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by bob1029 2mo ago
If America went dark I think parts of it would be OK. ERCOT and hurricanes have forced quite a bit of resilience throughout my region. I know of multiple people in the TX hill country with thousands of gallons of buried propane on site and
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Virtually no one in tech seems interested in doing what Jobs suggested despite the level of success he delivered. Telling an average developer to work backward from the customer will generally be met with a foul mood. Especially when that c
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by bob1029 2mo ago
I am noticing a fairly mundane trend in that the GitHub outages tend to coincide with periods of (likely) high demand. This feels to me like a capacity issue more than a software bug crisis. At 4am on Saturdays GitHub never has any problems
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by bob1029 2mo ago
I've decided it's "good enough" after I saw it properly quote a string of text that was very roughly highlighted within a nested visual context. It also identified the context correctly (modal inside webapp inside screen
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US10217655B2/en
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by bob1029 2mo ago
> And contamination would be a real problem at this scale Copper is a monster. It's basically plague rats for a fab. You essentially have to split every line into two logical islands (Cu and non-Cu). This automatically complicates a
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It's probably a lower resolution timestamp (seconds/minutes omitted).
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The reason is because they need one product to cover 100% of their customer base. Combinatorics get nasty real fast at these scales.
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by bob1029 2mo ago
This could be an intentional design feature regarding power loss to critical reactor control systems. Rig N+2 control rods with an actively powered electromechanical retaining mechanism. In any kind of serious electrical issue occurs on the
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by bob1029 2mo ago
If you use an air rower like the C2, you can adjust the damper to control the simulated drag profile. Fully open is like rowing through sand. The most constricted setting you can keep spooled up with very little effort. The important part i
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If you are worried about injury risk with sprinting, you could consider rowing. > Physiologists, in fact, have calculated that rowing a two-thousand meter race — the Olympic standard — takes the same physiological toll as playing two bas
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> Where agents currently stumble, however, is in treating each other as more like distinct, long-lived peers, with their own goals and behaviors, and no clear hierarchy between them. I believe this will always be the case. The "no c
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I've been working on an enterprise chat bot for a client for about half a year now. I couldn't help but notice that the parts of their technical team who were adamant about supporting anthropic's models (in addition to or opp
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The benefit of engaging with a project like this is that you gain a very plausible set of excuses that can be leveraged when you find out that making the game is the actual hard part. Firing up godot/unity/unreal eliminates an ent
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by bob1029 2mo ago
I know the point is to minimize JS here, but have we ever considered sending raw JS over the socket? JavaScript can be a lot more compact than the final DOM that it affects. Dynamic JavaScript is much more interesting than dynamic html. SSR
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Hand-crafted adapters that sit between playwright primitives and the agent loop are the secret sauce. The goal is to insulate the agent from the raw DOM without any loss in fidelity regarding the logical business information and available a
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by bob1029 2mo ago
I am seeing essentially deterministic results with Terra running a custom browser automation agent across >100 interaction events. The harness is everything. If I just threw something like Codex at this and said "good luck" I w
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by bob1029 2mo ago
When I did this I just used a custom token in visual studio and then looked at the logs in the provider's web UI. I don't think they care very much about this. The encrypted blobs for reasoning models is a different matter.
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How about dictionary based compression as a counter example? Or the zig zag encoding scheme used in JPEG? I find it difficult to cast some of the things that effectively compress data as prediction.
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I am slowly turning around on the idea of opaque reasoning tokens. In principle, yes, I want total control and visibility into the reasoning process. In practice, I find that it takes up so much time to DIY reasoning agents that I can'
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by bob1029 2mo ago
It's definitely more about the ecosystem than the language at this point. I think the most important thing is how big the standard library is. Pulling in 3rd party dependencies is where I begin to lose a lot of faith with LLM authored
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I think a lot of people are sleeping on the advantages of "batteries included" ecosystems. The need to select an appropriate 3rd party library represents an entire dimension of the search space that can be eliminated. Imagine havi
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I have found it is roughly an order of magnitude cheaper to cook at home, even once you factor in the "lost" time. The amount of time required to prepare incrementally larger batches increases at a sub-linear rate. The bigger your
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> How much does OpenAI actually control the way the data centers are built and deployed? Assuming OAI is the sole tenant in these facilities, I'd say we are approaching 100% control.
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Even if you are cooking with electric, you should have some kind of extraction setup. Most of the problems I see with gas cooking is when it's done in a poorly ventilated space. Deep frying is like a chemical vapor deposition machine.
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I think another way to do this would be to develop a proper physical simulation that foregoes any notion of realtime. It can take 24 hours to bake 5 minutes of CRT output. We use the simulator to generate test data that can be used to train
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> interior insulation How to live like a king. Putting material like rockwool in the dead spaces can make an incredible difference in acoustic performance.
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The sandboxing problem is perhaps the greatest justification for doing agent integration via existing human interfaces rather than low level shell access. Granting access to shell is a super obvious path (it's easy) so I can understand
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Browser automation + LLM agents + human curation. The naive approach has the LLM interacting with the DOM using raw locators and javascript. If a human curates all logical views of the DOM and exposes tools that are only relevant for each,

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