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pplante commented on CDC officials’ resignation emails insidemedicine.substack.c... · Posted by u/Anon84

CamperBob2 · 2 days ago

The good news, at least, is that next week there's a chance we'll finally get to the bottom of the whole autism thing! https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-claims-we-...

Seriously. If you voted for this, you owe civilization a debt that you will probably never be wealthy enough or long-lived enough to repay.

pplante · 2 days ago

As an autistic person with 3 kids with ASD, I get triggered by this bullshit nearly daily. I sincerely hope that whatever "reveal" they have planned does not further harm our ability to access the early interventions that my kids are benefiting from.

pplante commented on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf cognition.ai/blog/windsur... · Posted by u/alazsengul

827a · 2 months ago

Does anyone actually use Windsurf? I know a ton of people on Cursor, Cline, Roo, Claude Code... but zero people in my engineering circles have even mentioned trying Windsurf.

pplante · 2 months ago

I was using Windsurf in Pycharm, until I switched to Claude Code / Gemini CLI last week. I am also finding that Copilot with Sonnet 4 is pretty on par to Windsurf.

pplante commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

asadotzler · 4 months ago

LLM's whole thing is language. They make great translators and perform all kinds of other language tasks well, but somehow they can't interpret my English language prompts unless I go to school to learn how to speak LLM-flavored English?

WTF?

pplante · 4 months ago

I like to think of my interactions with an LLM like I'm explaining a request to a junior engineer or non engineering person. You have to be more verbose to someone who has zero context in order for them to execute a task correctly. The LLM only has the context you provided so they fail hard like a junior engineer would at a complicated task with no experience.

pplante commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

asadotzler · 4 months ago

LLM's whole thing is language. They make great translators and perform all kinds of other language tasks well, but somehow they can't interpret my English language prompts unless I go to school to learn how to speak LLM-flavored English?

WTF?

pplante · 4 months ago

I like to think of my interactions with an LLM like I'm explaining a request to a junior engineer or non engineering person. You have to be more verbose to someone who has zero context in order for them to execute a task correctly. The LLM only has the context you provided so they fail hard like a junior engineer would at a complicated task with no experience.

pplante commented on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row bbc.com/news/articles/cgj... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

Arubis · 6 months ago

I suspect you’re being flippant, but destruction of and restrictions on creative works as an _antidote_ to dystopia is a take I haven’t seen before.

pplante · 6 months ago

Yes, I am being very flippant. Sometimes we need to jest in order to digest reality.

pplante commented on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row bbc.com/news/articles/cgj... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

sameermanek · 6 months ago

Feels like marvel was onto something with captain america and winter soldier.

pplante · 6 months ago

Life is imitating too many dystopian books, movies, etc these days. I think we need to put an end to all creative works before the timeline becomes irrecoverably destroyed.

pplante commented on Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust chriis.dev/opinion/parsin... · Posted by u/bustylasercanon

pplante · 7 months ago

Very shameful IMHO.

The only relevance is the PDF format.

pplante commented on Show HN: I built a DIY plane spotting system at home pilane.obviy.us/... · Posted by u/obviyus

pkamb · 7 months ago

Watching football this fall, I've been thinking about a little box that sits on my table and mutes the TV whenever an ad comes on.

Not decoding HDMI HDCP or anything, but a webcam + AI or whatever that watches football with me and mutes ads. Similar to plane detection, maybe. Are there any projects like this?

pplante · 7 months ago

I'd settle for a device that just normalized the volume levels, but this would be even better!

pplante commented on Ask HN: Has anyone tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS? · Posted by u/snide

snide · 7 months ago

That's interesting, but I was thinking something possibly even farther. That the members of the co-op are the people that pay for the SaaS itself. Essentially the yearly fee is "dues" towards the organization.

pplante · 7 months ago

So you mean a customer? Why do you want them to own it? Just open source it if you want to share without building a business.

pplante commented on Starship's Seventh Flight Test spacex.com/launches/missi... · Posted by u/grecy

grecy · 8 months ago

Really cool they’re using starlink mass simulators this time and will deploy them.

pplante · 8 months ago

I was surprised to read they don't expect atmospheric burnup and are targeting a splash down in the Indian Ocean. I really hope someone didn't mess up some mundane detail in their calculations.