lmohseni

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by lmohseni 2mo ago
But wait, I do pay taxes? By you logic, no policy choice can ever cause harm because the responsibility is always redistributable to several billion bystanders. Pretty convenient!
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by lmohseni 3mo ago
I’ve been using GLM-5.2 on openrouter with pi and, while I’ve only been playing with it for a couple days, seems stronger than Opus 4.8, nearly on the level of Fable for coding/architecture tasks.
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Show HN: Make beats, produce music from the command line
3 points by lmohseni 7mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: I vibe coded a DAW for the terminal. how'd I do?(github.com)
5 points by lmohseni 7mo ago|0 comments
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by lmohseni 3y ago
I read a book called Breath by James Nestor, it’s all about the benefits of nose breathing. Anecdotally this has completely fixed my sleep apnea/ snoring/ energy levels/ etc. Highly recommended!
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by lmohseni 4y ago
Also for blind programmers, tabs are much nicer for a screen reader.
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by lmohseni 4y ago
If you hold the function key (‘fn’) and press the left arrow it works. Macs map fn+arrows to home, end, pgup, and pgdown.
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by lmohseni 4y ago
Indeed, Myron Scholes was on the board of LTCM when they blew up and kicked off the Asian financial crisis. LTCM could be a poster child for fragile financial systems.
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by lmohseni 4y ago
Fermentation is a great way to create cheap or free fertilizer and garden amendments. Look up the works of yungsang cho or hankyu cho.
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by lmohseni 4y ago
15% interest? No, surprises!
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by lmohseni 4y ago
There’s an option for this under System Prefs > Accessibility > Reduce Motion
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by lmohseni 4y ago
In system preferences, under accessibility, there’s an option to “reduce motion” or something that removes that annoying animation. It’s great!
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by lmohseni 4y ago
If you’ve ever written code, and if you’ve ever written a bug, then you will understand that code as law is terrible idea, especially when it comes to finance.
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by lmohseni 4y ago
> I don't feel compromised. I get it. It’s a long road from “dont be evil” to illegal wage fixing, mass ad fraud, omnipresent dragnet surveillance, and cooperation with totalitarian nation states; all of those with compunctions are
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by lmohseni 4y ago
You mean there’s a contingent within Google that further compromises their moral integrity. Edit: downvotes won’t help you sleep at night!
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by lmohseni 5y ago
Or in xkcd form: https://xkcd.com/1012/
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by lmohseni 5y ago
We have footage of cluster bombs striking civilian apartment buildings in Kharkiv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZuKEwuZznw
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by lmohseni 5y ago
It requires trusting code instead of humans.
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by lmohseni 5y ago
Here’s the thing though: any one who works with code knows that you cannot trust code. Code is as tricky and ambiguous as the humans who write it.
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by lmohseni 5y ago
The FreeBSD youtube channel is great for long-form intros and talks, if you are curious: https://www.youtube.com/c/FreeBSDProject
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by lmohseni 5y ago
IMO, Proof of work crypto is fundamentally immoral because of the externalized environmental costs.
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by lmohseni 5y ago
I have a macbook and and Iphone, so one handy thing I use is the clipboard is shared between devices on the same LAN that are signed into the same icloud accont. so I can select some text with my mouse, hit "paste" in my phone, a
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by lmohseni 5y ago
An AI which “just needs to be taught properly” is the same as a genie or magic pixie which also exist but for “just needing to be taught properly”
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by lmohseni 5y ago
I like to think of it as: insurance = risk pooling = “socialism”, whereas markets = information pooling = “capitalism”, and risk is simply the negative of information.
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by lmohseni 5y ago
I believe science is a democratic process. If someone has the correct idea but communicates it poorly, so poorly that others in the field disagree, then this person is doing it wrong. (Thinking specifically of https://en.m.wiki
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by lmohseni 5y ago
There’s a great YouTuber named Ultraviolent4 who plays lots of “unwinnable” or maybe just really odd combinations, and watching his games really improved my own.
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by lmohseni 5y ago
Regarding your second point, Firefox does both of these.
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by lmohseni 5y ago
A web based admin interface might be handy as well...
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by lmohseni 5y ago
Those are all much better options than a Ponzi scheme/ financial bubble.
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by lmohseni 5y ago
Totally unrelated but good luck today with your interview! You have a stranger on the internet rooting for you

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