NAHWheatCracker

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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
That first sentence is hard to grok.
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
My ISP in a small rural town supported IPv6. I have a few personal projects that only have a public v6 address because I don't want to pay AWS for an v4 address. It worked fine for a year and a half after I moved in, then they did some
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
It doesn't make sense that you would lose more weight by sleeping only considering metabolism. I can see an argument around sleeping always being a net loss, since you're never consuming food while sleeping. Sleeping more thus mea
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
Doesn't the CO2 get exhaled during activity rather than sleep?
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
I worked for about 8 months on an internal product for doing transmission studies at a large utility company. Basically, it would feed a PSS/E [1] file specifying most of the transmission grid into a power flow simulation software call
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
The first job I had as a software engineer was at a trucking company that had a desktop Swing application. If an exception happened, the user would get a pop-up with buttons to email support the stack trace or cancel. The email went to all
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
The first job I had as a software engineer was at a trucking company that had a desktop Swing application. If an exception happened, the user would get a pop-up with buttons to email support the stack trace or cancel. The email went to all
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
I was wondering what kind of bird was chirping outside my window this morning. I should have had this app.
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
Nice site, slick. Not sure what use the data has to me, but I don't make posts, so that's my fault. It would be nice if the chart would move down or something when you select a post that's lower in the rankings. I had to scro
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
I wasn't criticizing the choice of word, apologies. I'm interested if anyone has an idea of what it would mean for an AI to generate or do something "novel" in the sense of creatively new.
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
I think of the word as a mixture of complaining and sympathizing. I would consider it commiseration if one were to complain to their coworkers about an HR policy in the hopes of receiving sympathy or agreement about the problems with the po
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
Are there any well-thought treatises on what "novel" means?
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
These days I occasionally run into an app with no words and abstract symbols. I have to guess which one does what I want. I mess up 50% of the time when I want to open the Google Maps app. I tap the M icon, but that's for Gmail.
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
Regarding the customer, who knows? Unless they reply to you, you're guessing. It could be a legitimate case of a stolen card or they could deliberately trying use your service without paying. In this case, it sounds like you should ind
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
I wish I had followed this advice when I was first a tech lead a few years ago. I wasn't a manager per say, but I had two junior engineers. We had way too much to do in too little time. I explained how the PM had messed up the project
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
Not a fan of asking for an email after uploading. I didn't get the report emailed to me (yet? maybe because I censored my personal details?). Just a popup asking to subscribe. I doubt there's anyway to save more than the cost of t
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
I hated performance reviews. My manager would always keep stuff vague. He tried to protect people and he didn't really observe my work. His feedback was based mostly on emails asking people what I'm good and bad at. Every three mo
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
Having an editor isn't wrong, but it's an luxury for something as small as a Hacker News comment or an email. Paul having an editor isn't a luxury. His essays are edited because it's important for his business. He can ea
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
I don't feel much inspired by the metaphor of garbage collection and AI. Garbage collection makes thinking about memory irrelevant 99% of the time. Time saved with AI is spent figuring out what the AI did. The garbage collector rarely
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
> I switched to Raindrop, and the free-tier is more than useless to me. Low bar to hit.
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
In some ways, yes. If you want to optimize at that level you ought to use another language. I'm not a low level optimization guy, but I've had occasions where I wanted control over which threads my goroutines are running on or pri
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
Yea. Watch a sci-fi film - nifty gadgets, robots taking care of chores, and widespread spaceflight. Real life is some unreliable chat bots. Then there's the depressing practical stuff. AI being forced down our throats. AI as an excuse
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
I got a new phone in January, a Pixel 8a, after my previous phone's touch screen died. I never had issues with my old phone playing music. When I played music over Bluetooth, the new phone would bug out after a few songs and make odd m
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by NAHWheatCracker 1y ago
> all written in Javascript Pass.
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
I didn't make the original analogy. I was just explaining part of the point. I disagree with the number 100. It is not a reasonable number with respect to current AI capabilities. If the cost of digging ditches goes down, companies wil
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
It's a metaphor.
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
If 1 person can use an excavator/AI, then a 100 person crew can use 100 excavators/AIs. Capabilities have increased for everyone, not just for 1 man operations.
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
At the last place I worked I assiduously filled out those surveys. Twice a year the executives would do an all hands meeting and talk about the result of the recent survey. They would make a big deal out of all the changes they were making.
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Very interesting to rate movies and see what it predicts. Sometimes it's fairly spot on and other times it's way off. Very mathematical. Thanks for sharing.
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by NAHWheatCracker 2y ago
Hah, I was just going to go back to these after I had issues with the Shadowmarch series by Tad Williams and The Wizard Knight series by Gene Wolfe. I had figured out that the books are on the authors' page even though the search wasn&

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