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timthelion

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My home page is hobbs.cz you can also check out gradesta.com
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timthelion··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Well if they want their posts to be readable they do have a selfish reason.
timthelion··on Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn't use their work
OpenAI is the possessive actor here. They were supposed to develop the AI for the benefit of humanity. Now they do it closed and do it only for their private profit.
timthelion··on No Spanish reading crisis?
I guess I'm nobody then. I almost only read the internet.
timthelion··on Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
This is already happening alot with gaza. On Mastodon wehad manyduplicate accounts with very similar AI videos asking for money...
timthelion··on CATL expects oceanic electric ships in three years
Somehow I'd imagine that you could have container size and shape batteries and maybe even stop more often in ports to swap them out using existing crain mechanisms
timthelion··on Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
We've been developing a new method of developing software using a cloud IDE (slightly modified vs code server), https://github.com/bitswan-space which breaks down the development process into independent "Automations" which each run in a separate container. Automatons are also developed within containers. This allows you to break down the development into parts and safely experiment with AI. This feels like the "Android moment" where the old non-isolated way of developing software (on desktops) becomes unsafe. And we need to move to a new system with actual security and isolation between processes.

In our system, you can launch a Jupyter server in a container and iterate on software in complete isolation. Or launch a live preview react application and iterate in complete isolation. Securely isolated from the world. Then you deploy directly to another container, which only has access to what you give it access to.

It's still in the early stages. But it's interesting to sit at this tipping point for software development.

timthelion··on Balcony solar is taking off
Since europe uses almost exclusively underground power lines there are rarely outages due to weather.
timthelion··on The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
The interesting thing is that they do not own copilot.com
timthelion··on New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill
Here in Prague I pay $300 a year for 1000/1000 symetric.
timthelion··on Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells
Is celulose a 'microplastic' though? Obviosly most tea bags are not made of plastic, at least historically...
timthelion··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
bitgrid is cool! https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
timthelion··on Norway's Wealth Tax Is Backfiring. Are Americans Paying Attention?
Perhapse the tax shouldn't be based on residency but rather capital within the country...
timthelion··on Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel
Last time I tried it was unskippable via UI.
timthelion··on Lactate helps cancer cells resist chemotherapy
This news should be irrelevant to anyone not undergoing this specific type of chemotherapy.
timthelion··on DEF CON's response to the badge controversy
Am I the only pne who lmthinks it is rediculously wastefull to have electronic badges for all atendees?
timthelion··on RLHF is just barely RL
Karpathy writes that there is no cheeply computed objective check for "Or re-writing some Java code to Python? " Among other things. But it seems to me that Reinforced Learning should be possible for code translation using automated integration testing. Run it, see if it does,the same thing!
timthelion··on Fake job interviews are securities fraud
What about the typical college summer jobs? Those have high turnover and that is expected.
timthelion··on LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear
One usecase that occures to me, is a very larhe transparent screen in front of a stage at a conference with the presenter standing behind their presentation...
timthelion··on Some packages are no longer installable after test command is removed
Can we somehow vote to just stop having setuptools be maintained? When it breaks it wasts years of collective developer time and it really doesn't need to change at this point...
timthelion··on A vegan cheese beat dairy in a big competition. Then the plot curdled
True, but that's not what op was talking about.
timthelion··on Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe
What I don't understand is why the attack on the Czech Republic was not seen as an attack by Russia on NATO.
timthelion··on A vegan cheese beat dairy in a big competition. Then the plot curdled
Vegans don'teat bugs
timthelion··on David Frankel is a man on a mission against robocalls
In Czechia I get about 10 a year. Hardly what I'd call a big problem... My grandparents in canada get about 10 a day. My grandpa in the us got like 10 an hour before he died, many time live humans who knew his name and that he was an old man in a nursing home....

This is %100 a North American problem.

timthelion··on The emotional trial of clinical trials: like online dating with death risk
I'm surprised and impressed at how much energy you have to deal with this and write about it. I'm a month out from having a squamous cell tumor removed from my tongue and a kneck disection and most of the time I just lie around in bed feeling sorry for myself and even that is pretty exhausting. I hope the trial drug works, both for you, and selfishly, for me in case I'll need it!
timthelion··on Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP
Now I'm not sure if its an underbite or an overbite that causes the issue, but I do know it's something that can be objectively measured and fixed. You're right though that I went to a specialist in apnoe to have my teeth/jaw measured.
timthelion··on Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP
There are many causes of sleep apnoe, the most common one being obesity. Some people, however have an underbite which causes sleep apnoe, this can be measured and corrected by an orthodontist. I didn't have either, but I did suffer mild sleep apnoe for years. What solved it for me was rinsing my nose with salt water every evening and using Nasonex spray.
timthelion··on Best engineering interview question I've gotten
Also, locking wouldn't help with this as even that wouldn't fix the fundamental design issue.
timthelion··on Best engineering interview question I've gotten
Actually, I know how to communicate and would explain the problem to them.
timthelion··on Best engineering interview question I've gotten
I presume that the poster did not get the job. The correct answer is that while addition and subtraction are mutually order independent addition and multiplication are not. This cannot be implemented for a value that allows addition. You need to create a new type of value "multiplyable" and implement multiplication only for that new special type of int. Otherwise you'll end up with meaningless race conditions in the case,of multiple clients.
timthelion··on 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death
I'm pretty sure there are other ways of putting gun powder resedue on someone.
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