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Is "one of its most prominent users" a typical LLM phrase? Doesn't seem like it to me.

Most developers I know don't seem to care about the "right way" to run agents. They either yolo it on their primary dev machine, or setup a separate box (VM, VPS, Rpi, Mac mini) an…

Huh. I thought it the opposite of AI writing. A smart-and-bored human writer who assumed the reader already knew what the writer did, and cleverly avoided conveying any direct poin…

A few years ago I wrote an exif parser too, solely for reading/editing text comments, which is much simpler than what you did. Even then, yes, it's not pretty, very frustrating. Th…

It's possible that mainframe Oracle DBAs working on glass house HP 9000s looked at PC databases as toys, but within the PC industry these tools were considered powerful. Any growth…

sigh American car culture. I have the same problem and I'm only 5'11" (177 cm). Size "Small" might fit at the neck/shoulders but with lots of extra fabric around my midsection, but…

Nice, was kind of curious about these after seeing them recently in "Perfect Days" (2023, Wim Wenders).

I'm guessing I'm over twice your age but my situation is similar to yours in a couple aspects. What I decided to do is focus on exploring the new capabilities that AI will allow in…

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After Coursera/Udacity/EdX discontinued courses that I wanted to take, or removed access to ones I only partially completed, I switched to buying classes on Udemy. I completed only…

Similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41641446

The REAL ID Act, effective 2025. https://www.uspassporthelpguide.com/passport-required-domest... But OTOH there's a chart on this page that shows a longer term trend of nearly line…

I agree, some of the worst employees I've seen were hired that way. I haven't hired anyone recently but btwn 10-20 years ago I did hire a lot. Of course we reached out via our netw…

As mentioned elsewhere here, Ocaml and the ML family are often cited as easy to implement other languages, due to pattern matching, enum variants, sum types, etc. Since newer langu…

> In the absence of Western tools like ChatGPT and Claude, many Chinese universities have begun deploying local versions of DeepSeek on campus servers to support students. Many top…

A caipirinha with vodka is called a caipiroska. I name my computers after caipirinha varieties. Once at the office my laptop screensaver was showing "caipiroska" and a Russian guy …

More context at: "Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks" https://…

I'm glad you're trying to explain the difference. I've been in too many conversations where this topic comes up, and it's very disheartening to me. Gamers insist there are plenty o…

Chris Crawford's tools for interactive storytelling may have failed, but he was a huge inspiration for me in my game dev career, and I still harbor aspirations in "interactive stor…