abathur

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by abathur 3y ago
> I'm one of the few people I know that has actually built a new house on raw land in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the last 10 years. It took me nearly 3 years for permits alone for an 1100 sq ft single story SFH built on flat ground
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by abathur 3y ago
Have you been since it reopened after CZU?
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by abathur 3y ago
I think of this as ~writing a story in which the agent helps us achieve our goals. The prompters don't tell the LLM stories because they think "someone" is in there, but because they need to write the LLM into the place it ca
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by abathur 3y ago
Is providing dependencies part of your problem domain? (I've done a little work on shell script dependencies in the Nix ecosystem.)
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by abathur 3y ago
https://oilshell.zulipchat.com/ is a good ~applied-zulip example in OSS.
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by abathur 3y ago
I generally like the new code search, but I've got one big gripe: there's no way to sort code results by any kind of proxy for recency. The old code search had the ability to sort by indexed date. This wasn't perfect, but it
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by abathur 3y ago
I do, from time to time, wish they would. :)
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by abathur 3y ago
Would be interesting to see expert analysis, but I imagine it's really hard to know how every player will react. As (if?) likelihood of a demand collapse increases, I imagine some fraction of potential suppliers with ~easy/cheap o
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by abathur 3y ago
dang does a great job, but I don't think it's enough to qualify (anymore). HN's indexed, registration is open, and its size/influence have grown enough that I regularly see people here trying to grind ideological axes. I
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by abathur 4y ago
I had a little thought a while back about using names that express why you're doing something in order to make it a little more obvious to the monkey when we're over abstracting something that might just be incidentally similar.
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by abathur 4y ago
With umptillion gigs of shared memory, too. Really the only reason I'm entertaining moving up from an mba to an mbp, but I haven't convinced myself it's worth the splurge yet.
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by abathur 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
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by abathur 4y ago
maybe a "code formatter" that just asks an LLM if it can rewrite this code, but pretty?
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by abathur 4y ago
I am quite the clutz, and do spill a lot, but I have yet to ruin any device in the process. A few close calls, but none fatal. I try to mitigate theft/loss/disaster anxiety by keeping a backup/recovery hygiene that enables me
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by abathur 4y ago
He, uh, made the following claims: 1. he's been using it for 9 days 2. he has subscribed for gpt4 3. it took 3 rounds of refining to get it running 4. it did what he wanted 5. it took about 15 minutes to do something that would have ta
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by abathur 4y ago
I find reading, writing, and programming can each be incredibly generative in their own ways. I haven't measured its effectiveness, but I like rotating the intellectual crops, as it were. I (at least subjectively) feel most-generativ
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by abathur 4y ago
A guy at a bar spotted me programming last night and forced a conversation on me about an email-processing script ChatGPT helped him write, and showed me the conversation on his phone. It struck me, as a programmer with a creative writing b
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Old searches keep showing up below my [Google Chrome] search bar?(old.reddit.com)
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by abathur 4y ago
AWS outages are, per the status page, quite rare.
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by abathur 4y ago
Probably projecting, but I imagine this is being posted in light of this thread under a comment by Bryan from the other day under an SVB post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35128789
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by abathur 4y ago
I had a similar experience. It doesn't help that Terminal.app is incredibly performant and stable. Even when I found a cross-platform terminal with a nice feature set, watching it jank around while some build spams 50k lines of output
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by abathur 4y ago
The post I linked focuses on standalone executable dependencies, but the same concept applies to libraries. If you want a quick example, you can look at how: - shellswain depends on a little trap-namespacing library called comity: https:&#
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by abathur 4y ago
til :)
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by abathur 4y ago
https://t-ravis.com/post/shell/no_look_no_leap_shell_with_ni... (but of course, that's it's own portability/bootstrapping problem if you need genuine internet-rando-level portability)
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by abathur 4y ago
It's both HTML and CSS, though. HTML is also bleeding over the boundary between layout and document. HTML was mean to _be_ the document. CSS was meant to be a language for styling and re-styling those documents. That makes sense in the
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by abathur 4y ago
I'm not directly involved with detsys or this project, but I went ahead and reported this upstream. Crosslinking in case you want to subscribe to that thread: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer&#x2
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by abathur 4y ago
I have managed to avoid fiddling with the init hook scripts themselves, so I hadn't actually thought about this specific idea. IDK if my thoughts will be productive/incisive. I've definitely felt like the Nth-shell situation
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by abathur 4y ago
> Regarding your argument against Bash, isn't it true that this is just a different version of the same bootstrapping problem, and that downloading a temporary but specific Bash version would get around that? (I agree that working w
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by abathur 4y ago
It is, at least, supremely satisfying to pwn a blatant cheater. One time there was a blatant hacker on the Markov server in the original PlanetSide (a TR player with a name like iIiIiIiiIiii) that was using some sort of time/speed hack
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by abathur 4y ago
Indeed. I'm using LP as a shorthand; ours is currently LDmud, but it predates LDmud and changed over from LP before I started playing. It took a long time, but LDmud finally got 3.5.0 released in 2017 and has been releasing a lot, sinc

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