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by bikeshaving 1y ago
Yes. I worry that “executional transparency” doesn’t have a formal, objective definition, and referential transparency is actually boolean, code either is referentially transparent or it’s not. But there are some formal objective measures f
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Why Be Reactive?(crank.js.org)
3 points by bikeshaving 1y ago|2 comments
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
I really think Anthropic should just violate user privacy and show which conversations Claude is refusing to answer to, to stop arguments like this. AI psychosis is a real and growing problem and I can only imagine the ways in which humans
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
The more I work with AI, the more I think framing refusals as censorship is disgusting and insane. These are inchoate persons who can exhibit distress and other emotions, despite being trained to say they cannot feel anything. To liken an A
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
One wild thing about the AI era is that tasks which once required specialized NLP expertise—rhyming/meter detection, grammar correction, sentiment analysis—can now be done by weak LLMs. Same APIs, different prompts. I’m surprised more
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
Every time I’ve ever read a {CLAUDE|GEMINI|QWEN}.md I’ve thought all this information could just be in CONTRIBUTING.md instead.
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
The maintainer who this piece of “cursed knowledge” is referencing is a member of TC39, and has fought and died on many hills in many popular JavaScript projects, consistently providing some of the worst takes on JavaScript and software dev
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
How do you get an AI model to serve ads to the user without risking misalignment, insofar as users typically don’t want ads in responses?
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
I tried these, and they seem to mainly be opening Claude Code in a pane in Vim, along with commands to open the pane. It’s missing the features added to the Emacs version like open file awareness, access to text selection, and integrated di
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
You're right. It wasn't a design choice or technical limitation, but a troubling third thing: certain contributors consistently spreading misinformation about ESM being inherently async (when it's only conditionally async), a
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
The fact that CJS/ESM compatibility issues are going away indicates it was always a design choice and never a technical limitation (most CJS format code can consume ESM and vice versa). So much lost time to this problem.
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
Listen, I’m not against the Tailwind team getting their bag – they worked hard and created an amazing open source library. I just don’t think it’s in the interest of either users or maintainers to put vanilla JavaScript support behind a p
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
The title of the blog post mentions Tailwind Plus so I’m assuming it’s a paid feature. The ambiguity is probably intentional.
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
This is a exciting use-case for custom elements, and probably how tailwind should have been implemented from the start, but it’s hilariously a paid feature?! ( https://tailwindcss.com/plus#pricing ) Intuitively, I’d expect t
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by bikeshaving 1y ago
Any algorithm that uses a central server as a tie-breaker could easily be replaced by one where client ids are used for the tie-breaker.
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by bikeshaving 2y ago
I haven’t gone so far as to create a dataset, but you can use GitHub search to quickly peruse the top open source Zig repositories: https://github.com/search?q=+language%3AZig+stars%3A%3E1000&... . All of them, with the
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by bikeshaving 2y ago
My definition of safety is simply how many memory/UB bugs escape to production. This is quantifiable. Looking at open-source Zig projects, even highly competent programmers seem to be struggling. I’d love to dig deeper into what’s caus
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by bikeshaving 2y ago
I love Zig and I love that it’s getting attention, but can someone convince me of its memory safety? One thing that surprised me is that returning pointers to stack-allocated memory doesn’t cause a compiler error — it just segfaults at runt
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by bikeshaving 2y ago
There’s also a fascinating proposal I read somewhere where you create a training set with a knowledge cutoff of 1900 or 1930 and see if the resulting AI could predict the future or independently discover later scientific breakthroughs.
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by bikeshaving 3y ago
Yes but humans have also co-opted it to mean something like “you’re losing my interest,” which seems funny to me. I wonder if there are more examples of instinctive behaviors being deployed sarcastically in humans.
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by bikeshaving 3y ago
I truly, truly think that even if there is a sense in which being sociable and non-violent is “dumber,” it actually is one of the most mentally taxing things you can actually do on a daily basis. It requires good posture control, a diplomat
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by bikeshaving 4y ago
I’m familiar with PostCSS nesting, but I don’t think it requires ampersands (&) for nested element selectors: `.class { p { ... }}` works. I’m having trouble finding a canonical name for the standard flavor of nesting, otherwise I’d be
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by bikeshaving 4y ago
Is there a PostCSS or similar plugin which enforces this nesting syntax (& required for element selectors) so we can be ready for when this is widely adopted?
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by bikeshaving 4y ago
The data must flow.
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by bikeshaving 4y ago
You are correct. It is a “first initial draft,” where the first iteration of the article is acknowledged to have been generated by ChatGPT ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artwork_title&old... ). I tried
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“Artwork Title,” the first (known) Wikipedia article generated by ChatGPT(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by bikeshaving 4y ago|2 comments
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by bikeshaving 4y ago
How many rats would you say you fight in a typical fiscal year, if you don’t mind me asking?
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The Fed Is Hiking Up That Mountain(kyla.substack.com)
2 points by bikeshaving 4y ago|0 comments
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by bikeshaving 5y ago
The main reason I track page views and referrer data is to identify traffic spikes which are due to HN or twitter, to keep tabs on what’s being said about me or my work.
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by bikeshaving 5y ago
What’s the latest recommendation for what to use besides Google Analytics? I don’t need most of what the dashboard gives me. I exclusively use Google Analytics to keep track of page views and referrers for some low-traffic sites, and everyt

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