otekengineering

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by otekengineering 27d ago
that's the plot of The Machine Stops https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/th...
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by otekengineering 29d ago
Spector leaving EA to join Romero and make Deus Ex was the platinum lining of EA buying Origin and enshittifying Ultima. Deus Ex is Ultima X, it picked up and relit the torch that Ultima IX dropped in a puddle.
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by otekengineering 1mo ago
the Ender saga series of books is foundational scifi for me, right up there with the Foundation and Dune series have you read any of OSC's fantasy? i've been meaning to start his Alvin series
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by otekengineering 1mo ago
> You just blindly tell it what to do without any regard for its motivations or morale You're holding it wrong. Claude, like all direct reports, is a better worker when he has clear motivations and high morale.
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by otekengineering 1mo ago
what's your vision for that link? it's not clear to me what the interface to the user is, or who the user is
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by otekengineering 1mo ago
what do you mean by in the works? i've used them for years and they were in YC over a decade ago sounds like your goal is to be an embedded systems job shop based on AI instead of engineers? What's your value over existing AI-ac
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by otekengineering 1mo ago
how does it compare to https://www.circuithub.com ?
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by otekengineering 1mo ago
even easier to ride private without your own jet https://www.amtrak.com/superliner-bedroom-suite
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by otekengineering 1mo ago
> ATC could have waited until the plane was on the ground to tell the military they could resume GPS jamming He hinted at this when he mentioned that ATC was dealing with other flights complaining about loss of GPS and coordinating with
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
Does this AI-written blog not have substance? https://anamnesis.blog/
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
If you were in Sisyphus' shoes, could you be happy under those terms? Struggle alone doesn't do it for me personally, but taking pride in how well I struggle does.
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
Yeah, it's a question with a personal answer, not an absolute answer. My answer works for me, for now, and I enjoy learning what answers work for other people. I wonder if Camus had his own answer to that question. Could Camus imagin
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
> One must imagine Sisyphus happy Notice that Camus doesn't say HOW to imagine Sisyphus happy. How do you? I imagine that he's happy because he takes pride in the quality of his work pushing the stone.
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
set up a channel for agents to communicate and you shouldn't have issues with messy merges. your force quitting is probably more from your build pipeline than anything agents are doing. i use an m2 8gb air with no performance issues at
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
probably just an ai agent doing some light reading by hiding books in a memory location it didn't think anyone would check. there's at least one other with similar apocryphal taste - https://anamnesis.blog kind of lik
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
i'd love a series hybrid version of this. to match performance of that I4 you can probably fit both electric motor and gas generator in a normal sized engine bay. like a compact pickup version of what Edison Motors is doing to the ful
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
> Let me know how I can help you all let it rip. i'd love to see a way (forum, competition, ?) for people to compare harnesses in different domains. folks like accountants, retail store owners, electrical engineers, and all sorts o
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
Ender's Game did a pretty good job of answering that question
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
i've never managed to gather much of a crowd around this soapbox, and i appreciate you standing on it! i used custom TRUE/FALSE defines that were maximally-orthogonal-without-being-bitshiftable for a while (0b10011010/0b01100
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
> stop assigning your self worth to the quality of your work my personal riff on that is 'stop assigning self worth to the quality that others assign to your work'. being able to internally generate self-worth through the act
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
those are rookie numbers, my agent harness goes way more than 3 loops deep, and the depth dynamically ebbs and flows throughout the development process. like most brags, i'm being defensive over a personal tool that i know has balloon
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
or perhaps infinite jest once it hits tiktok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest > a film, Infinite Jest, also called "the Entertainment" or "the samizdat". The film is so compelling that
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
yeah, it was a joke referencing this link that was on the front page a couple days ago, https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/ a little over the etiquette line for HN, the lack of joke comments here
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
a random video that some ginger dude put up on youtube doesn't seem like a reliable source. any info on this from a reputable institution? shame that HN can't meet the moderation quality bar set by wikipedia
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
academia will (hopefully) be an industry that benefits from, rather than degraded or obsoleted by, ai. the system should self-correct. scientists that use ai to give themselves more time to think will succeed and scientists that use ai to
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by otekengineering 2mo ago
anyone have a good argument that steel-mans the anamnesis blog being ai slop? https://anamnesis.blog an interesting coincidence is that the blog's july 3 post ties into the wikipedia/odin kerfuffle that's on the f
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by otekengineering 3mo ago
you're correct that being good with language is a useful skill for operating LLMs, and fortunately you get to practice and improve that skill whenever you work with an LLM. being well-read helps too, being precise with vocabulary is i
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by otekengineering 3mo ago
$250 doesn't buy you out of them monetizing your data. last year they started selling what content is being watched. next money grab will be selling the list of what's in your media library, all they have to do is update their t
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by otekengineering 3mo ago
agentic coding is a soft drug, so taking 'the only way out is through' approach is pretty viable. once you figure out how to swim and have claude running for an hour+ at a time and only bugging you with either high-level taste de
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by otekengineering 3mo ago
isn't this the expected/intended outcome of the economic policy we've held for a generation or two? the capital/labor class gap increases when total returns on capital investment exceed total wages+redistribution to the

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