sam_goody

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by sam_goody 2mo ago
You can use "20,000 leagues under the sea" instead of Moby Dick. Both were written at the same time, both deal with ocean adventures, and both (IMHO) are much longer than they need to be. Then you can have multiple Jules tests, de
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by sam_goody 3mo ago
Theoretically, if we had a GPU so fast it could instantly calculate billions of digits of Pi, and a small hard drive, could this actually be made to work? Cache all the last lookups but otherwise just store the index within pi? And for larg
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by sam_goody 3mo ago
The Phillipines are a beautifully scary place to be. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, floods, cyclones, typhoons, floods, epidemics, poisinous Jellyfish, and a whole lot more.. I have friends from the Phillipines, and think they are truly
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by sam_goody 4mo ago
It is very possible that Musk's predictions are entirely accurate but not in the time frame he promised. Which would actually be appropriate. I made a bet with someone at the outbreak of Covid that within 10 years electric cars and sel
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by sam_goody 4mo ago
The AI would confidently give him the wrong answer, since it has no way to provide the correct answer, and doesn't know its own limitations. (Or however you wish to describe "hallucinations", which is about as accurate as my
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by sam_goody 5mo ago
Good point. But I use Codex and Claude daily (work and hobby respectively). And there are days where one or the other just seems to have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. Or is just being lazy. Or is suddenly super-powered do everythi
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by sam_goody 5mo ago
Except that if you tried one-shotting your ticket twenty times at different hours of the day and different days of the week, you would have enough changes to make benchmarks even if you used the same model every time. Much moreso if you fid
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by sam_goody 5mo ago
> sn't the US building mass detention camps right now for all the brown people there? Why would you think that? > And arresting / detaining / demanding papers from any and everyone? I have lots of friends from outside t
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by sam_goody 5mo ago
Let's face it - Grok is not nearly as popular among programmers as Claude or Codex, and that means that xAI is not able to vacuum all the data that his competitors have access to. Cursor is installed on a LOT of computers. Once Grok be
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by sam_goody 5mo ago
I use the CLI often enough, but still most of my time is in a GUI. It just makes the diffs easier, the flow simpler, etc. As such, I wanted to break into jj via the GUI, and only adopt the command line after I could visualize the concepts a
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by sam_goody 6mo ago
Very nice. Good Luck! Did the private equity buy the domain videojs.org (did it take control of the project and you somehow regained control after selling) or was this domain (and the project) always under your control?
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by sam_goody 6mo ago
TL;DR Modern gear is actually much better than what they wore a few generations ago. More flexible, waterproof, requiring less thought, better and overall lighter. Even with lots more effort and investment, there remains a significant diff
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by sam_goody 6mo ago
So, basically, a random site from their index of ~30,000 sites. You can choose similar sites by index. But what are the criterion to have your site listed here, or how it will prevent this from just becoming a massive gamified advertising i
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by sam_goody 7mo ago
As someone who works extensively with youth, but is somewhat of a extrovert.. There are many reasons why people are introverts. Some of them are "broken" and could use a fix, some are healthy and should not be touched. If the sour
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by sam_goody 7mo ago
There is a popular [excellent non vibe-coded] web server called FrankenPHP; A port of PHP to Go bundled with Caddy. Are there any other FrankenProjects out there that have had any success? Were we so impressed by the concept of the original
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by sam_goody 7mo ago
Wow!! Congrats to you on launch! Seeing insane investments (in time/effort/knowledge/frustration) like this make me enjoy HN!! (And there is always the hope that someone at AMD will see this and actually pay you to develop th
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by sam_goody 7mo ago
I read this headline and was like, "A look, an announcement by GPT!! That means that Google or Anthropic must have had a release today!" And, yup, there is Gemini in item 3!
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by sam_goody 7mo ago
That's a blunt way of saying it, but I agree with the sentiment. Which is a shame, because this is a project that could have had potential, but a poor name goes a long way towards discouraging it being taken seriously.
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by sam_goody 8mo ago
I get it. This is a scam. The discussion is not about what you think it is. (EDIT: Or not, I don't care.) BUT the fact that we are even arguing about whether or not we should be putting data centers into space is so incredibly absurd t
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by sam_goody 8mo ago
Do we know if these were formed intentionally or just happened to be in such a form and were used by those that found them? Do we know if these were used more than once, or if they were in a convenient shape that was grabbed by a local for
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by sam_goody 8mo ago
I have never driven a Tesla, so this is all anecdotal. Some of my (extended) neighbors are members of a family that live near each other. One sister bought a Tesla. The brother who lived down the block laughed at her because politics. Despi
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by sam_goody 8mo ago
While this is nice, it is not inherently related to an A4 paper. You could have memorized the length of a cheapo Bic pen if that is common in your area; Or a Parker or a Monte-Blanc if you carry one of those. All recent iPhones (regular mod
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by sam_goody 8mo ago
I love his unabashed attitude. - Larry hit spot #1! Yay! - Larry lost $130 BILLION in two months. 1/3 of his wealth. "I don't care!"
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by sam_goody 9mo ago
A better way to think of it is: If you got a dollar a second for the next 63 years, you still would not have gotten $2B.
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by sam_goody 9mo ago
In Win 11 Home, and want to add a local account and not change it to a Windows account, and not share my stuff with MS. No Cloud or "Backups", thank you. The option to enable a local account was through the command line only. The
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by sam_goody 9mo ago
We bombed them because we had evidence. No-one normal is suggesting that the Iranians did not have practically weapons-grade fissile material, the only argument was whether we successfully destroyed it or just kicked the can down the road.
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by sam_goody 9mo ago
I have a counterpoint from yesterday. I looked up a medical term, that is frequently misused (eg. "retarded"), and asked the Gemini to compare it with similar conditions. Because I have enough of a background in the subject matter
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by sam_goody 9mo ago
I agree that most of their money comes from Google (at least for now). But when you load their home page ( https://www.mozillafoundation.org ), the first thing you are greeted with is a banner that says they have raised over $6M i
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by sam_goody 9mo ago
Good for them. Currently they spend millions of dollars (that mostly come from people wanting to support their browser) on huge salaries and projects that have nothing to do with their browser. At the same time they keep on taking steps to
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by sam_goody 9mo ago
I don't think we need for food to be free, we just need it to be accessible to everyone. Every family should be provided with a UBI that covers food and rent (not in the city). That is a more attainable goal and would solve the same pr

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