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   by rboyd 27d ago

   Been programming since 12 (now 44). I still remember the pure joy of writing the QBasic and Turbo Pascal programs to draw random colored pixels at random locations on a mode 13h or interface with a sound blaster. Went through this identity
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   by rboyd 2mo ago

   buy an existing business and scale it up
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   by rboyd 2mo ago

   Ask for some leniency. Let your account rep know about your budget difficulties and ask if you can make good faith payments of a few billion per month until you get back on your feet.
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   by rboyd 4mo ago

   also unrelated to a private repo I have in my github named flux
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   by rboyd 4mo ago

   I've found it's always best to calibrate around expecting something like the ice cream sandwich episode of The Office. Never feel too much of a letdown this way.
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   by rboyd 5mo ago

   correctly guessed I was funny
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   by rboyd 5mo ago

   double down on betting your career on being a css expert? what could go wrong
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   by rboyd 6mo ago

   1) I was hooked on day one. Logged on every day, mostly read message boards, paged/chatted with sysops or played door games at first. But very quickly fell down the "hpcva" rabbit hole, which paved the way for the infosec und
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   by rboyd 6mo ago

   they'll just click the "close eyes" filter button soon enough
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    by rboyd 6mo ago

    This could work. Right? https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2002-12744-001 My realtor's last name is House
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    by rboyd 8mo ago

    I'm raising for Tinder for AI agents. (DM)
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    by rboyd 8mo ago

    so how much of a factor is it that safety guardrails may be keeping the current models from achieving higher scores in whatever red teaming benchmarks exist?
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    by rboyd 9mo ago

    Would you integrate with existing POS systems or is this a new one? If a new one do you integrate with some existing hardware for card scans? I saw the POS systems often have developer/partner programs but at this late stage are they g
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    by rboyd 9mo ago

    We have multiple openings for Senior and Principal Scapegoat Engineers. DM for referral.
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    by rboyd 9mo ago

    I donno. Seems like a maintenance nightmare made easier only when you got a cenobium living on the grounds.
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    by rboyd 9mo ago

    is this the phone Val Kilmer had in the movie The Saint? badass phone
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    by rboyd 10mo ago

    wait a minute here.. HN: - asks you to self-assign a new name upon joining - has a leader - has a hierarchy (rating system) - esteemed texts which promise by adopting a strange method (Lisp) that you can achieve higher levels of wealth and
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    by rboyd 10mo ago

    I wonder if Facebook Mark ever receives emails from people needing bankruptcy help. It goes both ways.
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    by rboyd 1y ago

    Surprised no mention yet of The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
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    by rboyd 1y ago

    laughing because 'make it so' is actually a pretty strong continuation prompt
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    by rboyd 1y ago

    nice job, man!
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    by rboyd 1y ago

    Great work! There should be a way for entities to crowdfund model training. Can a model like this be partially evaluated during training time and save through early stopping? What are the best papers/resources on sota long-horizon RL?
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    by rboyd 1y ago

    India coming online just in time for AI is awkward
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    by rboyd 1y ago

    We can't. We don't have the ascii artists anymore.
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    by rboyd 1y ago

    I think it’s already having an effect on labor jobs too, and will continue to ramp. Not because of robots (but that will come soon enough), but because you can take a picture of leaky plumbing or a home maintenance task and upload it and as
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    by rboyd 1y ago

    sheesh. the visual aesthetics and script behavior on your blog are so tastefully executed. great job!
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    by rboyd 2y ago

    and there was no more traffic on the 101
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    by rboyd 2y ago

    Concerned, yes. Even just considering current AI tech it seems extremely likely that there will be an extreme and painful shakeout of today's white collar jobs. A small subset of workers will be able to swim upstream and capture value
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    by rboyd 2y ago

    elaborate supply chain attack eventually generates backdoored code
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    by rboyd 2y ago

    QModem was great software. I remember meeting many new friends from BBS days using that program. My condolences to you and your family.