sasaf5

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by sasaf5 27d ago
This cuts against you in a way that genuinely matters.
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by sasaf5 29d ago
What about the vicinity of large or uphill streets inside a city? I am curious how the data compares with highways.
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by sasaf5 1mo ago
Windows 11 is what made me switch back to dual booting, after 4 years being content with WSL. Everything is slow, everything's GUIs have two versions and it nags endlessly for a "Windows Account".
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by sasaf5 1mo ago
> We used opcode charts like musicians used sheet music. Maybe like musicians use chord charts? In this analogy, sheet music plays a better role as the program.
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by sasaf5 1mo ago
"Parity is what makes the replacement a drop-in rather than a migration." It always reads like a 14 year old arguing.
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by sasaf5 2mo ago
"One, the path not taken, started with an Arduino or Arduino-like microcontroller. The other began with a Raspberry Pi or Pi-like computer-y thing. I went with the Pi, variously using both a Raspberry Pi Zero W and Zero 2 W." Ok,
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by sasaf5 2mo ago
I am very curious: did you figure some of the books they were using?
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by sasaf5 2mo ago
I have almost the same setup. Plus a 3rd party app called "Material Files" to access it on my phone.
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by sasaf5 2mo ago
It's sad to have to unearth the very human line of thought in this article from the very foamy LLM slop.
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by sasaf5 2mo ago
No more LLM-written articles in HN!
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by sasaf5 2mo ago
It could have been a tweet, but it was a prompt instead.
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by sasaf5 2mo ago
Nowadays you don't just write an article. You ask Claude to write it for you.
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by sasaf5 2mo ago
https://archive.md/4slNQ
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by sasaf5 2mo ago
"So the interesting question isn't whether personal hardware is coming. It's who gets to write the software that runs on it." It's not that I don't like your point of view. It's that I can't stand AI
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by sasaf5 3mo ago
I would avoid sentences of the form "It's not A. It's B." It reads very LLM-like.
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by sasaf5 3mo ago
I'd like to gently push back because this is a misconception that is worth untangling. It's not that no one is talking about it. It's that there's a genuine silence about the subject.
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by sasaf5 3mo ago
Bolt a magnet mount on the dashboard. Slap your phone.
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by sasaf5 5mo ago
Open youtube through a browser with uBlock origin, with this line in the filter: m.youtube.com##.rich-section-content This blocks the shorts bar. I also block the other algorithmic surfaces and have only the search bar available.
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by sasaf5 10mo ago
I have been using Emacs+git on termux on an Android phone for more than 5 years. I don't even use a third party software-keyboard, I just use termux's special key bar. To set it up, add the following to ~/.termux/termux.
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by sasaf5 1y ago
> I’ve seen employees spend days drafting documents that a free tool like Mistral could generate in seconds, leaving them 30-60 minutes to review and refine. What I have seen is employees spending days asking the model again and again to
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by sasaf5 1y ago
Up to now, my attempts at doing what the author claims to be possible ends up in a broken piece of code that the agent only makes worse when asked to debug, and finally it wont even compile. There seems to be a threshold of difficulty above
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by sasaf5 1y ago
Org mode versioned with git. Every issue at work becomes an item in this org, and all information relevant to the issue goes there: emails, chats, code snippets, documentation paragraphs, etc... It's amazing how clearer things become,
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by sasaf5 1y ago
Maybe this: https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulatin...
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by sasaf5 2y ago
I don't have this problem. Recommendation algorithms disgust me so much that I end up closing the site/app in anger.
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by sasaf5 2y ago
Yes, until all managers become "idea anti-bodies" and the winner is who can push all work to other teams. The company coasts along while its cash cows live.
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by sasaf5 2y ago
I find it philosophical that suddenly everyone wants to take a medicine to stop wanting food. "I want to not want, but I can't help but wanting, so I want a medicine to make me stop wanting..."
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by sasaf5 2y ago
> It also told me that it had permanently disabled my Facebook account—an account that I’d had for more than 15 years, and that was my primary way of staying in touch with family and friends around the world. You don't need Facebook
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by sasaf5 2y ago
Early 2023, when everyone started using chat GPT for coding, I thought it would be a big boost because it enabled us to quickly employ a large number of people in a project regardless of language or framework. An year into the project I am
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by sasaf5 2y ago
Also, I have seen several times someone "following their passion" and doing something that was not required by the business. The end result is a huge mess of overcomplicated things that doesn't do what was needed and no one e
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Ask HN: Getting recommendation letters for grad school after 10 years in tech
4 points by sasaf5 2y ago|6 comments

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