AaronAPU

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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I don’t think the motivation for pruning digital archives has anything to do with sheer size in bytes (although it can still be a consideration). It’s more about increasing the signal to noise ratio along the axis of perceived value.
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The only requirement which seems reasonable to me, is that the address be unique. Since the allocation size is zero, it should never be accessed for read or write, but the address itself may need to be used for comparisons. If you’re pointi
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I think both sides can agree, the other side is stupid and evil.
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I don’t have nearly a luxurious enough life for that to be a blip on my radar of concerns.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
Things like inferring the meaning of “people parsing” when it isn’t explicitly defined but can be implied by context. Not strict rational A+B=C, nuance.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
IMO 4o is much better at people-parsing. The reasoning models o1-pro / o3-pro are really good at writing code and solving algorithmic problems.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I feed most of my questions/code to 4o, Gemini, o3-pro (in that order). By the time I’ve read through 4o, Gemini is ready. Etc. It’s the progressive jpg download of 2025. You can short circuit after the first model which gives a good e
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
yeah I had serious gut problems for years and no probiotic ever did the slightest thing. Anecdotally I can’t differentiate them from snake oil. But Metamucil changed my life dramatically over a span of a few weeks. Never had the type of sym
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
The other day I used Google to research something I didn’t know the answer to. It gave back a slightly reformatted piece of text which had been directly stolen from my own blog post. So not only did it steal my traffic, it elevated my rando
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I find o1-pro, which nobody ever mentions, is in the top spot along with Gemini. But Gemini is an absolute mess to work with because it constantly adds tons of comments and changes unrelated code. It is worth it sometimes, but usually I use
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
We once went through the effort to use jemalloc for workloads which were highly optimized particularly for NUMA. Incredibly, it had absolutely zero performance improvement. I’ve always wondered how that was possible. Spent a fair bit of tim
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I think this might have been the first post I actually upvoted. I do upvote comments often, but this post itself is actually .. about hacking!
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I think if you are a self directed learner in general, who is drawn toward learning, it will magnify that tendency and lower the activation energy required to bootstrap new domains of knowledge. But if you don’t like learning, and only do i
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
Semantic Bayesian hyper-graphs where each of the percepts have strong correlation between each other. I’d argue you could bind them tighter by giving the corners strong relationships to each other as well. We find these sorts of dense corre
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
Many people have high blood pressure in spite of being in the top percentage of health and fitness. It gets tiring seeing people blame it on lack of exercise. Genetics is a thing.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
Just released a “Loudness Contour” audio plugin. Let’s you apply various equal-loudness contours like Fletcher-Munson, ISO-226, LUFS style K-weighting, etc. Fits into my “loudness series” suite of tools. Have 3 more in development and then
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
One of the best decisions I made as a solo founder was putting a note on product pages to contact me to request a loyalty discount for existing customers. I get emails on a daily basis and people take that moment to give positive feedback,
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I’m enjoying the ride so far. I’m not working on AI, but working with AI. The leverage feels dramatic for a solo founder in my shoes. I think it’s all the cross-domain context switching. Gemini 2.5 Pro for academic type research, ChatGPT 4o
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I don’t know, but I’ve made a specific effort not to rock climb because I felt it may cause long term hand related injuries which could impact my ability to work. Not even sure how well founded that fear is, but I would otherwise love to do
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
Have you ever considered you might be an LLM?
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I can’t be the only one who hopes this was a joke.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
The 6502 programmer in me is dying inside that 278kb now passes as lightweight.
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
The thing about all these arguments is they all apply to humans. We are all an opaque mess of conflicts of interests, inconsistencies and bias. Not sure if people aren’t thinking that through or if they’re vastly overestimating the trustwor
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I often ask myself, if not crypto what other things would those same people be ruining?
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
The meaningful gesture isn’t clicking a button and pressing send. The meaningful gesture is taking time out of your day where you are focused and authentically thinking about the person and expressing those positive thoughts as they come wi
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
Every time I see a post about something built with vibe coding, it reminds me of myself at age 12 making a really basic screensaver in GWBASIC. All the excitement I felt because it was new to me, but it was really just a very basic toy not
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
Glad I’m not the only audio developer around here. The landing page needs an immediate audio visual demo. Not an embedded YouTube but a videojs or similar. Low friction get the information of what it sounds and feels like immediately. My 2
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Codecs
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The routines were individually benchmarked using some custom tools (iterate repeatedly and use statistical analysis to converge on an estimate). Always compared against a plain C reference implementation. Then there was a system for benchma
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by AaronAPU 1y ago
I spent 10 years straight doing C++ and assembly optimization. My work is still fun these days but that was probably the most enjoyable work of my career in terms of the actual day to day coding. Code cleanup in general is the same for me,

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