caidan

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by caidan 4d ago
Why would you write such a long post for such an important subject in 2026. Who is he writing for? For a technical audience you can just say the oh god they really are paper clip machines. For a non technical audience you can just say noth
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by caidan 4d ago
Clowns
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by caidan 8d ago
I mean this is just the logical end game. The company/ies that control the uber mind will devour ALL useful or valuable work. Unlimited intelligence at unlimited scale means the value of humans for knowledge work goes to zero. We wi
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by caidan 10d ago
I’ve used this for many years on a random windows box, and it’s usually very nice. This is the first time I’ve seen this. And man, give me a fucking break. What’s the argument, Microsoft needs the money? Get a grip guys, it’s ok to do th
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by caidan 11d ago
My god, to read this thread is to gaze into the abyss.
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by caidan 23d ago
I'd just like to say that as an old nerd who has been reading hacker news, often daily, for a long long time, hacker news is an absolute treasure, and dang & pg are saints for keeping it going. The Magnasanti that we call "Tec
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by caidan 23d ago
I know the renders are verifiable, but are the splines reticulated?
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by caidan 2mo ago
I don’t know, Interstellar is one of the silliest movies I’ve ever seen…
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by caidan 4mo ago
It’s going to turn out that LLM “AI” is one of the inventions like nuclear weapons that can severely regress an advanced civilization. Sometimes it even feels like it is likely to corrupt sentience itself, degrading it into mere cargo cult
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by caidan 6mo ago
Booooooooooooooooooo
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by caidan 6mo ago
And .ain which was even better but now seems to be half lost to time (no Wikipedia, just a few links repeating the same fragments of info like http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/AIN )
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by caidan 7mo ago
How incredibly unsurprising. This is why it is pointless to make moral stands as employees when you do not ultimately have power over the companies decisions. The only power you have is to quit. I wonder how many will do so, and how many
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by caidan 7mo ago
The conclusion that we will abandon Spotify for individual artist discords is nonsense. Clearly Spotify should be enabling all of the community building and merchandising that artists want to do because that would help their margins and mo
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by caidan 9mo ago
You guys are a godsend to the python tooling world. I’ve been far more excited about the impact rust is having on the software world than that of AI, and your work is a big part of that. While I have not seen any real net productivity gain
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by caidan 9mo ago
Ruff is incredible, replacing a mountain of tools and rules with a single extremely fast linter/formatter. Given that it is updated and improved frequently, I’m curious if you have tried it recently, and if so what pylint rules are yo
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'The sound changes': To electrify boats, make them fly(bbc.com)
2 points by caidan 11mo ago|0 comments
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by caidan 1y ago
Agreed, the db migrations are usually the slowest part. Another way to speed this up substantially if you are using postgres and need your test database to be postgres too, is to create and maintain a template database for your tests. Thi
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by caidan 2y ago
I absolutely love Fastmail. I moved off of Gmail years ago with zero regrets. Better UI, better apps, better company, and need I say better service? I still maintain and fetch from a Gmail account so it all just works seamlessly for receiv
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by caidan 2y ago
This is a fairly silly list really, missing the bulk of what's been good reads for the last quarter century(!). It's heavily biased tothings that have sold well in the past few years. That said, the books on here are quite good.
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by caidan 6y ago
No disrespect intended, but what is the point of using terminology like “moonshot” coupled with tiny amounts of funding like $3m. If moonshot is taken to be a loose reference to the Apollo program - which I imagine it is otherwise the name
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by caidan 8y ago
Bizarre that there is no interest in this subject at all on HN.
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by caidan 8y ago
Second day in a row. 120,000 passengers disrupted. Can anyone with domain knowledge chime in on why it is not possible to detect the operators?
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Gatwick airport: flights suspended again due to 'suspected drone sighting(theguardian.com)
1 points by caidan 8y ago|3 comments
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by caidan 9y ago
Oddly enough I just implemented my own one of these in 34 sloc using flask and weasyprint. I chose to only have it accept html in a post rather than a url so that it could render non-publically accessible urls. You can also pass it a bas
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by caidan 12y ago
You've got this, these are all problems we've all had before, and there are solutions to them ;) We will all be here to give feedback, commiserate, and help you succeed. You have a great attitude in this response. An ability to
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by caidan 12y ago
Unfiltered First impressions: Your medium article is 50X better than your website. Your website is useless for promoting your product. I don't like the headline font for your site, the lack of screenshots, basically the lack of focus
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by caidan 12y ago
This does actually look pretty cool, and I too am a fan of local app+1 time payment.
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by caidan 12y ago
I like Simple and I wish them success. I don't like them because of their fantastic app and website, or excellent human customer service, but because after many years of abuse at the hands of Bank of America I wanted a bank that does
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by caidan 12y ago
That picture at the top is horrifying. Looks like she is undergoing the Ludovico technique http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxODIxMDQwNl5BMl5Ban...
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by caidan 12y ago
From paragraph 4 of the article: "Nearly a quarter of these uber-weathy work in the financial industry. And 40% are executives, managers and supervisors, Sadoff says. A vast majority of the 0.1% live in New York, Los Angeles, San Franc

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