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New comment by tdba in "The April Fools joke that might have got me fired"

tdba — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:06:38 +0000

HOw did you get my password ??? Delete. it immediately. This is your Final warning.

Warm regards,

The Unfinished Symphony: On the limits of AI in software engineering

tdba — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:19:24 +0000

Article URL: https://tomalcorn.substack.com/p/the-unfinished-symphony

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42985419

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tdba in "Introducing S2"

tdba — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:56:39 +0000

Is it possible to bring my own cloud account to provide the underlying S3 storage?

New comment by tdba in "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris"

tdba — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 04:59:06 +0000

They were under the thumb of the regime. They produced whatever the government told them to produce. They had a predetermined profit margin that the government dictated to them. German capitalists certainly fared relatively well, but their influence and prestige was greatly reduced compared to the past. Nonetheless they took that deal because the alternative was literally communism.

New comment by tdba in "Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel"

tdba — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:16:00 +0000

Very cool! I'm working on something similar but a little more wysiwyg and collaborative (think gdocs meets gsheets rather than word meets excel). Let me know if you want to chat - email in profile

New comment by tdba in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

tdba — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:26:25 +0000

A new kind of document editor which blends features of word processor and jupyter notebook. Email me (see bio) if you want to try it out.

New comment by tdba in "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)"

tdba — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 01:00:32 +0000

One study tried to replicate 100 psychology studies and only 36% attained significance.

https://osf.io/ezcuj/wiki/home/

Docs with Runnable Code Blocks

tdba — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:34:35 +0000

Article URL: https://project-falcon.replit.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41021071

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tdba in "The purge of German science in 1933"

tdba — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:41:00 +0000

> There are no well-established genetic predictors of IQ

Common misconception, sadly untrue. There are known genetic predictors of intelligence, they're just not simple genes that the layman can wrap his head around.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.104

New comment by tdba in "Ask HN: Most efficient way to fine-tune an LLM in 2024?"

tdba — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:43:46 +0000

What's your measure of performance?

Theres no one size fits all answer yet, but if you just want to test it out there are many commercial offerings on which you should be able to get some results for under $10k.

New comment by tdba in "Understanding Google's File System (2020)"

tdba — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 02:21:00 +0000

Link to any resources you consider valuable for learning about Colossus?

New comment by tdba in "Open source liability is coming"

tdba — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 19:29:10 +0000

Interestingly, something similar to your case 1 has actually happened and the text was banned with the justification that it contained fraudulent information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Schiff#Case_regarding_...

New comment by tdba in "Granting pardon for the offense of simple possession of or use of marijuana"

tdba — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 19:02:30 +0000

Unethical pardons on the last day in office is a Presidential tradition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich

New comment by tdba in "America's Peace Wave: Violent-crime rates have suddenly–mercifully–plummeted"

tdba — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 23:04:53 +0000

Related reading with a different conclusion: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/11/03/violent-crime-...

New comment by tdba in "How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth"

tdba — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:24:06 +0000

Fair, I was just stating the commonly accepted origin. Personally, I think the origin of orcs remaining shadowy and mysterious with numerous contradictory accounts is the best canon. After all, Morgoth works secretly to sow confusion and dissent.

New comment by tdba in "How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth"

tdba — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 02:40:46 +0000

Orcs are elves who were corrupted and mutilated by Morgoth, so hypothetically elves and orcs might have more shared biology. Hobbits are probably an offshoot or variant of men. Elves, dwarves and men all had separate "awakenings" so they don't have any shared ancestry at all. However, earlier races of men (and especially Numenoreans) were more similar to elves, being larger, wiser and having longer lifespans.

New comment by tdba in "How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth"

tdba — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 02:33:39 +0000

The reason Eldar children are rare is that elves progress through childhood and youth at the same rate as humans, then have an indefinite adulthood. So for an elf that lives say 2k years, they spend 1% of their life as a child.

New comment by tdba in "Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?"

tdba — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 01:42:06 +0000

Literally right into the waves, it got sucked out immediately.

New comment by tdba in "Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?"

tdba — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:34:10 +0000

I dropped my iphone 14 in the ocean. It was in there 2 days until it washed up onshore. A fisherman picked it up and it was still on and it had service. It was in lost mode so he was able to call my emergency contact and I got it back. Aside from minor scratches on the screen it has no damage and works perfectly. That experience taught me that Apple takes reliability extremely seriously, even if they dont care about repairability. I dont know if they could have made a phone this bulletproof while also making it repairable. I do believe it is a good thing for people to be able to repair stuff they own, but there is a tradeoff.

New comment by tdba in "Launch HN: Stralis (YC W23) – Hydrogen electric aircraft for medium-haul travel"

tdba — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:53:37 +0000

Congrats on the launch! Awesome to see a Brissy based YC startup!