Eiriksmal

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by Eiriksmal 20d ago
I noticed this week that the menu button on LinkedIn posts now lets you choose "Seems like AI slop" as an option. How bold of them to call it what it is... Hacker News is ready for something besides "flag," because it&#x
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by Eiriksmal 4mo ago
I ask myself these same questions every workday. Are you cooking any new articles on this topic, Gwern? Reading your (thoroughly researched) thoughts often helps me clarify my own.
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by Eiriksmal 5mo ago
I think I asked Nathan B all of my important Flickr-post-your-aquistion questions at a 7CTOs event way back in 2019, but that was a lifetime ago. Do you make enough money off my Flickr Pro subscription to keep it going indefinitely? I'
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by Eiriksmal 6mo ago
Maybe it's because the comment you are replying to is from a new account posting paragraphs of LLMese in multiple comments in the same minute. It's unsurprising that soulless LLM output doesn't match your mindset!
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by Eiriksmal 8mo ago
I bought a SpeedQueen washer-dryer set to have a dedicated wool wash option to care for my Gustin wool flannels and various 100% merino wool sweaters. Does that count? I would imagine most people on this site don't deal with clothes sh
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Blaming AI, Micron will shut down consumer business Crucial(boisedev.com)
2 points by Eiriksmal 10mo ago|1 comments
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by Eiriksmal 11mo ago
I saw Penske Truck Leasing trailers on fire at Kentucky Truck on WHAS"s helicopter footage from last night. 15 years ago, I'd be there once a week doing parts runs from the PTL branch off Newburg. The security cam footage of the p
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by Eiriksmal 1y ago
https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releas... A fascinating investor. I just finished re-reading Microserfs . The buzzwords may have changed between 1993 and 2025, but the human behaviors certainly h
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by Eiriksmal 2y ago
And then, 20 years later, I meet a kid on the local playground who claims to be the son of one of the Cloudflare co-founders or CTO. I was thinking, wait, isn't JGC in Britain, not Boise? Even though the kid was visibly disappointed th
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by Eiriksmal 2y ago
Treewave used something similar, to great effect, on his Cabana EP. Prominently here on Sleep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKx8bZ5eq8 He hacked up the firmware of a dotmatrix printer to send it commands from his Atari
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by Eiriksmal 2y ago
This makes me tired. I know it's supposed to be humorous self deprecation, but it's soul crushing to see the pseudo real-time thought process behind the fantastically over-engineered setups from my day jobs. All for someone's
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by Eiriksmal 2y ago
Ah, Lars-Christian! No one wants to talk to you in real life about your blog because you're in Norway . If you lived here in the United States, you'd have a perpetual string of very interesting conversations about your personal w
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by Eiriksmal 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis A prolific poster on Hacker News before his death. You'll need showdead enabled to see most of his comments.
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by Eiriksmal 3y ago
Or Operation: Inner Space. It used the file system to generate sectors to visit to clear viruses from your EXEs, and collecting non-contaminated EXEs to use as currency. It works great with Windows' backwards compatibility, but modern
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by Eiriksmal 3y ago
Was the reason for the Shazam office in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego because you were originally from San Diego before moving to England? Lawn Love rented a suite above theirs from 2014-2018. The Shazam mobile app devs working out of that off
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by Eiriksmal 3y ago
>The Millennials were largely spared from the carnage because all but the last few years of them were beyond puberty when the phone-based childhood swept in. Every generation thinks its suffering is unique and worse than those before it.
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by Eiriksmal 3y ago
Even if you can't have personal connections with the founders of 80 companies in a batch, having hundreds of companies in each batch--twice a year!--is seriously diluting my own worked-for-a-YC-startup brand equity. "Oh, yeah, I
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by Eiriksmal 3y ago
The cyberurinals coupled with the bleak sculpture garden[0] outside Eddie's truly do make for a great Stephenson aside, come to life. It's only missing Gibson's combat hovercraft tanks parked by the statues, instead of Ford R
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by Eiriksmal 4y ago
For posterity, I'm pretty confident Anamanguchi were the first men to send Italian food to space, for the Endless Fantasy music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fdr-Fiv92c The raw space pizza footage even has th
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by Eiriksmal 4y ago
Definitely some are lurking out of sheer addictive habit. But there's fewer reasons to leave comments because a) the community grew and there's already someone who articulated your point, so no sense in repeating it and b) the hiv
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by Eiriksmal 4y ago
A big shout-out for Winco--albeit their ~140 stores is dwarfed by the Kroger, Albertsons, and Publix triumvirate. Winco is without a doubt the best non-luxury grocery store I've been to in decades. How did tiny Boise, Idaho birth both
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by Eiriksmal 4y ago
So, statistically, how many more years will it take for me to be hit again? Writing something less useless and and more frequently would probably decrease that epoch. On the lightning itself: Some of the consulting offers I got in response
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by Eiriksmal 4y ago
Sometimes, it turns out the wind carries your voice farther than you thought. I submitted my blog to Hacker News a few years ago to see if I could get some sweet, sweet SEO juice for my name as I ramped up a job search. It managed to get to
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by Eiriksmal 4y ago
https://www.tsa.gov/about/tsa-mission >Mission: Protect the nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce. >Vision: An agile security agency, embodied by a professiona
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by Eiriksmal 4y ago
Being tempted and acting on those temptations are two different things. There is nothing damning in this comment. I appreciate the author's honesty.
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by Eiriksmal 5y ago
The point of those groups is that they are closed. Similar to how "Secret" Facebook groups became the late 00s equivalent of invite-only PHPBB forums (think what.cd). If you're part of whatever political or ideological moveme
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by Eiriksmal 5y ago
That's hilarious. I recently moved to Idaho, the other I state. People occasionally call it Iowa multiple times in the same conversation! Similar to that Ohio/Iowa shirt, there's also an excellent one sold at the hipster groc
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by Eiriksmal 5y ago
But while you're along for the ride (or trapped on the slowly sinking ship), it can be really helpful to see where the big company's policies and procedures are outright dysfunctions . Not everything they do is merely "this
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by Eiriksmal 5y ago
I don't know the exact percentage of properties not in Zillow but in the MLS, but it is a very small amount. Zillow changed the game when it came to us non-Realtors(R) having access to housing price data. So much so, that some housing
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by Eiriksmal 5y ago
>I'm a happy Fastmail customer, but the number of outages recently has been a little concerning. From that thread 9 months ago, who goes on to complain about not having post mortems sent to him via Twitter. I've been using Fast

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