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Re:Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:28PM (#50445855)
Impressive, but I'm afraid to say, Thunder Kick is OP, especially when combined with dash. I'm able to stun-lock most enemies and clear levels without relying on any combos. So much for feeling the AGI!
Re:AI-powered communication coach on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @03:30AM (#33092377)
I can’t imagine many companies would allow this to be installed on company hardware.
Re:Failing Intro Economics on Monday October 03, 2022 @08:38AM (#33066641)
Funny enough, the source[0] that uses this formatting also points out the quote is a fabrication.

[0]: https://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html

He’s a troll, this isn’t news
Re:Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:46PM (#31053835)
I’m relieved to see the comments here are not as pro “blindly trust the government” as The Guardian is.
There’s something deeply unsettling to me about art like this, as if one of the hidden layers is “colonoscopy”
Re:Why I didn’t apologize for that Yale Law School email on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @06:57PM (#29007458)
I mean this sincerely, do public apologies ever help in situations like this? Anecdotally, I always seem to see them backfire as insincere or insufficient.
Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:16PM (#28631244)
I would love to see the tech support tickets filed at the less technologically inclined agencies after network level ad blocking is launched
Re:Ask HN: How do I get fit and healthy as a software engineer? on Friday September 17, 2021 @02:40AM (#28562017)
What makes a huge difference for me is having a progression plan and tracking my progress. With both running and lifting, it’s easy to set short term and long term goals and see yourself reach them week after week. That helps with building the habit, and the habit is all you need.
Re:Norm Macdonald has died on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:37PM (#28529915)
He was so well read, but played the "dumb guy" so well: https://youtu.be/ob3yBb2E-uM
Re:Norm Macdonald has died on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:29PM (#28529805)
Agree with this and the following FTA: 'Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly.”'
Not Gibson, but Snow Crash comes to mind
Re:Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @01:19PM (#28224354)
>FOUR MONTH interview process

Yeah, that’s Google

I think this is due to the self-reported nature of Glassdoor, and it exposes how this is a flawed methodology. The original point of salary disparity still stands, but any single datapoint here is likely not reliable.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? on Thursday April 15, 2021 @08:03PM (#26827696)
This is my experience, either the recruiter will want to pay you directly, thus the company can avoid its own HR red-tape, or their deal with the recruiter is deliberately hidden from you, but you still join FTE. Of course, there's a million different ways to do this, but an organization like Triplebyte is upfront about taking 30% of your salary for two years.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:18PM (#26827375)
This is a great tip. Earlier in my career I was stuck at a mid-point where I didn't have quite enough experience to get hired by a household-name tech company, and working with third-party recruiters made finding a job easy. Knowing what I know now, I never would have even made it past screening at a lot of companies. They will take a cut of your salary, but they'll also work hard to sell you, as that's the only way they get paid. You are to them what a house is to a realtor, and the market is hot right now.
Modern electric cars don’t even have gears. I drive a manual because I enjoy it but I know I’m doing so anachronistically.
In the video, the engineer says that they expect the whale to be vaporized
Re:Books That Will Make You Smarter on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:26PM (#24225866)
After you read every book on the list, do you gain the ability to make your own Amazon affiliate marketing blog?
Re:Learn from Anyone on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:23PM (#23872216)
I tried the example prompt and I got a copypasta filled with racial slurs. Is this like the tay.ai situation where user input is being added to training data?
Re:The Polymath Playbook on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:26AM (#23809552)
I swear Heinlein reuses this in Stranger in a Strangeland. Maybe he was an anti-specialization specialist.
In regression and curve fitting, you can add additional, often spurious parameters, and get a closer fit. A better fit does not mean you have a better model, it usually means the opposite, that you've overfitted the model, and that it's completely useless for forecasting and predictive purposes. This is why in machine learning, researchers are careful to separate training and testing data. This is just physicists roasting each other over the same issue.
Re:Why can't I sign in with Facebook anymore? on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:53PM (#23411455)
Where I work, we almost pulled Facebook sign in for the same reason. I'm currently heading the Sign In with Apple integration project, and it was a godsend to get that deadline extended
Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:03PM (#23181147)
I've fixed this issue at a large company, and it was not intentional, but poorly written regex
Re:A week with Hy on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:42PM (#20647893)
The only real advantage I saw in the article is the addition of macros
Worth noting that the IRS will not call without having sent a letter first
Have you been able to put any of these techniques into practice? It's been a few years since I tried reading it, but I wasn't able to push through the fluff to make it to the practical advice.
Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:50PM (#13222706)
The part that confused me is when they claim to have obtained MethBot source code, but never mention how.
Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:45PM (#13222658)
Advertisers already do this, but part of the report claims that Methbot spoofs common domains. They provide a sample here: http://www.whiteops.com/methbot/domains.txt