terminal_d

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by terminal_d 4y ago
"The best nootropic is getting up in the morning and getting sunlight. Then you sleep at a reasonable hour and wake up fully rested."
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by terminal_d 4y ago
North and South both screw each other over. And people of the same race / region / caste / creed screw over others belonging to the same group. This is universal and will never change. What this legislation does is line th
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by terminal_d 4y ago
Yup, because that works out really well in India...
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by terminal_d 4y ago
Funny how the United States is speedrunning ""sensible"" legislation without considering what it entails in the country the practice originates from. And yep, once enforced it's never going away. I guess people ca
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by terminal_d 4y ago
>Have you _used_ ChatGPT? I have, and I didn't find it to be useful for anything I did. I can do what it does with a search engine and trusty C-f. Also, TTS exists. It's 50% tech and 50% marketing (and I doubt it's 50% t
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by terminal_d 4y ago
The adoption of the so-called "Software 2.0" depends on how influential OpenAI is as a company. The majority of the use-cases of GPT-3 are only about "remixing" information, and the "notoriety" of the AI is (I
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by terminal_d 4y ago
They don't. It's you who gives it meaning. Also, it's trained on trillions (gazillions?) of man-hours of data, so even if it's an antiquated "algorithm" it manages to be authentic. Also, no one factors in th
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by terminal_d 4y ago
Companies either want you to be technically proficient or to support the hierarchy. You need to suss out what kind of company you work for and act accordingly.
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by terminal_d 4y ago
They exist to propagate good feelings amongst management and to ensure a fat paycheck keeps coming though, even if it means sabotaging the company.
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by terminal_d 4y ago
IT Consultants =/= Standard Consultants from Big4 and the like
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by terminal_d 4y ago
No, that's just the business tagline. Consultancies purity spiral on Goodhart's law. They're worse than useless, and it's their "cult"-like behavior that is the basis of their entire business. You HAVE to bel
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Tell HN: Emacs is now available for Android devices
5 points by terminal_d 4y ago|2 comments
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by terminal_d 4y ago
Thinking hard and pausing before writing: If you can suss out the pitfalls for some program before you write a significant amount of it, it'd save you a lot of time. The way you've learnt something can lead you to be stubborn ab
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by terminal_d 4y ago
> The newer research papers coming out are where I would focus if I'm really worried. Great reply, could you expand on this?
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by terminal_d 4y ago
I think that's more representative of tabloid writers than anything, haha. Understanding text is difficult, and scales with g. GPT-3 can make us believe that it can comprehend text that falls in the median of internet content, and I
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by terminal_d 4y ago
Arranging books in shelves by color is the biggest pseud tell out there.
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by terminal_d 4y ago
You know what would REALLY be a cool competition? Who can build [X] the fastest, from scratch. Could be a house, clothes, food, etc. Known objective, and meritocratic.
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by terminal_d 4y ago
Hey, you're right -- this is a bargaining chip for BigCo, but the "invisible" factor here is that the economy is clearly in freefall and no one is ready to call the emperor naked. Everyone's cutting their losses, and in
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by terminal_d 4y ago
Starting early trumps everything else. You can still try and be competent in a year or two, but you'll sound weird saying certain words. Read more, speak more, and try to not translate from your native language to english.
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by terminal_d 4y ago
"A boy gassed you up" I've never heard about this before. Seems like gen Z (gen alpha?) is increasingly tech illiterate and tech-dependent. Not ten years ago, most kids weren't given phones by their parents. I guess i
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by terminal_d 4y ago
SQLite. Were it a corporation, it'd be a FAANG.
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by terminal_d 4y ago
No, it's "PEBKAC", so we need multiple AI personalities even if they're connected to the same backend.
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by terminal_d 4y ago
What ice-cream flavor is best? Chocolate Chip or Strawberry?
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by terminal_d 4y ago
It's the managerial pipeline! Handle it with care because it will never be abolished.
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by terminal_d 4y ago
Because google searches show results from many people, and so disregarding results (and people) is easy. This is ONE machine, in a take-it-or-leave-it scenario. You'll either like most of the results or leave because some didn't
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by terminal_d 4y ago
I love this comment. It dodges the point so well.
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by terminal_d 4y ago
https://pumpkinperson.com/2019/01/04/what-is-the-correlation... https://pumpkinperson.com/2019/08/15/increasing-u-s-head-siz... Last link has a formula to calculate cranial vol
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by terminal_d 4y ago
Isn't that overcomplicating the solution? The only requirement is to have a unique number of coins from the fake coin pouch. Since we don't know which one that is, every pouch gets a different number of coins, and not necessarily
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by terminal_d 4y ago
https://loper-os.org/
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by terminal_d 4y ago
That's hilarious. Guy expects a 140IQ guy that's passionate and naive and will work for pennies so this Du Pont guy can inflate his ego. Crazy. He'll end up with two college interns that he'll haggle with for the inter

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