curiosity42 | 7 days ago | on: Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
Am I hopeless if LinkedIn Speak made me truly (as in how I can properly categorize people from the past) understand the meaning of 'Circle Jerk"....
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curiosity42 | 11 days ago | on: Why do they want to get rid of software engineers?
Short sentences. And construction in 3's. Not because......, not because...., but....because. or - It's this....., It's that.....And.......
curiosity42 | 22 days ago | on: AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
I am not as good as many here to immediately catch a piece written by LLMs. But what I have found is that reading some pieces has become very 'tiresome' (the best way I can describe). Just too many words. LLMs are not ADHD friendly :(
curiosity42 | 1 month ago | on: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
If I were to get the fiercely libertarian community to ask for regulations against 'unregulated agents', this is probably what I would do.
curiosity42 | 1 month ago | on: The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
One thing that has helped me immensely, given that everything that is typed has an agenda (don't worry, I am an anonymous no body, from whom even thinking of having a agenda will be nothing short of fake-puffery), is that:
1. Analyze the written word no it's own merit, regardless of who has written it
2. Look at who has written it and all the agendas that might have been wrapped into it
3. Apply a discount or multiplier, given your own world view.
Else, a lot of good thought gets thrown out (again, at least for me).
curiosity42 | 3 months ago | on: IBM to acquire Confluent
The only way (95%+) companies selling to enterprises survive are if they get bought by a bigger platform and the sales force of the bigger platform just has to sell an extra line item. If you want to make money, track companies that have sales and marketing expenses same order / same / higher than revenue and then create a synthetic index of these companies (they need to have sold something like $1BN in license in aggregate over time - maintenance stream and you confirm that the pig can be sold somehow) . most will be eventually sold at a premium to their traded price.
curiosity42 | 5 months ago | on: Live Stream from the Namib Desert
Closest to a religious experience I could have had. Thanks!
curiosity42 | 7 months ago | on: Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
Absolutely wild this came up today. Just last night I was fiddling with my kids 'magnetic ball board', bought at SF MoMA, and thinking that it could be turned into a cool display by loading a small magnet on the 3-d printer gantry.
curiosity42 | 10 months ago | on: India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
Most likely Drop Tanks getting confused as downed aircrafts.
curiosity42 | 10 months ago | on: Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches
My son just past 11, coded his first game when he was 9 (Snake) and then coded pac-man when he was 10. He is privileged enough to have all sorts of gadgets. But one thing he has on his wrists ALL the time is a cheap Casio watch we bought in Japan a couple of years ago. This watch has out-competed an Apple Watch and a cheap Android watch (with 4 G and dual-camera setup). Go figure!
curiosity42 | 5 years ago | on: India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners and traders
This.
Anyone arguing for globalization should support free movement of goods, services and PEOPLE. Otherwise, one is just attempting to distort the system to their advantage.
Unless you are for free movement of people as well, you can't honestly argue for application of monetary policies of the developed economies to the developing economies.
curiosity42 | 5 years ago | on: India, Jio, and the Four Internets
Jio also tried to sue Ookla for publishing results showing Airtel to be the fastest 4G network in India.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/court-dis...
While Jio truly made cellular Internet available to 100's of millions of Indians, most post-paid (the profitable segment) customers are still with Airtel and to a lesser extent Vodafone (this one is a mystery). And Jio is again complaining to regulatory authorities that offering better plans to post-paid customers will harm all other customers (can't make this stuff up!). https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedstatesofindia/comments/huf1ec...
'The Ken' article, referenced in this Reddit thread, which is unfortunately behind the paywall, is very deep.
curiosity42 | 5 years ago | on: The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a naturally evolved virus [pdf]
If I were to make a great bio weapon that would do the maximum damage, I will have these attributes:
1. Spread it easily;
2. Don't kill the ones who spread it most easily (the young);
3. Be lethal enough to overwhelm the system.
And so I have the Covid-19.
Of course it is all post-fact analysis. but it also answers your question of why would an experiment make a less sever virus in the first place - to address the biggest problem of an infectious agent as a bioweapon, i.e. a virulent virus ends up killing too many too fast to be highly infective and 'effective'.
curiosity42 | 5 years ago | on: Mallards ferry fish eggs between waterbodies
Oh, thank you!
I am now past my middle age, but I so remember as if it were yesterday, the day when I was not more than 7 years old. A completely isolated small puddle of water, all that remained after few days rain and then Sunshine. I stepped on it, creating small waves and a couple of fish emerged writhing on to the dry surface. No one could answer how they came about. All my 7 year brain could think of then was some bird must have dropped them by accident. And now I have the answer!
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