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Diederich

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About Diederich

diederich@gmail.com

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    Comment #48215034

    I'm watching it now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ecCDqTSJs As always, Tim is doing a fantastic job.

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    Comment #47605523

    > SpaceX will now be beholden to Wall Street I get and appreciate that sentiment. Musk currently has a controlling interest in SpaceX. Do you expect that to change after the IPO? T…

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    Comment #47431963

    I get your sentiment, though I think it's likely that people, on average, are going to organically start writing more and more like LLMs.

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    Comment #47340269

    I believe the inflation adjusted price per piece has remained fairly consistent? https://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/priceperp... Perhaps sets of a given physical si…

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    Comment #47283903

    > I have had the experience of serendipitous discovery when researching relatively recent history. I would really love to hear about this. (:

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    Comment #46771562

    I found this the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksFhXFuRblg "NBC Nightly News, June 24, 1975" I strongly urge people to watch this, it's 30 minutes but there are many v…

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    Comment #46426577

    "Show of hands for anyone using ChatGPT to shop. Be honest." I use Gemini to help with shopping decisions pretty frequently. It's been very effective and useful for that.

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    Comment #46208813

    I used the same prompt keepamovin used and changed it to CNN, which produced this: https://realms.org/pics/cnn.html Some interesting similarities.

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    Comment #45998222

    They don't need a lot of tools to do such a deep 'search' of your car, they're not under any requirement or mandate to make it easy or even possible to repair. In my 40+ years of d…

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    Comment #45826407

    I also lived not too far from that location, and unfortunately got a glimpse of the aircraft as it was spiraling down. The scene on the ground was pretty hellish.

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    Comment #45801752

    How did that look on the host system CPU/memory wise?

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    Comment #45661377

    Of the dozens of contributions I've made over the decades, some recent, either zero or one of them have been reverted.

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    Comment #45129764

    Location: Olympia, WA, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Perl, GoLang, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, Mysql, MongoDB, Postgres, Linux, AWS, GCloud, OCI, Oracle …

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    Comment #43443253

    Is this deficiency likely to persist long-term as LLMs grow more powerful?

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    Comment #43439161

    Recently, something quite rare happened. I needed to Xerox some paper documents. Well, such actions are rare today, but years ago, it was quite common to Xerox things. Over time, t…

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    Comment #43439016

    I watch this video at least once a year, and make my immediate family do the same. Everyone in the United States should watch this video, or something similar, on a regular schedul…

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    Comment #43438704

    I think you mean legality -> lethality? That had me stumped for a moment!

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    Comment #43416821

    This sounds very interesting; can you share more? Thanks!

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    Comment #43415585

    ...and search. That was amazing.

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    Comment #43334499

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 is always fun to look at, 18.5 years ago.

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    Comment #42905750

    > temporarily throw all the materials into a trash Just curious, did they pull it out of the trash later on?

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    Comment #41490546

    Perhaps too provocative of a question for this forum: Assuming that this plant (and potentially others) ends up substantially reproducing the capabilities that are currently availa…

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    Comment #41490504

    > To remove inequality requires a totalitarian government. Be careful what you wish for. Are a lot of people actively and actually suggesting the full removal of inequality? Findin…

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    Comment #41490480

    This is an outstanding analysis, thank you, and very succinctly summarizes my own views.

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    Comment #41490159

    > ... I remember I did the same when I was in 10 people startups and it required A LOT of work to keep all these things running... Honest question: how long ago was that? I stepped…