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by burnto 4mo ago
Wow so technology doing tasks for people has an effect of diminishing their skill at those tasks. Truly unprecedented.
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by burnto 4mo ago
This is how regulation will look someday.
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by burnto 4mo ago
Yep, exiftool is great for CLI use, but in a production pipeline a library is the way to go over shelling out.
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by burnto 4mo ago
Hm, so it’s almost like the corporation is not an ideal format for long-lived values driven institutions?
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The Device Paradigm [pdf](web.cs.ucdavis.edu)
1 points by burnto 4mo ago|0 comments
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Appreciating Exif(brentfitzgerald.com)
186 points by burnto 4mo ago|36 comments
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by burnto 4mo ago
These are lovely
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by burnto 4mo ago
I had received four very different bids for a home repair project. Just wildly different itemization breakdowns, costs, timelines, scopes, even formats. Opus helped me turn it into an apples-apples comparison, filled in missing areas with r
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by burnto 4mo ago
Yeah I feel like I’ve learned a lot from superpowers. It’s such a thoughtfully developed skillset.
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by burnto 4mo ago
The software generalist described in this post has domain expertise as well. In software. If you’re a great generalist software engineer today, you aren’t jumping to some random domain to escape AI. Software is your domain. You’re sticking
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Starting a VM from a macOS sandbox: Seatbelt allow rules for virtualization(brentfitzgerald.com)
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by burnto 5mo ago
I think a lot of us aren’t rational about it. I tend to feel excited about changes for which productivity is a side effect, even if it’s not my motivation. It’s hard to say no to extending my capabilities and insulating myself from the more
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by burnto 5mo ago
My thinking tends to be that our standard work week is an equilibrium among a few different forces. We’re motivated by social norms, capital markets, and biological needs and wants. In places like the U.S. the market forces have been powerf
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by burnto 5mo ago
Computer fun is inversely proportional to number of investors.
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Messing with Chrome's Local Gemini Nano to Deobfuscate LinkedIn Posts(brentfitzgerald.com)
1 points by burnto 5mo ago|1 comments
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by burnto 5mo ago
Or in other words: I made an extension to dumb down my professional network and unexpectedly found real human feelings
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by burnto 5mo ago
I’ve been playing with nanoclaw since it came out, which has similar use cases to openclaw. I initially set it up to monitor various news sources for me about specific theses I’ve had. I had it grooming its growing knowledge base, trying to
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by burnto 5mo ago
I read this and feel happier for it. Keep it up OP! I like imagining a world where more people are curious, kind, and open to connecting.
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by burnto 5mo ago
I think there’s also perhaps an organizational explanation. A reasonable TUI can be built without any design or frontend people even looped in. Collaboration and coordination tend to slow down processes and flatten outputs.
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by burnto 5mo ago
Is this an investment that disease and genetics researchers believe will be valuable? Or is this primarily tax deductible funds flowing back into the AI industrial complex? (Honest question! If it’s a truly promising path that’s great)
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by burnto 6mo ago
Thank you, Zed team, for creating Zed. It’s clearly a labor of love, and I really want Zed to work for me. It seems like a quality project, it’s fast, and the base editor is easy to use. I gave it weeks though, and the surrounding UI just n
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by burnto 6mo ago
Yes I’ve noticed this as well! Now whenever I get a question of this format, I just relax the constraint.
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by burnto 6mo ago
Yeah writing out code by hand made me slow down and think more. One thing I recall is that the grading policy made it very clear that minor syntax issues were inconsequential in handwritten answers. And more advanced classes only wanted pse
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by burnto 6mo ago
I’m guessing we’re similar vintage. My CS classes were like this as well. The only exception is that when I got into grad level classes we did have some big programming projects. But most of that programming happened on sparc stations, and
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by burnto 6mo ago
I want to defend my hometown a bit: most people who live in and around SF have nothing to do with any of this crap. SF is a diverse city of many ages, nationalities, and values. It is not a “high school,” not a tech scene, not a glib bunch
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by burnto 6mo ago
Evolution itself has some skeptics among the religious right.
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by burnto 6mo ago
Yes the publish-distribute delay pattern looks like a reasonable design. But you’re not a “free-rider” if you intentionally let others leap before you. You’re just being cautious, which is rational behavior and should be baked into assumpti
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by burnto 6mo ago
My iPhone 13 can’t run most of these models. A decent local LLM is one of the few reasons I can imagine actually upgrading earlier than typically necessary.
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by burnto 6mo ago
This is ridiculous and I’m into it.
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by burnto 6mo ago
I appreciate this idea. I don’t think it fits our current mental model of the web (or mobile), which makes it thought provoking. If you squint, it’s like the optimistic Web 2.0 era of open APIs expecting a bunch of various UIs and mashups t

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