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dbgrman

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About dbgrman

software engineer, tinkerer

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49186603

    Why is "12. Enhance Virtual Reality" in there? T_T

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    Comment #49164963

    Not buying it. In the end, OpenAI will throw these people under the bus and settle out. I'm not Apple's biggest fan either (I got super upset when they conveniently wiped out all i…

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    Comment #49100582

    So excited to see what this dream team cooks!

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    Comment #49072446

    At first sight, it looks super cool. Kudos for pulling this off. At closer look, feels very overwhelming. The claude tone doesn't help ease the nerves either. The text version is t…

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    Comment #49042098

    This is cool, but I wish we could stop building landing pages to assess the intelligence of these models. There is much more to them than that. There are infinite number of complic…

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    Comment #48741071

    absolutely love it! Gorgeous drawing, meticulous detail.

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    Comment #48536973

    1. been using sudoku.com's app for a while and have some reservations with it, and a few new ideas that i wanted to try, so building a new sodoku app. this is in its earliest stage…

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    Comment #48440817

    Enjoyed it until the first emdash (was half expecting it to arrive anyway). Sorry.

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    Comment #48392059

    its not a misconception. As an advertiser, I can go use meta's tools, target people specifically, and show them ads on meta's platform. While i don't get the CSV dump, but if i can…

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    Comment #48377479

    which email client do you use?

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    Comment #48377472

    The overbearing of gmail and the perpetual tech issue with Apple Mail made me want to look for a new email client software. I landed on Spark Mail and i Nope'd the heck out of it v…

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    Comment #48376924

    found a good no BS collection of tips from a friend using AI in legacy production codebases

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    Comment #48327750

    Mad respect for his work. Love his writing. But no, i'm not buying the story of going offline, especially not with a trending hackernews post and a typewritten letter to the intern…

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    Comment #48317182

    in a good way or bad way? in my experience going back to 4.6 was a breath of fresh air again. Opus 4.7 for some reason was "suffocating". Too obnoxious, tried too hard to impress a…

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    Comment #48315044

    thats a pretty cynical take. > past the point of human ability to discern whether they are actually better or worse This is lack of imagination. If you use these models heavily eno…

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    Comment #48287872

    had a similar unsolicited psych evaluation interview back in 2017 in twitter. There was a VP (or maybe director), who started with "go back in history and tell me what your boss at…

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    Comment #48244054

    I tried to do the same from USA to Turkey. Can't ship lithium. So my brother took the laptop to Germany, and then shipped it to Ankara. The laptop was never released from the custo…

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    Comment #48182055

    also, could the website plz fix its scrolling code? its annoying. i can't read the article

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    Comment #48037137

    LOL! Perfect. one change request: brighter should be more intense. Right now the more intense days are dark red and to a color blind person like me, that doesn't pop out.

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    Comment #48031120

    Bitzscaling. Reid Hoffman's snake oil (thought piece). https://www.blitzscaling.com/ It has poisoned more than one company (especially startups). Its the "go big or go home" mental…

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    Comment #47927484

    knowing sama, that's exactly what he would do. except, the story wouldn't end with openai collaborating with a competitor who is better than them, openai will collaborate with them…

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    Comment #47926363

    When a company writes down principles, you should be highly skeptical. - Democratization. Why is it your prerogative sam bro? In other words, what he means is consolidate access so…

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    Comment #47917817

    TIL ppl have domains that make $9k/yr and here i am being happy my niche app is bringing me $200/mo revenue

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    Comment #47892333

    They’re trying that with meta compute