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Wow, I just can't agree with this take at all. The README is only 161 lines (very short for a git repo README!) and took me about 15 seconds to skim and decide whether or not it was interesting enough to keep the tab open.

Most of the project pages I have seen with videos either animate things at hyper-speed, meaning you can't actually follow is what happening, or drag on for minutes just to communicate something that I could have read in seconds. My time is more valuable than that.

Images are cool, however. We should do more of those.

> wastes a ton of time

It wastes a ton of tokens as well and those are not cheap.

When I draft my idea for the implementation of a feature or bug fix, I don't even trust a _human_ to understand what I mean the first time. There are _always_ either errors on my part, or erroneous assumptions on theirs. Everything from "this accounts for X and Y, but not Z which breaks the whole thing" to "this part of the idea directly contradicts what with you said earlier, what do you want to do about it?"

I can't bring myself to trust that an LLM understands what I mean better than any human would, no matter how "good" people claim they are getting.

TFA seems to be advocating for regular old vibecoding. Code now and ask questions later. Which is their choice, and is perhaps even a valid choice in many cases. But at least call it what it is.

> I guess i'm not cut out for stock trading.

As it turns out, neither is anyone else, even people who do it for a living. (If we constrain the definition of "stock trading" to mean researching and picking individual stocks.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that cable didn't have ads.

I love KDE to bits and pieces, it's the best desktop I've had the pleasure to use in all my decades of computing.

I am fully behind the idea of continual improvement and experimentation. But if KDE ever decides _yet again_ to tear down and rebuild the whole experience from scratch, I swear, I am going to start paying more attention to the intrusive thoughts of my inner pyromaniac.

Don't forget: Cable pricing but also with ads.

You likely have no idea just how lucky you are.

Your experience is very atypical.

If you grew up in a house with smokers, you would not find the smell unusual.

Only the first 2-3 in your life are any kind of challenge to get through, after that it's smooth sailing, unfortunately. For most people.

Count yourself lucky I guess.

I don't know if that last line was meant to be funny, but it gave me a good laugh. We should all be so "lucky!"

I had a very different experience. I would start smoking again for various personal but uninteresting reasons and found that it was much easier if I went to vaping for a week or two before quitting completely.

For context, I vape because nicotine helps me focus. There's a lot more to it than that but I'm not going to elaborate because if I do, I'll get about a zillion replies from preachy, argumentative people who don't know anything about me and I just don't have the time for that today.

Anyway, one of those big 5% disposables lasts me about 6 weeks at the rate I use them. I deliberately seek out the high nic content because I don't want to ingest more glycol or whatever than is necessary. Nor do I want to sit there and chain vape all day like I used to back when freebase liquids were all you could get. I can limit my intake to 2-3 puffs every 1-2 hours and that's what works for me.

Maybe that's the case for you, but that would make you the exception. In the 80's when and where I grew up, it was very common for adults to estimate cigarette consumption in terms of, "packs per day."

There is even less to be gained by issuing vague unactionable warnings and/or accusations...

I am not the right market for flagship phones because I don't have thousands of dollars to put towards disposable income, but I would expect a premium phone to come with a premium warranty and repair service... Do they typically not?

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who thinks smartphone prices are just absolutely crazypants right now. I can't envision paying more for a phone than I would for a (gently used) workstation-class laptop.

Over decades of buying Android devices, I have yet to pay more than $300 for one. The one I'm using was actually free in exchange for buying a year of T-Mobile prepaid credits. No, it never was the fastest thing on the planet but it makes calls and runs the apps I want.

I don't think we can circle back to this until we have realigned our strategic synergies.

NERTS is fun, we play it with a group of our friends (fiends?) semi-regularly. But part of its charm is the inherent physical and verbal chaos... you can never reach all the piles, people's hands/arms collide with each other, drinks get spilled, names get called, alliances forged and quickly betrayed. It's a hoot.

In the US, FCC investigations are complaint-driven. Meaning, if you interfere with someone else's frequency, and they complain about it hard enough, the FCC will take an interest in you. Especially if you interfere with public safety. (But they will still go after the more flagrant and persistent abusers on the ham bands.)

I don't know this for sure, but I would also guess that simply not singing into your iCloud account on the Mac is easier and would work just as well.

(I have a Macbook that I use for various things. Other than lack of access to the Apple Store, I don't feel like I'm missing anything from not having an iCloud account.)

Correct. Encryption (or more specifically, obscuring the meaning of a message) is generally not allowed for amateur radio stations except in very narrow circumstances. So any hams using this would have to turn the encryption off.

However, it looks like this stack has encryption available as an option for stations who are transmitting sensitive data and are NOT operating under an amateur license. (Probably government-sanctioned communications or emergency humanitarian efforts.)

Okay, I stand corrected that _some_ models may include self-identifying metadata in their training. Although I believe I accounted for that in my comment.

Historically, many do not and there are lots of counter-examples proving this. They merely hallucinate an answer just like anything else. The SAME model may even give different answers to the same prompt when asked multiple times... sometimes they claim to be ChatGPT, sometimes Gemma, etc. The fact that the answer is delivered confidently fools people who don't understand this, and these people then run straight to social media with "proof" of their conspiracy theory that one AI lab "stole" another AI lab's model.

My point stands that unless specifically trained or told, big bags of weights do not possess any inherent introspection. LLMs have many fascinating emergent properties, but this is not one of them.

No, it does not.

That is not how models work.

Unless specifically told in a system prompt, the pile of weights has absolutely no knowledge of itself. You could hypothetically train it to answer such questions, but nobody bothers to do this, and ALL "knowledge" embedded in the weights is probabalistic anyway.

(I feel like this should be common knowledge in LLM discussions on HN by now.)

You can keep coming up with flawed analogies all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that a good RPG video game is a LOT more than a story.

Is is possible to enjoy the characters, gameplay, strategy, battle system, graphics, and music of a game while caring next to nothing at all about the story. I played a LOT of 16 and 32-bit RPGs in my day and found the stories and character dialogue in nearly all of them to be predictable to the point of cliche. There are rarely any unique plot elements to get invested in, rarely any characters who break out of their mold.

If you've seen one Hero's Journey, you've pretty much seen them all. But obviously you can still build a damn fine movie or video game around it.

(FWIW, I like coding but don't get very excited about algorithms or data structures. They are just tools to use on the way to making something useful in the real world.)

Bandwidth costs money and streaming video costs several orders of magnitude more than just your random web/dev apps. Asking CF to foot the bill for entertainment streaming is really quite a lot.

I recently put Debian on an old 13" Asus Chromebook. It was surprisingly easy! I don't remember doing much other than removing a screw and installing a UEFI firmware on it. Everything worked out of the box.

It works pretty well too, as long as you temper your expectations around 4GB of RAM and aren't expecting to watch YouTube on it. (Older machines and phones are just not at all happy about 60fps videos.)

I'd watch the movie for sure

The bodies are better, but I can assure you, the frames and suspension parts are not. They still rust out here in the salt belt after 10-15 years, depending on the brand and how often you drive them. If Michigan instituted mandatory annual car inspections, it would take about half the (still working, not unsafe) cars off the road.

Yes. In the same way that dishwashers are an order of magnitude more water-efficient than washing by hand. (But consume a kilowatt of electricity heating the water and running the pump, which is the part that everyone always leaves out.)