irl_zebra

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by irl_zebra 6d ago
This was not an error: > He then also told his employees that if they didn't agree with his actions, they could leave with a severance package, which then had 10% of his employees quit. It was actually a pretty nice offer. iirc it w
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by irl_zebra 16d ago
This is an ad. Flagged.
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by irl_zebra 27d ago
{ "ok": false, "model": "wouter-1", "wouter": "Nee.", "reason": "Wouter is on holiday. He told you about this in March.", "wouter_status": &
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by irl_zebra 5mo ago
This should not have happened. But I have a hard time finding any sympathy for cryptocurrency folks. The quote from the article: "I lost my retirement fund in a hack/Scam when I switched my Ledger over to my new computer and by ac
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by irl_zebra 5mo ago
I know, but given the subject of the OP it was an irrelevant garbage comment from a jilted user trying to smear the company. It deserves an equally obtuse response.
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by irl_zebra 5mo ago
No it's design files. Like CAD stuff.
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by irl_zebra 6mo ago
Same. I found this comment in exactly the same way, and find it equally nauseating.
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by irl_zebra 6mo ago
Creating powerpoints. Presenting the powerpoints to others in synchronous meetings.
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by irl_zebra 6mo ago
Love Excalidraw. Used it for decades now, but reach for more powerful tools pretty often as I hit its limits. I'm not asking for the world, but some basics like being able to bold or italicize text would help out a lot.
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by irl_zebra 6mo ago
I think the book specifically and explicitly covered the "dark forest doesn't apply when species are near one another" angle.
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by irl_zebra 6mo ago
Or, at least, my take on GPT. :) I promise I am a human.
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by irl_zebra 6mo ago
It's probably good signal at least, if not a bit of a harsh thing to say that I don't mean in a bad way, that your writing was bland or mediocre since LLMs are basically regression to the mean.
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by irl_zebra 6mo ago
This incident is creepy enough that I would also not agree to a give a random stranger a ride home, absent any additional context or mitigations. Maybe to avoid waking up in an ice bath with my liver gone. But, to not give a ride because of
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by irl_zebra 6mo ago
I think I'd rather have them working on airplane tech rather than writing airplane tech press releases. With this approach, it's not just a tactical thing; it's relieving the burden of wordsmithing from technical people.
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by irl_zebra 6mo ago
Ugh, I'm pretty sure it's Big CED deceptively here to muddy the waters and obfuscate superior LaserDisc Technology. Perhaps flag the post so the moderators can see it and make sure we root Big CED out of these forums and out of ou
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by irl_zebra 6mo ago
Because the hoards of people who can't find the ` or | or $ on their keyboard outnumber competent people 100:1. I had this exact experience too, so frustrating. Moved to a strictly referral model where I pay my SWEs $10k if a candidate
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
This is why I haven't used OpenAI since early 2023-ish, and when I did I signed up with a masked email (though notably I'm sure they can tie my chats to me via my credit card :) ). afaict Sam Altman is essentially a sociopath, lik
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
Very cool, welcome aboard!
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
Sure, but you created your account 14 years ago and have lost of posts. The person to whom I'm replying created their account 0 minutes before posting the comment to which I am replying. Not really apples to apples.
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
Did you make this account to post this comment?
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
If shame were a motivator for this administration or the current grifter class, neither of these things would exist to the current Armageddon-level they currently do. That is to say, completely agree with your take here. There are plenty of
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
Covid in the USA was a bit like this.
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
"It's not about saving time, it's about eliminating the mental toll from having to context switch" This broke my brain! Woah!
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
Lots of organizations have massively increased government efficiency in the USA. 18F comes to mind as one.
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
If nothing else, the "Political Operations Abroad" section of USAID's wiki has some links and background.
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
Elon definitely has this cult of personality around him where people will jump in and defend his companies (as a stand-in for him) on the internet, even in the face of some common sense observations. I don't get the sense that anything
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
I will consume less of it, and have actively blocked or unsubscribed from orgs that promote it, but the generation behind us won't have these scruples.
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by irl_zebra 7mo ago
I've noticed a lot of LLM-based tools that are essentially this sort of thing. Just a slightly more specific prompt wrapper around the core capability that can already do the thing. It's so bad.
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by irl_zebra 8mo ago
Text on the internet and all of that, but you should have added the "/s" to the end so people didn't think you were promoting this line of logic seriously.
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by irl_zebra 8mo ago
I take that reply as a "bar raiser" that HN commenters should be better, not as a low quality/effort reply.

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