maximinus_thrax

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by maximinus_thrax 15d ago
> Say what you will about LLM-generated code, but stories like this give me hope that software will never be as buggy as it once was. Stories like these is what I now call 'Marketing slop'
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by maximinus_thrax 26d ago
Neither are the pirated books Meta is using for model training.
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by maximinus_thrax 27d ago
> and then rotated his MAC address to dodge the bans that the admin was trying to place on him And corporate scrapers never ever use proxy pools to rotate IPs to evade throttling and blacklisting. Meta is also scraping illegal content, s
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by maximinus_thrax 1mo ago
> My Eng lead has no coding experience, 25 years of management experience, yet has driven 3 separate projects into technical bankruptcy to date. This is C-suite material.
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by maximinus_thrax 1mo ago
> What makes you think so? Your resident propagandists like Solovyov, Dugin and Medvedev are very explicit about invading former warsaw pact countries when they're not threatening Europe with nukes. > Previous wars with Russia we
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by maximinus_thrax 1mo ago
> rebuild Ukrainian army for the next round There's going to be a next round? Have russians lost all sense of what's embarrassing? Is one ass-kicking with 500k fatalities and an economy held together by nabiullina duct tape not
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by maximinus_thrax 1mo ago
> I've seen a lot of bloat, corruption, & massive inefficiency. Been working for more than 20 years in corporations and I've seen the same.
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by maximinus_thrax 1mo ago
> western demands that encroached on Russia's sphere of influence What a horribly reductive and downright insulting view of Eastern European politics. > independent and united Europe, with Russia a part of it Is this some sort of
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by maximinus_thrax 1mo ago
It's called Dingleberries
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by maximinus_thrax 1mo ago
> The inherently violent nature of war So now it's a war? It's no longer a special military operation by law? Bro, you should watch yourself, you can go to prison for using the wrong terminology.
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by maximinus_thrax 2mo ago
https://www.reuters.com/world/warehouse-russian-online-retai... It seems Dingleberries failed to elect a new pope. Again.
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by maximinus_thrax 2mo ago
Oh man, this nostalgia hit me hard. I was an avid listener to both This Week in Tech and Cranky Geeks. I remember I was watching (!!!) Cranky Geeks on my ipod when I was bedridden from surgery in 2008. RIP.
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by maximinus_thrax 2mo ago
@dang This user is a known troll spreading Russian disinformation and aggravating users, that's pretty much all their contributions on the forum. They are at the second account (first being protomolecule). I've seen accounts banne
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by maximinus_thrax 3mo ago
There's a spectrum of 'broken' and AI made it worse
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by maximinus_thrax 3mo ago
> The money they're burning is not yours or mine. They're institutional investor money. So, again, who cares? This is not happening in a vacuum. A lot of index funds and retirement accounts have bought into AI and AI adjacent c
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by maximinus_thrax 3mo ago
Because it's futile. This person was banned before, this is their new account.
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by maximinus_thrax 4mo ago
> If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week. You must be new here. No, that&#x2
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by maximinus_thrax 4mo ago
> I am aware of all the code being written. Define 'aware'. The volume of code for a feature/system to make it worth using a more complex workflow such as this one, is definitely larger than what a human can even briefly r
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by maximinus_thrax 4mo ago
> I'm a happy TurboTax customer for over 25 years. I've been using TurboTax for about 20 years now and I am not happy. I hate it with a passion, it has more dark patterns than even LinkedIn and with my basic W-2 tax return with
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by maximinus_thrax 4mo ago
Don't bother, you are replying to a notorious Russian troll
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by maximinus_thrax 4mo ago
> https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/gemini/ai-ultra... It's been a while since I visited any google pages and I'm shocked how insipid and soulless their UX still is.
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by maximinus_thrax 5mo ago
I quit smoking a long time ago but if there's one thing I'm missing / craving is a hot cup of coffee with two cigarettes on an empty stomach during cold winter mornings... Fuuuuck.
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by maximinus_thrax 5mo ago
Not sure why they classified this language as 'old English'. It's so far removed (from all perspectives including a fundamentally different grammatical system) from modern or even early modern English, it's a completely
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by maximinus_thrax 5mo ago
> I'm no fun of Stalin I would argue for the generality of this characterization
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by maximinus_thrax 5mo ago
> I don't even think I've seen a single on here in Russia in the 90s. I'm not surprised, considering they were expensive. That doesn't mean they weren't popular in the west.
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by maximinus_thrax 5mo ago
I own a kindle and use it daily. I just borrow all my ebooks from public libraries. I buy the books I want to keep, in physical form.
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by maximinus_thrax 5mo ago
Please don't 'buy' digital items from Amazon, because you won't actually own them. Pay extra, support your local bookshop and get a physical copy which you will actually own.
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by maximinus_thrax 6mo ago
There are a lot of defenders of capital on hn, which is expected, that's totally fine. But I think we should all have a bit of admiration for someone who risked her life to shed light into the internals of an arguably sick business ent
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by maximinus_thrax 6mo ago
> The author didnt disclose any illegal activities in her book. And she didnt claim whistleblower status. Both statements are factually incorrect. > Wynn-William filed a whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commis
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by maximinus_thrax 6mo ago
The legal system makes illegal activities part of the public record.

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