nagonago

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by nagonago 1mo ago
Same phenomenon for the game Satisfactory, lately I've seen so many vibe-coded tools that just do the exact same thing as already existing tools.
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by nagonago 2mo ago
I appreciate the frustration and ridiculousness of having to use an app just to open a door, but over half of these steps are just things you have to do when you get a new phone anyway.
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by nagonago 5mo ago
That seems overly optimistic to me. People who already distrust the government aren't going to change their minds. Even if the government releases everything, conspiracy theorists will just say it's a lie to hide the real truth.
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by nagonago 5mo ago
When I got a Macbook many years ago, I was surprised how often little utility software like this cost money. I was just so used to the abundance of open source and freeware in the Windows/Linux world. No judgement either way, I get tha
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by nagonago 6mo ago
I appreciate your positive attitude and I hope more people will adopt it. I am also part of some very niche communities on the internet, and although they are small they are certainly thriving.
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by nagonago 11mo ago
I agree with your first statement, but raise an eyebrow at the second. The desktop already is the "friendly" version of the CLI. I am skeptical there could be any magical technological innovation that would make terminals friendli
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by nagonago 11mo ago
"Google has prevented you from installing apps outside the Google Play store on your phone."
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by nagonago 1y ago
I also work for scientists and researchers, and it's a whole different atmosphere. Being research-driven instead if profit-driven makes all the difference. It's a great gig...at least until the funding dries out.
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by nagonago 1y ago
The problem is not so much the carbon footprint of just using LLMs, but the impact from building and running massive data centers needed to train the models. Check out this report from the ITU: https://www.itu.int/en/me
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by nagonago 1y ago
I found the stylistic choice to write in all lowercase so jarring that I could barely focus on the content of the article itself. Now I realize I am going against HN Guidelines by focusing on style over substance, so to tie this into the co
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by nagonago 1y ago
An easy trick is to take a common riddle that's likely all over its training data, and change one little detail. For example: A farmer with a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage must cross a river by boat. The boat can carry only the farmer an
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by nagonago 1y ago
I found that the overzealous AI moderation made it impossible to ask anything remotely interesting, such as the classic dilemma: Would rather eat poo that tastes exactly like chocolate, or poo that tastes exactly like poo?
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by nagonago 2y ago
This was in Bangkok, Thailand, although the school itself was run by Indians. They had IT courses for both kids and adults. Fortunately I think these days there are a lot more options for kids to learn programming, but back then the options
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by nagonago 2y ago
Unrelated to the article, but this reminds me of being an intrepid but naive 12-year-old trying to learn programming. I had already taught myself a bit using books, including following a tutorial to make a simple calculator complete with a
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by nagonago 2y ago
I agree, but to be fair I think that point could have been made clearer in the post. A similar but related lesson: the best way to teach something is to design a task that is just difficult enough that the learner can figure it out on the
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by nagonago 2y ago
From what I've read, children's brains haven't fully developed the capability for emotional regulation. So not only are they less experienced, they might actually be physically incapable of managing their own emotions. Keepin
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OpenAI, Adobe and Microsoft back California bill requiring AI content watermarks(techcrunch.com)
4 points by nagonago 2y ago|0 comments
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by nagonago 2y ago
> Although I must confess that I have a mental block about the second and third components of a C-style for-loop and whenever possible, I avoid them if I can. Glad I'm not the only one! Despite programming for over a decade, I still
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by nagonago 2y ago
Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: "Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."[0] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02&
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by nagonago 2y ago
I agree that self-policed communities seem like the best solution to the general problem. For example, public Minecraft servers often get harassed by cheaters and griefers. Some servers try to circumvent this with all sorts of complicated a
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by nagonago 3y ago
I've lost count of the number of "epiphanies" he's had.
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by nagonago 3y ago
Thank you for introducing me to "Suzanne Delage," I am a Gene Wolfe fan but was unaware of this story until now. I found your interpretation incredibly convincing, too.
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by nagonago 3y ago
I had the same question, as my first reaction was "this looks like such a hack, I am sure there are better tools for this," so I poked into the user manual[0] and found this quote: > Driven by the frustration of creating charts
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by nagonago 3y ago
I recently listened to an interview with Joe Brumm, the creator of Bluey, on the podcast "How Other Dads Dad". He said this is a common criticism, and he thinks a fair one. The problem is his aim was never to be an educational sho
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by nagonago 3y ago
Unfortunately the encrypted phone market is a total mess. The Darknet Diaries podcast has a good episode about this. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/105/
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by nagonago 3y ago
I've seen this play out on Discord too. When they rolled out the new "summarize conversations with AI" feature, I saw a lot of people concerned their data was going to be stolen for AI training as a result. I pointed out that
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by nagonago 3y ago
Unrelated to the content of the article, but is the cover image AI generated? Looks kind of like DALL-E style output to me but it's hard to be sure. (Also, I know I'm breaking the rule "Please don't pick the most provoca
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by nagonago 3y ago
My usual custom instructions, tweaked as needed: You are an expert programming assistant. You specialize in Python and ES6. Answer in concise code blocks only. No explanations, only code. Code blocks should contain no comments, only code. Y
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by nagonago 3y ago
A nearby shopping center used to be called Qanat until it got bought out and renamed to the very generic (Corporation) Square a few years ago. Everyone still just calls it Qanat because it's such a cool word, with an interesting histor
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by nagonago 3y ago
As much as I would love to see Musk imprisoned, I don't see how those things would lead to jail time. Are you saying he might be accused of defrauding investors? I think that would be a pretty hard sell in court.

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