entrox

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by entrox 27d ago
Because it lets me hide the trash that is commercialized internet. I choose what service I pay for, e.g. Kagi, everything else should just vanish from my point of view and stop polluting my eye space. That's why this is a good feature.
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by entrox 3mo ago
And that is a good thing. What the human operator did was completely irresponsible and malicious, paying a small bill is hopefully educational and will correct their behavior going forward. Having agents like this interacting with human com
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by entrox 4mo ago
I tend to agree with OP. In my opinion conscious machines are not something that we should allow to exist. If they do, they are not human and must never be treated as such. I am not even slightly religious, but they would be abomination.
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by entrox 4mo ago
In this case you could even replace "LLM" with "C compiler" and it would change nothing. Look, I still got my physical copy of Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book with its genius content about hand-opti
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by entrox 4mo ago
Almost a decade ago, I moved my career into the management track. I am a director by now and have two more management levels between myself and individual contributors. I can strongly relate to what you‘re writing, because I share that same
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by entrox 5mo ago
Well, not yet. It's a matter of organization, regulation and litigation. I was thinking along the lines of concepts that already exist, such as the private copying levy [0]. It basically forces a blanket tax on a certain class of produ
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by entrox 5mo ago
> Of course they want to get paid for it. So should the original authors, no? That is, getting a share of that payment. Something akin to the German GEMA could work, an entity that levies a usage fee on behalf of all copyright holders an
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by entrox 5mo ago
Does it have to be? The etymology of the word „abstraction“ is „to draw away“. I think it‘s relevant to consider just how far away you want to go. If I‘m purely focused on the general outcome as written in a requirement or specification doc
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by entrox 5mo ago
It is quite frankly ridiculous that you need to be in the "in-group" to get things like this resolved and it is not the first time this has been reported, be it Google or Meta or any other big tech corpo. These players MUST be reg
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by entrox 6mo ago
Are these examples supposed to be bad? I think the world would be in a better place.
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by entrox 6mo ago
It used to be that you had to have a strong understanding of the underlying machine in order to create software that actually worked. Things like cycle times of instructions, pipeline behavior, registers and so on. You had to, because compi
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by entrox 6mo ago
Having worked in a very large company for the past two decades now, one of the best career advices I ever got is about how you measure if you are a „good employee“. It is very simple: you are a good employee if your boss(es) think you are.
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by entrox 6mo ago
Elderly care will always have more demand than supply.
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by entrox 6mo ago
Given how easy it was to get banned, the :tenbux: were almost like a subscription.
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by entrox 6mo ago
No, you misunderstood. It is not about their output, it almost never is. Most of the times, the business decision has already been made long before McK is hired. It’s all about legitimizing that decision and making it happen. You can also w
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by entrox 7mo ago
I believe you misunderstood the point of my comment, or rather I didn't make it clear enough. The quotes I quickly picked out feel like they represent a majority opinion on HN, namely that this is progress and disruption. I don't
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by entrox 7mo ago
I do not disagree, in fact I'm feeling more and more Butlerian with every passing day. However, it is undeniable that a transformation is taking place -- just not necessarily to the better.
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by entrox 7mo ago
Why is it bizarre? It is inevitable. After all, AI has not ruined creative professions, it merely disrupted and transformed them. And yes, I fully understand my whole comment here being snarky, but please bear with me. Let's rewind 4 y
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by entrox 7mo ago
I feel different: the last line is very important in this context, since it communicates the underlying thoughts and values of the poster. Asking for "amazing" open source projects in this case is not asking out of genuine curiosi
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by entrox 8mo ago
But now the meaning is different: you went from a potential interview to a guaranteed one.
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by entrox 8mo ago
> They've even got their own slogan: "you're probably just not prompting it properly" That's the same energy as telling other professions to "just learn to code, bro" once they are displaced by AI. But
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by entrox 9mo ago
"I sound seven percent more like Commander Shepard than any other bootleg LLM copy!"
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by entrox 9mo ago
I agree, but why not both?
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by entrox 9mo ago
How is this my fault as customer? This a predatory practice in tech. I work in automotive, the hoops you have to jump through in order to push a SW update are enormous. One of the first rules is: if the owner of the vehicle does not consen
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by entrox 10mo ago
I likely did not communicate clearly enough: it is tricky because of organizational reasons, not technical. There are many trade-offs that have to be made and it involves different business units with their own targets and incentives. To t
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by entrox 10mo ago
> There's no reason to make the process of fixing the issue after a minor incident expensive, extremely convoluted, and very prone to error. Yes there is. Either nobody is engineering towards that aspect or it is a conscious decisio
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by entrox 10mo ago
Yes, it works basically everywhere you'd interact with a local file or directory. For example, you open a remote dired buffer with C-x C-f /ssh:host:/dir/. Afterwards, opening a file or navigating to a directory will ope
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by entrox 10mo ago
> I just haven't found Emacs to be particularly productive over SSH. IMO it works best on a local machine, there's just too much in the GUI which isn't as workable over terminal. Font rendering, images, clickable text link
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by entrox 10mo ago
FreeCAD is definitely not something you can just pick up, but it's pretty intuitive if you're coming from CATIA as the workflow is very similar.
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by entrox 1y ago
If the system values proportional representation higher than qualification, than I will either abandon my own strive towards excellence or I will actively support changing that system. I feel the latter option is more likely than abandoning

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