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kunzhi

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About kunzhi

"75% of your job is showing up, 20% is getting along with people, 15% is how talented you are and 10% is math skills."

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यद् भावं तद् भवति

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    Comment #44818874

    That's...wow. What an absolutely disappointing reply. If "be kind" is an actual value of HN I have yet to see it in almost 15 years of being active on this forum. This community is…

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    Comment #44818342

    Thanks for your reply. Yep, you got me with that word. Exposure has become totally toxic to me, just like "merit."

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    Comment #44818339

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    Comment #44801467

    I worked with a guy once whose previous employer, a startup, had been bought by a large well-known entertainment company (famous for running an amusement park or two in Southern Ca…

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    Comment #44594995

    Makes me think of this classic from Derek Sivers - There is no speed limit - https://sive.rs/kimo

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    Comment #44527546

    seriously?

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    Comment #44526921

    Grok might be able to find the cure for cancer but as long as it's associated with Musk, not touching that thing with a 10-foot pole. (Simon's analysis, of course, is lovely)

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    Comment #44526898

    > It seems everyone outside of Ontario feels some kind of alienation or other. The west, as you mentioned, but also the maritimes, and especially the Québécois. Yep, and then there…

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    Comment #44526889

    > At its heart, education is a project of guiding learners to exercise their own agency in the world. Through education, learners should be empowered to participate meaningfully in…

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    Comment #44524349

    > For anyone interested in Canadian history, always check-out the French version of a wikipedia page In reading about Canadian history this entire comment strikes me as very "East"…

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    Comment #44501839

    >Dynamic, on-the-fly generation & execution is definitely fascinating to watch in a sandbox, but is far to scary (from a compliance/security/sanity perspective) without spending a …

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    Comment #44496051

    Funny this article is trending today because I had a similar thought over the weekend - if I'm in Ruby and the LLM hallucinates a tool call...why not metaprogram it on the fly and …

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    Comment #44370610

    Interesting article, I'll admit when I first saw the title I was thinking of a different kind of "scaling" - namely the client/server decoupling in X11. I still think X11 forwardin…

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    Comment #44368925

    Nice - maybe mine will be called YT.

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    Comment #44331663

    > I really enjoyed the Oakley Flak series, the fit was superb. Oh for sure, they were quite good, there was a real reason they became popular. But like you said, it got to be annoy…

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    Comment #44331639

    Yeah it's odd. Was it a warning or a prophecy? Was it both? Hard to say I suppose.

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    Comment #44330481

    I’m a 90s kid so there’s something poetic about Zuck choosing Oakley for this, feels on-brand for him. In my mind it was inevitable that we would reach this point. The novel Snow C…

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    Comment #44320621

    Reading this article I couldn’t help but remember the Key & Peele skit about joke theft - “high on potenuse.” All this AI training feels similar to me on some level. Yeah, it’s “ju…

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    Comment #44314518

    Not at all! No offense was taken.

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    Comment #44304214

    Sometimes if I'm reading something and having trouble with the words or sentences, I'll slow down and focus on the individual letters. Usually helps a tremendous amount.

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