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earthboundkid

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A beach bum based primarily out of Waikiki, the earthbound kid has cleverly deceived friends and acquaintances into believing her self-stylings as a would-be philosopher and raconteur at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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earthboundkid··on Sopwith – a classic bi-plane shoot 'em up from 1984 in the browser
I loved this as a kid. Not sure it has a lot of attraction outside of nostalgia though. It’s not like Mario or something where it’s timeless.
earthboundkid··on AI is currently just glorified compression
LLMs are deterministic in principle. It’s like JPEG where it’s a lossy compression plus some deliberate injection of noise to add variety.
earthboundkid··on AI is currently just glorified compression
Yes, this is a well known thing to anyone paying attention to information theory.
earthboundkid··on Email obfuscation: What still works in 2023?
I’m surprised URL encoding works so well. I’ve been base64 encoding and using JS to decode, but if URL encoding is that reliably, it’s probably not worth it.
earthboundkid··on The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (2017)
Yeah, it’s a matte painting.
earthboundkid··on The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (2017)
I lived in a small town in Japan, and experienced this for a movie shot there. They would just bounce from downtown to the heights in a second!
earthboundkid··on NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38327236
earthboundkid··on NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go
In one case, it couldn’t tell that a slice couldn’t go out of bounds because I was iterating through it backwards instead of forwards. In another case, I had a helper method on a type to deal with initializing a named map type, but it couldn’t see that and thought the map was going to explode from being nil. Those are two false positives I remember off the top of my head. I can look it up again later.
earthboundkid··on NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go
I tried it but got too many false positives to be useful.
earthboundkid··on Greg (2017)
The web API based licensing scheme is dumb and bad. It’s including a buggy whip holder on a model T thinking. The license should be that they sell a license for use of the weights. They can also sell a SaaS that does a web API to use the weights. But the weights are the thing other businesses actually want and it’s controlling and obviously a monopoly play to not sell the weights. Other businesses have an obvious incentive to only work with companies that sell weights so as to prevent their being mere serf’s on someone else’s SaaS farm.
earthboundkid··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
You can know someone is a bad person from casual interaction, but not vice versa. There's basically no way to know if anyone intelligent is a good person without extremely intense surveillance. I guess with an unintelligent person, you can assume that they're not smart enough to hide if they're doing something really bad, but even then, maybe they're just playing dumb.
earthboundkid··on Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
The unlimited plans existed, but it was more expensive than the limited plan I used, since I didn't go over the limit.
earthboundkid··on Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
Yes, I think I got my first iPhone around 2010, and at the time I was still on limited text message plan. I don't think I got unlimited texts until 2014 or something.
earthboundkid··on Frutiger Aero
This is not allowed to be retro. I forbid it.
earthboundkid··on You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience
I've seen locks used at the CMSes of large news organizations. It's fine, but they all need a mechanism to kick out an editor who has an idle tab left open. For my own small scale CMS, I just wrapped Google Docs and let them handle all the syncing headaches.
earthboundkid··on WordPress plugins are a little sad?
You probably need a headless CMS of some kind so the client can manage it. I've used decap/Netlify CMS, and it's fine, but it's clearly not anyone's priority anymore.
earthboundkid··on Grand Ball Given by the Whales (1861)
"The Oil Wells of Our Native Land: May They Never Secede"

That's a good Civil War joke.

earthboundkid··on Use Timestamps
It's extremely annoying because his posts get reposted to social media a lot and you suddenly have to go on a treasure hunt to figure out if he's revisiting old topics, or you read it five years ago.
earthboundkid··on Use Timestamps
Dan Luu, please, I'm begging you.
earthboundkid··on Is the reversal curse in LLMs real?
Ideally, the LLM would be able to tell the is of identity from the is of predication. I found the article a little too defensive. It felt like "of course it doesn't work, there's not enough data!" and okay, sure, but that is a flaw, no?
earthboundkid··on Homage to Strong Bad
I love making my kids watch that so they get a proper musical education.
earthboundkid··on Principles are products of practice, not the reverse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari
earthboundkid··on HTML Web Components
https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_customelementregistry_builtin_el...
earthboundkid··on Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?
Sure, they lose money on every query, but they make it up in volume.
earthboundkid··on It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian
Yes! I’ve been saying this for years. The whole framing is a victim blaming dodge, when the two bad actors are the crooks and whoever made the loan with insufficient ID.
earthboundkid··on Writing code for both computers and humans
Yeah, ideally you’d have some kind of static typing to restrict the code to only use Number, and then a comment that says what the function does in case of NaN.
earthboundkid··on Ask HN: Should we plan for a life after HN?
Now, sort by controversial.
earthboundkid··on Sad clown paradox
I started watching unsubtitled clips on YouTube, and I couldn't stop. Even without the language, it's mesmerizing.
earthboundkid··on Sad clown paradox
It wouldn't be Wikipedia if they didn't stomp all over the joke.
earthboundkid··on Sad clown paradox
Everyone should watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mera_Naam_Joker. It's such a great movie.
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