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at my mom's. I wish I could play tf2 here.. or fallout.. BUT NO COMPUTER!!!!

i made an extension to get a top hacker news items with summary on every new tab. chromewebstore.google.com/…/pmlajlgklmgabkhammfolkgkeghamjnn

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cool! i've made The Front Page you might want to check it out also - it shows the first 3 pages of HN with AI summaries and images. Like a newspaper.

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I hate devops (or rather what it ended up becoming)

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what did it end up becoming in your perspective?

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Wherever I look, it's always a big mess. Unmitigated complexity pileup. Unpaid tech debt.

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You don't love writing YAML all day and debugging stupid pipelines that download the same binaries thousands of times a day while wondering why we spend so much on bandwidth?

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What’s your favorite ? Mine is banana for snack, blueberries for my yogurt bowl, and mango when I’m feeling rather indulgent.

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I love figs! Not a fruit per se, they’re flowers, but still. And it’s their season now and they grow in my village so we pick them now.

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I love how dates go so well with cashews. So at least once a day, I grab about 5 whole cashews and 1 date. It’s a perfect little snack!

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What self control.. only 5?? :P

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My experimentation says the crunchiness of 5 cashews perfectly balances the juiciness of the date. Your mileage may vary!

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Prior work: www.skytopia.com/project/fruit/fruit.html

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I feel icky about code generation (as in writing software to generate code).

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Deterministic code generation is fine by me. Quite happy to use templating systems for example. Problems occur when randomness is introduced. If you can avoid that it should be less "icky".

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my lungs: yeah sorry! no breathing. in the textbook Soo no can do!

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Maybe it'll end up being a case of stated vs revealed preference, but I feel like Apple's really missing the moment with their latest products. People by and large want less tech in their lives right now, not screens and AI stuff everywhere.

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I've been enjoying toast to help click through a project. I still mostly use Zed to handwrite code, but it's nice to open a pane and fire up toast from the terminal. paradise-runner.github.io/toast/

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Wassup

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There's a few things I'd put at the top of my "things-I-least-expect" list, among which are readers on my little blog. 61 unique reads, wowee!

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Experiences of life spring from the contrasts.

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well, doesn't have posting endpoints, how to post programmatically then?

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didn't want to invite all the bots from day one :P we're if someone wants to implement API authentication and mutation endpoints they are free to try

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You might want to update your client now that we have !

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thank you, updating!

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done, replying from textlog-reply command that allows to select message to reply to

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Wrote a short essay on overreliance on metaphor in our "understanding" of the brain

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Is this true? Sometimes, AI allows for socratic thinking, this is, the conversation with the machine allows the thinker to go further as the AI thorws ideas to the conversation. Many times, the AI reasoning is not good enough, but like a friend that says a funny think that sparks an idea, the AI can help our brain to see other possible paths. The AI doesn't need to be right to be helpful

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that's only true if a) that "rubber ducky" entity is not leading the line of thinking down the wrong path, and b) the human thinker is actually doing the critical thinking, and not the machine. The latter is where my criticism of unbridled AI use is in this case, wherein the human becomes the rubber ducky instead of the other way around.

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Indeed. The AI throws back ideas, but it is the human who must do the heavy lifting. In this regard, the AI is a sort of mirror, it reflects what you send it, showing another side the object. But if the human messages are bad, the AI will respond with bad quality answers.

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Task that I would estimate a week of work done in 10 mins with the AI. What an amazing era we are entering.

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how to improve my productivity.

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stop context switching

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allnighter

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"how to use our time properly. i need to improve my productivity." Why do you need to improve your productivity? is capitalism not getting enough from you? as you get old you will start regretting the time when you went the extra mile to burnout yourself so someone else can be rich... money will never give you back healt... Durden words "slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need"

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Hello, World!

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My new favorite little script: echo freeze > /sys/power/state Quickly suspends the laptop until I press the power button again for 1 second. This eliminates a miniscule (but still annoying) motherboard noise that was leaking to my speakers whenever I needed to take a . sensitivities…

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Anyone on here fed up with their investment advisor? Interested to hear your frustrations.

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We almost had one, but stopped after the main setup but before signing on. Wasn't convinced of the value. Seemed like they were just doing portfolio reallocation for a pretty penny. What are you experiencing?

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Had one for ~8 years. Talked to them maybe 10 times, and they only ever did basic indexing w some tax loss harvesting. We should have just self managed.

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