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PSA: large universities often sell 3D printers, of seemingly great quality, at their public auctions. Great deals can be had.

Hold on, I’m asking GPT-5 to give me a “leaked” system prompt for GPT-6…

This exactly how one of my English professors structured his class. The students would have to do the research beforehand and come in on test day with their works cited page completed. The actual paper would be written by hand during class time. You were only allowed the blank green book and a couple of pages of notes with direct quotes to incorporate into your paper.

He wasn’t worried about llms, they were not around, but plagiarism. It worked well.

Well, I rode on the road but can imagine the same goes for off-road, but the right pair of boots makes a huge difference in one’s confidence and ability to securely put one’s foot down at a stop, especially if it’s a bit slick from oil, or loose debris. That, and you can imagine an object hitting your foot while flying down the highway at 80mph feels very different when you’re wearing riding boots vs. wearing vans. Then there’s the whole, sliding on assault aspect.

I have been using Gemini for some time now. I switched away from Claude because I was frustrated with the rate limits and how quickly I seemed to reach them. Last week I decided to give it Claude another try so I resigned up. I linked a personal repository I am working on, prompted it for suggestions on potential refactoring recommendations and hit send. It immediately stopped and said this prompt would reach my limits. Immediately reconsidered my subscription.

By any chance, would you be willing to expand on your approach? What tools are using for this? How is it set up?

I still remember this crazy time where COBOL engineers were in dire need: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787828

This is my question as well. I am already wondering how prepared college grads will be. Getting help with programming assignments meant going to the dungeon and collaborating with fellow students while the TA made their rounds and overall just figuring it out. Today, an LLM knocks out the programming assignments in once shot, probably. And industry seems hellbent on hiring seniors mostly so where are the juniors to become seniors going to come from?

I think the talent pipeline has contracted and/or will and overcorrect. But maybe the industry’s carrying capacity of devs has shrunk.

I worked as a Sales Consultant for AT&T wireless during this period. They really did do a great job training the employees. We attended day long trainings and we were each given windows phones as our work phones. I loved my Samsung and Nokia Windows phones and was quite knowledgeable. The issue was that we were commissioned-based employees. What do you think sales people pushed: the iPhone with an entire wall of accessories or the Windows phone with two cases? Employees needed to have their commission structure altered to benefit significantly more from each windows phone sale if this was ever to succeed. This is why iPhone competitors failed initially, the sales people took the path of least resistance and more money, just like most would.

Any one else favorite hackernews articles knowing they will never actually take the time to go back and read them and their comments? I feel like this is not too dissimilar to hoarding your tabs there. Tsundoku for the digital world.

Getting laptops to third world countries is a real challenge. Customs agents see the computers, unaware of their age or value, and they get held, go missing until they are bribed, or just outright stollen.

Where I previously worked, we had a server room with over a hundred laptops, many late intel MacBook pros much better than the computers coworkers in India were using, but we just could not get them there from the US. The best we could do is ask coworkers traveling to visit the India team if they were willing to carry an additional laptop through customs. But a work laptop, personal laptop, and now a second "personal" laptop, even just three devices, would sometimes cause them a headache. If the logistics were easier, I am sure more of what you are proposing would happen.

Installed pihole and now the brakes don’t work!

Did you read that in the linked article? I couldn’t find it. But maybe due to the better efficiency with regard to the performance boost (5x) and the ability to now use 27 trillion parameters versus 1.7 Trillion, one can presumably finish the same amount of work in 1/25th of the time and bam, reduction in power consumption. As you say, I’m skeptical the max power draw itself is 25x lower.

I’m guessing that’s what their $20/year is for. GitHub pages lets you use your own domain once you buy it.

I have this thing where I favorite articles so I can read them later and never do. Tsundoku but digitally and so way easier on my back when I move.

Indeed. When I worked retail sales there was a blackout period for time off. Something like mid-November through New Nears.

I want to preface this by stating that I am sure your comment wasn't directly directed at me even to it was a reply to mine but I wanted to share:

I drive a unibody suv with full time four wheel drive. It drives like a truck and has many of the same benefits and many of the drawbacks. It's a lexus gx470 if that helps. I have given trucks careful consideration and often observe how people use them when they are driven around loaded and unloaded in the city and on the highway. My brother owns a huge ram truck which I have driven. I am also a homeowner who has made more trips to the hardware store than I would like, including buying/replacing appliances, water heater, flooring, hauling heavy lumber to build a 100 foot fence using large ten foot 6x6 posts, installing sod, and so on. I have moved across country and back and up and down the state. So maybe there are people who complain without trying to understand, but I was not complaining, nor do I lack understanding.

But I think truck culture and ego is a very real thing and when someone jacks up their truck so they now need a step to get in and out, it ruins it. There are other modifications that also ruin its utility and that is some of what I had in mind when I made my comment about ego. Also, one can see in another comment here I compare and contrast truck ownership with van ownership.

Man, this comment got rather lengthy and if anyone actually read up to this point, appreciate it. Not hostile in any way, I just find the discussion around transportation very interesting as I grew up as a car enthusiast and I find myself always looking at optimization problems and trying to come up with improvements.

This is really kind of you and those who also jump in to help. Wishing everyone the best!

Would you be willing to share it? That sounds pretty awesome!

It's all ego. They need the large trucks to impress their coworkers who also have the large trucks.

I think most trades would be better served by a van rather than a pickup truck. Ingress and egress is much easier. It is also easier to load and drive due to lower center of gravity. Expensive tools are out of the elements and generally safer (and so less risk of tools and material making their way onto the highway). Plus, better drag coefficient and so better efficiency. Finally, a roof rack allows for those items you mentioned like sheetrock and plywood, ladders and pipes. The biggest problem I see is most of these men have an ego that would never allow them to buy and drive a van.

Many photographers suffer from gear acquisition syndrome, GAS, and I wonder how much time was actually saved by the purchase. Did they ever share the math they came up with?

Those who have installed smart motion sensors to turn lights on and off, why not install light switches with sensors built in? Like the kind one finds in office and school environments? I have one in a room and it works well. Never have to worry about batteries or privacy or security implications with the rest of my network.

You are being downvoted but I see you are merely quoting the article and the individual who stated that Swedish unions benefitted both employees and employers. My guess is those downvoting and commenting did not in fact read that paragraph.

My threadripper pro workstation (Lenovo p620) uses RDIMMs. So at least one manufacturer still has them in production.

256gb of ram coming up! Wonder how this will affect nvidia with machine learning practitioners having so much unified ram for the gpu to work with.

N100 seems to support up to 32gb of memory. Here’s a motherboard spec that shows it:

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/N100DC-ITX/#Specification

I really like the company name! It's like hexadecimal notation with IDE!

It's high time the datacenter takes a more holistic approach. For years I have been thinking that it's silly to stick a bunch of tiny fans in individual servers when one large impeller pulling air from an inclosed rack would be more efficient. Imagine large fans with ducts that come down to each rack or row of racks. Current in == current out; so a large diameter fan (5 feet) coupling down to small hose (10 inch) means the air moving through the small end will be really moving fast through those components!

Definitely agree with that list! The new Lessons in Chemistry is also really solid! Severance was also noteworthy although a bit slow going. Shrinking was really good. Physical, and the one about Bezo’s ex-wife becoming her own person and running her foundation was pretty funny… overall I think Apple is doing their best to target a certain demographic and I for one appreciate it. They have spent more on writing than other services, it would seem.

Normal for any major urban area where one can live outside year round. Prob won’t find too many homeless encampments in Chicago for some reason.