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by andai 2mo ago
Monoculture. It's like when all bananas used to be clones of each other and a disease wiped out the whole species.
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In Spyro 2 you collect orbs to activate the portal to defeat the evil wizard guy.
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This is Apple's entire business model. Also most proprietary software, also most web-based software, also most APIs... also what my plumber does when I call him over! (Also most hardware?)
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Well they nailed the headline: make the reader go "wtf is Orbs" so they have to click on it.
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Interesting point, yeah. Does it need to be a PR company, though? If I bought NVDA I'd also be incentivized to talk about how healthy the company looks.
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I went to an American daycare in Europe and it was awesome. I can't compare it with the local ones though.
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by andai 2mo ago
I'm reminded of Bloom's 2 sigma effect. Classroom education is to tutoring as daycare is to parenting. Or course it helps the disadvantaged. Indeed if the neglect is bad enough, you may get superior parenting from the people at da
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by andai 2mo ago
Yeah, can't wait for Linux to add the forced system update that restarts the computer while I'm away, closing all my open programs. Like the cleaning lady who ignored my DO NOT RESTART note on the PS1 at the after school daycare a
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by andai 2mo ago
Before enlightenment Chop wood, defragment After enlightenment Chop wood, defragment
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by andai 2mo ago
Neat! I have several questions here. First of all, why does Linux not need defragmentation? Second, is it actually true that it doesn't need it? The readme implies that this defragmenter (for Linux) produces actual benefits. Third, it
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by andai 2mo ago
Qwen 3.5 9B scores 2-3x higher than 4o (depending on the 4o version), on the benchmarks. Whether it's actually better for the kind of things people actually use it for... the benchmarks don't really tell you that. (In my experienc
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by andai 2mo ago
I'm confused. If I was a kid, I can still get my cigarettes at the Linux store? (By analogy with eastern Europe where age checks are lax.) Or is the idea that the Linux store is not allowed to sell cigarettes anymore?
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Pangram: "100% of this text is AI generated."
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Wait, what does that number mean? I thought it always uses the cache price when the prefix matches.
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OpenRouter randomizes which provider gets your request by default right? I think you have to pass a specific provider in the request to prevent that. (Or set up a preset or something.) This behavior makes it so you don't benefit much f
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by andai 2mo ago
I think the pelican thing is a bit tired at this point, however I find Simon's comments to be high quality.
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I had a conversation on my frustration with intellectual sparring partners today. The main insight was that I require people who think. That's a separate quality from intelligence or knowledge. The closest thing is "need for cogni
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by andai 2mo ago
Interesting. By this definition, a poorly chosen algorithm is also "bloat", which doesn't seem right to me. I see bloat mostly as "unnecessary dependencies." Things which, if you removed them, the product would impr
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by andai 2mo ago
Very interesting. I'm not very fluent in SQL, so it would have been helpful to see some more side by side examples. (Since Prela seems a lot more ergonomic!) Though maybe a reader fluent in SQL can compare them mentally on the fly?
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by andai 2mo ago
At the bottom is the actual code for the "language", which is only 79 lines. I found it helpful to read it first and then go back to the article. (On my initial reading I was like, "okay, but what is a Rel?") https:&#x2
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by andai 2mo ago
How about "bloat". Something that doesn't need to be there, and it would be better if it wasn't, but it was typically added with some misguided "good intentions". Bloat. This also applies to changing something.
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by andai 2mo ago
The Matrix was right. Civilization peaked at Skeumorphism. Pure unfiltered soul.
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Is Coca Cola squeezing me, too?
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People equate work with value. That's largely a function of incentives. If a startup could have been a 100 line PHP script, instead of 50 microservices, then you wouldn't be able to work on it for the next 10 years, and hire 5 of
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I have been given the mandatory assignment of not working today.
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Re: anthropomorphism: I frequently hear stories of LLMs [behaving as though they are] feeling self-doubt. I had a similar experience. Asked Claude Code what the weather was and it said, I don't know, I'm just a programmer. Added &
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by andai 2mo ago
So, what does thinking mean? Is there one thing we mean when we say thinking in humans? Are there several? Is it more of a spectrum? e.g. last year I tried inventing a "System 3"[0], a more rigorous way to approach problem solving
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by andai 2mo ago
So I've seen some companies do it in a way that's not a pain in the ass. I'm wondering if that's legal. Because if it is, I also want to do it that way.
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Interesting I thought it was a hilbert curve? (I don't know much about either of those though.)
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Binvis has different color modes. One of them shows entropy. Compressed or encrypted data shows as very bright in the entropy mode, and repetitive data as dark.

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