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alectroem

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alectroem··on The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful
Ya I've had basically this question for a while. My assumption is that most of the time people search the internet to answer questions they DONT know the answer to.

If an LLM gives you a response to that question, how do you know if its right or wrong without already knowing the answer or verifying it some other way? Is everyone just assuming the ai answers are right a majority of the time? Have there been large scale verification of a wide variety of questions that I'm not aware of?

alectroem··on Veo 2: Our video generation model
That's comparing apples to oranges though isn't it? Generating videos is the output of the technology, not the tech itself. It would be like someone asking "this computer that takes up a whole room printed out ascii art, what is this useful for?"
alectroem··on Janet for Mortals (2023)
Do you remember any of the functions/commands that were not documented? I'm semi active in the Janet community and would be able to work on improving the docs where its lacking!
alectroem··on P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo (2014) [video]
my theory is that we'll prove that its impossible to prove whether or not P = NP.
alectroem··on Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16
I think the OP was saying that having minors agree to a social media sites terms and conditions is them entering a contract. So if you're against minors entering contracts, its logically consistent to also be against holding minors to a websites terms.
alectroem··on Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone
I kind of would love this rabbit device running the light phone OS (with a camera app)
alectroem··on Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content
If you are learning Polish, how do you know that ChatGPT is the better tutor of Polish?

I guess you could ask the same question of a human tutor, however this seems to me the sort of thing a chatbot could very confidently give BS or incorrect information, and you would have no way of knowing unless a human who already knows Polish pointed it out.

alectroem··on Making small games, which is fun in itself
I would highly recommend starting with a fantasy console such as Pico-8 or TIC-80. They remove the temptation to start by building a game engine from scratch, and instead help you focus on actually creating games! Plus they have great communities, complete docs, and simple apis.
alectroem··on Google Kubernetes Engine incident spanning 9 days
Thats a really good idea!
alectroem··on Google Kubernetes Engine incident spanning 9 days
Wow, I literally did a full cluster version upgrade last night without knowing about this. I would have delayed the upgrade if I had known GKE was failing for "a small number of customers"

I wish cloud providers would just communicate outages to services I use like this to me!

alectroem··on Review: Beepy a Palm-Sized Linux Hacking Playground
I deeply desire one of these that also has 4G LTE. The idea of a portable linux shell that could also make phone calls by typing in something like "call 773-202-LUNA" just sounds super appealing!
alectroem··on Ask HN: New Programming Language?
Have you heard of https://crystal-lang.org/ ? I've never used it personally, but it seems to be "statically compiled Ruby syntax"
alectroem··on Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone
I've had the Light Phone 2 since launch, but just got rid of my old smart phone and switched over to it completely about a month ago.

If your goal is to overcome a phone/internet addiction, or just disconnect, then the LP2 will definitively help you achieve that! Your going to have to give some stuff up (No Spotify, no Directions yet), and deal with texting that worse then a smart phone but better then a number pad. But to me its definitely worth it.

I think the LP2 will eventually provide the same stuff that the original author gets from his Garmin watch and GSM Calls phone, which is pretty neat!

alectroem··on Popcorn Computer’s Pocket P.C. Open Sourced
this may right up your ally! https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/gemini-pda

As far as I can tell, it can dualboot linux and android (or even sailfish OS!)

alectroem··on Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (2013)
feel the need to bring up the wonderful https://learnxinyminutes.com, which has a ton of references just like this for other languages. It actually looks like the lua file there is the exact same one linked!
alectroem··on Show HN: An app to help overwhelmed PMs never miss an important request
Thanks! was having trouble finding a support email
alectroem··on Show HN: An app to help overwhelmed PMs never miss an important request
Unrelated to the actual product, but there may be a typo or missing word on the website under "how it works" bullet 2

"FollowUp then looks for questions in messages and extracts them into a" .... something?