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kalms··on Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
If small size, I recommend lots of plants and capping any "live" substrate with sand. Had one going with shrimps and a few endlers for years. I only topped the water up and very occasionally changed the water. Not that it really needed it.

After the first few weeks, it just soldiered on with minimal algae or intervention needed. It's a lovely thing to have, I can recommend it. (That said, I also have a small aquarium problem according to the wifey)

kalms··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
Completely agreed. The point is the knowledge, the learning and the journey. If a kid has a passion for building or toying with LLMs, then of course, by all means, please start tearing them apart or even build and train your own model. You'll learn a ton, even if you won't necessarily end up using it here and now. The learning experience will compound and of course that will be useful.

The above is, after all, the whole genesis of the word 'hacker'. We should celebrate that.

kalms··on fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.
What’s a better lang in your opinion?
kalms··on Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps
Seeing a lot of criticism in here, some valid, some not. Just wanted to say that, to me, this is really well put together - and seems like a lot of thought went into this. Appreciate you releasing this publicly!
kalms··on Show HN: A Dark Cave – Minimalistic Graphics in the Age of AI Slop
Inspired by https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com?
kalms··on The SaaS Org Chart
I actually don't disagree with you on this. Can absolutely see how this can create friction, but it's also one of those cases when dealing in absolutes is fraught with peril. A CTO is not a CPO and having strategies being defined - or steered by a singularly technically-minded person can work fine in a lot of scenarios, but for others, it's important to foster a certain level of autonomy for managing, growing and building the product, feature set and roadmap. Same thing in reverse.

There's definitely overlap between the two, but a collaborative approach works better in my opinion. As a disclaimer, I'm a CPO myself - and enjoy the working relationship and collaboration with the CTO, while reporting directly to the CEO and the board. Also, I guess that sometimes it really comes down to the types of personalities that are present in the management team - as well as the type of product being built.

kalms··on When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone
Did you really read the article? Or are you talking in more general terms?

The mother is full on accepting of her son and use it to question her own motives in life. As a parent, I found the read very refreshing.

kalms··on Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns
What are basic things to you?
kalms··on It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy
I feel compelled to answer here, mostly because I've been and to a degree still are where you are.

It's extremely common to gradually move into a state of mind where you denigrate yourself – and the effort you've put forth in life. You need to ensure your own happiness, and no one in here, or anywhere else, can tell you how to do that. Mindfulness is a great tool, because it allows you to become more certain of yourself. To discover what it is that you feel and where it is you need to go.

That being said, here's what works for me: Acknowledging that creation is hard, but that I love creating and helping people around me. That family is important and love even more so. I also remind myself to do something new every day that somehow moves the boundary of what it means to be me.

Added note: A book that also helped me realise my own tendency to create barriers around myself was "The Flinch" by Julien Smith. It's awesome and I highly recommend giving it a read – and practice some of what it champions. I suspect you will gain a lot from it, but then again: Only you can know that.

kalms··on After landing a lucrative job at a tech startup, I had made a terrible mistake
I find that a lot of companies that refer to themselves as being bearers of startup culture, is mostly trying to cater to younger people or at least a young mindset - not because they're necessarily trying to hide insane working hours or demands. Sometimes it truly is about passion and keeping a "beginner's mind". Definitely not for everyone, but to me it feels very inspiring and empowering.

(I work for 15+ year company that like to view itself as a startup - but the partying is definitely optional)

kalms··on Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030
They're already common along the highways in DK (incl. a few Superchargers)

Map: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=tesla+s...

kalms··on Denmark to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2030
20% I believe

https://www.tesla.com/da_DK/support/incentives (Danish)

kalms··on SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal
Because he made short sellers look like idiots? I think not. I just bought more.
kalms··on Tesla won’t give drivers their own crash data without a court order
You don't usually own the plane that crashed. Unless if you're Elon Musk of course.
kalms··on Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency
I think the community is fine with it, if not outright wishing for it.

Institutional money can add a big boost to crypto, although it in turn provides amble opportunity to control the market. Which they're probably already doing to some extent.

We'll see how it plays out, but I'm pinning my hopes on tokens and networks provided by Ethereum, EOS or similar.

kalms··on Tesla Plunges After a Conference Call
Maybe he knows something you don’t.
kalms··on Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
Welcome to Denmark.
kalms··on GDPR: sorting the fact from the fiction
It sounds like you just made a simple log into something that definitely belongs to the GDPR ruleset!

But that's just my interpretation.

Can anyone, with citation, please shed some light on this. What's fair use, in broad terms, when it comes to simple HTTP logs or similar structures?

kalms··on Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm
You even left a comment on the site writing that. Don't be an asshole.
kalms··on New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild
Mosquitoes are a large food source for birds, especially migratory birds in the northern regions.

Eliminating them would be devastating to Scandinavia's biodiversity.

kalms··on Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes
You're leaving out quasars.
kalms··on Improving air conditioner efficiency could reduce worldwide temps
+1 to this statement. Just had extra insulation sprayed into the walls of our 1973 house, and replaced the windows with triple layer thermo glass. The difference it made during summer is remarkable, since the added insulation keeps the house from heating up excessively, while retaining heat during nighttime.
kalms··on Sliding right into disaster: Left-to-right sliding windows leak
Having just installed massive sliding doors in my home, this was also my first thought.

I was actually disappointed!

kalms··on The Diary of an Ex-Tesla Intern
And he didn't get to drive one of the cars? I would be flippin' tables and causing all kinds of scenes!
kalms··on Facebook expected to revise plans for Messenger Bot API as failure rate hits 70%
Natural Language Processing is an abstraction? That's quite the statement, considering the recent advances that has been made. I mean, you don't see the value in a computer being able to perceive meaning when you say: "Siri, please dim the lights 40%"?

A computer doesn't need to know how you feel about snow, to tell you that it's snowing outside, and you'll probably want to remember snow chains.

kalms··on NASA to Host News Conference on Discovery Beyond Our Solar System
Any rumours as to what this is about? (Don't want to get ahead of myself..)
kalms··on YouTube removes hundreds of the best climate science videos from the Internet
Wtf. Is this for real?

Furthermore: Could it be due to an automatic process?

kalms··on How we switched our template rendering engine to React
You can achieve that with almost any framework.
kalms··on Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
I don't see why not?
kalms··on Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
That law hasn't been used once.

It's also the same if you get government benefits. If your wealth exceeds 10.000 DKK, you will have to use your own money to get by, until you run out.

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