rroblak

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by rroblak 3mo ago
Yeah, made me chuckle that an LLM— probably Claude— was used to write this. The use of "regime shift" is what gave it away for me. I've never seen a human write that, but Claude does from time to time. At least they removed o
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The Dangers of "Vibe Reporting" About AI(calnewport.com)
1 points by rroblak 8mo ago|0 comments
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LocalStack to unify Community and Pro images, require account for use(blog.localstack.cloud)
3 points by rroblak 8mo ago|1 comments
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by rroblak 1y ago
You should read Postman's Technopoly. He critiques "context-free" news as leading to a confused viewership and argues that it's an unexpected consequence of modern news media: trying to give the viewer a fully-coherent u
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by rroblak 2y ago
This. People are getting the message that "sugar is bad" but the public health messaging of "fat is bad" still lingers in many people's heads. It's sad, because as you mentioned some days are indeed essential n
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by rroblak 5y ago
The article specifically mentions a previous study that showed that gains from short rests were greater than those from sleep: > In a previous study, led by former NIH postdoctoral fellow Marlene Bönstrup, M.D., Dr. Cohen’s team showed t
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by rroblak 6y ago
> Allowing any version drift of dependencies at all means that if you don’t check in and restore using the package lock file, you cannot have reproducible builds. This is the germane point in this incident. The parent comment mentions th
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by rroblak 7y ago
That would make the difference between me using this tool and not using this tool. Losing my shell history isn't worth a momentary ergonomics gain.
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by rroblak 8y ago
Google is, fundamentally, an engineering company. Despite their size and breadth, they still don't understand customer support. Their approach is to use software to solve problems, and they insist on doing so even when it's clear
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by rroblak 9y ago
One use case is maintaining node-level state for stream processing systems. This gives you a scaleable way to do stateful computations (such as aggregations) without the complexity and performance cost of hitting a remote data store. Such s
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by rroblak 10y ago
CAH would never admit it, but I feel like at least part of this can be seen as political commentary. From the top of their page: "The holidays are here, and everything in America is going really well " (emphasis mine). It's
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by rroblak 10y ago
Agreed. I was surprised that the article didn't mention the Hawaiian Pidgin expression "da kine"[1], which functions similarly to "jawn". Funnily enough, the da kine Wikipedia page makes the same claim regarding uni
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by rroblak 12y ago
Actually, it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England
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by rroblak 12y ago
One thing to add to this discussion— DFW's description of the Federer/Agassi point in Roger Federer as Religious Experience doesn't actually match up all that well with what actually happened. See for yourself: https:&#x2F
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Git diff image files on the command line, with color(gist.github.com)
4 points by rroblak 12y ago|0 comments