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New comment by otikik in "Don't classify, hallucinate"

otikik — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:20:38 +0000

I was thinking more along the lines of using text search [1] [2]

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch-intro.htm...

[2] https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter

New comment by otikik in "Don't classify, hallucinate"

otikik — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:16:25 +0000

I don't know the exact syntax any more, but I expect this could be solved by a single sql query that uses "inexact but close" queries and a bunch of indexes (and perhaps tags) on each category.

New comment by otikik in "Don't use your phone while you poop"

otikik — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:04:28 +0000

I read about ancient greek mithology

New comment by otikik in "Don't use your phone while you poop"

otikik — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:57:34 +0000

You underestimate the amount of time I spend pooping.

New comment by otikik in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

otikik — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:19:03 +0000

Wow. Well those people are going to be scammed. A LOT

New comment by otikik in "Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others"

otikik — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:08:17 +0000

My country, Spain, is famous for its beaches. Everyone native leaves the beach in the middle of the day and returns after lunch/siesta, when the rays are less intense.

Tourists stay and get burn to a crisp

New comment by otikik in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

otikik — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:58:47 +0000

The turntables do their thing.

New comment by otikik in "Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb"

otikik — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:50:32 +0000

But all of the other words begin with the letter they represent. Plex ends with it. It sticks out quite a lot.

One could make "Pit" be "t", with that logic.

New comment by otikik in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

otikik — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:47:15 +0000

Wasn't the point of the Ship of Theseus precisely that establishing wether something is or isn't something else is at least complicated? Using it right after saying "X is still Y" kind of seems to make the opposite point.

New comment by otikik in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

otikik — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:04:36 +0000

Ah! Like Pgp

New comment by otikik in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

otikik — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:40:16 +0000

Stop buying LG

New comment by otikik in "Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb"

otikik — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:31:29 +0000

“Plex” ?

New comment by otikik in "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making"

otikik — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:11:36 +0000

> which hobbies do you pursue in the best case it frees you and everyone around to pursuit nothing but hobbies?

I could absolutely fill my days with stuff, no problem

New comment by otikik in "If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe"

otikik — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:13:36 +0000

If you wish to make a button from scratch

New comment by otikik in "The real prices of frontier models"

otikik — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:53:38 +0000

It’s better for them

New comment by otikik in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

otikik — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:09:31 +0000

I'm not going to do the whole split here. If you want, watch the video. If you don't want to, just take my word for it that there's plenty of leftovers besides the tortillas.

New comment by otikik in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"

otikik — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:07:59 +0000

Spiderman: Liberal

Norman Osborn: Conservative

Norman Osborn's gardener: Also conservative, because he knows no better.

New comment by otikik in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"

otikik — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:55:09 +0000

- And remember, Peter, with great power comes great responsibility

- No. It sucks for you. Sorry but that's life

(Uncle Ben dies sad)

New comment by otikik in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"

otikik — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:38:07 +0000

“Rich”

New comment by otikik in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

otikik — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:04:39 +0000

You are a programmer? You understand that different firmwares and operative systems work in different ways and excel at different things?

For the record I do like reading. I just don't like all the reading. I tried learning rust by reading the book. Ugh. Horrible for me. Much better experience working on a project of my own. I saw that for some people it worked. Good for them. It didn't for me, and I had to find a different path. I learn by tinkering. Others might learn by copying, or by drawing boxes and arrows. Who am I to judge their firmware?

This is not a bad thing. That's good! Variety in ways of thinking is one of humanity's strengths.

If you find someone who is good at programming but doesn't like reading, try to find out how. You might be able to learn some of their abilities that complement yours.