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d--b

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About d--b

Software developer + wannabe screenwriter.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49226208

    Geez people. Sometimes coding is hard. There are two types of hard things: algorithms and architecture. LLMs are good at algorithms, not good at architecture. Most of the time codi…

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    Comment #49131722

    It’s the main thing they tell you when you buy a new car. Press here 4 times, then here 3 times, then here once, and you’re good.

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    Comment #49131712

    These systems are such a pain in the butt. These can’t be saving lives. My brain completely filters away the speed limit beep. The auto-steering mostly tries to drive me into other…

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    Comment #49079670

    The question I have is whether a phone with motion cues causes less nausea than no phone at all in a window-less boat.

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    Comment #48973543

    > England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin Author is conveniently avoiding mentioning France, which does not have a major figure weighi…

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    Comment #48973327

    You’re saying that if the LLMs were right, humans would have been correct in trusting the machine for things they didn’t know? The point is that LLMs aren’t right, and the people w…

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    Comment #48964831

    While it is easier to think of large numbers in terms of logarithms, cause it makes unfathomly large numbers much more palatable, I disagree that it makes scales more intuitive. 1 …

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    Comment #48943133

    This is a website made by people who sell phones that are 100% tracker-free, and that run on GrpheneOS. I wouldn’t recommend domestic violence victims to install graphene os on the…

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    Comment #48943092

    Not everything is a war between those in favor and those against…

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    Comment #48930827

    It’s annoying that DEALERS doesnt work when the answer is LEADERS

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    Comment #48903123

    What a shitty title. “An analyst thinks OpenAI may miss its 2030 ad revenue target by 90%” is what the article says.

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    Comment #48891647

    I am somewhat surprised not to find any Jodorowsky in there. Maybe the incal world doesnt really qualify as punk and more like regular scifi or perhaps bordeline new-agey, but it d…

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    Comment #48887416

    I think OP is mainly right about this, but the tone of the article is going to annoy people very much. I believe many of us have done both the self-serving homemade framework and t…

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    Comment #48814589

    > Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. > We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3 I don’t u…

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    Comment #48769918

    Can we get a windows 11 DVD that works without an internet connection instead?

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    Comment #48756472

    yes but no other mRNA vaccines had completed the various trial phases and got approved. And we shouldn’t assume that all mRna vaccines are the same. The rna sequence that’s used po…

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    Comment #48756429

    There is a process in place that’s meant to capture a certain number of potential problems. I didn’t make that process. The people who are making drugs safe designed the process. T…

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    Comment #48756160

    By late 2020, when they got approved, the vaccines were not scientifically proven safe for mainstream use. No other mRNA vaccine had been through all the trial stages, and certainl…

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    Comment #48755778

    You mean the stuff the whole world got injected with in 2020? Good to know! Seriously though, I am very pro-vax, but the fact that studies like these come out now is just confirmat…

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    Comment #48685758

    I’d have called it NATCHA but whatever

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    Comment #48684227

    Online privacy is already an illusion. I mean, your ISP knows your IP, the government can know your IP, Google knows your IP, Meta knows your IP, all the websites you log on know w…

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    Comment #48663782

    Maybe GP was treating Trump to the royal "they"

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    Comment #48643065

    > The price of a meme coin reflects only the collective belief of meme coin holders that they will be able to sell to a greater fool Author is at times a little too emphatic, but h…

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    Comment #48642365

    yes it's a bit of a mystery to me as well, especially knowing that most of them are scams. There are 2 things I don't understand. 1. Most online ads are illegal in EU, cause it's i…