wryoak

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by wryoak 2mo ago
tl;dr for everyone: disrupt the conservative academic establishment* *unspoken or unintended consequence being so that the oligarchy can seize the authority of intellectual credibility
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by wryoak 2mo ago
If the review was “this restaurant is ok” I don’t think they got sick from eating bad food so your example is irrelevant. Also typically getting sick from restaurant food is a complaint for the health department, not yelp
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by wryoak 3mo ago
> it’s somewhat demoralising working with a bunch of corporate office workers cosplaying as engineers Why is the meaning of your own life derived from your perception of the lives of others? Or rather, why is it that when you judge other
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by wryoak 4mo ago
Nothing will ever be enough, for all interpretations of the statement, reveling in all the irony, pathos, and prideful triumph that could possibly be extracted from such interpretations from here to eternity Humans will keep inventing and r
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by wryoak 4mo ago
Contradictory anecdote: there’s basically only one way to write Elm, as it is a very trend-resistant language with minimal updates over long timespans, but most agents in my experience will throw Haskell syntax and Prelude functions into th
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by wryoak 5mo ago
Despite the title, the article sure makes it seem like it’s the private company that runs the state’s warehouse’s fault; at least that’s who most of the interviewed retailers blame
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by wryoak 6mo ago
Or you could spare the five minutes to watch the credits, seeing the names of all those people who made the movie you just enjoyed. Discuss the film during that time so you don’t spoil people in the library. Make some new friends.
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by wryoak 6mo ago
It’s very rare that I maximize an application. I’m always stacking. However, I don’t think it’s an optimizing assumption: I am frequently fighting with the window manager as I rearrange my windows and it automatically maximizes them because
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by wryoak 8mo ago
The Nova framework for classifying processed foods was created in 2009 by a Brazilian epidemiologist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification Presumably, since the first citation in the paper is said epidemiol
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by wryoak 8mo ago
Yes but some who have posted rather incendiary (and since-deleted) comments in response to you and others had created their accounts just today
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by wryoak 8mo ago
PSA: Check the account age before responding to any comments in this thread
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by wryoak 8mo ago
Well, you didn’t share the exact text of the original prompt but you described yourself as having asked it to do something. These models are being trained for agentic behavior on data where an agent is asked _to do something_, and as their
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by wryoak 8mo ago
That doesn’t seem weird. Wrong, sure, but not out of the ordinary
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by wryoak 8mo ago
Okay, let’s talk about that first command: sort all files in this directory by relevance. Relevance to what? Is this a permanent sort (what does it do to the file names?) or just a reordered ls output? What button in what OS is this superse
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by wryoak 8mo ago
The video shows her driving away from the officers. They approach her window, she backs up a bit, turns her tires away from the officers and starts driving forward when the agent fires into the car
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by wryoak 8mo ago
I don’t want anyone to be sick, and I think that’s the point of these drugs, but there seems to be a lot of finger pointing rather than celebration
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by wryoak 8mo ago
The west = the western hemisphere, the new world, the Americas, from the Northwest Territories to Patagonia But why trouble yourself to distinguish anyway? 30% of the Irish are obese, 28% of the UK, nearly a quarter of Belgians and Germans.
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by wryoak 9mo ago
Warn? Yes. Refuse access? No. I would close my bank account over this. That’s not saying much though because they literally pay you to open new bank accounts these days…
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by wryoak 9mo ago
I don’t understand the appeal (is there any?) of overhead showers. Yeah sometimes I don’t want to wash my hair, but I’ve got a different primary beef. For me, it’s how do I rinse my pits or between my legs or anywhere facing down, folded or
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by wryoak 9mo ago
Naturally it was only a matter of time before AI would be applied to recreational drugs
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by wryoak 9mo ago
What are your users journaling about? Do you think it’s possible they could be journaling about things that, in their region, could lead to prosecution? Ostracization? Take your user’s security seriously. You don’t know what they are puttin
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by wryoak 9mo ago
I just don’t understand this claim that it’s faster to tell an LLM to do something than to just do it. Yes for large tasks, but the author discusses “edits” and being heavily involved with “pedantic” requests. It’s not specific enough to ev
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by wryoak 9mo ago
According to Wikipedia, four other nations that permit ractopamine are Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and New Zealand.
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by wryoak 9mo ago
Kind of. I’m transitioning to something a little more biochemistry-oriented but I expect to be employing a lot of my tech skills But yeah I hated being an SWE. 90% of my career’s projects consisted of reinventing the spreadsheet and 90% of
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by wryoak 9mo ago
Ikr
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by wryoak 9mo ago
Man’s Search For Meaning (Frankl), The Color Purple (Walker), Orbital (Harvey) Not specifically for the HN community but these are the only books I read this year that I would recommend without qualification.
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by wryoak 9mo ago
I had a similar experience. I think doctors are just wary of cutting people open due to the risks. Anyway, long history of males rupturing their appendices in my family before puberty. The doctors were not convinced by the family history, h
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by wryoak 10mo ago
A: “it’s important to communicate honestly with your kids and spend time with them in a way that provides them alternatives to common yet inferior modes of living life” B: “To suggest such, you must not have kids yourself” Is someone feelin
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by wryoak 10mo ago
I think imma convert my blog to XML/XSLT. Nobody reads it anyway, but now I’ll be able to blame my lack of audience on chrome.
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by wryoak 11mo ago
Native apps are always better, but having a web page syncing your feeds made it easier to access them, eg from the library or work computer. Not to mention nothing to install (or update) reduces friction. I didn’t have to stop using RSS, bu

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