mirmor23

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by mirmor23 3d ago
> I'd get lynched for sharing a thought like this from a non-throwaway account, but: I don't get the ultra-liberal folks obsession with the skid row. For whatever reason they seem to think that low rank criminals should be allo
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by mirmor23 3d ago
I read the article and kept wondering what the author is trying to convey. It reads like a checklist compiled into an essay with no wisdom nor rationale baked into it. mostly vague and generic -- like a human transform applied to an llm out
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by mirmor23 10d ago
> Most popular technical channels like HN / specific sub-reddits require active community participation and "karma-farming" just to be able to post something, which is hard for me to spend time on (I'd rather work on
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by mirmor23 11d ago
most of the youtube videos for soldering are a waste of time as they focus on the rituals of soldering rather than the rationale. think of soldering as a thermodynamic and metallurgical system to create a solid mechanical/electrical jo
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by mirmor23 11d ago
you look at the man who benefits...
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by mirmor23 11d ago
Rumsfeld heard it from some smart guy in NASA and repackaged it to sell Iraq war. This is similar to the influencers bandying around 'algorithms'; Rumsfeld is more like the Big Lebowski in parroting whatever to make him look smart
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by mirmor23 22d ago
> now that we have the compute and proper AI, not just IKBS, we can focus on generating a specification and not the code. A specification that can persist across the entire SDLC. All a bit like all the other branches of engineering that
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by mirmor23 26d ago
just one line in the agent file does it. there is no need for another 'skill'. here is the line i use: use technical language to spell things out, and keep it free of jargon and project shorthand
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by mirmor23 29d ago
> This is such a ridiculous, preposterously self-confident claim. Claims like this give HN (and engineers in general) a bad reputation. all you've done is use some fancy words to discredit OP's claim. what makes you think peopl
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by mirmor23 29d ago
> I don’t know Swedish. Is it because these diacritics make the names seem more exotic? of course. Haagen Dazs, Motorhead, etc have known it loooong ago
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by mirmor23 29d ago
this has existed for centuries -- scientists who are religious, folks relying on quack doctors, astrology, tarot reading is nothing new. for every person willing to risk their lives by playing doctor, llm amplifies their belief, and it is n
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by mirmor23 29d ago
what does an internal process matter if the input to output transformations are acceptable. there are many many different ways of writing a software calculator, or a protocol stack, or codec modules; internally they may be wildly different,
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by mirmor23 29d ago
Why ashamed? a more pertinent question should be on the level of involvement/expertise of the llm user in creating/enhancing the software. did they sort out all the design decisions, approaches, constraints, or did they let llm ru
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by mirmor23 29d ago
lots of people here defending amazon blindly seem to be unaware of the full picture of how amazon ads works in the context of the marketplace. the point is that, if airfryer B is rival of A, and B buys ads (to let amazon show B ahead of A e
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
wow, thanks. that side-by-side view was just crushing. Instead, if he had gone the route of translate(english->spanish->vietnamese->arabic->english), he could have 1) beat plagiarism 2) gotten few more ideas of how to extend the
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
does anyone tracking this know if the accusations of plagiarism are true/false; wiki doesn't say anything.
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
for all the PR that mozilla floats about them being the guardian of free internet, i would wager that, today, most non-tech folks will have hard time configuring firefox properly. it used to be simple back in the days, now they have made it
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
> so I'm wondering why so many people still stick with Chrome, Safari, or Edge. most non-tech folks aren't even aware firefox exists; they just use whatever is already installed; i predominantly use firefox, since its firebird
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
> If you used cash as a reasonable person you would not even notice that cards aren't working. lol. i see. gas stations were closed since pumps were out. similar story with other facilities. luckily, gas station snack shops accepted
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
> Most decent emergency / contingency plans will have the fire department, police or whatever local group show up at one or two designated gas stations to provide power, or require these stations to have on-site emergency power. thi
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
ok, go on, tell me what i will learn in the context of this thread.
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
txt only browser android apps, haven't used them in a while; other option is w3m/lynx; but sites with js dependency break;
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
OP claimed ddg barely works; realistically their network speed might be much lower or a long tail.
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
> The power of AI is not the 'nits and small bugs' - it's the firehose of scratch branches it can let loose in where it doesn't have to worry about PRs, reviews. > Once it's all figured out, then the path to t
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
did you try text.npr.org or lite.cnn.com; I assume you are not in the US, since most 2.5g/3g towers have been shut down; the reason could be bloated client, heavy 3rd party tracking; probably request timeouts might have been tuned to r
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
If your company has sketchy process and minimal checks on the software quality, of course it naturally follows that they hire bad engineers as well. fortunately, that also opens up an opportunity to be a emergency leader with an eye towards
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
> That’s a wild mischaracterization. Steve Job’s “reality distortion field” was coined after the ability to get people to achieve the impossible and deliver better products; quite the opposite of funneling money into dead end ideas. Appl
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
it is strange that when people are pro-american, or pro-any-ingroup, nobody asks for justification; OTOH, make a mistake of speaking from rational viewpoint based on historical events, expect a lot of hate from reddit/HN/any-ingro
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
street fights already demonstrate that; not sure if there is need to test it explicitly.
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by mirmor23 1mo ago
not disagreeing with you; but, it's not like Europeans were any better in not smearing the world with their religion, diseases, violence, and last but not least stealing other peoples land and making steady money by keeping the stolen

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