admissionsguy

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by admissionsguy 4mo ago
The modern version is "LLMs produce bad code"
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by admissionsguy 4mo ago
I’d argue these are a wholly distinct category of thing than the concepts associated with the words UAP/UFO. Surely there exist experimental aircraft, and that may be of interest to specialists in intelligence and military fields and m
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by admissionsguy 4mo ago
There is nothing about UAP that can be serious.
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by admissionsguy 4mo ago
Will it need bailing out or will it take everyone’s jobs? The opposition to AI needs to make up their mind.
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by admissionsguy 4mo ago
I think I watched more Italian Brainrot than all other video content combined
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by admissionsguy 4mo ago
I hear that attitude about AI is much more positive in China. So people like him, in aggregate, could potentially be a danger and cause the US to give up the lead for the rest of century. Takes one bad election..
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by admissionsguy 5mo ago
> Most of what people value in public life is supported by taxes Citation needed. If you value something paid for by taxes you should pay for yourself. Feel free to pool your money with all the other people of value the same thing - shou
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by admissionsguy 7mo ago
for the record, my newish mac shows the display settings fine when i type display
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by admissionsguy 7mo ago
TIL there is a search bar triggered by CMD+Space. After 15 long years.
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by admissionsguy 7mo ago
No a bad thing if you desire the corporate power to eventually become the main force shaping the world :)
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by admissionsguy 7mo ago
Hard imagining well designed web app bottlenecked by server-side processing that is not offloaded to database, or done via bindings to libraries written in compiled languages.
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by admissionsguy 7mo ago
> solutions written in dynamic programming languages like PHP and Python are always woefully slow True as it may be that they are slow, I doubt it's caused by the use of dynamic programming languages. > The money should be secu
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by admissionsguy 8mo ago
Is this what life in Europe has come to?
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by admissionsguy 9mo ago
Aeron chair - nothing special, could have done with a 10x cheaper ikea chair
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by admissionsguy 9mo ago
Can't they get out and kill the Ubers already instead of sitting in the lot? (half-serious, but I have been wondering what are the reasons they don't just push the price towards zero during low hours?)
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by admissionsguy 9mo ago
So is it the kind of thing that Voynich manuscript describes?
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by admissionsguy 9mo ago
there are some but they required this amount of processing https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/06/business/caroline-ell...
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by admissionsguy 9mo ago
It's just aging. If you were aware of tech climate in the 2010s, means you are past 30 years old and getting jaded. Young people are very enthusiastic about the AI.
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by admissionsguy 10mo ago
Isn't falling for virtue signalling charity donations more of a twattery?
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by admissionsguy 10mo ago
Sounds like he is a refreshingly honest person
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by admissionsguy 10mo ago
> Illiterate incoming freshman are the product of the public middle and high school systems, not the university system. That doesn't matter for the op's point. Students starting from this base won't get good in 4 years.
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by admissionsguy 10mo ago
I actually see a large stream of people moving to the US. Europe is doomed.
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Ask HN: Why do designers have repugnant websites?
15 points by admissionsguy 10mo ago|10 comments
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by admissionsguy 10mo ago
100 euros claude subscription not nearly useful enough
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by admissionsguy 11mo ago
Is there any good reason to switch from mysql to postgres though?
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
When your work consists of writing stuff disconnected from reality it surely helps to have it written automatically.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
So just the “it’s different this time” mentality shared by all bubbles. Some things never change.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
It can also be very difficult to get one if you are non-citizen.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
I wish.. must be incredibly liberating and relaxing to be off for two years or more. Living the life of an XVIIIth century aristocrat just with more material comforts and less status.
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by admissionsguy 1y ago
I can only see ~half of each line on my phone and cannot scroll, so whatever they are doing, they are doing it badly.

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