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foobarbecue

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I stopped updating my website, https://aaroncurt.is , a few years ago when I got too busy, but the contact information should still work. Comments here are my personal opinion, not my employer's.

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Ask HN: Is retreq / retspec a thing?

3 points·by foobarbecue·6 месяцев назад·0 comments

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1 points·by foobarbecue·8 месяцев назад·0 comments

Trump reverses course to renominate billionaire Musk ally to lead NASA

theguardian.com
11 points·by foobarbecue·8 месяцев назад·1 comments

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foobarbecue
·4 дня назад·discuss
Ah. I was expecting some technical jargon. You do you, man...
foobarbecue
·5 дней назад·discuss
Ok, I'll bite. What's "foxwork"?
foobarbecue
·7 дней назад·discuss
Interesting, the linked article does say that.

Pretty sure I learned the effect was the opposite (high CO2 --> slower respiration). Note that that was ~15 years ago when I would have read that. Maybe I just misunderstood, or thinking has changed.

edit: reading now I see I was wrong about this. Thanks for the correction!
foobarbecue
·7 дней назад·discuss
EDIT: ignore this; I was confused / misinformed

It's about pH. CO2 creates carbonic acid when it dissolves in water. Your blood pH, in turn, controls how much you feel like you need to breathe. So with high CO2, your respiration rate slows down, and that can lead to low oxygen levels.

Note that the physiology and biochemistry of this is complicated (e.g. blood is a very good pH buffer and it's actively regulated by kidneys etc) and it's very much a nascent field of research, so I think AI will be overconfident and hallucination-prone.

Source: I worked in high-co2 caves for my PhD so have read about this a lot. I always carried a CO2 monitor. Our rule was to get out if we saw 20,000 ppm or greater. I spent thousands of hours above 10,000ppm.
foobarbecue
·7 дней назад·discuss
Aaand now OP has fixed it in the HN post title. Still wrong in the linked article.
foobarbecue
·7 дней назад·discuss
Argh, autocorrect got me. Thanks, fixed.
foobarbecue
·7 дней назад·discuss
It's "Galapagos" or "Galápagos," not "Galapogos."
foobarbecue
·8 дней назад·discuss
"This article is ... spellchecked with AI" ???

Why on Earth world you use an LLM for that instead of a spell checker???
foobarbecue
·13 дней назад·discuss
There is actually no legally available English version of this ebook now, so if you want the ebook piracy is the only option. Presumably Amazon still has the rights to sell it, but due to a technical glitch and disinterest, they aren't.
foobarbecue
·14 дней назад·discuss
I bought a Kindle copy of Steven Baxter's novel Ring. One day, I decided to re-read it and downloaded it to a new device.

It had changed from the English edition to the German translation!

Amazon eventually admitted that this was some kind of glitch, but they were uninterested in fixing it. I got a refund, but there was no way for me to read the book.
foobarbecue
·17 дней назад·discuss
Except actually real whereas Frank Abagnale fabricated all of his supposed cons (read The Greatest Hoax).
foobarbecue
·18 дней назад·discuss
Contains unwarned spoilers for The Good Place.
foobarbecue
·21 день назад·discuss
I don't think this reductionist view of colleagues (dividing them into categories rather than discerning individual strengths and weaknesses, team-building, empowering) is very success-oriented.
foobarbecue
·25 дней назад·discuss
"good riddance"? What went away?
foobarbecue
·29 дней назад·discuss
Actually, what I usually do in Github is set the PR branches to delete when you squash-merge the PR, but then the PR always has an "undelete branch" button you can use forver in case you want to look at the details of the branch and don't have a local copy of the branch.
foobarbecue
·29 дней назад·discuss
Take me to your reader
foobarbecue
·29 дней назад·discuss
Github default squash commit template & merge strategy makes it easy to go from the squash commit to the feature branch. So you get best of both worlds -- clean master and granular history on the branch. Bisect on master tells you which branch broke it, and then bisect on the branch if you want to find the original commit. Same with blame.

IMO squash 4 the win. Github squash defaults work well. Gitlab squash defaults don't.
foobarbecue
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
You'd probably be interested in Curiosity's AEGIS system if you aren't already aware of it.
foobarbecue
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
I think you can't tell the difference until the "art" shows details of something you know well -- a place you've been, out a hobby or sport you do.

I'm thinking of this awful slop "art" I saw on Wayfair yesterday. As a surfer, it's hilarious. That's not how you stand on a board. It's not even a board. And the wave is terrible-- nobody wants to surf shorebreak like that! https://www.wayfair.com/decor-pillows/pdp/design-art-4-hawai...

I guess it could be a useful signal-- if you meet someone and they have it up in their home, you know they don't surf.

More generally, I think anything AI produces that's dense with factual details is inherently trash.
foobarbecue
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Yeah. I guess the redelegation of thinking from people to machines has been going on since before LLMs.

Today I got a haircut. At the cash register:

Hairstylist (early 20s): "That's $34. Would you like to leave a tip?"

Me: "Yes, please put an extra 20% on there"

Hairstylist: "Uuuhhhh... sorry, I don't have my phone. Can you google what 20% of $34 is for me?"