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Comment · 2 days ago
Curiosity is a wonderful thing.
Comment · 15 days ago
It may be weird to say for you, but certainly not for an LLM!

Has the situation here really gotten so bad that no one can tell at a glance that they're responding to mindless LLM texts?

Comment · 1 month ago
So, they actually look like that as in the first video (gliding ribbon-like thing)? I can't tell if it's an animation or not, but it's so cool!
Comment · 3 months ago
Who'd walk the route more easily for 8h though? A random Western today or a random Roman then?
Comment · 5 months ago
ETrade also started recently to include that disgusting thing in their News feed for watch lists -- as if it can really predict anything, with no way to turn it off (AFAICT). It's clear that it's being pushed in many directions.

Complete shamelessness all around.

Comment · 5 months ago
I can't understand why this company won't rebrand itself to something a bit catchier or better-sounding name than DuckDuckGo -- who the hell wants to say that ? Unless it's a self-selection filter...
Comment · 5 months ago
Medium always is the message, eventually.
Comment · 7 months ago
Lovely article with a happy ending!

One thing that I am glad to have been taught early on in my career when it comes to debugging, especially anything involving HW, is to `make no assumptions'. Bugs can be anywhere and everywhere.

Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder if they had meetings or 'design committees' to find the most optimal shape with respect to the ease of killing prey eventually.

One possibility on origin (totally made up by me) could be that there were large stones lying around already as debris from e.g. earthquakes, celestial events and such and some groups took advantage of this and later people iterated upon it.

Comment · 1 year ago
As a supporting point, I think it's connected not only with mental functions, but also our senses.

I have a weak memory in general, but I always remember the most mundane things in my life that I had no idea I still contained in my brain, triggered by a specific smell.

Another example is that when I moved to a new street, while crossing one road, I stumbled upon the edge of tram road and almost fell. Two years and counting, my brain always brings this memory up while passing the same point on the road..

Comment · 1 year ago
I was adamant on using one of those health/exercise tracking devices, mainly out of distaste of our modern habit to be constantly in the know of everything, but I gotta say, since I've started using one, it's just so satisfying seeing the accumulated numbers over N months or even years!
Comment · 1 year ago
This discussion reminds me a beautiful sentence I read in 'The Power and the Glory' by Graham Greene: "Hope is an instinct that only the reasoning human mind can kill."
Comment · 1 year ago
> VS (ctrl+,) takes several seconds and intermixes search results for files and file contents, when I'm only interested in files.

I hate this a lot. It's gotten so bad the last couple of releases to the point that I try and use VS Code more in lieue of VS except debugging.

How they could let such fundamental functionality get broken is beyond me.

Comment · 1 year ago
Or any time one dares to criticize Israel for their recent contributions to peace on Earth (wink wink) -- it has to be prefaced with "Let me say that I'm the biggest defender of the Jews and fight against anti-Semitism".

It's moot.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Unrelated to the article, but related to the topic, the compliment that gives me the most dopamine is when somebody I respect and is above my level of knowledge tells me “that’s a great question”. It just makes me realize that I’m closer to their level if I’m asking questions that stumped them or that they are already thinking of but surprised I asked.

I don't know this for a fact, but, I'm thinking there must be a lot of books on public speaking that tout this "trick".

Once, I noticed that an exec started constantly prefixing her every answer with "Yeah that's a great question" and I said to myself, huh she must have just finished some leadership book!

Of course, it quickly becomes pretentious, if used on every mundane question.

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