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rndmio commented on Project Gemini geminiprotocol.net/... · Posted by u/andsoitis

tpoacher · a month ago

Interesting outro. Interoperability is presumably one very big reason for this protocol.

As for why, all I can say is, download Lagrange, go to gemini://bleyble.com/cgi-bin/random, and see for yourself. It's one thing hearing about it and a completely different experience browsing the geminispace.

rndmio · a month ago

That was a terrible experience. For a start that site has an expired certificate, as do many of the pages it suggested, and of the pages that worked it was mostly people that dipped a toe in a few years ago and never came back or other broken function.

rndmio commented on How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep massgeneralbrigham.org/en... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

jghn · 2 months ago

My mom always told me to do this as a child. I’ve never understood this nor any other visualization technique. I have never found this to be possible. At best I actively think about not thinking which is counterproductive but even then within about 10 seconds my mind has already wandered. And if I’m not actively trying I’ll always have some other thoughts popping in no matter what

rndmio · 2 months ago

It might be because it wasn’t a technique as such. I don’t visualise not thinking, I just stop thinking about things, but I also don’t have a constant inner voice talking to/with me as I understand many people do.

rndmio commented on How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep massgeneralbrigham.org/en... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

jansan · 2 months ago

Only slightly related, but I often try to find ways to fall asleep faster. One thing that seems to work in some situations is trying to imagine a void (like a white or gray plane) for a while. However, often enough this does not work and I wonder if anyone knows of tricks that work for her/him (without using Melantonin or other drugs).

rndmio · 2 months ago

Sounds trite but my surefire method is to stop thinking. I literally lie down, close my eyes, and stop thinking. Sleep comes quickly.

rndmio commented on The "most hated" CSS feature: cos() and sin() css-tricks.com/the-most-h... · Posted by u/rapawel

Waterluvian · 3 months ago

Did you learn it as “sign on highway, cozy at home, tan on arm”? That’s basically the only high school math that stuck with me.

Oh and I guess negative b plus or minus b squared something something four a c over two a. I think there’s a square root to shove most of that into.

rndmio · 3 months ago

In the UK it was “Attack Henry Cooper, outside his shop, on a Tuesday” no idea why the random violence but I never forgot it

rndmio commented on Show HN: Penny-1.7B Irish Penny Journal style transfer huggingface.co/dleemiller... · Posted by u/deepsquirrelnet

ekianjo · 6 months ago

Nice work ! It still manage to use the word 'delve' in the first sentence, which is a giveaway that it's written by a LLM.

rndmio · 6 months ago

The repetition of adjectives in adjacent sentences is much more of a tell than using the word delve, imo.

rndmio commented on They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the future of mountaineering? nytimes.com/2025/05/27/wo... · Posted by u/nikcub

quotemstr · 7 months ago

Amazing and hilarious.

Genuine technological innovation in adaptation to low oxygen. Nay-sayers say it does nothing. Guys climb Everest in a week using said innovation. You can't argue with results, so they switch to:

"Himal Gautam, the director of Nepal’s tourism department, which is responsible for regulating expeditions on the nation’s mountains, said in an interview that using the gas was “against climbing ethics,” and that it would hurt the country’s tourism industry and the Sherpas who help climbers by reducing their time on the mountain."

and

"From a medical point of view, off-label use without a scientific basis and with unknown health risks must be rejected"

So it simultaneously does nothing and is unethical, and it doesn't matter whether it works anyway, because even if it did, it'd be against made-up "medical" rules.

I've never seen a stronger case for telling very serious people to go fuck themselves.

rndmio · 7 months ago

I don't know, maybe the 10 prior weeks of sleeping in hypoxic tents might have had some effect too. If they walked off the street, huffed some Xenon then blasted up Everest that'd be amazing, but it sounds like people are overfocusing on the Xenon bit.

rndmio commented on ChatGPT Is a Gimmick hedgehogreview.com/web-fe... · Posted by u/blueridge

Yiin · 7 months ago

I mean you answered yourself why it didn't work, if there is no useful data in its training corpus, it would be a miracle if it could correctly guess unknown information.

rndmio · 7 months ago

How are you supposed to know in advance if it is going to be able to usefully answer your question or will just make up something?

rndmio commented on The Future of Junior Software Engineering Roles adventuresincoding.substa... · Posted by u/pootietangus

Gud · 7 months ago

I disagree. I use LLMs to help me like a teacher would.

rndmio · 7 months ago

You might, just as ages ago when people were complaining about juniors c+ping stack overflow answers you might have said you used them to learn from. LLMs are a turbo charged version of the same problem, only now rather than copying a code fragment from stack overflow you can have an LLM spit out a working solution. There is no need to understand what you're doing to be productive, and if you don't understand it you have no model or reasoning to apply in the future to other problems, maybe AI will save you there too for a while, but eventually it won't and you'll find you've built your career on sand.

Or maybe I'm wrong and we're all headed for a future of being prompt engineers.

rndmio commented on The Future of Junior Software Engineering Roles adventuresincoding.substa... · Posted by u/pootietangus

MonkeyClub · 7 months ago

I train them for you, you train them for me, together we make a happy industry.

The juniors you train today someone will poach, surely, as you'll poach someone else's, and it levels out.

rndmio · 7 months ago

Training people is a cost, an investment, if everyone does it the cost is amortized across the industry. If I can cut that cost by using AI I'm now at a competitive advantage, everyone will look to cut that cost because the downside of paying for training juniors that may leave is worse for that company than the downside of the whole industry not training juniors any more.

rndmio commented on The Future of Junior Software Engineering Roles adventuresincoding.substa... · Posted by u/pootietangus

gloxkiqcza · 7 months ago

One more thing to add: AI enhances capabilities of everyone, including juniors. Juniors with LLMs can do more than juniors without them could and therefore their value proposition is greater than before.

rndmio · 7 months ago

But they don't learn from that, they turn the crank of the AI tooling and once they have something that works it goes in and they move on. I've seen this directly, you can't shortcut actual understanding.