benrutter

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by benrutter 3mo ago
I think you make some good points, but as a UK citizen, there probably some extra context 'd want people to know. Firstly, the Farage/Binface byelection is a result of Farage being investigated for breaking laws designed to stop p
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by benrutter 3mo ago
From what I can figure it is actively calling itself a multiplexer, so pretty closely linked to something like tmux (one of the review videos on the page calls it a "tmux rewrite"). But they seem to be targeting very different sco
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by benrutter 3mo ago
No, I meant literally the car has google maps built in - it's an up to date android app.
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by benrutter 3mo ago
There's so many comments on the lines of "I would never buy a car without android auto/car play support". I 100% used to be on this camp, "A car without android auto, what am I, a caveman!?". Anyway, separately
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by benrutter 4mo ago
For images, there are some clear styles AI leans heavily on if not actively steered away[0]. It can definitely be prompted pretty successfully though, a bird spotting app was up her on HN recently with some really nice looking woodblock pri
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by benrutter 4mo ago
> the front page is full of LLM smells I'm curious, What kind of details are you thinking of? I'm not sure I really have much of a radar for LLM websites in the way I do for LLM pictures or music.
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by benrutter 4mo ago
That might be true for social media, but there are 100s of American brands that make a large point of being thought of as an "American company" or "American made" goods.
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by benrutter 4mo ago
> Wtf. I've always wanted this, and it was right there. Haha, same! I was literally looking for this feature last week without realising. What could be more git- the problem is rarely that it can't do something, but the ergonom
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by benrutter 4mo ago
Another great, if not so relevant quote from JMK: > My only regret in life, is that I did not drink more champagne
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by benrutter 4mo ago
That's an awesome idea and one that's already being worked on![0] I really hope it works out, would bring so many benefits. [0] https://codeberg.org/ForgeFed/forgefed
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by benrutter 4mo ago
> there are disadvantages: ergonomics, space, cost, environment. I read a lot, was really into ebooks and now mostly buy paper books. The inverse of the cost point iis a big reason, cost of ebooks is much more than paper books in a lot
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by benrutter 4mo ago
I don't agree with you, but I think the interesting thing is that we'll both get to find out. In two or so years time, we can find out if heavily AI produced projects become more maintainable, ship more features and dominate the o
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by benrutter 4mo ago
I'm almost certainly missing something, but I'd love to be able to call await within a sync function. If I'm waiting on the async function, it feels like there's no need for it to "colour" my caller function
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by benrutter 5mo ago
My mum was a programmer (although that wasn't the term) back in the age of punch cards. I don't know how people programmed during this time. There was at least a day between handing something in and getting the results. I can&#x27
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by benrutter 5mo ago
Glad I read this! I love Helix and have been looking for a way to have some extra note taking features without loosing my favourite editor. Will definitely give markdown-oxide a try!
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by benrutter 5mo ago
Glad I read about this! I love helix and have been looking for some bonus features for note organisation without having to ditch my favourite editor, will defi
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by benrutter 5mo ago
Yeah, I thought it was an odd couple of recommendations. Alacritty is an awesome terminal emulator that'll run on Windows (although I'd say Windows Terminal is still pretty close to decent)
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by benrutter 5mo ago
> the actual dynamic fits fascinatingly well. This is such a good pairing! Part of the fun of the stories is that its never clear whether Jeeves' suggestions are genuis, or overconfident but insane japes, I feel like this dynamic pu
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by benrutter 5mo ago
> It's not like a calculator because LLM can solve very broad classes of problems I definitely buy this, as least somewhat. Personally I think it'd be a lot more helpful to talk about how "generalisable" a tool is, ra
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by benrutter 5mo ago
I should say that quote was referring to a calculator - I wasn't trying to stake a position on LLMs in that comment, more just pointing out that I think its consistent to think they're helpful without thinking they have AGI. There
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by benrutter 5mo ago
That's definitely a good approach. Although I get a little concerned about the resources put into convincing people that models (and especially Grok) are accurate. For example, X's "fact checked by Grok" approvals, whi
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by benrutter 5mo ago
Not OP, but I think the argument here would be not that LLMs "are not smart" but that smart is just the wrong category of thing to describe an LLM as. A calculator can do very complex sums very quickly, but we don't tend to c
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by benrutter 5mo ago
> Economy should improve allocation of resources universally, instead of allowing a handful to hold what many are lacking I 100% take your point here, but it's worth saying the modern economy has improved resource access in a lot of
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by benrutter 6mo ago
> Today, late optimization is just as bad as premature optimization, if not more so. I agree but I don't think this discredits the "premature optimisation is the root of all evil" thing, aside from the fact that it'
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by benrutter 6mo ago
> Cookies != Tracking, they can track you just fine without cookies That's probably true, but not what the articles reporting: > 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a user’s browser even if they opted out of trac
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by benrutter 6mo ago
Might be more google dependent than you're looking for, but I've been using Murena's /e/os (based in France) and it's working great for me.
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by benrutter 6mo ago
Any recommendations for good generative music to check out? I've always loved the idea, but know of Brian Eno's "Discrete Music" and that's about it.
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by benrutter 6mo ago
> Sadly, AI-generated imagery sort of killed the mojo of algorithmic art for me I used to (and occasionally still do) make generative art and found this too! Although I'm not really sure why - I still love good generative art and
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by benrutter 6mo ago
This is so true! I think as kids we naturally don't mind doing something creative and it not working out well, but as adults, we worry too much about seeming competent. In a career, seeming competent can be valuable, but for learning s

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