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by bambax 5mo ago
At work I am made to use Windows 11 and I hate it immensely. Everything's so slow. Nothing operates properly. In addition to forced reboots which are annoying as hell, it also reboots after some time on sleep, for no reason whatsoever.
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by bambax 5mo ago
Exactly that. Plus I need to be able to make adjustments here and there without the whole thing collapsing on me. If you know Rust inside and out (if, as one example in TFA, you co-wrote The Rust Programming Language !) then sure, why not
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by bambax 5mo ago
It doesn't seem like you're responding to my post, more to the quote? But my point isn't that everybody should be a genius problem solver, although that would help, while being stuck in the same routine doesn't. My point
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by bambax 5mo ago
> right now It's always been like this. I used to build websites in the 90s and it was exactly like that. It was also horrible. People who had no tech background whatsoever making decisions on which tech to use (PHP vs ASP vs Cold
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by bambax 5mo ago
> by solving hard problems you get an insight into the problem-solving process itself, at least in your area of expertise, in a way that you simply don’t if all you do is read other people’s solutions. One consequence of this is that pe
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by bambax 5mo ago
> quite a lot of perfectly good human mathematics consists in putting together existing knowledge and proof techniques Creativity is connecting ideas from different domains and see if something from one field applies to another. I do t
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by bambax 5mo ago
It may not be a major achievement by the mathematician (although it's debatable) but it would still be a major result.
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by bambax 5mo ago
Depends very much on usage! If you connect it to tools like Cursor, etc. then yes a subscription is probably cheaper -- although, you'd have to subscribe to each provider if you want to use them all. But if you ask questions occasional
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by bambax 5mo ago
OpenRouter lets you pay by the token only (no subscription), has all the frontier models (including Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5) and most of the others, and if you use it sparingly it usually turns out to be quite cheap.
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by bambax 5mo ago
Yeah but mouse jigglers 1/ have to be plugged in / occupy a USB port, 2/ usually don't turn off when LOGOFF, resulting in battery depletion and 3/ don't work on remote servers where you would want an RDP sessio
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by bambax 5mo ago
I intensely agree with everything that's being said in TFA; this however could be nuanced: > Never ask a model for confirmation; the tool agrees with everyone If asked properly, LLMs can be used to poke holes in an existing reason
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by bambax 5mo ago
I think this is exactly correct.
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by bambax 5mo ago
Yes, but I don't think having LLMs only write functions, and doing the architecture yourself qualifies as "vibe coding": rather "AI-assisted engineering" (which is what I do). Vibe coding, to me, means having an LLM
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by bambax 5mo ago
> without having to first importing anything Replying to myself to add this caveat: as I found out the hard way, the limit of such a setup is that query performance depend on the performance and indexing choices of the underlying data
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by bambax 5mo ago
I'm relatively new to DuckDB (coming from SQLite) and I love it so far. Some parts are magical (described in the previous article by the same author: https://peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/dab-of-duck.html ) You
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by bambax 5mo ago
Here's one: a client of mine has a bunch of SnapLogic pipelines that are configured to send errors via email, and there is no other persistent logging system. This results in tens of thousands of emails that are insanely hard to search
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by bambax 5mo ago
I notice this very often in LinkedIn posts, and it's annoying, but I had not realized it was LLM-speak? Isn't it possible that people write like this naturally?
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by bambax 6mo ago
Yes, it's the same for me, but we're not representative of most people I'm afraid.
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by bambax 6mo ago
> It's much easier to convince the LLMs that you're the king of a fictional Mapupu kingdom than the president of the United States. But if you're a world class bullshit artist, it's easier to actually become preside
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by bambax 6mo ago
It's a shift but it's a little worse. Checking/auditing search results is easier and more ingrained; even if many people don't do it, everyone has been hit by spam at some point, everyone knows it exists. LLMs are the sa
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by bambax 6mo ago
> "But Sam Altman said..." to me has about as much value as "ChatGPT told me...". Or Trump. Same profile. There is something to be admired in this kind of people. They are not bound by their own words. It simply doe
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by bambax 6mo ago
It's not that pre-LLM era was a "golden age of quality", far form it. It's that LLMs have removed yet another tell-tale of rushed bullshit jobs.
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by bambax 6mo ago
Israel is "western" outpost in the Middle East. It's not a random country. It's a colonial power with a geopolitical mission.
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by bambax 6mo ago
The name of the brand is "Massey Ferguson" not "Massy Fergusson". The reason I know that is not that I'm a farmer. It's that 20 years ago a bunch of friends and I wrote and performed a parody song of Gainsbourg
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by bambax 6mo ago
One problem is that when people delegate tasks to AI, they don't themselves learn anything from doing the task -- not just in the general sense of personal improvement, but in the very concrete sense of "what is it that was produc
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by bambax 6mo ago
Exactly; would probably be safer with a purely algorithmic decision making system.
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by bambax 6mo ago
> this would be your AAA bond because odds of not getting paid out you $10 would be > 99.9% I think you meant "the chances of getting paid", not of not getting paid.
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by bambax 6mo ago
> multiple scenes that specifically required a very thin depth of field The images at the end of the post are indeed amazing, but I find it funny that we're so obsessed with shallow depth-of-field as a sign of "quality"
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by bambax 6mo ago
Does it have electrolytes?
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by bambax 6mo ago
Wait for re-entry. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043

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