abledon

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Just a NR talking with other naive realists: naive realism as a defining cultural trait of HN:

It operates as the manifestation of two ingrained beliefs:

1. When considering any question I must be rational and logical to the point of dismissing any unverifiable data as preposterous. (The idea that "I'm a logical person, all the subjective ideas you have, all the speculation you have... I don't care. I only go by the facts, I make my decisions based on those facts.")

Yet at the same time, the person holding this idea also holds this in their mind as well:

2. When considering any question, I'm going to assume that the information we currently have is all the information that will ever be available.

The problem: We use logic, but on the basis that everything we know currently is all there is to know about this thing. - Chuck Klosterman

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abledon··on In the age of AI, don't let your skills atrophy

Is every modern piece of software going to have `OPENAI_API_KEY` environment variable somewhere inside it ? uhoh

abledon··on Incompetent but Nice

stop its too real!

abledon··on Incompetent but Nice

I'd say a Nice Incompetent person can be as demoralizing as an Awesome Jerk. The Incompetent person is making you work harder taking care of their slack while they coast and get paid equal or more salary.

abledon··on BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4

I'm just thinking of that reddit post about the 3d artist who is demoralized about his small indie company and him being reduced to just inputting prompts all day. Now its spreading to the animators and Explosion/CreatureEffects artists.

Studios like Wetta Digital / DoubleNegative etc.. are gonna pounce on this

abledon··on Linux is Making Apple Great Again

rumours say late 2023 https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/macbook-air/

abledon··on Linux is Making Apple Great Again

I can't wait for the 15" macbook air. That thing will probably be my jumping off point into feeling out the Asahi Linux vibe on Macs.

abledon··on Apple’s Best Hope for New Headset: a Smartwatch-Like Trajectory

also battery life still sucks on this generation. Once it lasts a week or two, then I'll be interested.

abledon··on Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

I use it to write tons of boilerplate code in random flavour of the week languages I am dealing with at work or on hobby projects. e.g. nginx/ansible/powershell/golang etc.. weird codebases your thrown back into a few years later. I know what I want, I just forget the exact syntax of how to get it done. Sometimes its wrong and I have to correct it, but half of the battle is knowing when its bullshitting.

abledon··on Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars

ioniq5 has some beautiful buttons mixed with screens

abledon··on So you've installed `fzf` – now what?

if the article is saying to use 'fzf' to fuzzy-find things, why do we want to install 'fd' to multi-thread find things alongside fzf ?

nvm. tutorial explains https://youtu.be/qgG5Jhi_Els?t=400

abledon··on Twitch.tv Lays of 400 Employees

on-demand scalability mindset creeped over from spinning up VMs into their quick hiring/firing strategy

abledon··on My Failure Resume

they are hiring them as a contractor __for free__ , but just not telling them they are writing their production code prototypes for free while interviewing.

abledon··on Fly.io Status – Consul cluster outage

Markdowns forged in god-steel coming out from this incident

abledon··on The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4

Microsoft products are getting better and better... I still can't believe GMAIL doesnt offer advanced sweeping features like Outlook does.

These days, w/ Bing improvements, I am tempted to just route all my email into outlook.

abledon··on Meta plans to lay off 10k employees

Discord is the the Facebook killer

abledon··on Stripe faces $3.5B tax bill as employees' shares expire

I'm gonna need a {username}.github.io/stripeipovisualizer for this, with chart.js and d3.js interactive charts. ALso, throw in 2 reddit ELI5s

abledon··on HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatGPT API

The male voice is just like my audible book narrator, R.C. Bray... amazing!

abledon··on The vertical farming bubble is finally popping

> Kinda like biofuels, sounds really cool, but in practice it just creates more waste then the alternatives.

So Porsche e-fuels are gonna be a scam?

abledon··on The vertical farming bubble is finally popping

I'm guessing AgTech in general still has a bright future? e.g. outside drones and farming robots?

abledon··on Another Round of Layoffs at Meta

Engineering Managers will also begin to code again [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/TitterTakeover/status/162873730347973836...

abledon··on 1 in 6 retirees are considering returning to work, and 53% want remote positions

There should be a law where you have to state this sample size stuff at the start of every statistical article.

abledon··on AWS will offer HF’s products to its customers and run its next LLM tool

They should create some next-gen VR goggles that use HF tech to create your wildest dreams. Call it "FaceHugger".

abledon··on Chrome 110 will automatically discard background tabs

WHAT? doesn't every developer have like 50+ tabs open?

abledon··on Apple, please don’t take all of the buttons away

reason I still use my IphoneSE version 1. still has the actual button on the front face. Hoping they release another model in the next 3-4 years with an actual front-facing button

abledon··on I love building a startup in Rust but wouldn't pick it again

typescript

abledon··on Declining sperm count: Much more than you wanted to know

Doesn't like all of Los Angeles drink water out of water bottles? the endocrine disruption explanation here claims phthalates play a big role in sperm count reduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLxFazLK2Mg

abledon··on I_suck_and_my_tests_are_order_dependent

did you find all this through _clicking_ in the github UI or did you use a fancier tool on your computer? impressive sleuthing!

abledon··on I_suck_and_my_tests_are_order_dependent

which commit originally put it in? That guy was a comedian

abledon··on How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong

I think one of the reasons Lex Friedman and Andrew Huberman's respective podcasts increased in popularity was the hole left on youtube platform by Rogan leaving to spotify.

abledon··on High-Energy Lasers

my current favourite are the melee rules chinese/indian army has in the mountains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJEiGiGc1I

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