randmeerkat

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by randmeerkat 8mo ago
> Thank you. I love it when someone poetically captures a feeling I’ve been having so succinctly. It’s almost like they’re a professional writer…
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by randmeerkat 10mo ago
> If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so. I’m tired of this sentiment. Imagine if people said, why develop your own cloud offering? Can you really do better than VMWare.
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by randmeerkat 10mo ago
> Mac hardware, on the other hand, has never been better than it is right now! I thought the same until trying a framework laptop with Ubuntu. Mac is the “IBM” choice, no one gets fired for choosing it, but quite frankly there’s better o
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by randmeerkat 10mo ago
Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/
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by randmeerkat 10mo ago
> What's Tesla's forward PE? Close to 200? Nope, close to 300 actually…
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by randmeerkat 10mo ago
Do you have a tutorial that you like?
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by randmeerkat 10mo ago
Hacker News serves +4M requests per day using nothing but two FreeBSD servers…
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by randmeerkat 11mo ago
> sometimes they manage to meld it into one goal, because money is power. Money is a measure of power, but it is not in fact power.
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by randmeerkat 11mo ago
GNU Emacs actually self funds from the essence of the universe. You can launch that feature with the command `C-x b r r r`
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
> No idea. But curious- why would something that was published a decad or longer ago not be of interest today? Because if it isn’t in the “hype” it’s worthless, obsolete, trash… Welcome to the new world of tech, that warms its hands by b
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
> It’s honestly kind of sad. Google could still print money without the endless spying… They literally couldn’t.
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
Wow, a phone with a battery that's so bad, they're selling an extra one to strap to the back of it, on launch day... The most innovative thing that Apple has done recently is figuring out how to have their CEO deliver a gift wrapp
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
This is such a beautiful piece. How did you learn about it? How does one get further into this world?
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
> The public is not conscious of how big of a deal the war in Ukraine is. My sincerest desire is that there’s a peaceful resolution to this conflict before they’re forced to realize it.
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
That’s because LLMs are just snake oil… Look at what a flop ChatGPT 5 was. If someone manages to actually make something useful, Amazon has a stake in Anthropic. Otherwise why should they waste their money while competitors bankrupt themsel
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
> The rebuild will likely end up easier, IMO, because the screens and the logic is all done. Most of it just has to be moved to strict backend and then have the APIs secured correctly. How to draw an owl… Step 1. Draw a circle. Step 2. D
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
> People really want to bring down the growth of the USA's software industry to EU level. The EU is the only place hiring software engineers right now. Everyone in the U.S. just keeps laying them off.
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
> I have a simple rule that something is either 90%>ai or none at all… 10% is the time it works 100% of the time.
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
Amazing, California can build a wildlife bridge, but god forbid they build higher density housing.
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
And JDM badges.
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
And yet he double downs on the troll… Style points for the David Carradine reference though.
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
This must be a god level troll post.
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
> Hell, I'd love to learn more about the hardware hacking the OP is talking about. Love to learn about those GPU hardware modifications people do. I know it's hacker news, but I'd actually love to learn about that hacker s
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
> It can help us, just like a calculator can help us solve an equation. A calculator is consistent and doesn’t “hallucinate” answers to equations. An LLM puts an untrustworthy filter between the truth and the person. Google was revolutio
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
> It's frankly bonkers how many insane success-at-long-odds stories NASA has and how few "we made a stupid mistake and everything exploded" stories NASA has. That’s what happens when engineers are allowed to engineer thing
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
I don’t understand why people want to so aggressively distance themselves from the source of truth. I’m not sure folks appreciate what they’re giving up, when they’re willingly summarizing and wholeheartedly consuming content that may or ma
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
Yet Siri is still dumber than a doorknob…
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
This is cool, but you can buy a 3 year old used model 3 right now for close to $25k that has 300+ mile range. The model 3 also has, wait for it, a/c and speakers…
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
emacs already has an extension for this: https://github.com/lepisma/org-books
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by randmeerkat 1y ago
> A boring, not-young, not-cool, not-working-at-a-startup IT generalist. I think you’re cool!

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