try to use it. So 10 years from right now even, unless they can software patch it upwards.
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by ENGNR 7mo ago
Banks remain with COBOL because it's unsexy and stable. And then they say... let's just YOLO some vibe code into the next release sight unseen! Logic checks out.
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by ENGNR 7mo ago
They also launched dummy satellites from the "pez dispenser", directly simulating the actual mission payload, about 4 months ago.
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by ENGNR 10mo ago
Lol thank you. Original as far as I know, most welcome to steal!
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by ENGNR 10mo ago
The trick is that the USA steps up the buy price of an asset when you pass away. So if you use cheap loans your whole life, you can defer capital tax until it goes away. Instead of two certainties in life being death and taxes, it's no
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by ENGNR 10mo ago
How does that work in practice? If you're bootstrapped, borrow a bunch of money to pay tax because your company got to $10M val. But then the market shifts and it goes back down to $0 in later years, do you get the money back? Even if
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by ENGNR 10mo ago
Yes! I rewound the video to double check But honestly at this point I’m destined to buy a Steam Machine despite having a hefty Mac that could do gaming if only it were possible. Valve have been amazing about open computing and Apple are bas
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by ENGNR 11mo ago
Had some very weird behaviour from cloudfront used purely to serve images from s3. Mostly huge slowdowns and outright failures on endpoints. Was about 15 hours ago that I noticed it by chance. Was nothing on the aws status pages and no aler
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by ENGNR 11mo ago
Omfg you're right. I was half joking before, but yeah that's... quite a coincidence
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by ENGNR 11mo ago
Nakamoto = central origin Origin = CIA?
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by ENGNR 11mo ago
Vision Pro is an excellent example What Apple really needs to do is mimic their old policy of no fees except for games. Let everyone develop for it, and then rug pull by making the fees apply to everything But they can’t do it twice. So the
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by ENGNR 1y ago
Ewwwwwww
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by ENGNR 1y ago
There’s too many hackers on hacker news!
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by ENGNR 1y ago
Pretty scary for Apple shareholders. They're basically saying that the extremely expensive hardware alone isn't enough to make a profit anymore? They're that reliant on the app store monopoly now?
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by ENGNR 1y ago
There are all sorts of protections around who can be a custodian of someone’s money (for good reason) However there are use cases like running a marketplace, where the platform would like to be able to direct the flow, maybe hold things tem
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by ENGNR 1y ago
Anecdotally I saw a post on reddit about a senior SWE in the USA who was laid off and couldn't get any interviews, with their old job outsourced to eastern Europe. And then this month the people he hadn't even got a response back
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by ENGNR 1y ago
Depends how many liberties it takes in imagining the world Lidar is direct measurement
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by ENGNR 1y ago
I want to say that part of empathy is a selfish, self preservation mechanism. If that person over there is gleefully torturing a puppy… will they do it to me next? If that person over there is gleefully torturing an LLM… will they do it to
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by ENGNR 1y ago
Blocked. By Order the Queen. I'm sure someone could whip up some merch super quickly as souvenirs/protest
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by ENGNR 1y ago
Elon's Y Combinator interview was pretty good. He seemed more in his element back amongst the hacker crowd (rather than dirty politics), and seemed to be doing hackery things at X, like renting generators and mobile cooling vans and ju
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by ENGNR 1y ago
Restaurant staff are still nice in Australia, and friendly. They don't HAVE to be, but they also don't have to do a bunch of unnecessary stuff to play the tips game, like fill up water that's barely empty or check in on how y
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by ENGNR 1y ago
Interesting! So the desired number of children dropped (I wonder what number it was reduced from, maybe from an unrealistic number), and the # of hours men spent with their children went up, and women did get back to work earlier. It seems
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by ENGNR 1y ago
The article dances around the reason… the desire for flexibility is financially penalised. The gender pay gap is really the parenting pay gap, since it didn’t exist before the age where people start having kids. Encourage more men to be sta
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by ENGNR 1y ago
I’m so grateful that hacker news isn’t swayed too much politically - people in general are willing to consider any novel argument on its merits in search of deeper understanding. As opposed to say Reddit where if you don’t agree with the hi
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by ENGNR 1y ago
This was our experience too. I don’t know how Microsoft gets anything done, their systems were just buggy, poorly documented chaos for us. We had a boat load of credits, an existing codebase/system we were just trying to move from AWS
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by ENGNR 1y ago
As a non US resident - not having to think about tipping the driver makes me excited and significantly more likely to visit. Tipping culture is just exhausting! If someone could automate wheeling the food a few dozen metres from a restauran

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