JeremyNT

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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
> And every time some points all of this out, they are "denier", "left behind" and all the other everything-ai fanatics can come up with. As for the imminent crash - I'm all for it. There's a whole generati
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
The way I did it, I've got a convention where I store git checkouts in a specific directory on my laptop. I use the repo name as an argument and the wrapper script creates / shells into the per-project VM. It uses cloud-init for t
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
> A fascinating dichotomy has become apparent between those who trust LLM output and those who don’t and don’t understand why you would. I feel like the most pragmatic perspective is "trust but verify." This is why they'
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
I keep seeing these conceptual complaints about OpenCode but it's unreasonably effective, so it's difficult to justify any time spent in changing to something else. It hardly matters that it's vibe coded and ugly if it works
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
Yep, it's really only an option for a dedicated gaming PC (or a VM with the the GPU passed into it).
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
Doing a loop and having the model review its own earlier output tends to solve this stuff, and for code requiring good test coverage catches them before they even hit that phase. So while you can't remove "hallucinations" the
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
This is the right idea IMO but I don't want to trust a third party tool for it either (no offense OP!). Ever since I started running coding agents with shell access I've jailed them inside of VMs. Since I run Linux I can just use
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
I guess the downside of the lower barrier to entry to use these tools is the lack of basic understanding of exactly this sort of concept. This sort of thing is why I'm hopeful I'll continue to have employment going forward. Some e
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
"I'm not political" or "don't make it political" type posts on Musk-related topics are often signs that somebody agrees with the worldview that Musk espouses. I used to think the HN policy of "do not discu
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
> The main issue with ibuprofen is that it can have fairly annoying (but non-life-threatening) side effects like stomach upset and GI bleeds even with normal dosing. Those side effects are more problematic when used chronically. This i
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
> You can say it's inconvenient but it's hard to argue they're being greedy when they do these things to merely lose a little bit less money on every subscription they sell. TFA is probably overly inflammatory but it&#x2
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
> 2 months ago management was showing us scoreboards, praising leaders who used most tokens. Last few weeks, we're getting weekly emails, telling us that whenever we can - we should use cheaper models, and that we should watch the
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
Android is going to bifurcate between "phones that run proprietary apps from the play store" and "phones that run software from anywhere else." And while maybe you can get by without banking apps, your life is going to g
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
> I agree with you, but every non-engineer I know using these tools 100% will drag and drop a PDF into a chatbot I'm an engineer and use my coding agent to deal with PDFs all the time. It can reach for unix tools if it needs them.
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
We're moving to a world where it makes sense to have one cheap locked down phone with the society mandated garbage apps on it, and another device that you use for real computing.
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
> I think the zeitgeist today is different. Because Trump has dialed the crazy up to eleven in his second term and a lot of Dems are now pissed. That’s why democratic socialism/leftism is having a resurgence. And, based on what I’m
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
> They can't pick and choose "oh no they are in jurisdiction of law A but not in law B". Jurisdiction is a fundamental concept, there's no middle ground. I mean, they shouldn't do this but clearly they can
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
I also don't understand why people in this price bracket are buying Mac laptops instead of desktop computers with GPUs? Just to flex that it's portable?
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
> Maybe I'm not paying close enough attention (probably) - but I feel that China is providing a glimmer of hope that this (only the uber elite can get good AI assistance) isn't true, and we're maybe at a weird inflection
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
> I felt like it was about 10X better at "pretty" but straightforward 1 shot'ish type tasks. Not so different for complex and specific tasks in real code-bases. What metric are you using for "better" here? If I
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by JeremyNT 3mo ago
More accurate to call it a mercenary army. These people presumably collected paychecks and benefits the whole time.
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by JeremyNT 4mo ago
Still not quite exactly following Carmack's suggestion here... is he saying on that last point that the problems with designers/artists were due to Sandy's mistakes (i.e. not a genuine apologetic "sorry" but a &quot
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by JeremyNT 4mo ago
Sandy's original post to which John was replying: https://xcancel.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/206959220964578529...
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by JeremyNT 4mo ago
The rest of the context leading up to "Sorry, Sandy" has me a little confused, can anybody who knows more explain this bit? > One real problem that I don’t accept the blame for is that we were insisting that level designers be
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by JeremyNT 4mo ago
I think there's a reasonable case to make that 9/11 broke American politics in a fundamental way, by fully unlocking and granting a permission structure for politicians to reach for nativism and xenophobia to justify basically eve
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by JeremyNT 4mo ago
> Can they not manage to open a dollar-backed account somewhere? If you want to do financial crimes and fraud, you can't (or at least, shouldn't) really do this. Unspoken by the parent poster is that in practice these people
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by JeremyNT 4mo ago
> Exactly. Cryptocurrency is useful as as a backup system against failing/weak institutions. Just that. Like insurance, it was not there to make anyone's lives better but simply to become a safeguard to avoid complete collapse
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by JeremyNT 4mo ago
Yeah for me the coding inflection point was relatively recently (GPT 5.3 perhaps). There's just a threshold they have to hit to be consistent enough to avoid having to redo work and only the later models started delivering it. This c
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by JeremyNT 4mo ago
Link: https://xcancel.com/ezraklein/status/2068479476309151771
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by JeremyNT 4mo ago
You can sprawl further out and you can build infill in sparsely populated areas, but you run up against the reality that desirable areas are going to be expensive because they're desirable, and the cost of demolishing existing multifam

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