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by barrell 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I agree with you completely. 1. I just started the marketing website a few weeks ago, and if you can believe it, I didn't readily have that information. One of my tasks last week was to compile a list of langua
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by barrell 1y ago
Start by creating some expressions ("create" in the nav bar) and you should be able to play around with it. If you want to learn more, please get in touch. As mentioned elsewhere, I'll be adding a video tutorial soon (probabl
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by barrell 1y ago
It does really well, 95% of the time. The application was built to jump in at any levels - find a movie you want to watch, align the subtitles, see the most important words, create expressions with words you don't know, and the SRS sho
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by barrell 1y ago
Oh no, the website is brand new, it should be working everywhere. I'll have to dig up an older android, I should have one somewhere. Languages below, if you know their alpha 3 code. Currently having some issues with Thai and Zulu thoug
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by barrell 1y ago
So much of this stemmed from me wanted to learn French & Italian by watching archer :D
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by barrell 1y ago
Agreed. I’m getting close to a video to put on the landing page, probably some time next week. The first time user experience is really bad, but the app itself makes a lot of sense once you see it in action. Feel free to get in touch with m
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by barrell 1y ago
I have been working on http://phrasing.app - a language learning & acquisition tool for polyglots. I’ve been using it to study ~12 languages (5 on maintaince, 2 seriously studying, 5 casually “studying”) and it’s starting to
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by barrell 1y ago
Just coupled with that quote, that’s like saying publishers don’t care about the writing process, they just care about whether the book sells. Which yeah, of course, that their job. It’s the authors job to write a good book. The publisher n
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by barrell 1y ago
People overestimate outcomes and underestimate timeframes
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by barrell 1y ago
Eh I am happy waiting many years before any of that. If it only work right with the right model for the right job, and it’s very fuzzy which models work for which tasks, and the models change all the time (often times silently)… at some poi
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by barrell 1y ago
Had a similar experience with Claude Code lately. I got a notice some credits were expiring, so I opened up Claude Code and asked it to fix all the credo errors in an elixir project (style guide enforcement). I gave it incredibly clear step
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by barrell 1y ago
When node first came out, it was pretty revolutionary. Being able to almost instantly start a JavaScript thread from a single file that could support realtime experiences (a la socket.io et al) without a build step felt pretty paradigm shif
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by barrell 2y ago
But it’s kind of great for the upshot who can’t afford the spot of the billboard like the incumbent can. And it’s kind of great for the (dozens, hundreds, thousand, millions) of people to pass by the location who don’t have some eye soar bl
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by barrell 2y ago
I would not say it is “very good” at that. Maybe it’s “capable,” but my (ample) experience has been the opposite. I have found the more exact I describe a solution, the less likely it is to succeed. And the more of a solution it has come up
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by barrell 2y ago
Did you see the job post he linked in the article for a “Vibe Coder”? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/domu-technology-inc/jo...
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by barrell 2y ago
There’s a lot of negativity around this so I just thought I’d chip in and mention my appreciation for it. Projects are allowed to not be typescript, and I actively stay away from it as much as possible when working with browsers. I don’t wo
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by barrell 2y ago
This has been the most amazing thing about ClojureScript - finding libraries that are 10+ years old without an update still work perfectly. Using reagent and over time learning more and more of the internals (instead of the runaway treadmil
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by barrell 2y ago
This story makes me laugh. The irony of an Apple co-founder chastising another company for updates that slowly and significantly make the experience worse everytime is too rich. I don’t have a Tesla and I’m fully bought into the Apple ecosy
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by barrell 2y ago
When OpenAI released voice mode originally, I got early access. I used it a __ton__. I must have been 99.9th percentile of usage at least. Then they started updating it. It would clear its throat, cough, insert ums — within a week my usage
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by barrell 2y ago
I’ve never used yabai or i3. I think the docs/defaults/configurations just really sold me on aerospace. yabai never really caught my eye. I’ve never seriously used Linux I also think Aerospace was positioned as “macOS native featu
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by barrell 2y ago
I agree LLMs should not be ignored, but there is a planetary sized chasm between being ignored and the attention they currently get.
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by barrell 2y ago
Ah to clarify I was not saying one shouldn’t try it at all — I was saying the free trail is plenty enough to see if it would be worth it to you. I read the original comment as “pay $100 and just go for it!” which didn’t seem like the right
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by barrell 2y ago
Came here to recommend aerospace. It’s been amazing. My whole desktop is like a tmux session now. It’s very much changed how I work/use my computer. More than Rectangle did, more than LLMs have. (I still adore hookshot/rectangle t
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by barrell 2y ago
OP should really save their money. Cursor has a pretty generous free trail and is far from the holy grail. I recently (in the last month) gave it a shot. I would say once in the maybe 30 or 40 times I used it did it save me any time. The on
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by barrell 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what timeframe are you talking about? The recent LLM explosion, or the decades long AI research? I consider myself an AI skeptic and as soon as the hype train went full steam, I assumed a crash/bubble burst was inevit
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by barrell 2y ago
Tricky? Not really. Difficult? Yes.
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by barrell 2y ago
A turn of phrase ;-) I spent thousands of hours working with closely with LLMs. It took me a lot longer than it should have to realize they were slowing me down, not speeding me up. I’ll ask the off question here and there, they can be good
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by barrell 2y ago
If a study comes out, no. But I do not think the trajectory of LLMs is as determined as you may think
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by barrell 2y ago
I can either spent 20 minutes arguing with an LLM to get something that maybe does most of what I want, or spend those 25 minutes to get something n that does exactly what I want. I wouldn’t call those 5 minutes times wasted
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by barrell 2y ago
I had GitHub copilot for nearly two years. I built the entire first version of an application for almost a year in a language I didn’t know (Python) using LLMs and prompting. Over the last year I’ve had to rewrite every single part of the a

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