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ainiriand

2,223 karma · joined July 18, 2014

Software engineer. Creative mind.

https://rustquant.dev https://rustaceo.es

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ainiriand··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
I fully agree with your point of view. I think that I saw it the clearest when, in a Magic the Gathering subreddit I usually follow one person started a thread on a set of rare cards and immediately was downvoted to oblivion, and later on closed by the mods. Turns out that those cards were indeed legit, and just because everyone else thought they were not nobody got to see them once the booster opened.
ainiriand··on Reversing Factorio's RNG
C++ is uglier than punching one's dad.
ainiriand··on Fastpotify
Make MSTeams Great Again when? Amazing work btw.
ainiriand··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
Sea water temperature here in Valencia was something crazy this year. I do not remember anything like this before.
ainiriand··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
That's what state libraries are for, although I understand that sometimes is hard to wrap around the concept of using public money for something different than producing money.
ainiriand··on Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?
The latter sounds very plausible, it covers all bases.
ainiriand··on France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
The only limitation is cold hard cash. The phone companies make big bucks from telemarketers by providing an endless list of new numbers and multiple lines. The whole racket wouldn't work without the companies' greenlight.
ainiriand··on Map of the world's great castles and fortresses
In Castilla y León it is showing 9 castles and we have more than 300, hence the name Castilla...
ainiriand··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Hey what do you think about vibe coding weapon systems? Do you want to be my cofounder?
ainiriand··on Richard Scolyer Has Died
Sorry to hear that :( In my case I only lost hearing from one side due to nerve damage, it also impacted balance in those early years but interestingly enough that improved a lot just by using the other inner ear.
ainiriand··on Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
This search: https://uruky.com/search?il=en&it=system&q=php+array+search Produced the same results for the first 2 items, only that one is separated with dash '-' and the other with underscore '_' in the result slug. Perhaps that can be normalized.
ainiriand··on Richard Scolyer Has Died
As a brain tumor survivor I count each day as a blessing. I was diagnosed at 14 and your chances are slightly better as a kid. Even then it came back at 16 again but now I do not even do checks anymore and I am 44 now.

People like Dr. Scoyler or my own doctor are always in my heart, we owe them so much.

ainiriand··on The desperation of NYTimes
That is correct, and it his also correct that most of the spam we receive comes from outside the EU.
ainiriand··on Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
It is a bit hard to evaluate the potential when you need to top up and do a captcha just for evaluation purposes. The barrier of entry is quite high.
ainiriand··on It is an amazing time for programmers
When I started working in software I took a job in a city different than mine, so I had to go there to live alone, and the job was by myself in a room with no windows. Most lonely 2 years of my life.
ainiriand··on macOS needs its grid back
I was a linux user for some time in my youth, then corporate appeared and with that the locked windows Thinkpads, the MacOS's and such. I am finally back in Linux at home and I find it so amazing, and all my video games work too!
ainiriand··on Proton Meet
One can only dream!
ainiriand··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
In my humble opinion, the parent of my comment seems to paint a picture that is quite drastic. I see why many people would have Chrome installed and I do not think something like that should be impose on to anyone.
ainiriand··on BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
Here in Spain you see a lot of BYD, considerable amount for Europe. But when I was in Uruguay that was a shock, almost all cabs, all electric cars, and some buses are BYD.
ainiriand··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Sometimes I marvel at how nice it would be to have such a narrow view of the world and other's perspectives and contexts. Life would be so much easier!
ainiriand··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
The only viable future-proof solution to this hellscape is what you mention, local models and/or corporate models for work.
ainiriand··on YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription
Damn! That is so dystopic to me. The future of businesses determined by the will of some customer support interpretations of bogus rules. Ain't that a bit black mirroresque?
ainiriand··on Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
Open to whom? AFAIK some nationalities can cross freely.
ainiriand··on You are not your job
Since the beginning of human history, people have always defined themselves by what they contribute to the group; a hunter, a farmer, a king... Today is no different. We may not be our job, but that is how others see us at first. They are not trying to get to know you; they just want to know where you fit, so they know how to deal with you. Only later, if things get personal, might they become interested in you as a person.
ainiriand··on Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk
Work is not good per-se.
ainiriand··on Claude's Cycles [pdf]
Thanks for your input. The way I saw this and how it looks Knuth interpreted it is that there were some reasoning steps taken by Claude independently. Some internal decisions in the model that made it try different things, finally succeeding.
ainiriand··on Claude's Cycles [pdf]
Are not LLMs supposed to just find the most probable word that follows next like many people here have touted? How this can be explained under that pretense? Is this way of problem solving 'thinking'?
ainiriand··on C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime
Crowdstrike level shot in the foot.
ainiriand··on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
I am ready to ban AI LLMs. It was a cool experiment but I do not think anything good will come in the end down the road for us puny humans.
ainiriand··on C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime
I would love to see the first LLM shot in the foot with C++. I mean it is not like human devs don't do that right?
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