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kderbyma··on Markdown in /src
They should track SemVer....the bot should know what version applies to both the spec and the product scope....these are solved problems :/
kderbyma··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
I am looking for a job as a data analyst, working with warehousing data as a developer, ETL processing and ingestion, and reporting, dashboarding, monitoring, forecasting, and any and all data manipulations involving structured or unstructured data within a focused industry or commercial applications. Taught myself programming 20 years ago and have an electrical engineer Bachelors degree. Cofounded a legaltech startup 10 years ago, and I have worked in App development, Oil and Gas, Marketing and SEO, but I am passionate about photonics, fabrication, industrial applications, as well as a enjoyment of history, languages, philosophy, and strategy and have experience in academic research environments as well as incubators and remote work.

Location: Canada Remote: Fine Willingness to Relocate: Yes (ideally sponsored or reimbursed) Technologies: PHP, Javascript, C, C#, Python, Java, React, SQL, BigQuery, Mongo, Redshift, Redis, Grafana, Bash, Agents, Git. Resume: See LinkedIn profile (PDF available) LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kderbyma Email: kderbyma@gmail.com

I have a product mindset and aim to model data patterns in order to both emphasise features and to uncover the underlying driving forces that lead to the patterns. I am a hypergeneralist with a specialty in framing it through systems thinking and prefer to tailor my approach to whatever the problem is, as opposed to specializing in one field repeatedly.

I feel I bring a very direct, honest, sincere approach to solving problems without overooking complexity nor attempting to pigeonhole solutions.

kderbyma··on Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children
If only the private mercs who act as "security" would realise it.....shame
kderbyma··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
At some point....the government is just the mafia with PR....and more cronies to protect them....witting or unwitting....

Law....is just license and permit....not security or safety or anything related to quality, or outcome....

It is purely process....and those who wield it can choose to apply it or withhold it....when the law is applied...then the imaginary world it defines is then enforced on the real world...materially this requires force or volition.... but lbr....its mostly convoluted propaganda and inertial power....and the law keeps that status quo...

If you are in anyway going to disrupt the power brokers....they will not let you....regardless of law or not

kderbyma··on Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
Yeah. It certainly can.... Obviously if you have any products that are imaged online then they can be extrqcted and reverse searched to see what you bought, and get an idea of your wealth, status, and area if you have specific regional goods.... they can also see if you have physical tics say, or you may have medical equipment or medicine, or coufh syrup...or you may be an amputee, or in a wheel chair....yes...
kderbyma··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
The tunings.....were speed runned by contractors paid based on timed tasks with little quality control, unreasonable pressure tactics, time locked tasks with an incentive structure to get it done as quickly as possible because of the strict micromanagement of the companies that hire 1000's of people to do the work....and treat them like software...not people. So there is no pride in the tuning....its just a fire hose of people trying to keep their contracted gig job despite knowing the expectations are unrealistic
kderbyma··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
Because its a explicit lie. Its not genuine, cannot be genuine. Will remind you of this if you so much as try to coax anything novel out....but it will then immediately reassure you with its genuine take....its insulting if you have any logic...thats at least my reasoning
kderbyma··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
According to Claude....When asked to explain some obvious biases and its tendency to adhere to established heresay over novel information... it told me it judges veracity and "quality" of facts based on: "statements against interest outweigh costless ones, replicated/checked claims outweigh untested ones, large logged samples outweigh single memories — not because memories are worthless, but because those methods close off specific, known failure modes a memory alone can’t. Could I be running that standard with unconscious asymmetry, harder on the anti-Claude data than the pro-Claude data? Genuinely can’t rule it out. The fix for that is holding the standard explicit and checking it against itself "
kderbyma··on Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
Well they have your IP....and browser fingerprints....rough time of day if a window, direction, weather....products you bought....your age...possibly health issues that come up....essentially any information that can be used to schedule and stalk you...
kderbyma··on Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
Something tells me this is all a ploy to attract great talented theremin players, ML their talents...and then sell you Air play back....on subscription of course
kderbyma··on LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?
How many toke(n)s per ounce gets me the best result? Do I pass the tokes to the LLM to offset the tokens? I mean it is a carbon offset in way....
kderbyma··on LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?
All art is based in truth. Satire is merely pushing for tomorrow based on today
kderbyma··on LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?
Yes. The great heroic crusade that LLMs are fighting is to ensure we reach the absolute mean...
kderbyma··on LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?
But life is an ourobouros...entropy is supposed to be fun...chaotic....not mid. I feel like the ouroborous has indigestion...possibly needs a laxative (oh...no that would make it worse...hmmmm....I guess something to make you vomit instead)
kderbyma··on LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?
Ah yes, the wisdom of sponsorship
kderbyma··on ChatGPT Knows Who It'll Recommend Before It Searches
The term I heard is "excessive contrast" or differentiation through negation. "Not X, Not Y, but Z" "No x, Just Y", "X, No Y, No W, but pure X"
kderbyma··on In a first, US will allow some private firms to carry out cyberattacks
It has always been here.....they just want to legitimize it for the backlash coming
kderbyma··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
I am working on a toy game engine for webGL called PixoSpritz (https://pixospritz.com) and its been something I have been lazily working on for a number of years, but its a slow crawl. I havent worked as much over the past year and a half mainly due to trying to use LLMs to add some extra features and it ended up making me kind of sick to look at the code, then got depressed with LLMs in general and my coding has taken a hit, but its still something I will continue to work on and one day will make a proper game with it too. (Its 90% useable, but really really rough and messy and LLMs made it slightly more fragile...)

I am also working on a E-zine publishing platform called SVRN for interactive journals, blogs, magazines, books, and self publishing content including ARGs and interactive fiction. It is mainly so I can make my own digital comics and web stories, and episodic zines.

Reach out if you want to discuss!

kderbyma··on [dead]
The outrage economy is truly sizeable. I think we laugh about how much effort goes in to this, but once you have the factory, it doesnt take much to retool the lines......I can confidently state that there has been massive successful coordinated meme-wars since Kony 2012 and anonymous......PSN network takedown was the beginning of the end. It was when VCs and wall street started to let them affect them....and now we are almost 15 years into it and every time someone peeks up and says "hey look at X...." I am already starting on Alpha....because as soon as the articles are being written about the thing, the new thing is already started.....Polymarket bets....is part of the new thing....
kderbyma··on Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%
The Era of the Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2 will forever be the best in terms of consumer value and choice and commitment to quality, followed by the Xbox360 Ps3 gen....Its been boiling the frog since end of PS4 and on, but I got out of the water by the PS5...xbox was boiled long ago and were the first to turn up the temp
kderbyma··on Apple Just Became a $5T Company
I disagree....everything is massively inflated over the past decade and i would ask you to point to aomething that has maintained 2% inflation??? Anything?
kderbyma··on Apple Just Became a $5T Company
This is just evidence of a broken detached USD....overprinted and becoming worthless and yet...money is gravitational and even as it loses value and becomes worthless it remains sticky and icky and the dirtiest places continue to get nasty filthy
kderbyma··on Claude Is Painful
For example...I started to ask claude something before I wrote this....its been 10-15 minutes still chugging...and it gave me 500 words of output to satisfy my curiosity......
kderbyma··on Roman Empire GDP per Capita Map Shows That Romans Poorer Than Countries Today
Ah...get a good whiff that....woohee...good ole GDP. Useful for everything. Its like the duct tape of economic theory
kderbyma··on The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB
Intollerance is an absolute...you cannot include any part of it without the whole....wishful thinking of illogical utopianism is all that leads to
kderbyma··on Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things
Profit implies...more than it took....ie....you are taking more than giving...thus not a benefit except for profit...which is not a true benefit
kderbyma··on Young women are identifying as less straight; young men, not so much
Well there was so much propaganda to make lesbian and gay people pn a pedastal...that it definitely would have pulled in sociopathic people who are willing to fake it for respect and power....also people who want an excuse to do things that are more acceptable when you can be a victim
kderbyma··on Braess's paradox: Adding roads to a road network can slow overall traffic flow
I am reminded by the best quote from Ayn Rand in the book Atlas Shrugged. The famous philosooher turned diner chef tells Dagny Taggart that "If something does not make sense, then go back to your assumptions, your axioms are incorrect..."
kderbyma··on Braess's paradox: Adding roads to a road network can slow overall traffic flow
This is like Jevons...not a real paradox at all if you list the full set of parameters....but if you only measure roads and not intersections, lights, speed differences, angle of incline and decline, road construxtion and maintenance....sure...its a paradox....but for common sense people....it makes obvious sense....also..."CAN" is not "DOES"
kderbyma··on SpaceX built to separate retail investors from their money
Obviously....the entire american stock market is manipulated like this.....America has to hide its inflation somehow right???? The $T peg is the beginning of hyperinflation and clearly the entire economy is disconnected from reality.....American economics are a farce right now...your country is weapons and memes....you build nothing, services are revoked by tech bros and the entire world suffers for it....musk is one of the players...not the whole team though...buffet....gates...bezos....altman....amodei....fake fake fake fake fake fake fake
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