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by tompark 6d ago
I immediately looked up whether it had "piss shiver" and it did. It was disappointing when Cecil (Straight Dope) refused to investigate it. (Don't suppose you'd include orgasmic quiver?) Synesthesia is multifaceted. When
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by tompark 7d ago
Yup. I'm more paranoid about AI training on my chats than most ppl are. While I use frontier models to do research and to build tools, I've tried to avoid discussing details about my projects (e.g. story worldbuilding) except when
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by tompark 19d ago
I use various bookmarklets to address this issue. The javascript is easy enough that you can modify it even if you're not a programmer. For example see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43488943
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In Japan, 'calf hair harassment' exposes gender-based appearance conflicts(lemonde.fr)
12 points by tompark 1mo ago|12 comments
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by tompark 2mo ago
Is "one of its most prominent users" a typical LLM phrase? Doesn't seem like it to me.
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by tompark 2mo ago
Most developers I know don't seem to care about the "right way" to run agents. They either yolo it on their primary dev machine, or setup a separate box (VM, VPS, Rpi, Mac mini) and let it run there with minimal protection. Y
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by tompark 3mo ago
Huh. I thought it the opposite of AI writing. A smart-and-bored human writer who assumed the reader already knew what the writer did, and cleverly avoided conveying any direct points, forcing the reader to try to read between the lines. Ver
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by tompark 3mo ago
A few years ago I wrote an exif parser too, solely for reading/editing text comments, which is much simpler than what you did. Even then, yes, it's not pretty, very frustrating. There are multiple places to put text in exif, and i
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by tompark 6mo ago
It's possible that mainframe Oracle DBAs working on glass house HP 9000s looked at PC databases as toys, but within the PC industry these tools were considered powerful. Any growth of PC usage was a rising tide that lifted all the boat
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by tompark 7mo ago
sigh American car culture. I have the same problem and I'm only 5'11" (177 cm). Size "Small" might fit at the neck/shoulders but with lots of extra fabric around my midsection, but most retailers don't c
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by tompark 8mo ago
Nice, was kind of curious about these after seeing them recently in "Perfect Days" (2023, Wim Wenders).
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by tompark 9mo ago
I'm guessing I'm over twice your age but my situation is similar to yours in a couple aspects. What I decided to do is focus on exploring the new capabilities that AI will allow individuals to do (especially those of us who can co
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AI Data Center Gold Rush Driven by Newcomers(bloomberg.com)
1 points by tompark 9mo ago|1 comments
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by tompark 9mo ago
https://archive.ph/ZLA4y
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Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won't kill OpenAI(siliconangle.com)
1 points by tompark 9mo ago|0 comments
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by tompark 9mo ago
After Coursera/Udacity/EdX discontinued courses that I wanted to take, or removed access to ones I only partially completed, I switched to buying classes on Udemy. I completed only a handful of many purchases, and the quality leve
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by tompark 9mo ago
Similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41641446
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OpenAI report reveals 6x productivity gap btwn AI power users and everyone else(venturebeat.com)
2 points by tompark 9mo ago|1 comments
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by tompark 11mo ago
The REAL ID Act, effective 2025. https://www.uspassporthelpguide.com/passport-required-domest... But OTOH there's a chart on this page that shows a longer term trend of nearly linear growth in US passport holder percen
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by tompark 1y ago
I agree, some of the worst employees I've seen were hired that way. I haven't hired anyone recently but btwn 10-20 years ago I did hire a lot. Of course we reached out via our network of connections but that gets tapped out fast,
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by tompark 1y ago
As mentioned elsewhere here, Ocaml and the ML family are often cited as easy to implement other languages, due to pattern matching, enum variants, sum types, etc. Since newer languages like Rust and Swift copied those features, you might be
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by tompark 1y ago
> In the absence of Western tools like ChatGPT and Claude, many Chinese universities have begun deploying local versions of DeepSeek on campus servers to support students. Many top universities have deployed their own locally hosted vers
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Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less(technologyreview.com)
10 points by tompark 1y ago|1 comments
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by tompark 1y ago
A caipirinha with vodka is called a caipiroska. I name my computers after caipirinha varieties. Once at the office my laptop screensaver was showing "caipiroska" and a Russian guy exclaimed, "what's that?!?" Apparen
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by tompark 1y ago
More context at: "Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks" < https://www.techmeme.com/250712&#
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Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks – and it's free(venturebeat.com)
11 points by tompark 1y ago|1 comments
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by tompark 1y ago
I'm glad you're trying to explain the difference. I've been in too many conversations where this topic comes up, and it's very disheartening to me. Gamers insist there are plenty of great narrative games, and every examp
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by tompark 1y ago
Chris Crawford's tools for interactive storytelling may have failed, but he was a huge inspiration for me in my game dev career, and I still harbor aspirations in "interactive storytelling" due to his influence. I first atten
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by tompark 1y ago
"Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?" This sounds like that Yogi Berra-ism, "No one comes here anymore, it's too crowded." I suppose well over half of the people who read HN are too young to remember the dotc
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by tompark 1y ago
I agree that a debugger is a great tool; in particular, knowing how to set conditional breakpoints and how to read a stack trace allows you to do things that are nearly impossible in other ways. I can give a example story below, but first:

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