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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Am I the only one not that impressed with Deepseek R1? Its "thinking" seems full of the usual LLM blindsides, and ultimately generating more of it then summarizing doesn't seem to overcome any real limits. It's like maki
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Yeah, but it clearly breaks down the spelling correctly in it's reasoning, e.g. a letter per line. So it gets past the tokenization barrier, but still gets hopelessly confused.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
One enraging thing, if some guy on GitHub can do this, why the F** can't billion-dollar search giants put in a little human effort to do it too, right in their search engines? SEO spam and AI slop are easily spotted on the human level.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
I made a SQLite disk-page explorer a little while ago, helped me understand B-trees a lot better: https://github.com/QuadrupleA/sqlite-page-explorer
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Agreed, if you have to have a web server and separate worker servers, then Postgres is likely better than a weird network layer on top of SQLite. But I'd question the true need for need separate worker servers. Is it for performance
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Small aside based on some comments here - People frequently bring up write concurrency issues in SQLite, with the implied idea that if two physical people are using your app at once they'll get errors. But of course it's concurr
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Another alternative is GhostText, which I like for long-form editing - it syncs your text editor with a field, so you can work in your editor. Supports vim & nvim, Sublime, and a few others.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Gratifying to see this, I really hope it goes somewhere. Legalese is plain bad writing, needlessly so, and a steady drain on society. Interestingly there's a similar thing in police-speak, where things like "they were driving fast
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
As a frequent reader (I like to do an hour before bed), I will say that most fiction novels are hard work the first 1/3 or so, getting to know all the characters, the situation, etc. But once you "know the world" the middle t
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Show HN: SQLite Page Explorer, Built with Redbean(github.com)
2 points by QuadrupleA 2y ago|0 comments
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Not entirely clear what it is, sounds a bit like https://redbean.dev/ with more app languages but no universal executable?
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
I'm speaking about C++, where blind faith in RAII is widespread, so I don't know if Rust's implementation alleviates some of the accidental complexity. But I suspect any system with constructors / destructors leads to a
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Beyond just performance, RAII (a cryptically named concept BTW) introduces a lot of implicit, indirect behavior, making code much more complicated and harder to reason about. When does your constructor & destructor fire when a dynamic a
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To Install Fossil: Download Executable, Put in Your Path(fossil-scm.org)
2 points by QuadrupleA 2y ago|1 comments
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Just sharing one aspect of my love for the Fossil version control system (from the creators of SQLite) which I've used for 4+ years. To install it - download a ~10 MB executable binary file, put it in your path, and you've got the
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
This comment sounds suspiciously AI-generated.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Think this is fixed now - in dark mode, the numbers didn't gray out properly like in light mode. On some browsers the strikethru lines up with the 4, but the additional graying out hopefully communicates the same thing.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
It's probably this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41946571
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Since that instruction's easy to miss - I added an immediate error message / red dot if two ships are placed diagonally from each other: https://lukerissacher.com/battleships
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Think I found a good solution to this - there's now an immediate error message / red line when connecting incorrectly to a starting ship square: https://lukerissacher.com/battleships
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Thread's pretty old now, but for posterity: there's now an automatic error dot if two ships are touching diagonally: https://lukerissacher.com/battleships
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
It's the literal definition of a chemical. Your body is a metabolic machine made of chemicals and performing all kinds of metabolic chemistry. People hysterical about "chemicals" and "toxins" are almost always unedu
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Every molecule in your body is a chemical.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Sure thing - just added a quick button swap URL parameter: https://lukerissacher.com/battleships?swapmouse=1 If it's a common request I should probably make it a saved setting.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Here's an experimental implementation, reveals the water cells around any revealed boats: https://lukerissacher.com/battleships?revealwater=1 Not sure I like it, kinda makes the starting puzzle noisy/crowded.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Thanks, weird one - I just put in a fix, you can refresh the page to get it. Some kind of CSS glitch where the cells (<i> elements) got a height of 0 at narrow screen sizes, in Firefox only, despite those and their parent <td>s
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
That might be good. One shortcut I did add, you can click the numbers to auto-fill water once a row is complete.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
Interesting tidbit, the Battleships puzzle is NP-complete ( http://www.mountainvistasoft.com/docs/BattleshipsAsDecidabil... ) - there's no known solver algorithm that can do it in polynomial time, as the size of the
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
That would be a cool direction to explore.
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by QuadrupleA 2y ago
If you turn on hardmode there's a "Save Checkpoint" button. But not easy mode at the moment (I wanted to keep the UI clean).

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