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2muchcoffeeman

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2muchcoffeeman··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
MongoDB is a publicly traded company. You have to have inform people when C-level (other key personnel???) get shares, sell them.
2muchcoffeeman··on Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
D2 has some support for this. You can fix the position of certain elements and then it will redraw things around it.

I’ve been thinking about something similar to this but D2 wasn’t totally open source until now.

2muchcoffeeman··on The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)
This is a reflection of those people.

My core group will backstab each other gleefully and when the game is over, that’s it. We’re done. Because none of this is real. We wouldn’t even help each other if we played with other people. We’re all trying to win.

Although I suppose you’re right. If I played with two people, and the role of one of them is simply to help the others game, I’d never play with them.

2muchcoffeeman··on The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)
People like what they like.

But when you play a game and it turns out you don’t like it, you need to do your best not to bring it down for everyone. I don’t even mean you can’t criticise the game. Go for it. But find ways to have fun. I like thinking up outlandish strategies and trying to make it work.

No one needs 2 plus hours of their lives ruined because someone threw a hissy fit over a game which has no real life consequences. It’s probably not healthy if you can’t distinguish fact from fiction either.

2muchcoffeeman··on The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)
Finding a good group is hard. Too many board gamers don’t realise that these are _games_.
2muchcoffeeman··on Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
Why wouldn’t you use dafny?
2muchcoffeeman··on Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU
I think Australia imports too much American culture. So we want to participate in the same culture. So the stars try and get work in Hollywood.

At least singers participating in K Pop bands is within the region.

It’s too bad because Australia produces some really good stuff and most of it never gets the attention it deserves, not even from Australians.

2muchcoffeeman··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
I get that they’ve done dodgy things in the past.

And I agree that they should behave in a consistent manner.

But it’s a song contest…

2muchcoffeeman··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
> Eurovision is also stupid. Why is Israel part of it? That makes zero sense, even way aside from what war criminal Netanyahu is doing - it's not a european country. Something is wrong with the word EU. It constantly seeks to expand. So that is now a misnomer.

Eligibility to compete is not based on country, but my membership to the European Braodcasting Union of which Israel is a member, and Australian SBS is an associate member and was allowed to compete as a special case.

Don't bring Eurovision into it. Learn to lighten up and have some fun instead.

2muchcoffeeman··on Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating?
What did you expect when writing software became a job though?

A friend of a friend quit their job, made woodworking their full time job, and promptly fell out of love with woodworking.

You mean having to do something for your survival starts to suck? You don’t say!

I’ve always been more interested in getting my ideas down. AI is fantastic for this. I can get up to speed in coding projects I want to exist and with careful planning get something decent out and completed in a day.

2muchcoffeeman··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
One of the problems is that many companies motives are so incredibly misaligned with society at large.

Google, Facebook, X are all explicitly designed to be addictive and provide as little value as possible. Because they want to give everything away for free in a way that keeps you on the site to maximise scraping your data so they can screw you over more later.

They are not even aligned at the most basic level. Everyone needs to stop using it. Or at least circumvent their measures.

2muchcoffeeman··on Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
The number of down votes the parent comment has seems to me like a litmus test of people who will use AI and those that are just critical of it.

I have my reservations about AI but so far I’ve found ways to make me faster. So I’ll continue to use it but make sure to review my usage regularly.

2muchcoffeeman··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
At some point people need to take some responsibilities too. I have a bunch of ikea furniture. I have never thrown much away. Maybe 1 piece. I manage to disassemble and reassemble the rest when I need to. Sometimes I need to take a closer look at make sure I can disassemble and reassemble it.

People view cheap as disposable. That’s not entirely corporations fault.

2muchcoffeeman··on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
Maybe they mean culturally.
2muchcoffeeman··on All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it
This is just you and your peculiar hang up though. Same with the piñatas are making light of violence commenter.

Piñatas are made and designed explicitly to be smashed open to get the treats inside.

We’re not buying brand new iPhones and smashing them, or buying food and making stupid “recipes” for rage bait.

2muchcoffeeman··on iPhone Duo
Then don’t buy it.
2muchcoffeeman··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
ChatGPT has raised over 120 billion USD in funding.

For argument let’s just say we paid all the mathematicians 200k in salary from graduation till retirement. Say 40 years. That’s about 8 million. Let’s round that up to USD 10 million. We can see the future and pay to raise all the baby mathematicians.

For 100 billion that’s 10000 mathematician lifetimes. For 1 AI company _so far_.

There’s no value for money in AI yet.

2muchcoffeeman··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
The token price seems like a poor measure.

Building the LLM that could do this work in 11 days cost multi billions.

The economics probably only make sense if LLMs prove to be a benefit to almost everyone in a way we can all accept.

Otherwise this cost a lot more than we’d otherwise pay. It was incredibly fast though. But we all know: cost, speed, quality. Pick two.

2muchcoffeeman··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
Define “good”.

I couldn’t justify the cost of the furniture I really want. So off to IKEA I go!

And if you have a bit of skill at choosing and assembling IKEA furniture, then you can customise things on the cheap so at least it can look the way you want.

2muchcoffeeman··on LLMs are making me lose my savviness
Of course. But again this all comes down to how you use it.

If you start blindly accepting everything it says, good luck to you.

But you can do things like get one agent to do something. Spin up another agent to review and critique. Use different LLMs to critique. I’ve had the same agent write piece of code and then come back and say “there are bugs x, y and z”.

For most code, it’s going to do a fairly good job and tell you best practices, give you things to research by yourself.

2muchcoffeeman··on LLMs are making me lose my savviness
> “ honestly, the LLM doesn't quite know why it chose that either.”

Uh, have you asked it?

These sorts of articles are funny. Like the author assumed that you have to use an LLM in a certain way.

“I can just ask the LLM and there it is! I didn’t learn anything! :(“

You can interrogate the LLM. You can ask it all sorts of things. Tell it to justify its decisions. Tell it to give you supporting evidence. Tell it to give you options. Tell it to explain things in detail.

I’ve been using it as a learning tool and it’s quite effective.

Granted the stuff I don’t care about really does get worse. If I have a config typo I just go “There’s a typo in blah. Find it and fix it.” Or setting up the boiler plate for a project. I’m getting quite useless at that.

But it doesn’t have to be any particular way. It’s a tool. Exploit it.

2muchcoffeeman··on An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
So is a bambuu for far less money.

I have a Prusa btw.

2muchcoffeeman··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
GP is addicted and can’t see it.
2muchcoffeeman··on The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes
Define HITT.

I guarantee you that HITT with stupid movements is also not good for you. And you can over train HITT. Source: all the people I used to do CrossFit with that got injured or washed out from over doing it.

As always the answer is to listen to your body and don’t over do it. Running marathons is fine. HITT is fine. Lifting weights is fine. In moderation at an intensity suitable to the individual.

2muchcoffeeman··on Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf
Influencers are a real fucking scourge to our society.
2muchcoffeeman··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
AI is a super polarising topic. Even now there are people who are like “it’s all AI slop so it’s all useless” along with the “OMG AI!!! OMG we will have AGI soon!!!” people.

The truth, as always, is in between. There’s loads of people using it for useful things, learning, automation and getting good results. But it’s also wrong enough that you need to deploy it carefully sometimes.

Don’t worry about either group. Keep objective and use AI where it helps and do it yourself where you are better. That’s all.

2muchcoffeeman··on BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
A BMW is like a flagship smart phone. It looks like luxury, but everyone has them.
2muchcoffeeman··on 1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed
People aren’t rational. They want to have less regulations so there’s more freedom to do what you want and then in the same sentence complain about enshittification.
2muchcoffeeman··on GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend
I still run a 2014 Mac mini and a 2012 MacBook air
2muchcoffeeman··on A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median
That sort of stuff is bullshit I assume meant to boost the interviewer’s ego. Anyone can come up with shit like that given time to prepare or the internet.

Unless you work in some highly specialised field maybe.

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