elbigbad

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by elbigbad 3y ago
It’s also, like, Reddit. Not some financial or health database. It’s an Internet forum largely populated by literal children and teens.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
And among the worst sorts of people imaginable. Maybe they should be paid positions that are interviewed for and regularly undergo performance reviews.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
Just in case anyone sees this and takes it seriously: this is absolutely not now that works.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
Can you talk more about this source of error? When I google this, your post is the main thing that comes up for the term…
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by elbigbad 3y ago
The sports cars analogy doesn’t resonate with me because there’s a functional difference between regular cars and sports cars. And plenty of people buy sports cars like Miatas, which have less than zero cachet or coolness factor, and thus c
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by elbigbad 3y ago
I found Apollo to be fairly shady. I paid for the app and they “lost” my account or something so suddenly I could no longer use the pro features. Pretty lame, no amount of support could help, so I used the app for a while as a free user bec
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by elbigbad 3y ago
Better discoverability and so people could very easily install and run. Git adds more overhead.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
Cixin Liu of course. Now let me tell you about “elbigbad’s Theory of Relativity” (hat tip to Einstein who had a hand in its development). More modernly phrased: “‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take’ -Wayne Gretzky” - Michael Scott
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by elbigbad 3y ago
I’m guessing the admin stopped caring as much about the mission of the site, which actually seems quite compelling, or it wasn’t as profitable as they thought, and was looking for a reason to divest themselves of it. Spam is hard to fight,
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by elbigbad 3y ago
I don’t know who Yancy is but they have some complete lack of shame to steal someone else’s idea almost word for word and prepend their name to it. I don’t know what I could muster that absolute “I don’t care at all what people think of me”
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by elbigbad 3y ago
Of course it’s not. Neither of my children’s faces have ever appeared on social media. It just requires a little discipline on the parents part, which seems to be in short supply these days.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
The most woo woo articles somehow get traction outside core hours.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
The largest city in the world is Tokyo which is about 40M people.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
Boomers love this sort of thing. Or at least talking about loving this sort of thing. Maybe they’re too addicted to Candy Crush style games though where they won’t actually patronize these sorts of places though.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
I had to look this up to make sure this wasn’t some low effort trolling. It does seem real, which raises the question: With regard to getting people to listen to your advice, wouldn’t it have been better if you had created or done something
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by elbigbad 3y ago
This is unnecessarily reductive, but it probably sounded good in your head or if someone only considers it for a few seconds before thinking about it. Of course meaning can be instant, and value can be delayed.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
No more than Microsoft Federal’s value add is the same, which is to say very little, even though MS Federal sends plenty of people to help set up Azure cloud services and has a consulting arm. The whole Palantir model is built around scalin
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by elbigbad 3y ago
If I see an army forming over the horizon, it would be foolish to not build defenses, even if they’re not actively attacking at the moment.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
It would lose its FUD-factor if it became too much more specific…
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by elbigbad 3y ago
It’s basically a vacuum for any and all data that categorizes and raises relevant insights to the end user while making it “easy” to find what one is looking for. Fairly straightforward. I think the value add is that this isn’t really avail
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by elbigbad 3y ago
I like the sentiment a lot but curious what law this is against that has prison time as a consequence? I can’t think of any, but if there are none, we should pass laws that allow this to put these people on notice and then aggressively pros
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by elbigbad 3y ago
I can’t even imagine giving so much credence to every conspiracy theory or supposed breakthrough that only appears on YouTube that I spend time watching everything. There are only so many hours in the day, time is precious, and the onus is
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by elbigbad 3y ago
My comment was assuming you’re the average person. I don’t know you or your reputation at all and I think it’s unfair to assume some random HN poster like me should. But if most of the world thinks that, who am I to disagree? Somewhat relat
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by elbigbad 3y ago
> Some guy who knows enough about genetics he created his own home pill to deliver genes into his gut to fix his lactose intolerance is being ignored by the world. Someone recently told me on HN that his video sounds like a scam video of
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by elbigbad 3y ago
Run output through a regex that searches for words in the prompt and doesn’t return if so. It’s not a real real solution but I’ve found it works effectively so far and is really no different than anything else in software engineering.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
I lost some new model Pros and learned a lot of the same lessons. It’s weird that anyone would be able to use them? This is the case with the iPhone I believe, where the iPhone is completely useless (except for parts) if it’s connected to s
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by elbigbad 3y ago
I was a user of Fi for years and I think you’re misstating the premise here. It’s good customer service, not just good in comparison to telcos.
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by elbigbad 3y ago
But then the length of the article wouldn’t seem substantial and you wouldn’t bother reading it at all because you’d assume it wasn’t worth your time and the author wouldn’t get to tell you about whatever random app they’re building and shi
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by elbigbad 3y ago
I always thought Wikipedia contributors and open source authors were unpaid?
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by elbigbad 3y ago
Ironically ChatGPT would have made whatever point the author was trying to make (I’m not really sure what the point was to be honest…) much more succinctly and clearly. Maybe one use of ChatGPT as an anti-bloviating converter.

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