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by beemboy 23d ago
Yes and no. I believe the point he is making is simply that there is no substitute for fundamentals and first-principles thinking. We had scores of students study how microprocessors work and compilers work over decades, yet we have 3 or 4
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by beemboy 3mo ago
Is this going to be good for AOSP builds on Macs?
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by beemboy 4mo ago
Gembook or Geminote would've been cooler. But no one asked me unfortunately.
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by beemboy 4mo ago
So good. I had this read to me by Eleven Labs' reader and it somehow very very good with conveying the emotion. 5 stars, will recommend
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by beemboy 5mo ago
A note from the original author, possibly even a minor nerd celebrity, expressing surprise at this making the HN page and gratitude for those that rediscovered and reposted it.
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by beemboy 6mo ago
I predict Cursor will be acquired by Anthropic to marry the UI with Claude code.
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by beemboy 6mo ago
I won't debate this. I'm a fan of the enduring pipe operator and the simple elegance of process composition in *nix. My point was more: what will we need them for? To review code written by a bot? GUI tools are better for this IMH
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by beemboy 6mo ago
I'm not convinced that terminal orientedness of AI tooling itself will last. My hypothesis is that it was chosen by developers of the current generation building for developers of the current generation. I hypothesize that there is a f
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by beemboy 7mo ago
Yah I think this actually competes with used Airs and older MBPs.
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by beemboy 7mo ago
Sweet memories...
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by beemboy 7mo ago
Isn't there a point at which it trains itself on these various outputs, or someone somewhere draws one and feeds it into the model so as to pass this benchmark?
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by beemboy 10mo ago
Can someone enlighten me as to what the debate here is really about? Is the concern that the implementers of age gating could steal data? Is it that one entity (the "government") would obtain information about your age, etc? Doesn
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by beemboy 1y ago
Building an HN reader feels like the Hello World for hackers. Still waiting for HN in BF running in the Doom HUD.
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by beemboy 2y ago
Apple TV+ is nailing its top shows, so it makes my actual severed life feel good. Oh shit...
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by beemboy 5y ago
> After his arrest, he reportedly told police: "How did you find me? I haven't even called my family for 10 years." In Liam Neeson’s voice: “you can run, but you can’t hide.” I suppose we can “Google” just about anything a
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Italian mafia boss caught after Google Maps sighting in Spain(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by beemboy 5y ago|3 comments
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by beemboy 5y ago
This is depressing and not going to stop because it is so lucrative and relatively easy for these malware companies to find victims. It makes me wonder if cybersecurity should be considered a state responsibility and infrastructure so it
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by beemboy 7y ago
Mason America | Lead Devops Engineer | US/Seattle | Full-time, onsite | https://www.bymason.com Mason (YC W'16) is mobile IaaS that enables businesses to automate deployment of their own Android-based device ecosystems
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by beemboy 7y ago
> I am not a whatsapp fanboy, but I strongly doubt that these flaws were designed, and to call them "backdoors" is hyperbole. Well after listening to the Darknet diaries podcast regularly, and reading about Stuxnet, I'm pr
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by beemboy 8y ago
Mason America | Backend, Devops, Full Stack, Android/Embedded Software Engineers | Seattle | Full Time | https://www.bymason.com We're building "mobile infrastructure as a service" that enables businesses to
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by beemboy 9y ago
Gotta give him credit for owning up.
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by beemboy 9y ago
> "The Voyager flight team dug up decades-old data and examined the software that was coded in an outdated assembler language, to make sure we could safely test the thrusters," said Jones, chief engineer at JPL. Pretty awesome.
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Voyager team reactivates 37 year old hardware by reverse engg(voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)
2 points by beemboy 9y ago|4 comments
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by beemboy 9y ago
It was the standard account I believe. Shellshock came first followed by BlueLaser IIRC.
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by beemboy 9y ago
I can still remember: * that moment I was overjoyed to use Lynx over dialup in South India back in the mid-90s allowing me to browse the World Wide Web! * ...And then that moment being surpassed when I wet myself running the Netscape "
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by beemboy 9y ago
How is this news?
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by beemboy 10y ago
Just realized, we forgot to add our contact info right here: you can email work [at] bymason [dot] com
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by beemboy 10y ago
Mason | Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Frontend) | SEATTLE | http://www.bymason.com WHO ARE WE? We're Mason, a YC (W16) company building mobile deployment infrastructure for companies to build solutions atop their own A
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by beemboy 10y ago
Java frameworks are conspicuous by their absence. Are there any lightweight Java frameworks for the java/android folks out there?
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by beemboy 10y ago
Mason | Seattle, WA | Full-Time | ONSITE | Back-End, Front-End, Systems Engineers US: We're Mason, a YC-backed (W16) company building mobile deployment infrastructure that allows any company to create their own Android-based device eco

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