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by ay 1y ago
Do you notice any difference in thinking when you are “left eye active” vs “right eye active” in front of the screen or reading ? Asking because I have a much milder version of the situation that you describe (still within the boundaries to
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by ay 1y ago
I found your example of a joke child made very interesting - me a good jokes is something that brings is unexpected perspective on things while highlighting some contradictions in one world models. In the adult would model there is absolut
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by ay 1y ago
The first transition was to IPv4, and it was reportedly (I wasn’t in the workforce yet :-) relatively easy… https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2016/09/final-report-on... Some more interesting history read
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by ay 1y ago
There’s a “EU Inc” initiative which is aiming to fix things. Fingers crossed. https://www.eu-inc.org/
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by ay 1y ago
This is a super apt analogy. Every time I decided to let LLMs “vibe-fix” non-obvious things for the sake of experiment, it spiraled into an unspeakable fubar territory, which needed to be reverted - a very similar situation to this financia
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by ay 1y ago
It was Claude in November 2024, but the “west of equator” is a good enough universal nonsense to illustrate the fundamental issue - just that today it is in much subtler dimensions. A not-so-subtle example from yesterday: Claude Code claimi
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by ay 1y ago
My favourite story of that involved attempting to use LLM to figure out whether it was true or my hallucination that the tidal waves were higher in Canary Islands than in Caribbean, and why; it spewed several paragraphs of plausibly soundin
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by ay 1y ago
Just a few examples: Bicycle. Car(driving). Airplane(piloting). Welder. CNC machine. CAD. All take quite an effort to master, until then they might slow one down or outright kill.
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by ay 1y ago
You will need to first sit and ballpark, and then sit and benchmark, and discover your ballpark was probably wrong anyhow:-) Some (for me) useful pointers to that regard for both: 1. https://www.agner.org/optimize/instr
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by ay 1y ago
Try “3M earplugs yellow” on amazon. They are pretty much fully immersed in the ear (for me), and the insulation is very good. The pressure - yeah it took maybe a few days to get used to, but… The effects for me (living in Brussels city cent
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by ay 1y ago
Same thing with PNG. Just call the format with new additions it PNGX, so the user can clearly see that the reason their software can’t display the image is not a file corruption. This is just pretending that if you have a cat and a dog in
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by ay 1y ago
There might be another factor at not using the debugger beyond the pure cluelessness: often you can’t really run it in production. Back when I started with coding (it was Turbo Pascal 3.0, so you get the idea :-), I enjoyed the use of the d
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by ay 1y ago
Interesting, so in your experience Gemini 2.5 Pro bests Claude 3.7 ? I didn’t pay much attention to it, will give it a go, thanks for the reference! Again, I think of the task I mentioned as not easy (it’s a lot of code) but it is simple
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by ay 1y ago
Agreed, and the analogy with calculators is very apt.
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by ay 1y ago
I suspect indeed we have the difference in terminology. I put distinction between “simple” and “easy”. Digging a pit of 1m * 1m * 1m is simple - just displace a cubic meter of soil; but it is not easy as it’s a lot of monotonous physica
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by ay 1y ago
Could totally be the case, that, as I wrote in the very first sentence, I am holding it wrong. But I am not saying LLMs are impotent - the other week Claude happily churned me ~3500 lines of C code that allowed to implement a prototype capt
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by ay 1y ago
Very strange. Either the author uses some magic AI, or I am holding it wrong. I used LLMs since a couple of years, as a nice tool. Besides that: I have tried using LLMs to create cartoon pictures. The first impression is “wow”; but after a
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by ay 1y ago
Ah. Apparently I didn’t use that crate, so happily missed that footgun, thanks for the info! That is an unfortunate case. Though I suspect it’s fair to say the entire settlement is built of glass houses here :-) https://news.ycom
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by ay 1y ago
A piece of anecdata: my Rust code from 8 years ago still compiles fine, though compiler complains about not having the defined edition set.
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by ay 1y ago
Absolutely true about focusing too much on tech solutions, it’s often a very tricky problem that is best solved at non-technical layer. To your other points: I find that people who are addicted never heed the warnings, they just get annoyin
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by ay 1y ago
I am ex-smoker for more than 12 years after smoking between half a pack and a pack a day for 15 years, and I went through the process which may be similar to what you describe. So I thought to write here some of my self-observations - maybe
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by ay 1y ago
Potentially. However, anecdotally a lot of service providers treat UDP to stricter rate limiting than TCP because it’s unauthenticated nature, so there is a back-pressure factor there. Also: RFC9000 for QUIC is almost 50% longer than RFC929
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by ay 1y ago
If they blocked you, evidently you didn’t clear the bar for them , and even if it was some completely lunatic reason - you have to respect their right to not talk to you, however lunatic it looks for you . Now, if their blocklists were po
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by ay 1y ago
Nice! That’s the beautiful part - everyone can shape it according to how they like, and be comfortable with that.
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by ay 1y ago
I find the algorithmic topical feeds nicely solve the problem of discovery for me. There’s a lot of people who are experts in their fields, totally different to mine (e.g. astronomy, physics, photography etc) which makes it interesting for
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by ay 1y ago
I can not argue about the values of people I do not know personally. I only said that the tool they made seems to be okay in my experience , which I shared. “Free markets” is an uneducated nonsense. An entirely unregulated market evolves i
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by ay 1y ago
The solution is trivial: just be polite and respectful to others. Everyone is entitled to say their opinion. Nobody is entitled to force others listen to it. It’s quite simple, really.
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by ay 1y ago
Blue sky allows you to have many different kinds of feeds and I can say the difference in adrenaline level and mood is palpable depending on the feed I use. News items - frustration at the state the world is in. Urban bicycle feed: annoyanc
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by ay 1y ago
Yeah, that was precisely the set of trade offs :-) OTOH, I heard folks calling to banish the “no messing with a flow within 5-tuple” principle, so my hack may not have an overly long shelf life.
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by ay 1y ago
> more like 802.11 L2 is “relatively simple” in a sense that it’s usually under the same administrative control; unlike with L3. And even then, if you have a look at all the complexity between the maintaining the interop in the wireless

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