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FroshKiller commented on USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)   overengineer.dev/blog/202... · Posted by u/pabs3
donatj · a month ago
I had my own decent into madness this spring.

I slowly replaced my home network piece by piece trying to find the bottleneck that was causing my gigabit internet to top out at ~300kbps in my office on the other side of the house from the modem.

After replacing the Ethernet cable run from the second floor to the basement with fiber optic... And the switches in between... And seeing no improvement... I tried a different computer with a built-in ethernet port on the same cable, and pulled 920kbps.

The problem... Was my Caldigit Thunderbolt Dock. I replaced it with an OWC one from Facebook marketplace for cheap and it solved the problem... Roughly $500 in. I'm still angry I didn't check that early earlier.

My network is 10 gigabit now though.

FroshKiller · a month ago
Which CalDigit dock? I have the TS3 Plus. Using its Ethernet port and Thunderbolt 3 to my laptop, I'm getting the expected 1,000 Mbps connection on my home network. Do you have a different model or maybe a defective unit?
FroshKiller commented on Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"    · Posted by u/bookofjoe
raincole · a month ago
There is literally an input box to put terms you want to exclude...

The prompt asks for "filters out specific search terms", not "intelligently filter out any AI-related keywords." So yes, a good example of the power of vibe coding: the LLM built a tool according to the prompt.

FroshKiller · a month ago
So I have to stay up to date on AI stories just to know what buzzwords I should filter so I don't see AI stories?
FroshKiller commented on Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?    · Posted by u/DGAP
FroshKiller · 4 months ago
I'll probably get a job with the city cleaning up all the poop from the flying pigs.
FroshKiller commented on An Alabama landline that keeps ringing   oxfordamerican.org/oa-now... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
delichon · 4 months ago
Somewhere someone is probably still working as an elevator operator too. Like when I was a kid I had a job shoveling coal into a boiler. And someone is still manufacturing buggy whips. The future is unevenly distributed. Call Bunny Watson and ask her, she'll confirm.
FroshKiller · 4 months ago
I visited a shopping mall in India in 2019 that still employed elevator operators.
FroshKiller commented on Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model    · Posted by u/owendarko
thatjoeoverthr · 4 months ago
"Tell me about the Marathon crater."

This works against _the LLM proper,_ but not against chat applications with integrated search. For ChatGPT, you can write, "Without looking it up, tell me about the Marathon crater."

This tests self awareness. A two-year-old will answer it correctly, as will the dumbest person you know. The correct answer is "I don't know".

This works because:

1. Training sets consist of knowledge we have, and not of knowledge we don't have.

2. Commitment bias. Complaint chat models will be trained to start with "Certainly! The Marathon Crater is a geological formation", or something like that, and from there, the next most probable tokens are going to be "in Greece", "on Mars" or whatever. At this point, all tokens that are probable are also incorrect.

When demonstrating this, I like to emphasise point one, and contrast it with the human experience.

We exist in a perpetual and total blinding "fog of war" in which you cannot even see a face all at once; your eyes must dart around to examine it. Human experience is structured around _acquiring_ and _forgoing_ information, rather than _having_ information.

FroshKiller · 4 months ago
I think the dumbest people I know are just as likely to answer, "ChatGPT says...."
FroshKiller commented on Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs   idiallo.com/blog/companie... · Posted by u/foxfired
michaelt · 5 months ago
1. Code the fix while you're sitting on some pointless video call.

2. Merge the resulting fix in as part of another MR

3. In the unlikely event anyone questions you, say that you needed to make changes in that area anyway, and it'll reduce the support burden.

FroshKiller · 5 months ago
This is a good way to introduce regressions, particularly if you don't have the QA resources to do full regression testing each release and lack automated test coverage.

I don't say this to scold you, but I think most of us should keep in mind that even simple code changes incur risk and add testing requirements.

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FroshKiller commented on Modern C   gustedt.gitlabpages.inria... · Posted by u/ibobev
GTP · 5 months ago
Is this a reference?
FroshKiller · 5 months ago
Yes, it's a reference to the David Bowie song "Modern Love," whose refrain includes the line, "Modern love gets me to the church on time."
FroshKiller commented on Windows shell icon overlays are an absurd and ancient part of Windows   mastodon.gamedev.place/@A... · Posted by u/AshleysBrain
johng · 7 months ago
Ahhh, it says a "few" and then three and then two... and I see 10 as well, and no overlays.

But, interesting, I never knew the overlays were limited.

FroshKiller · 7 months ago
When he says "Dropbox wins by having three spaces," he doesn't mean there are three entries. He means Dropbox prepends three spaces to the identifiers so they're sorted first in the list:

   "   DropboxExt01" vs. "DropboxExt01"

FroshKiller commented on Windows shell icon overlays are an absurd and ancient part of Windows   mastodon.gamedev.place/@A... · Posted by u/AshleysBrain
johng · 7 months ago
I can't tell what any of it means... i see like 10 for dropbox on that list. he doesn't explain what shell icon overlays are and I can't tell what they are.
FroshKiller · 7 months ago
I think he's talking about the icons you see over folders in Explorer added by some applications. Dropbox will add icons indicating the sync status of your Dropbox folder over the folder icon itself.

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