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by dvaun 2mo ago
I was initially skeptical, but after looking through it I see some articles that I distinctly remember (eg Gervais Principle) and blogs like SSC which led me down rabbitholes. Lots of good things come from the orange site. I’m sure myself a
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by dvaun 2mo ago
Yes, definitely. Claude and other models might produce minor differences in design outputs, but overall they apply similar principles. This has been harped on in many threads over the past several months.
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by dvaun 5mo ago
That is awesome. I gave it a brief readthrough last night on my phone, but will give it a closer look this week.
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by dvaun 5mo ago
This is interesting. I’ve been working with ONNX models and compiling custom WASM runtime builds based on the model operators, cutting down on edge deployments. Do you have any benchmarks?
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by dvaun 7mo ago
Public education caters to the common denominator…the public. If you want higher rigor and standards set for your children, then you will need to find alternatives - which, in some areas, are no better than the public schools. I wouldn’t bl
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by dvaun 7mo ago
Fair point. Rose-tinted glasses and all.
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by dvaun 7mo ago
Pre-2020 had far more informative posts and discussions. While we still have decent conversations post-covid, the quality has slid downhill somewhat.
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by dvaun 9mo ago
This reads like notes taken on a presentation.
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How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
158 points by dvaun 9mo ago|32 comments
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by dvaun 9mo ago
Will we get a post mortem?
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by dvaun 10mo ago
What a ridiculous statement. We have a massive number of people in the USA relying on financial support for purchasing food. Not every single American is fat, especially those who literally can’t afford to eat.
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by dvaun 11mo ago
Steroid abuse indicates body dysmorphia. There isn’t an addictive property like other abused drugs, unless you’re considering it addictive via its effects on dopamine production. Your body doesn’t become addicted, though. The potential for
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by dvaun 1y ago
All we are is dust in the wind.
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by dvaun 1y ago
A charitable view is that they intended "ideas that I had germinating for decades" to be from their own perspective, and not necessarily spurred inside Google by their initiative. I think that what they stated prior to this confla
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Ukraine's Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software(404media.co)
5 points by dvaun 1y ago|0 comments
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by dvaun 1y ago
Maybe it's a universal abstraction describing any type of change? Consider it in another frame: Beginning state -> Catalyst -> Mutation -> New state -> Reaction -> Outcome or: Pre-process -> Event -> Logic -> Re
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by dvaun 1y ago
Fun reference (I had to look up what you meant). For anyone reading: Donar is "Old High German" for Thor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor#Post-Roman_era
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by dvaun 1y ago
Have you considered socratic questioning and other forms of conversation, in order to affect more change? See https://www.streetepistemology.com/ for content about this. It is possible to guide discussions in a healthy mann
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by dvaun 2y ago
Can you expand on this?
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by dvaun 2y ago
Sounds like a license to train on your data.
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by dvaun 2y ago
Ditto. This isn’t exclusive to programming. Everyone that I know who has worked in any office environment has downtime.
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by dvaun 2y ago
You’re calling someone “brain broken” for writing a comment in a cute manner to make it sound like product development. It’s time to take a step back and relax.
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by dvaun 2y ago
Might as well throw together HackerTok.
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by dvaun 2y ago
I especially enjoy how the author from the substack series described the singularity as “The Rapture of the Nerds”.
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by dvaun 2y ago
I keep seeing similar aesthetics for landing pages and startup sites. Is there some common template that’s become popular for this purpose?
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by dvaun 2y ago
Depending on the LLM it may refuse based on adherence to ethics.
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by dvaun 2y ago
Been using Hack for years. The dev is responsive if you have questions.
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by dvaun 2y ago
It’s the standard practice of noting internal/implementation details. Users should stick with the public api exported in __init__.
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by dvaun 2y ago
> People are trying to posture and prove all kinds of things. I would hope that it’s a mixture of personalities posting here, rather than a subset of people who are following some personal agenda. This crowd is hopefully mature enough to
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by dvaun 2y ago
Awesome! Love that it's written in Go—I've recently tested the language for some use cases at work and find it great. I'll dive into your repo to see if I can learn anything new :)

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