TheDong

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by TheDong 7mo ago
To me it seems like a pretty strong given because context windows are an important thing. I can tell an llm "write hello world in C", and it will produce a valid program with just that context, without needing the C language spec
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by TheDong 7mo ago
I think the AI labs need to be the ones to build AI-specific languages so they can include a huge corpus in the model training data-set, and then do RL on it producing useful and correct programs in that language. If anthropic makes "c
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by TheDong 7mo ago
plan.md / implementation.md is just a prompt. You're not telling me to do anything different.
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by TheDong 7mo ago
I personally didn't get good results until I got the $100/mo claude plan (and still often hit $180/mo from spending extra credits) It's not that the model is better than the cheaper plans, but experimenting with and revi
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Unfortunately, it has been ruled that the president is immune to legal prosecution on this matter, regardless of whether it is legal or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States > the Supreme Court r
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by TheDong 7mo ago
You know what's even easier for AI agents to use than TUIs? CLIs. My experience has been that agents suck at using TUIs, and are good at using CLIs. I would argue that agents are a reason that TUIs might die in favor of CLIs.
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by TheDong 8mo ago
> AI has reached a state of software issue, not hardware Citation very much needed. At the very least, OpenAI seems to believe more and larger datacenters is the path to better models... and they've been right about that every time
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by TheDong 8mo ago
I have a google nexus 7 tablet from 2013. Thanks to Google unlocking all their bootloaders by default, I can install u-boot and a modern linux kernel on it (thanks PostmarketOS). Since linux runs on it, I can run the latest versions of grea
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Wow, that website is impressively cpu-intensive. Like, I'm on a beefy desktop processor (linux + firefox if it matters), and it's chewing through over 100% cpu and not keeping up. Just having the tab open causes my CPU fans to spi
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by TheDong 8mo ago
> Or a dedicated app like GitSync Which gates "sync" behind an expensive "premium" paywall. It feels criminal to charge that much for the sync feature when it also can't possibly work, iOS actively does not want
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by TheDong 8mo ago
iOS makes it painful to use third-party sync protocols and servers, like syncthing can't run in the background, a git sync service can't run in the background, only iCloud gets to run in the background.... and whatever sync protoc
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by TheDong 8mo ago
"Why am I even here, what's the point?" is a deeply personal feeling question, so people aren't very inclined to talk about it with friends or post it on social media. I assure you some people do post about this on socia
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by TheDong 8mo ago
If you click the '?' link in the upper right it will explain what it does https://xcancel.com/about
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Powershell is not posix compliant and does not pretend to be. Like conditionals using `()` instead of `[]` is already a clear departure from posix
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Yeah, I had to switch dictionaries once I found Webster's url: https://www.merriam-webster.com/
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Friday is the deadline that the secretary of defense, Hegseth, gave Anthropic for complying with the "allow the military version of claude to do mass surveillance and autonomous killing" order.
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Can the screen protector film only mask banking apps and notifications, but not the lock screen and homescreen? It's a real, albeit minor, quality of life improvement for the phone screen to only become less-vibrant for a subset of con
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by TheDong 8mo ago
> Once you can ask your agent to change a feature and be 100% sure they won't break other features then you don't care about how the code looks like. That bar is unreasonably high. Right now, if I ask a senior engineer to chang
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by TheDong 8mo ago
> AFAIK, there is no "specification" or "protocol" The protocol is english. You want your claw to check a hacker news comment and let you know when it gets a reply? You tell it "Check every 5 minutes if this comm
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by TheDong 8mo ago
One possible stupid-but-not-malicious explanation is that some anti-cheat company made a sketchy anti-cheat that includes server-side "is CheatEngine.exe running" code, and they're doing that via ps aux... and then this game
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by TheDong 8mo ago
That caused compilation errors though, which are alright in my book, and don't increase my fear to update. Silent runtime changes are what spook me and what I've gotten more often with Go.
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by TheDong 8mo ago
> I don't think I've ever passed a logger into the standard library. `net/http.Server.ErrorLog` is the main (only?) one, though there's a lot of third-party libraries that take one. > I've only seen slog since
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Yes you can, and Go has done exactly that. Realize the "log" api is bad? Make "log/slog". Realize the "rand" api is bad? Make "rand/v2". Realize the "image/draw" api is bad? M
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Which has been working great for go, right. They shipped "log" and "flag" stdlib packages, so everyone uses... well, not those. I think "logrus" and "zap" are probably the most popular, but there&#x27
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by TheDong 8mo ago
I've found Go's standard library to be really unfortunate compared to rust. When I update the rust compiler, I do so with very little fear. My code will still work. The rust stdlib backwards compatible story has been very solid. U
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by TheDong 8mo ago
We don't know if the causality flows that way. It could be that AI makes you boring, but it could also be that boring people were too lazy to make blogs and Show HNs and such before, and AI simply lets a new cohort of people produce bo
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by TheDong 8mo ago
> why buy Windows and Office when I can just ask claude to write me my own versions instead? Why run a commodity operating system on kiosks? Linux costs $0. Creating a linux clone compatible with your hardware from the hardware spec shee
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by TheDong 8mo ago
No it is not. You would need an md5 preimage attack to go from md5sum to email (what I assume you mean by 'brute force') To prove my point, c5633e6781ede1aea59db6f76f82a365 is the md5sum of an email address. What's the email
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by TheDong 8mo ago
Yeah, because chrome is required to use -safari- webkit too, apple won't allow alternative browsers on the app store. Except in the EU, but they don't allow it globally so no sane company is going to invest time into building a br
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by TheDong 8mo ago
The tiny company behind Signal, and a bunch of even smaller companies making messengers, manage to make their app work just fine on iOS and android (and most of them on desktop too, some even in the browser). For some reason, the (second) r

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