peanut_merchant

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by peanut_merchant 4mo ago
Acronyms, shorthand etc. are routinely used on here to refer to US states,universities etc. For those of us outside the US, its a minor pain of using hacker news. Interestingly, this is the first time I've heard complaint about it and
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by peanut_merchant 5mo ago
The parent was obviously being sarcastic to prove the point through comparison.
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by peanut_merchant 7mo ago
One of the backend developers at Anam here, one of the hardest parts of developing this has been monitoring and analytics. Most off the shelf solutions, or existing platforms heavily skew towards the normal http web service world. However,
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by peanut_merchant 7mo ago
I regularly use Uber on Graphene OS and have had no issues.
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by peanut_merchant 7mo ago
In a nutshell, yep
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by peanut_merchant 10mo ago
You do not need any form of photo or biometric id to work in the UK. I have never given anything of the sort, and have worked here for decades. All that is required is a national insurance number (equivalent of Social Security Number in US)
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by peanut_merchant 1y ago
Personally been here about 15 years. There are ebbs and flows of different trends, but HN has never been pure tech or science. My favourite thing about HN has always been it's sprinkling of the "interesting/thought provoking&
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by peanut_merchant 1y ago
This is pedantry, temperature introduces a degree of randomness (same input different output) to LLM, even outside of that non-deterministic in a security context is generally understood. Words have different meanings depending on the conte
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by peanut_merchant 1y ago
I understand the point that you are making, but the example is only valid with temperature=0. Altering the temperature parameter introduces randomness by sampling from the probability distribution of possible next tokens rather than always
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by peanut_merchant 1y ago
I get that maybe you meant culturally, but Ireland is a member of the EU whereas the UK is no longer. This forces a tighter alignment so makes your point about Ireland redundant. The UK has continuously been pulled between it's dying i
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by peanut_merchant 1y ago
I ran some quick benchmarks. Ubuntu 24, Razer Blade 16, Intel Core i9-14900HX Performance Results: Initial Latency: ~315ms for short text Audio Generation Speed (seconds of audio per second of processing): - Short text (12 chars
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by peanut_merchant 1y ago
Not well versed in the field, what are the basic implications of this for health?
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by peanut_merchant 2y ago
Even in Northern Scotland (further south than northern Sweden) this is the case. The latest aurora showing was vividly colourful to the naked eye.
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83-42 Island(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by peanut_merchant 3y ago|0 comments
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by peanut_merchant 3y ago
One of the examples here strikes a parallel with the US government's "Enhanced Interrogation" used as a euphemism for torture starting during the bush years. Straight from the Nazi playbook: "Verschärfte Vernehmung (&qu
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by peanut_merchant 3y ago
Now reframe the above, normalising as a portion of wealth. Tax analysed in absolute dollar terms is misleading. What should be analysed is the tax's effect on a person's quality of life. A person with a million dollar income payin
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by peanut_merchant 4y ago
This argument feels like an oversimplification to me. These are only two examples of "collectivist" societies. The idea that you are either strongly individualist or China/Russia seems like a false dichotomy. Some of the happ
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by peanut_merchant 4y ago
Potentially, the people responsible for deciding your salary. Even without gamefication I am guilty of storing up commits on "productive" days because I am conscious I may not have the same output the next day.
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by peanut_merchant 4y ago
Why create a new repo and not a new file? I would have thought it more heavyweight, but maybe it helps organise?
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by peanut_merchant 4y ago
Did you read the article? The exact point is that it's not meant to be concerning.
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by peanut_merchant 6y ago
Most land in Scotland is owned by large estate owners (think castles and thousands of acres). We have extremely strict gun control and hunting is usually limited to employees of the estates or visitors who have paid a hefty fee to hunt on t
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by peanut_merchant 6y ago
There is an excellent documentary that covers a broad range of perspectives on this issue called "The Cull - Scotland's deer dilemma" https://thecullfilm.com/ As someone born and raised in the highlands, I fo
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by peanut_merchant 6y ago
Perhaps vest is the incorrect terminology here, or I wasn't clear in the explanation. The essence of it is, the equity will be allocated to me on written acceptance of the deliverables. I'm trying to determine, as quantitatively a
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Ask HN: How should I evaluate an equity offer vs. hourly rate?
3 points by peanut_merchant 6y ago|5 comments
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by peanut_merchant 7y ago
They definitely do. At least in BC. Source: Live in BC, foreign relatives had medical treatment while visiting.
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How Scotland erased Guyana from its past(theguardian.com)
1 points by peanut_merchant 7y ago|0 comments
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by peanut_merchant 8y ago
A failing CI build should not be taken as indication of being a "poor coder". As others have said, in complex systems running every single tests locally can be very time consuming, or even impossible. In my opinion, if you work in
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by peanut_merchant 11y ago
I'm coming to that realisation pretty quickly
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by peanut_merchant 11y ago
This definitely depends on the specific job, but in general there are more opportunities for high paying positions and a higher salary ceiling. It also depends on where you want to live within London and the kinds of activities you want to
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by peanut_merchant 11y ago
We have a similar problem in Scotland, I know a lot of people would love to have continued living in Scotland but can make >2 times the salary as a developer by making the move down to London. The cost of living in London is higher, but

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