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ahofmann

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About ahofmann

contact me: hn@ahofmann.org

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ansgar; my proof: https://keybase.io/ansgar/sigs/Pu-hB9K8zGHOg_xLFZo99TLkqSuYN8klNDM1VEl1pPg ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49161253

    The US is so big, that 50 ms is physically not possible for everyone. This is something that not everybody is aware of. When I as a German build something for germans, everyone who…

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    Comment #49161203

    While I also enjoyed it very much, some thing are strangely ordered and not how I would expect someone with such knowledge of all the moving parts in a request, would build such a …

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    Comment #49156208

    Well, 30 years ago CPUs where so heavy and big, sometimes you'd need jumper cables to start them...

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    Comment #49128087

    Wow, this article is super smart marketing by tailscale. Not only do they list all the nice and expensive features, that can help in such a situation but they also show that someon…

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    Comment #49128060

    And someone was stupid enough to put a reusable tailscale auth key in there.

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    Comment #49127942

    How does this differ, or is better than ddev?

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    Comment #49086812

    Ugh, so, sooo much sycophancy all over the place. Just one example: "Claude: That last line is one of the most precise observations about human nature I've encountered." While I ap…

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    Comment #49080053

    For me the ai voice is bearable, but the length of everything is not. I just get exhausted reading this much text and searching for the sparsely placed interesting bits in it. Afte…

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    Comment #49065429

    I think the entire post was created by an AI, and I had a similar negative reaction to it. Nevertheless, it's an excellent post with clear explanations of mathematical concepts. Th…

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    Comment #49061846

    So ... It's turtles all the way down?

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    Comment #49056030

    My question was genuine. I have no idea why someone wants Debian to die, so I asked.

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    Comment #49052382

    Are you aware, that a very big chunk of Linux distributions like Ubuntu are build in top of Debian? Why do you want Debian to die?

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    Comment #49039784

    Spot on! Comment of the month, I'd say.

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    Comment #48993550

    You (well your LLM of choice) doesn't answer the asked question. Maybe I'm stupid and there is an answer in this text, but I can't see it.

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    Comment #48962120

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48962006

    Is this some form of rage bait? 2005 we hadn't the GPUs, we have today. There are other factors, but I think this is the big one. The mathematics of building an LLM are really old,…

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    Comment #48961670

    Oh my, I saw half of these movies as a kid and all of them left scars on my soul. Watching Poltergeist as a kid is like watching Event Horizon as an adult (I recommend watching Eve…

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    Comment #48878559

    There is a German proverb, that goes roughly like this: "eating shit is good for you, billions of flys can't be wrong!"

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    Comment #48876304

    Why the hell was this answer dead? I vouched for it, because I don't see what might be wrong with it.

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    Comment #48828130

    To be fair, the "beeps and lights a led" part is very important in case of a dead disk in an array. The only time, I disrupted a service in production for longer than a few hours w…

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    Comment #48827448

    https://github.com/obra/superpowers

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    Comment #48773096

    You mean something like https://adnauseam.io ?

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    Comment #48701111

    "It's still pretty obvious and still much worse than human prose" You have no idea how many false positives and how many false negatives you have in your judgement. It is indeed im…

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    Comment #48665541

    They didn't sued Thomann and they didn't show up. They sued some Chinese guy who didn't show up and used that default judgement against everyone including Thomann.