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by dcotter 10mo ago
> But for LLMs, my task might be something like "setting up apache is easy, but I've never done it so just tell me how do it so I don't fumble through learning and make it take way longer." The task was setting up Apa
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by dcotter 2y ago
Brilliant comment. How I wish more applications could just be text...
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by dcotter 2y ago
I was looking for Hungarian and didn't see it, unfortunately. I learned a smattering of it some twenty years ago in a study abroad. I remember it was difficult, but fun, to learn. Three things made it difficult, as I remember: one, it
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by dcotter 3y ago
I can't speak for hummus, but I've noticed ice creams with guar gum, xantham gum, locust bean gum, and so on, have an almost foamy texture that is quite unnatural when compared to ice creams with minimally processed ingredients (i
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by dcotter 3y ago
Why penalize all truck and SUV drivers for the small number that cause accidents? I'm okay with registration fees being proportional to weight, but raising fees for SUVs and lowering them for EVs? This just smells like culture war to m
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by dcotter 3y ago
This is the thing I miss most about in-person work. I used to overhear conversations and jump in or just listen and learn something, and this just doesn't happen with Slack, Zoom, etc.
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by dcotter 3y ago
Me neither. One Plus Nord N30, Android 13. Last security update 1/5/24.
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by dcotter 3y ago
Serious question: Why not plant trees & shrubs & grasses in parking lots? (as in, in containers or medians). Shade the parking lot and make it less hot. Make it prettier to park in and attract birds & other wildlife. You could
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by dcotter 3y ago
Not silly. Here's why: 1. Passing on the right, i.e. passenger side, means being in the driver's blind spot longer. 2. On- and off-ramps are almost always on the right, as are police making traffic stops, ambulances, cars pulled o
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by dcotter 3y ago
Know what's already illegal? Passing on the right: > Laws that cover passing when crossing the centerline of the roadway is not required (where there are multiple lanes in the same direction), often say something like this: > The
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by dcotter 3y ago
Off the top of my head: Libraries already exist, and the regulatory regime to oversee subscription services doesn't. Meaning, no one has to do all the stuff required to bring a new government agency into being (including raising taxes
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by dcotter 3y ago
I'm surprised literally no one suggested just cancelling the vast majority of your subscription services and cutting ties with unethical companies. The suggestion that poor people need yet more help from the government because they&#x2
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by dcotter 3y ago
In my experience, small businesses often charge more than larger businesses, perhaps because they don't benefit from an economy of scale or increased negotiating leverage with suppliers. For example, compare Wal-Mart to a small general
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by dcotter 4y ago
It looks like a back-of-the-envelope calculation to me: twelve summers before the developmental changes she mentions divided by sixteen, when they start driving, get a summer job, start dating, etc. You could probably plot a curve of hours
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by dcotter 13y ago
Perhaps an HN article analyzing which HN articles sink and which swim sometime in the future?
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by dcotter 13y ago
I would like to see keyboards with flexible layouts, where you could reconfigure the positions and sizes of the keys as you choose, so that if you wanted to replace half the spacebar with backspace or move the numbers from the top row to a
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by dcotter 13y ago
Why not replace caps lock with a double-tap of the Shift key? This has the advantages of distance (still close at hand when needed) and memorability (Shift upcases temporarily, Shift-Shift upcases indefinitely) and eliminates one of the les
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by dcotter 14y ago
Also: Bill Shakespeare didn't write novels. Just sayin'.
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by dcotter 14y ago
Seriously. That was great.
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by dcotter 14y ago
Yeah, the whole restaurant metaphor was distracting. Twitter has always seemed to me more like an infrastructure project: we build the highways, you supply the vehicles and the destinations. The thing I've never understood is how that model
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by dcotter 14y ago
You should check out Jaron Lanier's book You Are Not A Gadget. Very thoughtful philosophical treatment of digital technology and its limitations. Personally, in the last year I've drastically cut back on my time online and upped the time sp
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Hunter gatherer clue to obesity(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by dcotter 14y ago|0 comments
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by dcotter 14y ago
Just a transparent way of telling me you know how to drink Scotch. Damn knowledge snobs!
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by dcotter 14y ago
It doesn't hurt the man-cred, does it?
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by dcotter 14y ago
If their ranking algorithm is pushing reviews with high page-views to the top, then perhaps it's as simple as negative reviews getting more attention, either because negativity draws people in or because people are more interested in trying
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by dcotter 14y ago
To my mind, it already is creepy. In fact, I wonder why anyone continues to use Facebook with all its potential for leaking sensitive personal information? It seems like every day I hear another story of someone embarrassing himself on Face
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by dcotter 14y ago
3 simple steps to become a millionaire (by Steve Martin) "First, get a million dollars..."
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by dcotter 15y ago
The more straightforward argument is the moral one: SOPA is wrong, because it privileges the few over the many. But that's not quite as snappy.
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by dcotter 15y ago
I totally agree. Personally, I've been using checklists. I use them to remind myself to put good architecture in place. I use them to remind myself to check for common bugs (calling functions or methods of null objects, forgetting to update
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by dcotter 16y ago
I'm from a C#/.NET background, but have been incorporating more functional programming techniques into my programming in the last couple of years. This, combined with my deepening understanding of the f.p. aspects of JavaScript (after readi

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