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tomca32 commented on The One-Person Framework in Practice link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/... · Posted by u/frans

connectsnk · 4 months ago

Is there any other framework which can claim that it compares well to Ruby on Rails speed of development? I.e. conventions over configurations? Asking as I don’t want to learn ruby

tomca32 · 4 months ago

I’ve been asking this question for a while since I love Rails but I don’t like Ruby that much. I think only Django comes close, although I haven’t tried it, but I dislike Python much more than Ruby.

There are always attempts in every language to replicate the convention over configuration and batteries included approach of Rails, but they all lose steam pretty quickly.

I just don’t think there is an alternative to Rails. It’s a giant project that is actively developed for over 2 decades now.

tomca32 commented on One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch npr.org/2024/12/22/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

bdangubic · 8 months ago

I moved to the US in 1992, also from the Balkans. America has an entirely different way of life. I have been "best man" at 5 weddings and have christened 11 kids. I hardly see any of them. Everyone is "busy" running around, work work work, then errands etc etc... in most of Europe this would be unheard of, there is higher value placed on social aspects of life. Hence the myriad of studies and stories and... about general loneliness in America (these studies often include people that are married and have children).

Another personal example - my sister is highly educated, has two PhD and I consider her the smartest person I know. Years ago we were discussing something and I mentioned that one of my dear friends is seeing a psychiatrist. My sister scoffed... And I was taken aback to say the least. How can someone that smart and that educated dismiss someone who is basically a Doctor and spent years educating themselves in this field. After talking through it I realized that if you have robust social life, myriad of friends, different friends to talk to about different things (as well as family) you just might not need a psychiatrist to talk to... Just an entirely different kind of life/existence...

tomca32 · 8 months ago

Yup. All of this sounds eerily familiar.

Well, if you’re ever in Arizona, let’s grab a coffee and talk about the old country.

tomca32 commented on One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch npr.org/2024/12/22/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

numpy-thagoras · 8 months ago

I live in the PNW, but come from Croatia. When I went back after a long time away (about 7 years) and having grown up, I observed something with complete disbelief:

My friends from there, would go to their friends' ice cream parlour, grab some coffees and a beer at 8 PM. For the next four hours, they would do nothing but tell funny stories and laugh until they couldn't laugh any more. These guys literally spent 4 hours laughing together.

They did this the next day, and the next, and many more until I had to reluctantly go back to the airport and fly back to the PNW.

Nothing even remotely like this has happened since last going back. Every time I think back to it, it seems like some impossible other reality.

tomca32 · 8 months ago

This is what I miss the most. I moved to the US 12 years ago, also from Croatia, and while I have friends here, the lifestyle there is just conducive to spending time hanging out with people.

It's really like a different reality.

Coffee before work? Sure thing. Another coffee after work? Absolutely. Drinks in the evening? Definitely.

The thought of not seeing your friends for a month or longer is just absurd over there. If you don't see them regularly they're not your friends. The whole culture is built around spending time with people, and I only realized that after I left.

I enjoy living in the US, but man, I do miss having such a social life.

tomca32 commented on Rabbit R1 It's a Scam paulogpd.bearblog.dev/en-... · Posted by u/mtgr18977

supermatt · a year ago

So it will allow you to create your own scripts!

Regarding its “learning” - it is still a model that needs data. The best you can expect is it will take actual UI sessions (as in users interacting with the website) for specific tasks to build its scripts, and as with any current “large” model it’s not going to update in realtime based on user input alone.

tomca32 · a year ago

Sure but that’s all in the future. All of the selling points of this device are in future tense. The “model” does not seem to exist, but it’s being “worked on”. Their client app was taken apart and there is nothing interesting there. Their servers were hacked into, and made to run Doom which is funny, and there is no trace of any AI model there.

One of their former engineers gave a statement that LAM is just a marketing term and nothing like that exists.

If all the selling points are in future tense at what point can we call it a scam?

Edit: also the founder’s previous gig was a crypto scam that also promised AI on the blockchain

tomca32 commented on Rabbit R1 It's a Scam paulogpd.bearblog.dev/en-... · Posted by u/mtgr18977

supermatt · a year ago

Where have they said that a UI change wouldn’t matter? It is faster than chatGPTs voice chat.

tomca32 · a year ago

Can't find the interview now, but I remember watching it and yes they specifically said that because it is an AI, rather than just an automation script, it is intelligent and will not be thrown off by site redesigns or CAPTCHAs (they have later said that they won't handle CAPTCHAs also).

Turns out that it is just an automation script and it cannot deal with site redesigns or CAPTCHAs.

Edit, just found they have made this claim also which simply doesn't exist at all:

> The R1 also has a dedicated training mode, which you can use to teach the device how to do something, and it will supposedly be able to repeat the action on its own going forward. Lyu gives an example: “You’ll be like, ‘Hey, first of all, go to a software called Photoshop. Open it. Grab your photos here. Make a lasso on the watermark and click click click click. This is how you remove watermark.’” It takes 30 seconds for Rabbit OS to process, Lyu says, and then it can automatically remove all your watermarks going forward.

tomca32 commented on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died seattletimes.com/business... · Posted by u/Freedom2

bioneuralnet · a year ago

My first thought is "WTF!" But my second is this: every single person who's ever criticized Boeing is going to die (eventually). With so many people in a position to notice and speak out about Boeing's issues, it isn't terribly surprising that a few deaths have occurred.

Combine that with one headline-grabbing (apparent) suicide during a deposition, and we're now all primed to notice these deaths and attribute intent.

tomca32 · a year ago

well yeah but the previous whistleblower committed suicide after literally telling his family "If anything happens to me it's not suicide".

A month later another whistleblower who was in good health dies suddenly and unexpectedly.

I don't think it's surprising to think that this combination of events is extremely unlikely.

tomca32 commented on Ask HN: What older games are you playing through? · Posted by u/agent008t

tomca32 · a year ago

Lords of midnight and its sequel Doomdark’s revenge. I still think its one of the best strategy games ever made and it was released 40 years ago on the ZX Spectrum.

You can get the modern version for free at https://www.icemark.com

There is also a multiplayer version playable in the browser at https://www.midnightmu.com/games_home.php

tomca32 commented on The language you speak changes your perception of time popsci.com/language-time-... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

ketralnis · a year ago

John McWhorter has a book about this called The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language in which he's extremely skeptical of Sapir-Worf, particularly the sort of stoner linguistics "what if we're all, like, made of language maaaaaan" as it's usually described in what seems to be the biannual Popular Science article.

In fact, time perceived as volumetric rather than as a length is the specific example he uses and includes the actual research. There are extremely specific cases like this where it does in fact hold up but the effect is extremely minute, to the point that it's difficult to even measure properly. In most cases it doesn't hold up at all. But these very tiny barely measurable cases are often used as evidence for frankly nonsense claims so it's important not to extrapolate this to "Japanese blue and green are the same word so Japanese people must be colourblind", which is where people often take this.

tomca32 · a year ago

Thanks for this. It looks like a great read. As an immigrant I was always mildly annoyed by this idea.

Like, yes, my language has a ton of words for all possible familial relationships, for example different words for maternal and paternal uncle, but that’s because familial relationships are important in my culture and that’s reflected in the language.

Language is the reflection of culture, not the other way around

tomca32 commented on JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry theregister.com/2024/02/0... · Posted by u/cannibalXxx

Aurornis · 2 years ago

I had to scroll halfway through the article to get to the real details:

> "Although the AI Assistant plugin is bundled, and the plugin itself is enabled, there is no AI functionality enabled by default, and no data is sent off-machine without your consent," said Ellis, echoing similar replies posted to some of the discussion threads. "You have to log in, accept the data policies and either purchase a subscription or start a trial."

> There is no AI functionality enabled by default, and no data is sent off-machine without your consent

> "Any data sent to the AI service is not used for training.

So many (maybe most) of the comments on HN don’t reflect the actual situation:

- AI is not enabled by default

- Code is not ingested for training purposes

- You have to either sign up for a trial or purchase a subscription

- You would have to explicitly accept the data policy to even begin using it

So the real complaint of these people is that the plugin simply exists by default, which apparently is enough to get the product banned from certain companies.

All of the comments speculating about it collecting your code for their training purposes or doing 3rd party AI things without your consent, or being enabled without any warning are easily disproven by a quick read of the article. It’s getting hard to read HN comments about anything AI related with all of these comments substituting their own assumptions and assuming the worst case scenario without any effort to read the article.

tomca32 · 2 years ago

You’re right but also keep in mind that company policies are often made without much thought. I can totally see a BigCorp making a policy that no AI clients are to be installed on their machines, regardless if the functionality is turned off

tomca32 commented on Against learning from dramatic events astralcodexten.com/p/agai... · Posted by u/feross

elicksaur · 2 years ago

737 Max 9s are currently grounded due to a single incident; should the FAA have waited for a second door to blow off?

Reading that myself, it sounds like a gotcha question, but under this entirely arbitrary 2-but-not-1 threshold, the answer seems like it should obviously be yes.

The rational framework the author is advocating for is all about probabilities and percentages, so it seems like a weird exception to carve out that there’s some hard line between 1 and 2 event occurrences. I doubt he would hold fast to it if pressed, which is fine.

tomca32 · 2 years ago

It’s quite different. The incident with the door heavily implies a problem of airplane design. It makes sense to ground it.

What we knew at the time of the first crash of max 8 seemed to imply a pilot error. It wasn’t statistically significant. Only when another max 8 crashed soon after (I think soon enough to say “in a row”) was the max 8 grounded. If the second crash occured years after it wouldnt be significant.