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thinkloop

2,120 karmajoined 14 jaar geleden
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thinkloop
·eergisteren·discuss
Careful taking advice from nerds over-complicating things, it's beautiful as-is. Maybe have it be 7s per letter instead of a fixed 30s.
thinkloop
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
A $1 entry subscription where you have to type your name and credit card and submit and wait and now you have a relationship to manage, is infinitely more expensive than a 10 cent, automatic, non-recurring, one-time, no cancelation needed, pseudonomous, microtransaction.
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·20 dagen geleden·discuss
The key lesson is that duplicate code is not necessarily "code duplication" - it was always really about abstraction duplication. If two unrelated variables happen to momentarily share a value, it doesn't mean that value should be made common between them, they are fundamentally different things. It would be a confusing lie and error-prone if the code implied they were the same and that efforts should be made for them to be in sync.
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·vorige maand·discuss
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·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I did mine without anesthesia/sedatives. There were moments of discomfort when they pump gas to expand the area - feels like a big fart is stuck in your gut - but otherwise no big deal, especially knowing that the pain is not dangerous. Recommend. It eliminates recovery time afterwards (you can drive yourself home) and increases safety.
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·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I interpreted it as: with the nature of fans and the associated vibration/movement, some gap is necessary and this is the limit given the precision of injection molding.

Phrased differently: a 0.5mm gap is the minimum possible to also be able to account for the 0.1mm (or whatever) variation in injection molding.

You're right to question the wording.
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·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Who decides things if not the entire voting population? There's nothing inherently wrong with your suggestion, if it's what everyone wants. We've been doing it for a century, see the national debt. But people like their kids, so we restrain it. People don't want a society full of desperation, so we restrain it. People want a strong nation, so we restrain it. It's not a crazy hypothetical, it's how the system works. Humans just aren't basic consumption machines.
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·3 maanden geleden·discuss
AI fixes Linux on the desktop. Whatever obscure issues you’re facing, you’re a quick prompt away from the solution.
thinkloop
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Cool idea. I tried to create a room but it says limit reached for today.
thinkloop
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Other things that I would like the web to "fix" without knowing the solution:

- replace email for notifications: email is the default notification channel for most websites, but because it is inherently insecure and lacks privacy, messages are often reduced to generic alerts that omit the actual content (statements, bills, secure messages, etc.). Anything of value instead requires navigating to the site, logging in, and locating the relevant item. Ideally, the content itself would be delivered directly through a secure, private notification system without email as a proxy.

- eliminate account creation/login: browsers should be able to authenticate to sites cryptographically using locally held keys, allowing APIs to securely identify and associate a user with an account without explicit registration or login flows shifting credential management from centralized servers to the user’s device, simultaneously reducing exposure from credential storage and leaks.

- automatic selection of gdpr "only necessary cookies" (or whatever your preference) without prompts/ui and similar
thinkloop
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
What's a trusted device to stream with?
thinkloop
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
Is running your llm through azure insecure? I mean more so than running anything on cloud? My understanding was that azure gpt instances were completely independent with the same security protocols as databases, vms, etc.
thinkloop
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
Say you do have those sub-agents, they will likely each have tools, and sometimes many, in which case you'll have you route to those tools somehow. The sub-agents themselves are also almost like tools from the main root agent's perspective, and there may be many of those, which you also have to route to, in which case you can use this pattern again. Put simply, sometimes increasing the hierarchy is not the right abstraction vs having many tools in one hierarchy, and thus the need for more efficient routing.
thinkloop
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
How come HN doesn't have to follow delete laws allowing users to delete their messages?
thinkloop
·8 jaar geleden·discuss
Seriously? Shouldn't that be gb's of data? If anything would be cloud dependent, I thought this would be it.
thinkloop
·9 jaar geleden·discuss
> This is what happens when the metric of how much time users spend using your thing supersedes the goal of providing legitimate value to your users.

What metric would be better to gauge "legitimate value"?