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by kshacker 8mo ago
I took a four-year break from work (2009–2013) and moved to India. The reasons were simple: some family health issues required downtime (though probably not as much as I ended up taking), and I could afford to do this in India in a way I co
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by kshacker 9mo ago
I am just speculating after reading a part of this discussion, and my thoughts are quite raw and evolving. LLM plays a lot of roles - doctor, lawyer, healthcare professional. It is not a stretch to say that if a Doctor has obligations, so d
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by kshacker 9mo ago
It will be interesting to see the legal boundary develop for this in future. 1. An individual may not want to share their chats with anyone. They may assume the chats to be privileged, just like attorney client privilege. 2. An individual m
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by kshacker 9mo ago
1. I do that once in a while. There is only so much thinking you can do in a day or a week that you need some mindless activity 2. Today morning, fresh in the new year after a break -- I took a day off on the 2nd, and I last worked on Decem
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by kshacker 9mo ago
Or maybe it is a message that we have a madman at the top with a finger on the trigger. Do not even try.
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by kshacker 9mo ago
I wonder just like retailers are required to account for local sales taxes (I know it is not that clear cut), there should be some enforcement mechanism to settle disputes locally. Setup an agency which "legally" provides support
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by kshacker 10mo ago
I was reading and 2 (Srouji) is 61 years old. While that is not too old, but that does explain why he may not be choice for next CEO (besides any other things). You want someone to helm the ship for a decade.
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by kshacker 10mo ago
I was just giving my history :) but yes I am sure this could actually get us out of the COBOL lock-in which requires 70 years old programmers to continue working. The last article I could find on this is from 2020 though: https:/&#x2F
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by kshacker 10mo ago
I am a novice programmer -- I have programmed for 35+ years now but I build and lose the skills moving between coder to manager to sales -- multiple times. Fresh IC since last week again :) I have coded starting with Fortran, RPG and COBOL
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by kshacker 10mo ago
How do the sequels affect this? I read this once more in the same discussion so I am curious. Let's assume the 1st book goes public. I should be able to use those characters and their known relationship in any which way, no? What'
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by kshacker 10mo ago
> voice simply isn't a great way to interact with computers in the general case You know I have talked to chatGPT for maybe a 100 hours over the past 6 months. It gets my accent, it switches languages, it humors. It understands what
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by kshacker 10mo ago
Deferring sales is one datapoint. But setting records is another datapoint and counter to deferring IMO. Edit there is talk below of inflation adjusted numbers being high but meh
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by kshacker 10mo ago
So I go to Costco and buy wine, and next week I get a letter from DMV reminding me of the blood alcohol requirements, I get people visit home selling wine glasses, when I go to work someone hands me the best of wines coffee table book, and
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by kshacker 11mo ago
If we followed the rules strictly, and not different rules for the rich, why's that a problem?
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by kshacker 11mo ago
I am also not advocating anything but ... wasn't the famous Spock line "needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one". The question is of empirically proving it and that's the challenge. The jury may not be co-opted b
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by kshacker 11mo ago
AI spell check OR rather sentence improvements are awesome. But by AI, people mean LLM and context. Remember what I told you -- yesterday I was booking a flight, can we check the prices again? What happened to that hotel booking? Dozens of
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by kshacker 11mo ago
No, I think the other side has a point. If I were doing 10 services on my car, I would have muscle memory of a lot of things. If I am doing only brakes, and maybe another thing, I do not have that muscle memory. While the work may not be ha
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by kshacker 11mo ago
> the capital and running cost of a purpose-built datacenter is far cheaper per rack than putting machines in existing office-class buildings, as long as it's a reasonable size - ours is ~1000 racks, but you might get decent scale a
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by kshacker 11mo ago
Disconnect day
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by kshacker 11mo ago
Not trying to excuse google but wonder why that happens. I have had my own issues with ChatGPT memory but that's more like it forgets the context and spits out something gibberish at a later invocation counter to what it said earlier i
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by kshacker 1y ago
Sorry I downvoted this by mistake. Got confused between collapse and the down arrow (which I rarely use). Does someone know how to reverse a downvote. I do not see it.
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by kshacker 1y ago
Like some other people said, I drop my phones weekly. Some on wood, some on carpet, and some on concrete. It is so bad that as I have my latest phone for 2 years, I have run across 2 cases, and about to need a 3rd one or go for an upgrade (
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by kshacker 1y ago
From what I have heard, it weighs on you. Maybe you can tolerate for an hour, and maybe you can do more than me, but I think the weight is the second parameter which puts off people. Reduce weight by 1/3 and same thing for the price, a
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by kshacker 1y ago
Sometimes it takes an event to change your view. I bought my first noise canceling sennheiser about a dozen years back. Hated it. Tried the noise canceling on my airpods. Hated it. Kept Airpods on transparency since most of my usage was dur
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by kshacker 1y ago
I am one of those buying orange. Never went for colors, always deep blue or grey, but both my son and I went for orange. And not even politically connected. Just liked the color.
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by kshacker 1y ago
I am traveling to India and unfortunately "our services are not available in your country or region". And a few months back we were all singing "oh wen ji" (really badly paraphrased) on RedNote when TikTok was already do
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by kshacker 1y ago
Same here, but this time is different. Truly. Some of the easy jobs will be taken away and your job is not under threat. Right? But some of the people who were doing low skilled jobs will grow to compete with you. Less supply more demand. E
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by kshacker 1y ago
I have a reasonably common name. I am in Bay Area, and have received mail meant for people in Fresno or Bakersfield, someone in Toronto, someone in Australia, and I think someone in a London suburb. There are drug test results, online order
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by kshacker 1y ago
I hear you but 1) this is decades back and my best memory - we did walk out of their building without results (or a report), 2) how does a cop verify the veracity of someone random claiming to have lost all forms of identifications. I think
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by kshacker 1y ago
Story of a recovered passport - no alcohol and 21 years back. Was visiting Toronto labor day weekend 2004 with a freshly minted green card and India's passport with family (wife+2kids). Was in Eaton center, we were trying to take a tra

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