coderatlarge

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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
you mean shazeer?
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
actually spam filters have evolved to make it so you can often not even email people you know and have pressing need to contact.
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
i wish Ilya and crew would chime in
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by coderatlarge 3mo ago
maybe this will have to lead to a few expedited weddings and citizenship applications…
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by coderatlarge 7mo ago
one use-case is if you need to be able to stream the data.
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by coderatlarge 7mo ago
i can live without discord but I’m required by law to interact with irs and therefore idme and their mess…
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by coderatlarge 8mo ago
at least with physical drugs you know how many grams you bought, with cc it’s all hidden behind the curtain.
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by coderatlarge 8mo ago
why not pets?
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by coderatlarge 8mo ago
user notification is another major litmus test.
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by coderatlarge 8mo ago
i propose the following benchmark task that i think can serve as a baseline of whether these local automation systems can really save time: starting with a bare ubuntu desktop system with plenty of RAM and CPU, setup three ubuntu VMs for se
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
maybe an account has to build up cred or investment to be more trusted like on hn
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
from the piece: “ the median age of the latest Y Combinator cohort is only 24, down from 30 just three years ago “ does yc publish stats to validate?
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
no ties to my other accounts would be ideal from my perspective i understand that it’s easier to get a stronger “trust” signal by being more invasive but hopefully the product will be so valuable that users will value their accounts as ass
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
that’s good to know thanks but creates more special cases to manage if i just want to backup my stuff so i can manually recover when i need to (on lost device say).
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
i wish there were a straightforward way to export a file of some sort that i can backup without creating yet another special case to manage.
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
i just ran into a situation activating a new device in which apple were trying to send to a device i had forgotten to “properly” remove from that icloud account. and also another situation in which the 2fa code would flash on the remote dev
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
well hn allows voting without email
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
tying this data to a login instead of a pure cookie model like hn seems dangerous.
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
i love that meme which shows three identical paper clips in a row but one is upside down relative to the others which is a minute difference. the caption reads “chaos German style”
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
this carrier approval to move esim problem is more generalized on modern “smartphones”. unless you opt in to cloud providers holding your data there is no easy way afaik to migrate your authenticator apps to another phone. and a host of oth
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
in some countries (ex china) local carriers won’t provision esim for nonlocally made phones. including iPhone not specifically made for their market.
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
if you do read french, proust’s “in search of lost time” (vol 1) is a lot more accessible and enjoyable than my high school teachers made it sound years and years ago. it even contains a depiction of what a learned engineer should be like.
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
perhaps it then becomes a matter of policy to periodically reformulate the law so it is compact and understandable and illustrated with examples for the general public. i wonder if llms will be able to do this reliably ever.
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
maybe we’re inching towards rule by law vs rule of law by making things so abstruse that you need a multiyear education to understand what is allowed, when and where.
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
what a charming time it was when that generation discovered a bunch of stuff that now undergirds daily life: “ Dijkstra always believed it a scientist’s duty to maintain a lively correspondence with his scientific colleagues. To a greater e
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
i really appreciated the paper and as someone who has spent many years deciphering what the author calls 17th century-style proofs am completely aligned with the objective and the method. i personally find myself doing a version of what th
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by coderatlarge 9mo ago
it seems to me if these things were real and repeatable there would be published traces that show the exact interactions that led to a specific output and the cost in time and money to get there. do such things exist?
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by coderatlarge 10mo ago
maybe to avoid checking a box on an irs form?
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by coderatlarge 10mo ago
for those who need an easier introduction to the subject (no general integration theory required, just finite sums) i can highly recommend https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4614-0776-8 it doesn’t say wh
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by coderatlarge 10mo ago
ruby comes preinstalled on macos. so if you want to script a mac without installers or non oob software, it’s that or perl or bash or appkescript.

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