dlnovell

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by dlnovell 1y ago
It's a fair point. It's hard to know where we are in the S curve. Considering how much better it's gotten in the past 12 months I don't get the sense that we're decelerating towards a plateau of capability, but it&#
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by dlnovell 1y ago
Beautiful and witty prose to say "vibe coding sucks". He's not at all wrong about the state of AI coding in May of 2025. The 3 hours I just burned trying to get it to correct output bugs in a marimo notebook (which I started
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by dlnovell 2y ago
This seems correct, and I suffer from the same issue as the author, but I'm curious if it's as simple as "you don't believe in the projects". Does Pieter Levels believe in all of his projects so much that they burn
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by dlnovell 3y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/378171
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by dlnovell 3y ago
Chris - just saw your presentation of this at PNNL, awesome seeing it pop up on HN too!
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by dlnovell 4y ago
I'm starting at Pacific Northwest National Lab on Monday in the data science and analytics group. I am coming from a 100% corporate background, and I am expecting a non-trivial culture shock to work overwhelmingly with academics and go
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by dlnovell 4y ago
This is an excellent demonstration of the denial that Romney is pointing out
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by dlnovell 5y ago
We have to do everything. There's no either/or... we HAVE to reduce consumption, we HAVE to find lower-carbon alternatives for everything we continue to consume, and we HAVE to create technologies to remove carbon from the atmosph
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by dlnovell 5y ago
I did a weekly "don't eat anything on Sunday and don't eat until Monday lunch" for about a year. Sunday afternoon/evening I'd be kinda groggy and grumpy. I'd wake up on Monday morning completely locked in
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by dlnovell 5y ago
It's not about what's easier, and it's not an either/or proposal. Atmospheric CO2 is currently around 419ppm. Even if we cut our CO2 emissions to zero tomorrow, we still have 419ppm. The temperature might stop going up,
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by dlnovell 5y ago
I held my nose and jumped in feet first. Actually, I spent 3 months backpacking around Europe first, then went home and just didn't get a new job. It took 6 months to land a client, then 2 to land another, then 1 to land a third and th
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by dlnovell 6y ago
I did this in 2013. I not only quit my job, but my life. I packed up my entire apartment in a uhaul and dropped it off at goodwill. I packed a backpack and bounced around a handful of pacific countries for a few months (Costa Rica, Nicaragu
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by dlnovell 6y ago
I wish I had your confidence, to argue with Wes McKinney about the details of how Arrow works
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by dlnovell 10y ago
How would he look me up? He didn't know my name. Can lyft drivers see the full name of the people who they pick up, or just the first name? If they can see the full name, then MAYBE he looked up my friend, then looked at his friends li
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by dlnovell 10y ago
Oh, and also - this morning FB suggested I may know the Lyft driver from last night. I wasn't even the one who ordered the Lyft, I just rode in it. I don't have the FB app installed on my phone. WTF?
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by dlnovell 10y ago
Recently my girlfriend discovered the depth of the program FB started to listen to the microphone, even if the app isn't on. She never installed the FB app on her new phone. Multiple times in the last month, some VERY specific topic of
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by dlnovell 11y ago
[slow clap]
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by dlnovell 11y ago
I worked for Hospira last year on the Plum A+ and 360 infusion pumps but not the PCA. I'm a little surprised such a blatant security hole wasn't caught, considering the magnitude of the regulatory environment we worked under. I&#x
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by dlnovell 13y ago
TL;DR - "This rule is so underrated, keep ya family and business complete separated"
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Stanford engineers put a damper on 'aeroelastic flutter'(physorg.com)
4 points by dlnovell 15y ago|0 comments
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by dlnovell 16y ago
That's really cool. At times it looks like a spider spinning a web. Does it ever reach a state where the behavior becomes constant?
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by dlnovell 16y ago
If you want to remove some of your self-described "ignorance" I highly recommend "Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos". It's a great primer on the origins of study of emergent behavior in chaotic systems, particu
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by dlnovell 16y ago
We'll also find Turing's prosecution as insane as Galileo's. I suppose the overwhelming majority of us already do, but hopefully in the year 4000 even the most conservative of religious folk will consider the "crime" of homosexuality to be
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by dlnovell 16y ago
In the example scenario, wouldn't the doctor be able to get tax deductions for college loan payments as well as dependent care of seniors? The mortgage underwater scenario sucks, but is he losing his home because it's not worth what he paid
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by dlnovell 16y ago
Is LinkedIn completely down for anyone else? The site's been devolving all afternoon for me. First it said there was a problem and they'd redirect to the homepage in a few minutes. Then there was a LinkedIn-branded Sun ONE Web Server landin
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by dlnovell 16y ago
If you put everything you buy on your card it's not hard to rack up points really quick - especially if you can find a way to get your landlord to put your rent on your credit card. My wife and I are flying to NYC soon for free on this ye
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by dlnovell 16y ago
I'm totally with you on that. I've really always hated "dark matter" and "dark energy", as far as I'm concerned it's a terrible violation of the scientific method. We have two observations: 1) the rotational speed of galaxies appears to be
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by dlnovell 16y ago
btw, Merriam Webster seems to disagree: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incentivize
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by dlnovell 16y ago
it seems that "rapey-scan" would be most appropriate
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by dlnovell 16y ago
I really love the last line and it's equally valid for how a lot of enterprise software is built. > We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

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