dlandis

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by dlandis 21d ago
Alternative Meanings (Noun)Comparable Thing: Something similar or comparable to another thing (also spelled analogue).
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by dlandis 23d ago
Hmm, don't people think that if the frontier labs really put enough engineering effort into preventing distillation that they would be able to do that, or at least diminish it significantly? I'm sure there are variety of additiona
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by dlandis 27d ago
curious if you’ve tried Kiro or spec-driven development? that seems like it would solve at least some of the issues you raised with agent based development, albeit in a different way without the emphasis on pseudo code
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by dlandis 29d ago
There's also the fact that Amazon really doesn't know the best-reviewed item anyway, at least in any meaningful sense, since most reviews (including verified) are fake/inorganic.
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by dlandis 2mo ago
Advice: remove all slop and fluff from the website such as "Everything you need. Nothing you don’t." Just state the information you want to communicate in the plainest and most straightforward way possible.
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by dlandis 3mo ago
Is it true that contributors to homebrew need to know how to invert a binary tree?
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by dlandis 3mo ago
You are exactly right. You are most likely not getting a pay cut just because your raise doesn't match inflation. It totally depends on how much of your money you are spending and what you are spending it on.
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by dlandis 4mo ago
> According to a 2017 study, approximately 38% of all children will be investigated by CPS by the time they are 18. This seems outrageously high. The study says it is an "estimate". I'm willing to be their methods or assum
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by dlandis 4mo ago
> People gatekeep actual work and save it for political favorites and everyone else on the outside is stuck cooking up bullshit projects. If you do manage to find work on your own, people will immediately start scheming to steal it So th
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by dlandis 6mo ago
There's a lot of good ideas in Spring and there have been some outstanding engineers working on that framework over the past ~25 years. But it has accumulated so much baggage and relies on and perpetuates so many patterns that simply d
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by dlandis 8mo ago
> Last weekend I tried building an iOS app for pet feeding reminders from scratch. Just start smaller. I'm not sure why people try to jump immediately to creating an entire app when they haven't even gotten any net-positive res
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by dlandis 8mo ago
Regarding the window manager and Finder; I had a better experience with the Windows equivalents way back on Windows 2k or even Windows 98 more than quarter century ago. Truly baffling.
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by dlandis 11mo ago
> Quantum computing-enhanced NMR could become a powerful tool in drug discovery, helping determine how potential medicines bind to their targets, or in materials science for characterizing the molecular structure of new materials like po
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by dlandis 1y ago
> Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eyeballs and you. It would be just like in the Dungeon Crawler Car
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by dlandis 1y ago
Agree... this is an important blog. People need to press pause on MCP in terms of adoption...it was simply not designed with a solid enough technical foundation that would make it suitable to be an industry standard. People are hyped about
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by dlandis 1y ago
There’s a difference between intellectually understanding it, versus actually seeing yourself tossed aside and cast out, while knowing that all the other cogs are already back in motion and pretty much fully adjusted to your absence.
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by dlandis 1y ago
Maybe I missed it, but are there any instructions on how to create them...e.g. how/where to draw the circles? It would be a fun activity with the kids.
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by dlandis 2y ago
"I do not wear my glasses while at the screen, as it's close enough that I don't have any issues." This could be the problem, especially if you are close to 40 years old. You may be starting to develop presbyopia, which
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by dlandis 2y ago
> For a group that applies rationalism, they appear to have ended up committing very horrible and irrational acts. Yes, also ironic how they were, per the article, very intrigued by the concept that ideas themselves could be like viruses
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by dlandis 2y ago
> attacker can use the cache geolocation method to pinpoint the recipient’s location Agree, good writeup, but also a stretch to say they are "pinpointing" anyone's location.
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by dlandis 2y ago
> That particular symptom is called cataplexy, and it's my chief narcoleptic symptom. You lose control of your muscles, either in part of your body or in all of it, and then you can't move for a while. Your mouth and face requi
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by dlandis 2y ago
Note this is an opinion piece and Shaken Baby Syndrome has not been discredited or debunked as the author keeps claiming. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00247-018-4149-1 > Abusive head trauma (AHT)
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by dlandis 2y ago
I think more than the specific prompts, I would be interested in how they came up with them. Are these system prompts being continuously refined and improved via some rigorous engineering process with a huge set of test cases, or is this st
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by dlandis 2y ago
> "These types of thoughtful personalizations and improvements are only possible if we study and understand how our users interact with Slack." LOL
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by dlandis 3y ago
GitHub issues and projects
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by dlandis 3y ago
> And I couldn't agree more. Well worth perusing if you (like me) usually only check the comments on HN. And in classic fashion, of course the moderators locked it as "off topic".
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by dlandis 3y ago
> There is no way to know what sources have been memorized vs which have made their mark by affecting other types of functions in the neural net. But if it's possible for the neural net to memorize passages of text then surely it co
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by dlandis 3y ago
Exactly...new competitor forming as we speak
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by dlandis 3y ago
There are a ton of websites that say it’s possible to create an MLS listing for a small fee, for a for sale by owner house.Are you suggesting there is some catch or that that is not actually possible?
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by dlandis 3y ago
Could someone please summarize what the expected timeframe would be? How long until leaded avgas is not used?

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