darth_aardvark

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by darth_aardvark 13d ago
It's not geography, it's politics. Low taxes, general amenability to big businesses, and low ecological restrictions.
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by darth_aardvark 2mo ago
I happen to know for a fact that Palantir licenses the name from the estate at an exorbitant yearly fee.
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by darth_aardvark 3mo ago
Xbox controller support on the Steam Deck has worked seamlessly for me with 0 extra setup, I'm not sure what you're talking about? Streaming has been ok, but I've had the same issues as the parent commenter, with the stream d
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by darth_aardvark 3mo ago
In addition to the Z's everyone else pointed out, Scrabble boards are 15 tiles across. This is 16 letters. You fool. You utter gumdrop.
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by darth_aardvark 3mo ago
Breaking up a giant PR can be a tedious, time-consuming hassle, and in the past I could sympathize in practice if someone had a giant PR they didn't have time to decompose once they got it working. But it's also the exact sort of
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by darth_aardvark 4mo ago
I'd really argue the bugs were introduced in version 5 but people were so excited by the promise of new features they sold well anyway.
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by darth_aardvark 4mo ago
I have talked my wife out of us both nearly impulse-buying a mini greenhouse at Costco multiple times. And the worst part is, I regret it. We need a greenhouse now and greenhouse prices are through the roof! I can't afford NOT to impul
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by darth_aardvark 5mo ago
> " latest fad for layoffs" What are you referring to here? The latest fad before AI was crypto, or maybe "the metaverse" and I don't think anyone credited those for layoffs. Before that, the latest large round o
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by darth_aardvark 5mo ago
There's nothing stopping people from decorating their boutique stores (or personal blogs, portfolios, and fan websites) the way they want. And that's fun and delightful for me, as a visitor, just like boutique shops are IRL. But I
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by darth_aardvark 5mo ago
The P/E of that box is 1...This isn't a difficult calculation.
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by darth_aardvark 5mo ago
You're still manually posting? All of my HN posting, trolling, shitposting and spamming is taken care of by a fleet of bots I vibecoded in the last 5 minutes.
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by darth_aardvark 6mo ago
> Of course they would! If the P/E of a company is 1.1 it is overvalued by definition so why would anyone buy an over valued company? This is obviously untrue. Would you sell a box that spits out $1 million dollars a year for 1 mill
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by darth_aardvark 6mo ago
You obviously need to add your own footnotes trying to make sense of those footnotes, then anonymously donate it to a used bookstore.
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by darth_aardvark 6mo ago
You somehow identified the last possible, most obscure clue. Mario, Luigi, Rosalina, and Yoshi show up before that.
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by darth_aardvark 6mo ago
I'd ask them what tools they do use, but I doubt they'll see my comment; I'll see if I can mail it to them.
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by darth_aardvark 6mo ago
> curled out This is the kind of understated yet thoroughly disgusting imagery an LLM couldn't come up with on its own, great example.
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by darth_aardvark 6mo ago
Honest, non-confrontational, non-passive aggressive question: Have you used any of the latest models in the last 6 months to do coding? Or frankly, in the last year?
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by darth_aardvark 6mo ago
> But there is also bad QA: The most worthless QA I was forced to work with, was an external company, where I, as developer, had to write the test sheet and they just tested that. Obviously they could not find bugs as I tested everything
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by darth_aardvark 6mo ago
So many execs and marketing people seem to think customers explicitly "want AI". Most people do not want AI! Only a tiny segment of Middle Managers Looking To Leverage New Technology are actually excited by AI branding. But, lots
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by darth_aardvark 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_of_Israel#W There's 5 of them, two of which happen to have been acquired by Google. Fair to say it's likely a coincidence. Interestingly, they all use "vav
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by darth_aardvark 6mo ago
Unlikely, since modern Hebrew doesn't have a letter for "w".
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by darth_aardvark 8mo ago
Have you tried UFO 50?
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by darth_aardvark 8mo ago
> I don't think most companies can resist the allure of more free data as bitter as it may taste. Mercor, Surge, Scale, and other data labelling firms have shown that's not true. Paid data for LLM training is in higher demand t
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by darth_aardvark 8mo ago
I get your point, but that was the exact logic of Effective Altruism and Sam Altman is now jailed for the Largest Fraud of All Time. It's a slippery slope.
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by darth_aardvark 8mo ago
In no way am I defending Palantir, but literally any random official or intern could've created this with any random AI generation model. It's not like the government is requiring people use any kind of ACLs or officially approved
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by darth_aardvark 10mo ago
For those that don't know even more, this interview never happened and this interviewer doesn't exist. It's a funny joke on the internet.
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by darth_aardvark 10mo ago
Palantir, arguably the closest thing to Torment Nexus Inc. IRL, literally builds a product that does this.
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by darth_aardvark 10mo ago
It's doing well, TODAY. 6% daily bumps are big but they happen all the time. Look at its performance over the past year for a better picture.
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by darth_aardvark 11mo ago
The restaurant doesn't choose the prices DoorDash displays, DoorDash does.
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by darth_aardvark 1y ago
Without taking any sides here, the most liberal estimate of Palestinian casualties, coming from the Palestinian Health Authority, don't break 70,000 Palestinian deaths TOTAL. Where did you get these numbers from?

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