Toutouxc

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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
> Scalability is about minimizing bottlenecks and linear scaling so one can just copy and execute by adding more nodes/resources and expect correctness and increased throughput. Yes, technically, but note that this entire thing can
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
I agree with your point that people “from” the domain aren’t automatically equipped to start AI-building software in the domain, exactly because they often lack one of the most crucial software development skills — being able to (and having
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
> It's a very cool and functional project but it is entirely dependent on companies keeping their APIs open I have more than 50 entities in HA, there isn't a company in the world that could make a single one of them stop workin
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
Note how the longer sentences are significantly stricter than the shorter ones. You could maybe add another condition, in the sense that the code has to generate more revenue than it costs to maintain. Then I'd start to agree. Also not
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
You got all that from four words? Also what's wrong with "code is a liability"? That's just 100 % true. The idea isn't exactly novel or revealing, but it's also really fundamental. Every line of code is a liabi
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
I feel like the article is pretty contradictory. Apparently ZIRP was the era of abundance and of codebases growing rapidly and: > with so many engineers running wild, how would they keep their systems from becoming completely unmanageabl
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
Your profile says you're a guitarist. Take the model and talk to it about guitars. Not like "what's a good Stratocaster clone", talk to it about materials, physics and playing techniques and see if it feels like a reliab
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
Do you have any numbers to back that up, especially the massive brain drain? I’d like to think I’m overall a competent person who wouldn’t mind relocating for an interesting opportunity, but the US can get fucked for a what’s actually a lon
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
I can't find anything in the ToS that it would go against. I even asked Claude to check its own ToS and tell me if it's okay.
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
Huh? I believe it’s completely fine for a company to pay for regular Claude subscriptions for employees, as long as they don’t share logins.
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
I would personally prefer if companies didn’t offer services that simply don’t or can’t work as advertised.
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
Interesting. I guess I see through-hole stuff as more advanced because if a PCB is involved, there’s usually something expensive around there that you can actually damage with a (genuinely!) poor soldering technique. Through-hole or pads, t
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
They’re surprisingly powerful for all three games that are available on the platform. Jokes aside, there are some games with competent Mac ports and if you only have an M-series Mac, you can find some titles that play nice. But most of the
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
For anyone thinking about learning to solder, there are several levels of what you can do with a soldering iron. The surface-mount stuff and ovens and microscopes, that's like level 3. Level 1 is just being able to take two wires and c
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
Wait, that’s still just about their phone app. When you disable the cloud features, you lose the phone app, but otherwise the printer is fully usable. You can still connect to it through Bambu studio, you just have to roll your own networki
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
Less than 0.2% of the world's population lives in the wider metropolitan area of London. I live in Europe, I've been to London a few times, I have no idea what "Richmond Hill" is or whether Sir Attenborough actually live
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by Toutouxc 5mo ago
They don't seem to be trying to stop me from placing an order as a consumer.
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
How do you go from SaaS to “not super challenging”? The part of a SaaS product that I’m working on uses graph algorithms to work with what’s essentially an interactive form. There’s some mildly university-level computer science stuff and it
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
Poor? In what sense? I graduated a few years ago (in Europe) and I think I could’ve gone through my entire education without owning one. Math, for me, went from nice numbers to ugly numbers that you had to do by hand (because that was the
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
The other day I calculated what it would take to run my entire country on pure solar, assuming magical infinite storage capacity. Even here in Central Europe, the required area for all the panels was a pretty insignificant number that, even
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
What I see is 800 EUR for a sturdy body, a solid screen, a solid keyboard and good battery life. That's the baseline for what I want in a laptop. Only after these boxes have been checked, we can start talking numbers. And you know what
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
Same for apps and games. I understand English just fine, no need to switch to your shitty Google-translate localization just because my iPhone or PlayStation is set to my native language.
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
> 800 euros for 8 GB and 512 SSD For me it’s not about the numbers It’s 800€ for a laptop that’s not total junk. I could probably get the same 8 or 16 and 512 numbers in cheaper laptops, but they would be [what I would consider] sad anno
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
Good. The article makes sense to me, it gives names to certain things I've already sort of internalized intuitively and not only does it not end with a proposal to use AI to fix everything, it actually explains how AI (or at least toda
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
> The problem of course is that type systems and databases are not meaningfully "domain-specific." They aren't technical magic bullets but they separately provide real value for the use cases of "web and API serving,
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
If the article is a product of a LLM, I am willing to pay good money to be able to use that exact LLM for development. Because it seems to understand many things that current LLMs and their loudest proponents don't seem to understand.
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
That isn't some turbo specialty, the effect is the same in both NA and turbo engines. And AFAIK it isn't really feasible anymore. I don't know about other manufacturers, but for example Volkswagen Group's EA211 EVO2 engi
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
Yes, they're engines that you wouldn't be allowed to build and put in a new tractor. Like, the signals seem pretty clear to me. The spirit of the regulations is that these shouldn't be produced and put into operation anymore.
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
> overstrain them, and put huge turbos on the engines This doesn't really mean anything. You can build an engine at any point of the spectrum from naturally aspirated to turbocharged, to turbo-compound, to actually not having any pi
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by Toutouxc 6mo ago
What car? It probably depends on what you want the end result to be. You won't be able to DIY a Porsche Taycan, but basically if you can do an engine swap on an ICE car, you should be able to do a semi-ghetto EV conversion (i.e no fast

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