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by simpaticoder 11mo ago
Even more important than first order effects are any positive feedback loops we can identify. For example, a stressed person escapes into a screen to quiet their own thoughts, and the screen's contents stresses them out. This feedback
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by simpaticoder 11mo ago
A gentle reminder that physical books are still available, and quite inexpensive when purchased used from, e.g., library book stores or thrift stores. It has no DRM, has a Paper White™ interface, and even has a nice smell and feel. You can
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by simpaticoder 11mo ago
Okay I read your post more carefully and it seems like you're attempting to build one central script for a given URL. Assuming on-shot script generation is unreliable and requires iterative improvement this makes sense. Of course I&#x2
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by simpaticoder 11mo ago
Couldn't you solve this by having the agent do a first pass through a page and generate a (java)script that interacts with the interesting parts of the page, and then prepend the script (if it's short enough) or a list of entry po
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by simpaticoder 11mo ago
>[Matrices] seem to represent a more fundamental primordial truth. No, matrices (or more specifically matrix multiplication) are a useful result picked out of a huge search space defined as "all the ways to combine piles of number
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by simpaticoder 11mo ago
It is indeed weird, and much ink has been spilled on the subject. Luckily I'm not answerable for them. I have no good answers and my speculation on the matter tends to be rather...dark.
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by simpaticoder 11mo ago
The experiment has only been run once, and it was mostly a white, Christian project. Payne's personal values doesn't change the facts of the experiment. If we could go back in time and witness the invention of the Enlightenment, p
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by simpaticoder 11mo ago
Good comment. There is a trade-off between principle and loyalty, and "rule of law" puts the dial hard over to "principle". The mechanism behind its success is that it puts a society solidly into the "cooperate&qu
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by simpaticoder 11mo ago
I feel invited by the light-hearted nature of this project (and the beauty of this particular Sunday) to make a light-hearted observation of my own. The idea of a programming language that reads like a spell book...but what about a programm
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by simpaticoder 11mo ago
I disagree. The primary threat model for unencrypted http connections is a MITM attack. A middle box (a proxy or router) modifies the response payload to inject malicious content or modify the content. For an ordinary blog or personal websi
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by simpaticoder 11mo ago
Marky (FB) and Vicky (Vercel) are rich kids and are spending their tooth fairy money to buy every kid at your kindergarten a cool toy. Some kids don't like the toy, but that's okay there are other toys. Some other kids (and esp th
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
This article has nothing to do with Java, and the author explicitly states that.
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
Many words and few to the point. tldr: This person likes build-tools (Google's Bazel) that can constrain dependencies to be used only by certain packages, and says this documents the project's architecture. I've always though
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
I do hope you're joking.
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
A mention of the Pomodoro technique is relevant. It encourages 100% focus on work for 25 minutes followed by a 5 minute break where you are forbidden to work at all in any way. You're supposed to tell a joke, stretch, stare out the win
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
Yes, very clever. I am familiar with SPQR as a common tattoo on Roman legionnaires from the (excellent) BBC miniseries "Rome". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_(TV_series)
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
The current risk of AI is the elimination of any (screen) job that requires a person of average intelligence. Given that LLMs are the sum-total of human output, it makes sense that they might behave much like an average person. (Better si
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A new game "Take it Personal"
1 points by simpaticoder 1y ago|1 comments
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
Location: USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Java, node, SQL, React, Angular, Linux, Cloud Résumé/CV: 10 years Sr Full-Stack, hands-on architect. Avail on request. Email: hello@simpatico.io
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
I skimmed this and it looks like a remarkable work, and clearly you've put a lot of time and love into it. What inspired you? What are your next steps? Also, how do you deal with the disappointment of too few github stars? What is your
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
I'm not a repair tech, but I do enjoy watching them work and I suspect they'd strongly disagree with you. It is always useful to know part numbers and how they are connected with each other even of the components are themselves &q
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
Gopher was the early front-runner for a hypertext system. However it was proprietary (UMN owned if, IIRC) which meant you needed a license to write a client or server that used the protocol. HTTP came along and ate its lunch.
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
Indeed. What the GP is talking about would be a record player that requires vinyl, but plays only enough of the vinyl to do a Shazam-style identification and then stream the remainder, adding vinyl-sounding noise with a DSP. (Alternatively,
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
Asceticism is a term, like "large" or "small", that only has meaning relative to some standard. Relative to "hear whatever I want from the entire history of recorded music right now using a single cheap device"
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
The home audio market has moved on, leaving this consolidation in its wake. There is something wonderful about listening to physical music recordings without using a screen. It's like cursive writing, or knowing how to drive a stick-sh
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
You are probably running a resolver on the LAN already, in your router. Now you just have to login and add an entry.
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
It's interesting to wonder about why norms degrade at scale. Intuition tells me it's because stink-eye doesn't scale. Defectors in a small org pay a price external to the game, aka "reputational damage". But members
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
I like this framing. There is an analogy with industrialization and pollution, in that the side-effects of industrial production can be safely ignored, unless those effects are cumulative. Social norms function in the same way. There is lit
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
I associate the Hacker News forum with authentic, reasoned debate and sharing of personal experience and perspective. Your comment wants to engage in a kind of rhetorical pugilism that is very common in other forums, but is uncommon here. I
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
There are different kinds of scarcity. I remember a time when people would "charge what it's worth" instead of "what they could get". Decency imposed self-restraint on those who were in a position to take advantage

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