floren

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by floren 8d ago
Are we the baddies?
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by floren 11d ago
It's always surprising how many HN readers seem to read only non-fiction, sometimes only self-help style books about business and startups. Some are even proud of that.
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by floren 14d ago
It's also quite a thrill to spot a log absolutely covered in oyster or woodear mushrooms (two I feel very confident in identifying, and thankfully both were common on the 10k trail above Albuquerque)
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by floren 20d ago
But you could just watch Aliens.
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by floren 24d ago
Ironic that this has all the tells of an LLM-generated text. > This is not a minor shift in user behavior. It is an inversion of the Internet’s original knowledge architecture. take offfffff
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by floren 24d ago
1. be the kind of guy who thinks more LOC = more betterer 2. ask an LLM to do the needful and never ever look at the results except to count LOC
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by floren 26d ago
> The closest such advance in recent years didn't happen and instead turned into the macbook neo. Apple could have released an OS for the iphone pro max model of phones that allow them to boot Mac OS when attached to a docking stati
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by floren 26d ago
Cuz you're a MAKER, just see the box of BOJACK-brand screws on top of the power supply in the action shot.
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by floren 1mo ago
You're supposed to read through the recipe before you start. Also, most modern recipe books and websites put prep/cook/total times at the very top, so if you have to marinate overnight it'll say "total: 13h" or
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by floren 1mo ago
Many of the "stories" just go to generic Wikipedia pages: DNS, garbage collection, etc. They're interesting and important things but not "stories".
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by floren 1mo ago
Biologists I know were reporting that they'd changed their grant proposals to study e.g. ovarian cancer in "non-male" mice
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by floren 1mo ago
It's got "Gold" in the name, it may very well be a Trump operation.
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by floren 1mo ago
Sean "DEI Bike Lanes" Duffy?
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by floren 1mo ago
In English, the creature is a pig or a hog, and the meat is pork. We also have major feral pig problems in parts of the US.
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by floren 1mo ago
The LLM can't tell the difference between your messages and theirs, however many times you say "No mistakes"
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by floren 1mo ago
Naming a terminal emulator "rio" seems like a cruel joke on Rob Pike :)
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by floren 1mo ago
You can do things correctly, with thought and attention even if they seem unimportant, or you can be a feckless dipshit. This applies to most things in life.
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Driving an 80s robot with a 90s OS at VCF West 2026(jfloren.net)
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by floren 1mo ago
Boy, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder!
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by floren 2mo ago
Next time, try a clever joke.
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by floren 2mo ago
Although the questions sometimes trigger useful hallucinations (we were able to instantly disqualify tons from our last hiring batch due to a hallucinated Go stdlib call, their code didn't even compile), the other thing is that you can
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by floren 2mo ago
Yeah, for a long time I thought I disliked Rush because I only heard "Tom Sawyer" and "Closer to the Heart" on the radio. Turns out the best shit doesn't get airtime. At least my hometown classic rock station would
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by floren 2mo ago
Or too little... aside from themes and music and a chatbox there's not much to it.
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by floren 2mo ago
> Here's the example I throw out to people who have been in the Bay Area for a year or two. It's early in the year. You want to drive straight through the middle of Chinatown in SF. Why might that be a bad idea? Well the answe
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by floren 2mo ago
Definitely not, I like IPv6.
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by floren 2mo ago
if this wanton abuse of cat(1) doesn't stop, we're on track to run out of PIDs by 2031! Just because Unix makes it cheap and easy to fork doesn't mean you have to! (who gives even a single shit, my god)
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by floren 2mo ago
Oh yeah solar is getting good but the guys who come to your door and say they'll give you a $0 electric bill just sign here are peddling something that's maximally profitable for them
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by floren 2mo ago
I've started telling basically that to the solar salesmen who come by every few days: if it was so great, you wouldn't have to pretend to be from PG&E or tell a bunch of half-truths about how utilities work.
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by floren 2mo ago
A del.icio.us idea
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by floren 2mo ago
It's so damn easy to hit "pause" on the kid by turning on the TV or handing over a phone, but the result is so apparent: demands for more phone or more TV.

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