Sharlin

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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Like I said in another thread, everything Claude (Code) writes sounds like it’s congratulating itself of how smart it is. While not actually being that smart.
182.
by Sharlin 1mo ago
"But Claude does that for me"
183.
by Sharlin 1mo ago
This seems more like a teaser trailer. I presume more information is forthcoming.
184.
by Sharlin 1mo ago
This seems like the least important issue in the world to keep complaining about.
185.
by Sharlin 1mo ago
Based on what I’ve read on HN, no you can’t because they inevitably revert to their bad RL’d habits as the context window grows.
186.
by Sharlin 1mo ago
We (at least some of us) sort of figured out 30ish years ago that waterfall-style software development doesn’t quite work in practice. I don’t think LLMs have substantially changed that.
187.
by Sharlin 1mo ago
The GP is alluding to the fact that the prefix "m" means milli-, not mega-. But that's pointless pedantry. Nobody would ever think that you meant 0.5 bits per second, and bit isn't a SI unit anyway.
188.
by Sharlin 1mo ago
You find it scary that people enjoy what they do? Simply caring about the end result is often not wise, ethical, or sustainable, and the quality thereof is dubious in any case, especially when you consider that the end result of developing
189.
by Sharlin 1mo ago
Polygon edges are usually considered directed and forming a loop, the edges of said quad being either ab, bc, cd, da (clockwise winding) or ad, dc, cb, ba (counterclockwise winding). They give the same result up to sign, as long as you’re c
190.
by Sharlin 1mo ago
There are many powerful actors in whose interests it is to spread FUD about the EU, and none of those entities have the average citizen’s best interests in mind.
191.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Yes, this is essentially what the author derived (by means of calculus rather than geometric argument but the result is unsurprisingly the same). The 2D analog is easy to grok: to compute the area of a polygon, find the sum of the signed ar
192.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
The Rust standard library has `NonZero<T>`, which, if used, at least forces you to consider what you initialize it with. Doing let foo = NonZero::new(unvalidated_input).unwrap(); is at the very least a big red sign that stands
193.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
I don’t even find the readme useful. Like your average Claude prose, it’s simultaneously too information-dense and too light on information in a super frustrating way. Essentially it’s focused on explaining how clever it is (while not act
194.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
The README of this project is very ironic. https://github.com/louisabraham/load-bearing/blob/main/READM...
195.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
I've associated it with the concept of "carving nature at the seams", except that I just realized that in the standard phrasing it's actually "at the joints ", not "seams".
196.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
"Load-bearing" is an apt metaphor in the https://xkcd.com/2347/ sense.
197.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Yeah, the signal-to-noise ratio was way too low to keep reading for long.
198.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Humans can’t read minds either, but most humans aren’t so dumb as to forget what is a normative spec and what is just their own current, evolving model of the problem space. (Though some humans certainly are…)
199.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Is it not supposed to be om-archy? (This is the first time I even hear about the project.)
200.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
If building a data center essentially necessitates building more fossil fuel plants (and/or indeed comes with its own gas and diesel generators because the grid could not handle the extra load, plus generating their own dirty electri
201.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Your free will outside a black hole is curtailed in exactly the same manner: you cannot do anything to avoid, or even delay, tomorrow.
202.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Yes.
203.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Sure. Point is, this double-reflection construction is in no sense unique in requiring "no trigonometric functions".
204.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Her money?
205.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
To construct the two vectors spanning a given angle (well, as the article says, one of them can be chosen arbitrarily, the easiest is to just use (1, 0)), you'll of course need trigonometric functions. This is exactly equivalent to h
206.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
The article seems to talk about how `Thread.interrupt` works with synchronous IO, rather than the async IO machinery of `java.nio`. So I'd say the article is inaccurate or at least incomplete.
207.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
They’re using flipped learning even in universities now.
208.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
This is impossible to read. It's actively making the reader dumber.
209.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Oh, they may well give you bad time if your phone looks like a burner with too little content.
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by Sharlin 2mo ago
> Hundreds of bots modifying thousands of microservices may sound good on the surface It really does not, honestly.

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