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dislikedtom2··on Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
Timer is accurate only if you have first done experiments with your unique settings. However temperature gauges are very useful. I usually trust my eyes and nose more than a timer.
dislikedtom2··on Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices
Because this planned obsolete stuff is slowly killing us and yielding would probably only make it worse?
dislikedtom2··on Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now
1. turn the swap off or monitor it closely 2. try to load a big model, like 65b-q4 or 30b-f16 3. observe the OOM - It's not so hard to test this.
dislikedtom2··on Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT
Semi offtopic, but for some time I have been dreaming of training chatbot to communicate in cuneiform or hieroglyphs to bring some old languages back alive. Could it be possible, using old tablets as training data?
dislikedtom2··on Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?
I love fishing but could never be a fisherman. Jobs are not fun, but more like temporary slavery.
dislikedtom2··on AI solves Advent of Code 2022
To be fair, humans also have great problems solving novel problems. Monkey see, monkey do!
dislikedtom2··on New York City hiring top rat killer
You could always install two of them.
dislikedtom2··on Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of dollars
Often I think it means that you asked a painful question. Don't think that downvotes are always bad, they merely just tell what is popular, just like in reddit.
dislikedtom2··on Show HN: FIFA Interactive Bracket (World Cup)
I personally use "en-GB", which results something like dd.MM. HH:mm. JS date object has bunch of methods for locale formatting. edit: actually it seems my browser does not expose correct locales...
dislikedtom2··on Show HN: FIFA Interactive Bracket (World Cup)
I like it. However all the dates and times are in american format that I don't use.
dislikedtom2··on maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
I have never shared my location via browser, including google maps. Still, google very well knows where I live and focuses on my home as default, when I open google maps. I'm curious what do you seek by sharing your location with google (maps)?
dislikedtom2··on What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk about young people’s?
Same goes for twitter. Gosh I hope nobody uses 6 hours of twitter a day.
dislikedtom2··on Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says
It's a classic. Attack yourself and blame the other guy. This is how wars often start. The problem is that these cases are purely speculative, when executed right.
dislikedtom2··on Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says
do we have any nuclear plants that we closed because we are too good for nuclear power? If so, I would suggest opening those again.
dislikedtom2··on GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
At least considering open source, I love the fact that not much money is involved because I feel that whenever money is involved, people start to serve money instead of users, meaning they might make decisions to maximize the money instead of the usability etc.
dislikedtom2··on To get kids into science, just do it
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-requiem-for-amateur-chemist...
dislikedtom2··on Just don’t
Great article. It's like people assume that you are some free rational actor, instead of being totally shaped by your history (specially childhood).
dislikedtom2··on Ask HN: Are privacy concerns around Microsoft Windows 11 overblown?
I remember people saying that windows 11 requires internet connection and microsoft account. Not sure if it's true.
dislikedtom2··on Ask HN: Are privacy concerns around Microsoft Windows 11 overblown?
>That depends on whether you believe they are lying about those settings actually doing what they say they do.

My gut feeling is that they don't straight up lie, but that they for sure are leaving things out. Also putting good faith on microsoft is just something I'm not able to do no matter how much I try.

dislikedtom2··on Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides
It's implied that he does not agree since he claims that the claim is misrepresentation.
dislikedtom2··on Twitter to ban unlabelled parody accounts
without taking sides, I want to point out that the banner is not a viable way to label things since blind people for example can't access the text.
dislikedtom2··on 'It's so liberating': The people quitting social media
I'm one of those weirdos. This is kind of how it actually works. I don't know anyone who has truly stopped all the social media (like hn). But things like facebook, instagram and tiktok; I don't feel getting anything good out of it so I don't use those at all.
dislikedtom2··on Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?
System is broken and hating or getting rid of the winner does not help since there is a line of people ready to take his spot and that spot is only open for people who are not afraid of a fight. Don't hate the player, hate the game as they say.
dislikedtom2··on To get kids into science, just do it
I'm not able to tell if this comment is satire and it worries me.
dislikedtom2··on To get kids into science, just do it
I remember being interested in sciences as a kid, but every time I asked for a chemistry kit or anything practical, I just got books and documentaries. Don't be those parents.
dislikedtom2··on AI Learns to Play CS:Go via Large-Scale Behavioural Cloning
Well, it's not public knowledge but it seems that VAC does not care about how it looks. Also while it doesn't look aimbotty, according to modern standards it also sucks at the game. In contrast, many pro players look very aimbotty, but are legit. But ultimately yeah, anticheat will be totally lost.
dislikedtom2··on ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
nothing wins the mental gymnastics when people justify how they own something that has no shape or form, namely information and ideas
dislikedtom2··on American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class
>always comes off as obvious and ham fisted.

Isn't this case only when the thing really is obvious and just because you can spot couple of those "obvious cases" does not mean you have spotted every attempt, only the obvious ones.

dislikedtom2··on Show HN: I solved my New Tab page
RSS would be awesome
dislikedtom2··on Disabling the Intel Management Engine
if someone wants and demands it, it's the nice people at cia and nsa
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