cynicalkane

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by cynicalkane 6d ago
> sharing an analogy with another person is the fastest way to LOSE an argument with someone This is true if the arguer is hostile, but as I've gotten older, if I get the sense that someone is entering an argument with the primary g
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by cynicalkane 11d ago
Yeah, this feels like a vibe-coded game that people who played it for 1 minute are upvoting, but it just really lacks the feel of how even a mildly solid and entertaining game feels. I got bored very quickly. I flagged it because of HN&#x27
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by cynicalkane 12d ago
They support mass deportations based on race, including of citizens. If that is what they say before they get power, you need only the basic lessons of history to understand what they might do after they get power.
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by cynicalkane 20d ago
One characteristic of ADHD is that many people don't build up tolerance, or only minor tolerance, to therapeutic doses of some stimulants including amphetamines. It's really not the same as what's being discussed here.
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by cynicalkane 22d ago
It really reeeally throws up a wall of disinterest when I get halfway through a post and realize I'm reading LLMisms. There's something just so terribly grating about writing with so many forceful, punctuated prose mechanisms bein
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by cynicalkane 26d ago
In legal tradition, if there's not a law you broke, you can't be prosecuted for it. (Yes, I'm aware of numerous historical exceptions. Those exceptions are traditionally considered not ideal.)
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by cynicalkane 29d ago
It's just the three dimensional nature of it plus the usual physics practice of giving things cheeky names. The vector space of (visible) colors is not acted symmetrically upon by SU(3); it doesn't transform symmetrically under ch
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by cynicalkane 1mo ago
That's a good idea, but on the other hand, it seems inappropriate to use such lore in the manner of a lore-master in these suspicious days; not a fitting reference for the happier times of Durin.
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by cynicalkane 2mo ago
For many people, this is what the Kindle used to be, but isn't now.
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by cynicalkane 3mo ago
Where did I defend whatever "indefensible" things you're accusing me of defending? The OP post described specific ways Google's culture changed, on the inside. I said those were true. This was the entire scope of the c
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by cynicalkane 3mo ago
Holy cow dude, I am not personally answerable for all the faults of a megacorp, nor am I "only now beginning to admit" anything in your imaginary personal history about me that you made up now. This entire thread makes me sad. A h
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by cynicalkane 3mo ago
I worked at Google for a similar span. It was different 9 years ago, in ways that are specifically described in the blog post you're ignoring, which I and many other Googlers would confirm are true.
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by cynicalkane 3mo ago
Even before AI training clusters became important, Google has had an outstanding custom fabric (there's papers about it) together with the ability to tune NICs for their own cases, and "their own cases" meant nearly everythin
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by cynicalkane 3mo ago
For over the last >1 year, Google has been dismissing people without warning or cause. The days where it was nearly impossible to be fired are over; now you might be severed by surprise for no given reason at all.
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by cynicalkane 3mo ago
One big advantage of IPv6 local addresses is that you can pack a lot of semantic information in an address that's easy to remember, plus bits to help with routing and/or firewalling if you need. DNS and mDNS don't "just
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by cynicalkane 4mo ago
Tesla is a meme stock like GameStop, but for a good fraction of America, so the market cap can be much larger. As long as TSLA owners don't care about the stock defying gravity, it will continue to do so.
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by cynicalkane 4mo ago
Think GP is suggesting an N-dimensional plane in K>N dimensions.
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by cynicalkane 4mo ago
Why would I answer that when you already said one statement being wrong doesn't matter? If one statement being wrong doesn't matter then why are you changing your mind and asking? Would there be any point in replying? I've me
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by cynicalkane 4mo ago
> "If you think a specific statement was wrong, harmful, or dishonest, then explain why" > someone picks a specific statement > "If the use of a single phrase... is enough to make you dismiss someone entirely" B
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by cynicalkane 5mo ago
I'll raise my hand here and risk downvotes from very smart people who are smarter than me, but I've heard of CVE but not LPE or RCE. I know what the latter two terms are but am not used to seeing them in acronyms. So what's
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by cynicalkane 5mo ago
Boastful lies like this are a telltale sign of vibe-coded projects. Approximately, an AI is making word-association guesses from its context window, and arranging those guesses into grammatical forms that human RLHF reviewers find impactful
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by cynicalkane 5mo ago
Yes, this paper is insane. The actual quote about caching is: > Once a region of tape has been read, the controller stores the result. Subsequent operations reference the cache rather than re-interrogating the physical medium. Re-reading
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by cynicalkane 6mo ago
Strong chance the same robot that wrote the benchmark also wrote the sentence to sound impressive. This is another one of the vibe-coded slop projects that are routinely frontpaging HN now. As someone else pointed out, the single author has
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by cynicalkane 6mo ago
This is a really embarrassing post. You stalked the author's online presence, turned up a TCP bridge utility, not really relevant to anything, and tried to shame the author for writing it, all so you can pretend you won an argument on
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by cynicalkane 6mo ago
The app is vibecoded. The author isn't making decisions about these tradeoffs and possibly wasn't aware of the implications of these decisions at all. The robot they used tried to fulfill its given prompts at the expense of everyt
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by cynicalkane 7mo ago
The awful graphic at the top is certainly not made by a human.
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by cynicalkane 7mo ago
OP didn't claim you of misrepresenting facts in the document directly; OP claimed you of grossly mischaracterizing those facts in order to support claims the document does not support. The document is cited as supporting massive fraud
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by cynicalkane 9mo ago
Many Cyrillic letters are Latin-looking, but actually have direct Greek analogues due to the history of the writing system. If you don't know Greek letters, you'd have a hard time guessing р made a 'r' sound. If you do,
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by cynicalkane 10mo ago
The rich do not, in general, possess Scrooge McDuck vaults full of "prior government backed currency". The assets of the wealthy are generally real assets and business investments. Cash is such a poor investment that the word &quo
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by cynicalkane 10mo ago
I read this good breakdown on 'The Mother Tongue' on everything2 sometime ago: https://everything2.com/title/The+Mother+Tongue%253A+English...

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