mjbale116

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by mjbale116 7mo ago
I have this image in my mind of a discussion taking place in a high speed rail possibly around 2100 where people will look back and say: "I cannot believe we had people driving 2ton steel boxes back in the day, I cannot even compute th
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by mjbale116 8mo ago
Re-posting an older comment of mine on the subject: Here's a couple of arguments I had to deal with whilst expressing my support for electronics ban at schools including a blanket social media ban: 1) "Since when do we consider it
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by mjbale116 8mo ago
> Black rock isn't buying up all the housing, your neighbors are. This is a common trope. "It's not big conglomerates that buy and hodl the homes where families are supposed to live, its mom and pop investors so please be
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by mjbale116 8mo ago
On the same note, whats going on with Dell's marketing lately? Dell, Dell Pro, Dell Premium, Dell _Pro_ Premium Dell Max, Dell _Pro_ max... They went and added capacitive keys on the XPS? Why would you do this... A lot of decisions tha
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by mjbale116 10mo ago
All I want to know, is whether I am talking to an actual person. And I also want that person to have a single account, not multiple ones
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Ask HN: What do you use for speaker diarization?
2 points by mjbale116 10mo ago|1 comments
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by mjbale116 11mo ago
> I don't see what you're saying. Are you saying people must think the same things as you do for it to be independent thought? Indeed you don't; let me help you out then: Arguments must be made in good faith; and when you
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by mjbale116 11mo ago
Here's a couple of arguments I had to deal with whilst expressing my support for electronics ban at schools including a blanket social media ban: 1) "Since when do we consider it OK for the government to intervene between the pare
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by mjbale116 11mo ago
> A big part of this IMO is that “money won”, for lack of a better phrase. There is no real concept of selling out anymore. Being shamelessly focused on wealth accumulation seems to be socially acceptable in a way it wasn’t fifty years a
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by mjbale116 11mo ago
> have left the US They did not "leave" the US, they were deported without due process. > though NSA and google have been doing it for years That does not make it less dismal > less scope for this to be abused against ame
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by mjbale116 11mo ago
anthropic are so sure about the incoming economic impact of their AI that they want to start talking about policy - for our sake. Incredible stuff...
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by mjbale116 1y ago
Can someone explain to me why should I use a VPN when Tor is out there? It just seems to me odd that one would pipe their communications through a private company, that operates over a jurisdiction when said jurisdiction can compel the comp
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by mjbale116 1y ago
While a big proponent of this, to my mind, it seems a bit counterintuitive to place your trust in a community who will probably cannot be held into account once some bad actor slips into their ranks, creates a bad patch and empties my bank
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by mjbale116 2y ago
> I don't see a downside in requiring public-facing bots to do that Your statement attempts to give an impression of a middle ground, but what it actually does is delegating the action to the human - who has limited energy and has t
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by mjbale116 2y ago
- "It violates freedom of speech!" - "This is a free market; if you do not like it use another platform!" - "I thought $conglomerate" had our back! They had rainbows and all; is that all it took them to fold&qu
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Ask HN: How are you using LLMs for traversing decompiler output?
105 points by mjbale116 2y ago|45 comments
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by mjbale116 2y ago
If you manage to convince software engineers that you are doing them a favour by employing them then they will approach any workplace negotiations with a specific mindset which will make them grab the first number it gets thrown to them. Th
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Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
63 points by mjbale116 2y ago|75 comments
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by mjbale116 2y ago
Here's the thing: The reasoning behind the work from office mandate does not concern me; nor I will attempt to rationalize it. I will not return to office, and I will organize with colleagues to make sure our interests are protecte
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Ask HN: What are your profit margins?
6 points by mjbale116 2y ago|0 comments
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by mjbale116 2y ago
I have spent my youth in rural Peloponnese and the boredom before the internet came along was insufferable; doing stupid stuff with the car was pretty much how you get some sort of excitement. Strofara was great, now do O mikros nicolas apo
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by mjbale116 2y ago
If their service sucks I lose my life. This isn't a discretionary purchase, let's stop pretending one can go shopping for care.
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Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?
200 points by mjbale116 2y ago|201 comments