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kleer001

2,611 karma · joined January 14, 2014

meh, eh? mmm...

if for some bizarre reason you want or need to contact me I use the same handle in many places (I know, not a great idea), but I don't have many alerts, so it might be a long time in reply, but still, do reach out I'd love to hear from you...

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kleer001··on Ask HN: Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM?
> Give Claude Code a try...

Two days after they released their web interface for Claude Code I was hooked. Haven't really used the regular interface or the app since. Oh god, I'll never go back to copy-pasting code.

kleer001··on Ask HN: Does the languages we speak affect the way we think?
No. This is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and has, even in its weak form, been conisdered a dead end.

That said the culture (relegion and other stories) we live in completely drive our cognition.

Culture & Ideology Are Not Your Friends (Terence McKenna) [FULL]

Presented at the Whole Life Expo, Denver, April 1999

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0gsHFatPp0

kleer001··on MusicFX DJ
Uhhh, this is amazing.

I wasn just listening to a breakcore mix to help me work and this isn't too far off from what I was just listening too.

Now all we need is a queue of style prompts to slide in and out of the player and I'd listen for hours.

kleer001··on Ask HN: Boss thinks I'm dumb, now what?
I don't see enough detail here to really advise.

Please consider having fun with it or getting promoted over him.

kleer001··on Orwell: The Rewrite
Heaven has the best climate, Hell has the best society.
kleer001··on Don't be terrified of Pale Fire
Tried it, couldn't get into it. And this was when I was unemployed and living with my now wife. So, I had time galore.

It seems like a book you have to read cover to cover in one sitting to jam it all in your head.

Now, from what I recall I did chuckle a couple times. But other than that it was a big shrug-fest to me. Just couldn't muster a care.

I never thought I'd admit to such base and earthen attitude, nay vulgar. But there we are.

kleer001··on Ask HN: What's an old software that you would like to have again?
Does google reader count? The social aspect was delightful
kleer001··on Hypothesis: Repeating the task description increases quality of ChatGPT output
Copy-Paste?

Ctrl-A (select all)

Ctrl-C (copy)

Ctrl-V (paste)

kleer001··on How A.I. chatbots become political
the center of a current Overton Window, to be precise, that thing's slippery
kleer001··on Prismix: An All-in-One Social Media Management Platform
Please submit a link if you want feedback.
kleer001··on Ask HN: What topic have you learned everything there is to know about?
What topics have a static field of knowledge?
kleer001··on Evolving the Infinite Canvas
Ok, but why? Please excuse my ignorance, it's well earned. I haven't been in the web design space for over 20 years. So, seriously, like, what is this for?

Just so we can? For presenting a specific kind of information?

kleer001··on Ask HN: Which book do you keep asking people to read?
"Permutation City": Greg Egan

"Godel Escher Bach" : Douglas Hofstadter

kleer001··on Very-low-protein diets lead to reduced food intake and weight loss
"...,in mice. "

It's in the title of the paper. No idea why it got trimmed from the post.

kleer001··on Elon Musk Says He Might Put X/Twitter Behind a Paywall
Sounds good to me. It's not a silver bullet, but there's no such thing. Just trade-offs.
kleer001··on Digital Currency Without Blockchain
Sooo... completely centralized?

That's a hard no.

I briefly scanned through the whitepaper at:

https://haypenny.net/whitepaper.html

but couldn't find how it solved the Byzantine General's problem, transacting without a need for trust.

kleer001··on Ask HN: Is there a part within you rooting against self-driving tech?
> As humans the physical world is OUR world, OUR element, OUR domain of expertise

Yea, and our tools are extensions of our bodies.

> Driving (and riding) is a special feeling

100% agree. I love driving, esp at night for long distances. It's almost religious. Even through not driving and age makes my ankles weak.

IMHO self driving cars I think need to get to the point where they're better than people to cut down on deaths. So, free municipal rides for drunks? Yes. But we can do that with taxis too.

kleer001··on Ask HN: Is cell phone radiation still a concern in 2023?
If it can't warm water how could it cause damage in a body? I'm not afraid of a candle, and that's emitting way more energy. Am I crazy?! Or stupid?
kleer001··on John McCarthy’s collection of numerical facts for use in elisp programs
It certainly would. However, these are centuries long plans. A path along which the local issues will be solved.
kleer001··on macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
I could, but I won't. My mac laptop is 5 years in the closet and covered in a layer of dust. But it'd be a ton of stuff.
kleer001··on Ask HN: Those who were broke and lost in life in 20s. How'd you find way again?
In 2001 there was text and plenty of it. However, there was no a/v streaming anything, no social media, no fast twitch multiplayer games, nothing honed to a sharp edge to slice away our attention.

I should have said "MY" internet connection was shit. I thought that was easily implied. I had dial up over a shared phone line. Additionally I convinced myself that there was nothing of entertainment value on the internet so I could get my work done.

kleer001··on Ask HN: Those who were broke and lost in life in 20s. How'd you find way again?
Just realized I left out the important part, sorry...

I took on a job, the job of finding my next job. Woke up at 6/7 and got to work, took a short lunch then back again full tilt.

Sure, I wasn't perfect, no one is, and life keeps happening and we have to deal with that. But, you know, dead fucking serious 9-5 M-F. After that I could have feelings.

kleer001··on Ask HN: Those who were broke and lost in life in 20s. How'd you find way again?
I just kept going, did what I needed to do, stopped doing unnecessary shit and hit the pavement running. I never had enough self consciousness to not believe in myself.

It took a while. Day to day I worked as hard as I could then stopped after work hours and did little on the weekends (though I don't know how that would work these days, I was cold calling people).

I ate as cheap and healthy as I could and exercised as much as I could, lots of walks.

This was back in the early 2000's so the internet was shit and I couldn't lose myself there. These days I'd advise 0.00 leisure internet. No news, no forums, no social media. No fucking around.

This is an existential moment, very thin margins, high speed, no guard rails, this is adult shit.

kleer001··on Building a Useful Memory Palace?
I think I've trained myself to keep most important issues rather shallow and funnelled through my email. So, that's the bottle neck. I do often think "Wow, I'm doing some data forensics on myself, ha!" as I try to search for whatever address or number that I need in the stream of the last 20 years.

I do feel like Google will nail down that for Gmail pretty soon. Having a conversational search instead of the old style search bar. So, I guess, if you can get yours working first you might be able to sell it to them in a couple years (or less).

kleer001··on Ask HN: Which math book(s) did you learn the most from?
None. I learned the most from passionate and personable professors.
kleer001··on Is it okay to run in a cemetery?
If something is chasing you, sure.
kleer001··on Ask HN: Deal with feeling of not knowing anything well enough?
> the expertise level of industry leaders

Comparing yourself to others?

Yea, that's not going to end well. Instead compare yourself to yourself in the past.

kleer001··on A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
true.

However the failure cases at those heights and velocities are far worse. There's several orders of magnitude difference between an airplane license and driving license.

kleer001··on Ask HN: How to signal that I'm an “easy-going” engineer when interviewing?
If they're good interviewers (which happen at places you want to work at) they'll ask enough questions to suss out enough of your character that'll understand it to the depth that the "easy-going" dimension rests.
kleer001··on Ask HN: Do you also never read the last paragraph of ChatGPT's responses?
Just think of all the f-n idiots that got caught using ChatGPT without knowing its limitations. Like the reporter or lawyer that cited resources that don't exist due to hallucinations.

But yea, I gloss over all that shtie. It's insulting.

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