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The 2026 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony(improbable.com)
3 points by mynameisash 13d ago|0 comments
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by mynameisash 14d ago
> Curl has a well earned reputation for high quality code. SQLite also has a very good reputation. I vaguely recall hearing about one SQLite vulnerability discovered via AI, but I thought it turned out to be a nothingburger. A quick sear
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by mynameisash 18d ago
Worse than rolling coal? Worse than golf courses? Worse than cruiselines?
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by mynameisash 29d ago
> Oh yea. Getting downvoted for saying the truth. So modern Hackernews I didn't downvote you - and I agree with the sentiment that Whole Foods is also Amazon - but the meta complaining isn't beneficial to the conversation.
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by mynameisash 1mo ago
When my wife and I finally got rid of our Wells Fargo accounts -- having sold our house and thus eliminated that mortgage, and having already moved our personal banking to a credit union -- we legitimately celebrated by going out to dinner.
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by mynameisash 1mo ago
The first link you cited[0] shows up on the Wayback Machine[1] for the first time on 2022-05-16 - more than 11 years after it was purportedly written. [0] https://www.greyblake.com/blog/vim-preview-plugin/ [1] ht
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by mynameisash 3mo ago
I guess I should have asked about the technical mechanism of what causes and what actually 'breaks', and then what the technical remedy is.
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by mynameisash 3mo ago
What breaks the hunger response, and how does one fix it? Maybe it's well-known, but I read the starvation response Wikipedia page[0] and didn't grok it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_response
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by mynameisash 3mo ago
https://archive.ph/giLPA
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by mynameisash 4mo ago
C# used to be my favorite language, but having spent a lot of time in Rust using its algebraic data types + match statements + Option & Result types, then returning to C# to build a few moderately involved libraries, I'm horrified
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by mynameisash 4mo ago
According to this article[0]: > HSBC Global Investment Research projects that OpenAI still won’t be profitable by 2030, even though its consumer base will grow by that point to comprise some 44% of the world’s adult population (up from 1
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by mynameisash 4mo ago
> Amazon was unprofitable for over a decade, and they were public. Amazon was unprofitable because they poured their revenue into growth. On paper, they were in the red, but everyone - especially investors - saw what was going to happen,
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by mynameisash 4mo ago
I think my browsing habits may have changed, as I rarely see captchas. However, just the other day, my son was frustrated by one that he said had taken him fifteen or more tries, and he still hadn't succeeded.
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by mynameisash 4mo ago
> The average number of pull requests per dev per week increased with all this spend. From 4.2 to 5.1. That's it? I've seen people that are consistently putting out four PRs per day . I don't/can't even code rev
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by mynameisash 4mo ago
He started writing his answers in French so that his peers wouldn't understand:D
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by mynameisash 4mo ago
My son is taking an AP chem class - he's doing really well, super interested in the subject. It's a difficult class, to be sure. Many of his peers are just goofing off and don't understand things. My son regularly tells me ab
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Why I Left the Network(projects.propublica.org)
5 points by mynameisash 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mynameisash 5mo ago
My wife and I were just talking about this the other day. She lucid dreams very regularly, and she says she spends a lot of that time flying. I, on the other hand, never lucid dreamed, so a few years ago, I spent a lot of time journaling an
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by mynameisash 5mo ago
My first and really only experience with Kubernetes was a project I did about six years ago. I was tasked with building a thing that did some lightly distributed compute using Python + Dask. I was able to cobble together a functioning (in
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by mynameisash 5mo ago
Years ago, there was a TED Talk[0] from the guy that started Open Source Ecology[1]. The TED Talk was really cool, but I haven't really followed what they did. It sounded promising to have open-source technology for use in this space.
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by mynameisash 5mo ago
> Car and Driver estimates that the vehicle will run at least $60,000. Ram’s gas-powered truck, meanwhile, starts at $42,000. I don't know how much of this is attributable to truck culture, how much is newfangled tech, and how muc
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by mynameisash 5mo ago
Yeah, it's all well and good to say somebody doesn't know how to regulate their pace, and it's another thing for your manager to tell your team that you need to be using a squad of agents constantly. To have a weekly stand-up
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by mynameisash 5mo ago
I would say: not explosive. I've seen a decent number of setups, and I can think of three areas where you could be concerned with safety (not necessarily where you should be): 1. Most use propane burners (the exact thing you'd
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by mynameisash 6mo ago
I think this is the right answer. I am frustrated by Copilot and by many aspects of AI, but to me it seems like straightforward branding: you use a Microsoft product, you want to use AI in it, you look for Copilot (name and/or icon). T
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by mynameisash 6mo ago
> The failure is in gov't making sure there's sufficient regulation to prevent monopolistic practises. This may not be a problem inherent to capitalism, but it certainly is a problem caused by the capitalism we currently have
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by mynameisash 6mo ago
In case others don't know, Tool used this quote in their song Third Eye.
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by mynameisash 6mo ago
I would think it's because of the staggering money they're making. According to Fortune[0]: > Altman said on an episode of Uncapped that Meta had been making “giant offers to a lot of people on our team,” some totaling “$100 mi
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by mynameisash 6mo ago
Firefox mobile. I just checked, and for some reason, uBlock Origin was deactivated. No longer!
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by mynameisash 6mo ago
I'm really sorry to hear that. I once read something about the prevalence of depression in people with tinnitus. I was surprised by it, but I didn't really consider how disruptive it must be when you're accustomed to not havi
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by mynameisash 6mo ago
I'll save you about 30 ad views: > The Oxford researchers proposed that the large spontaneous waves of brain activity that occur during deep sleep, or non-rapid eye movement sleep (non-REM), might suppress the brain activity that le

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