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by drsim 8mo ago
Don't spam. Don't be an asshole. And do everything you can to get that thing you want vs. spraying and praying for some cubicle job. Exceptional folks rarely limit themselves to pushing submit to upload their CV. That proper chann
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by drsim 8mo ago
Here in Denmark I hold no animosity toward Americans and none of my circle do. The current US administration on the other hand…
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by drsim 8mo ago
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of my most memorable animations due to the wild physics-defying reality it creates.
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by drsim 9mo ago
Distribution has always been monetized. What margin did a retailer take for putting your boxed software on the shelf? How about that magazine ad? Google search? And so on. Get over the idea that a platform should give you their distribution
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by drsim 9mo ago
I love HN. And the Show HN graveyard is huge! Many a time I’ve searched, found a post I thought sounded cool, and it’s dead… sometimes in just a couple of months.
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by drsim 9mo ago
I love public speaking, think I'm above average at it, and am aiming to do more of it. Has anyone here tried Toastmasters? Went to my local group last week and was pleasantly surprised with the quality of speaking.
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by drsim 11mo ago
It is a shame you are being downvoted, as it is an admirable ideology: why should someone be (dis)advantaged by the accident of where they were born. In reality though, 8 billion people hold a wide spectrum of beliefs. I would not want to l
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by drsim 11mo ago
They’re no more.
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Spotify Announces Leadership Evolution: Daniel Ek to Become Executive Chairman(newsroom.spotify.com)
4 points by drsim 1y ago|0 comments
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by drsim 1y ago
Physical triangulation stations (trig points) for surveying and mapping.
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Trig Spiders from Mars(alasdairrae.github.io)
2 points by drsim 1y ago|2 comments
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by drsim 1y ago
Right. I’ve had a lot of success using structured output to force LLMs to make Boolean choices, like can they reply or not.
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by drsim 1y ago
I think the pull will be hard to resist even for competent people. Like the obesity crisis driven by sugar highs, the overall population will be affected, and overall quality will suffer, at least for a while.
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by drsim 2y ago
It is RLHF if I understand correctly.
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by drsim 2y ago
We have the Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables from 1884. Doesn't appear to have been needed until now so is relatively untested.
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by drsim 2y ago
> Obesity may be slightly aggravated by car dependence, but it is still historically high and a major problem in the walking/public transport countries of Europe. I’d like to learn more about this. That hasn’t been my personal exper
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by drsim 2y ago
Many providers support plus addresses like bob+servicename@example.com. Servicename can be anything and doesn’t require any setup.
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by drsim 2y ago
I doubt it. You have the loan interest, annual service fees, and fact that you don’t have a sellable asset, at least for anything like what you paid for it. An empty vacation home is still an appreciating asset. Not a good investment in my
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by drsim 2y ago
It’s scary headlines like this: ‘trampled’, ‘crashes’, that put off less informed, risk averse individuals on lower incomes/ net worth, from investing in stocks. It’s a shame, as ETFs, and hell, index funds if you must, outperform savi
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by drsim 2y ago
I love this direction. It could be that the writer’s AI agent knows that he’s looking around for a new CMS so asks for more info, compiling this for review. Or it says ‘not interested’ and the conversation is muted. All without the writer n
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by drsim 3y ago
It’s a valid question to posit.
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by drsim 3y ago
There is rarely an incentive to claim responsibility. And in the case of finding a smoking gun held by some national, the geopolitical consequences of pointing a finger are consequential. Nations must decide if those consequences are in the
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by drsim 3y ago
Yes. And be sure to follow up with a robust customer interview to discover the why. Executing a customer interview discovers the why behind feature requests. If you leave it at the Sales and CS level you can end up with requests like I want
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by drsim 3y ago
Agreed. Bizarre felt tips are included in the set.
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by drsim 3y ago
We got our girls, 5 and 2, a Spirograph for Christmas. With the provided felt tip pen inserted and the outer circle tacked down, I still really struggle to complete circuits without the circles jumping over each other and messing up the dra
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by drsim 3y ago
I have Tado TRVs and do have a HA instance. I’m stuck though, as I like the functionality from Tado like home/away, and VELUX like the automations. I’m not sure I could get as good a result by coding that all up in HA.
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by drsim 3y ago
My Velux roof windows do this automatically for me every day. Works great as they won't open if it is raining or too cold. Sucks that the radiators don't turn off at the same time, so some wasted energy there.
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by drsim 3y ago
I begged for a BBC Micro and got a ZX Spectrum. Turned out to be much better at getting me interested in programming, even if the Spectrum was on the way out.
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by drsim 3y ago
Rewind, Inc. | Remote/Onsite | Canada | Full-time | Director, Security Back up the cloud, recover it in seconds. Businesses don't realize that they are responsible for protecting their data at the account level, stored in their cl
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Ask HN: How to discover new and interesting papers?
30 points by drsim 3y ago|10 comments

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