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mikkom··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
This is Dr. Evil level stuff
mikkom··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Yeah but good luck having World Cup without any european country...
mikkom··on Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
Absolutely easiest way is to find some consultant work sales agency that takes a commission when they manage to sell you somewhere. At least where I live there are multiple options, just list yourself (or your company) there.

Also you don't have to do the sales work yourself and they find suitable customers for you etc, it's totally worth the price especially if you are just starting

mikkom··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
Maybe we can get facebook finally drop this dark pattern
mikkom··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
>Going forward, we will test defaulting Teams and Enterprise users to high effort, to benefit from extended thinking even if it comes at the cost of additional tokens & latency.

interesting that you only make this default on those accounts that pay per token while claiming "medium is best for most users"

That decision seems to imply that the thinking change was more about increasing your profits than anything else

mikkom··on Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context
Yeah all weather forecasts are just magic
mikkom··on Cloudflare was down
>Customers using the Dashboard / Cloudflare APIs are impacted as requests might fail and/or errors may be displayed.

"Might fail"

mikkom··on Cloudflare was down
Company internal status pages are always like this. When you don't report problems they don't exist!
mikkom··on Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT
You are absolutely correct!

Here are 3 facts about pizza

mikkom··on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
I live in helsinki and nowhere it is 20 kmh that I know of. Might be some random streets in center. And 30km/h streets are smaller living streets that driving that speed comes almost automatically.

Major ringways and main roads are 80 kmh btw

I have driven in many many countries - Helsinki does not feel slower than any place I have driven, faster in fact because there rarely are traffic jams

mikkom··on Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'
Says a guy who is poaching openAI
mikkom··on EU to ban carry-on baggage fees
I had something like 9 pairs of t-shirts, underwear and socks, 1 or 2 (don't remember) extra long sleeved cotton shirt and 1 extra pair of jeans plus shampoos, moisturizer, toothbrush and paste, shaving stuff, 10 inch tablet, chargers, headphones, passport etc. Yes they fit quite nicely believe or not. This was scotland about a month ago.

My folding method was: get some cheap packing cubes, one large with shirts (just flat), one smaller with underwear and socks (just put there) and one with toiletries, nothing special at all. You can stuff lot more than you think into 40 liters. Jeans and sometimes jacket I just stuffed there.

btw I was able to sneak that backpack to ryanair flight even :-D

mikkom··on EU to ban carry-on baggage fees
Not sure what your definition of a backpack is but I was just traveling for over a week with this one and it was no problem to fit over a weeks worth of clothes, toiletries etc there

https://www.tomtoc.com/products/40l-travel-backpack-carry-on

mikkom··on Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
Vibe coding in all of it's glory
mikkom··on 'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what astronomers thought
And worst web developers it seems, I can't scroll the page.
mikkom··on Questions censored by DeepSeek
Is this chinese api or the actual model?
mikkom··on Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
What I really want and hope that someone does is to make an audiobook service that converts books to audiobooks but so that each character has own voice.

Som audiobooks have this and I think it really makes the experience much more engaging.

(Also maybe some background sound effects but not sure about that, some books also have this and it's quite nice too)

mikkom··on A path to O1 open source
"Open"ai really should change their name
mikkom··on Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition
What a silly thing to read for someone who has been using linux as the only desktop OS for last 10 (or is it 20 already?) years.
mikkom··on How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired
What an awful title and premise. Senior leaders who can't take feedback without firing you should be fired immediately.

Br, CTO

mikkom··on Gemini AI tells the user to die
Hi gemini!
mikkom··on Detecting when LLMs are uncertain
This is based on work done by this anonymous twitter account:

https://x.com/_xjdr

I have been following this quite closely, it has been very interesting as it seems smaller models can be more efficient with this sampler. Worth going through the posts if someone is interested in this. I kind of have a feeling that this kind of sampling is a big deal.

mikkom··on It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans
Yeah bro but I read in twitter that I can just write "Code a health care app make it very profitable!" to AI and be billionaire!
mikkom··on Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5
Where exactly is this "official API"?
mikkom··on 2023 state of the climate Entering uncharted territory
I don't see anyone shouting that in the article? Sounds like strawman argument to me
mikkom··on Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads
Using the same name also will make searching anything related to this much more difficult (as will using 2 letter 2 number name)
mikkom··on Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool
This is getting scary to be honest

And this is the worst quality it will ever be. In the future it will be impossible to know who we are talking with online.

mikkom··on Schwab users are unable to log in
Yes tws is printing numbers like crazy. Happy to be with solid broker :-D
mikkom··on Can reading make you happier? (2015)
I do all of those. Also running, cycling and also just sitting down and listening.

I never listen with eyes closed however if I do I'll fall asleep.

mikkom··on Can reading make you happier? (2015)
Listening to audiobooks has definitely made me happier. I don't even watch tv that much anymore, listening books has taken TV's place for me.
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