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New comment by totoglazer in "Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor"

totoglazer — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:48:57 +0000

A) very cool to learn about that term.

B) that page must be ChatGPT authored, right?

New comment by totoglazer in "Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs?"

totoglazer — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 22:29:27 +0000

Found it to be a really unpleasant experience using Airalo in Europe on an iPhone. Maybe user error, but everyone in our group had confusing issues. Lots of problems with the phone forgetting the home number meant it was hard to get messages with iMessage, and no SMS caused a big mess with local businesses and with 2 factor/fraud detection. No phone number was also an issue a few times. I don’t know what we did wrong, but it was really frustrating.

New comment by totoglazer in "Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin"

totoglazer — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:02:00 +0000

I don’t think it’s budget, i think it’s about the churn. They want an assembly line of blockbusters at a predictable cadence. If you need a good plot it adds a lot of uncertainty into which script, how long it will take to write, etc. much easier to just take whatever the best thing laying around on the deadline day and keep moving forward.

New comment by totoglazer in "AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level"

totoglazer — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:47:35 +0000

What’s the story with that bot? Always thought it was cool. Was that all smoke and mirrors?

New comment by totoglazer in "The Era of the Autodidact Is Here (2018)"

totoglazer — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 14:30:10 +0000

[2018]

New comment by totoglazer in "Evolution of the Double Edge Blade (1990)"

totoglazer — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 04:39:22 +0000

I used them some for a month, and off and on since. I had high hopes, but find the shave worse quality, more difficult, and nicked myself some. Went back to Gillette.

New comment by totoglazer in "The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I"

totoglazer — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:21:06 +0000

That energy is still being consumed if it’s happening on device. It’s just more spread out, and potentially less efficient.

New comment by totoglazer in "Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling"

totoglazer — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:51:57 +0000

It’s common in boating, for sure!

New comment by totoglazer in "Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality"

totoglazer — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:39:08 +0000

Note this paper was published in September 2023.

New comment by totoglazer in "Mypy 1.6"

totoglazer — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:29:36 +0000

The continued growth and maturity of typing and LLMs like GitHub copilot finally make IDEs powerful for python. Excited about the future of the language.

New comment by totoglazer in "MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context"

totoglazer — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 02:37:12 +0000

Not to denigrate the person you’re responding to, but to add some context: That paper got a decent amount of attention already. Probably one of the more notable in the literature over the last month. Plus compared to the past year everything is slow now.

New comment by totoglazer in "I helped select the Nobel laureates in physics"

totoglazer — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 02:05:48 +0000

Although it sounds like that’s just a ratification of an already selected winner.

New comment by totoglazer in "How were the signs for logical and arithmetic operators decided?"

totoglazer — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 22:27:32 +0000

Also for ampersand! https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2520...

New comment by totoglazer in "CT scans of coffee-making equipment"

totoglazer — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:06:21 +0000

Such a cool idea, and attractive images. However I’m kind of disappointed they mostly picked things that are fairly simple, transparent or openable, and look exactly the way you’d expect them to inside. I assume some combination of cost & size drove this.

A vintage espresso machine with 1 group head would be more novel, for example.

New comment by totoglazer in "Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules"

totoglazer — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 01:18:41 +0000

CUDA is the basis for the entire “AI revolution.” Their entire stock price now is from the extreme demand for A100/H100 to power AI and other supercomputing needs. That’s possible because the software stack (CUDA drivers, etc) are incredibly powerful at turning the silicon into value. AMD also has ok hardware, but almost no adoption due to software. If they give up the software the huge advantage they have will erode.

New comment by totoglazer in "Modern CSV version 2"

totoglazer — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 03:19:34 +0000

~$1000 USD based on the quoted Whatsburger/USD cross rate.

New comment by totoglazer in "PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading"

totoglazer — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 17:01:57 +0000

Preview.app is surprisingly good at a lot of this. Someone should clone it for Linux/Windows.

New comment by totoglazer in "A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves"

totoglazer — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:36:38 +0000

No way. Half goes to overhead. 600k/4 people/4years = 38k/person/year.

New comment by totoglazer in "“How is your thesis going?” Students’ perspectives on mental health and stress"

totoglazer — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 02:52:20 +0000

Exactly. The cynical view: If you were any good you wouldn’t need the master’s degree. If you were good and wanted to learn more you’d do a PhD. But you didn’t learn what you were supposed to in undergrad, or could not get/do a job, or need a visa. So you paid a bunch of money to some school that wouldn’t let you into undergrad or a PhD, but will take your cash for a full fare professional masters degree mill. I’ve seen this in industry and in academia.

New comment by totoglazer in "“How is your thesis going?” Students’ perspectives on mental health and stress"

totoglazer — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:23:03 +0000

Isn’t this a pretty universally held opinion?