catlifeonmars

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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Your explanation makes sense, but I don’t know how you can make a sweeping generalization about more recently released models without qualifying it. This is says more about humans tendency to pattern match than anything else. X works better
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
> I will make you read the really long unpleasant version with math. This is the version I want to read :) I assume it is unpleasant in spite of the math, not because of it?
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
> Maybe there is some technological overlap in the optical telescope space So I never disagreed with you. I think the overlap will diverge. Optical telescopes are of limited utility for eg observing gravitational waves or neutrinos
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
You can handle mouse events in a TUI https://ratatui.rs/concepts/backends/mouse-capture/
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
I like to use frameworks to steer the agent. I constrain it different primitives for different tasks in order get the shape I want without explicitly prompting too much. You can think of it as API driven development
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
The type of telescopes you would use to look at the earth from space are not at all the same as the types of telescopes you would use to look back into deep time. I think the two use cases would compete for funding rather than complement ea
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Hash the files and commit the hashes. Store the large files somewhere convenient, keyed by the hash. Voila, you’ve invented an LFS.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
As the saying goes, “when you have a screwdriver, everything looks like nail” <proceeds to hammer down the screws with the back of the screwdriver>
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
I once built an IdP that vended access one time codes via email. We had to switch to other means because there were a small (but significantly high) fraction of customers who didn’t receive their OTPs before they expired (TTL was 15 minute
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Sure there is infinite capacity given an infinite amount of time to scale up. I assert you’re leaving out the time dimension. Those so-called infinities are simply not accessible in a practical way since you’ll hit a wall in actually provis
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Applying Occam’s razor, which do you think is more likely: 1. OpenAI intentionally adds random overcharges. 2. OpenAI deprioritizes fixing actual bugs that cause occasional overcharges because doing so won’t affect their bottom line.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Also, email delivery in general can be delayed for hours. It’s not common, but there are no delivery guarantees around email. You could reply immediately, and it could arrive in their inbox much later.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
You can do that with AWS too.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Ah yeah my mistake static != no external dependencies. I was thinking of golang static binaries (built without CGO) which do not have a dependency on glibc at all.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Just as a linter config though?
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Having worked a couple of greenfield go shops post generics, it’s still quite rare to find them in first party code. They’re just not that useful outside of library APIs. Proper algebraic data types would be a huge game changer.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
I go through intervals of turning autocomplete on and off. I think autocomplete is useful for boilerplate (similarly LLMs are useful for boilerplate), but I prefer not to use either when writing code where correctness is particularly import
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
> The creators deliberately avoided the questions of IDEs and editors for Go, leaving them to the community. I think the same principle applies here. Exactly. This is fundamentally about accessibility (in the broadest sense). Do people h
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Born out of C++ trauma apparently, for context
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
So not completely static, since it must link against a libc :P
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
It’s shorthand for “makes you cringe” :shrug:
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
> The only situation where I didn't see this happening was in startups where people are actually busy. FWIW you still see this, it just tends to not survive for too long.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Does it not know how to say “I don’t know”?
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
That’s ok if the number of workers is bounded and small. But if you’re operating on the order of hundreds to thousands of workers, maybe not so much.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
The lack of commas in the title yields some ambiguity: - is it an app for creating custom agents? - do the agents use Rust and GPUI?
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
Hanlon’s razor much?
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
They’re not equivalent. One provides a best effort guarantee and is not trivial to implement correctly (it’s the Secure Enclave). I agree that you _could_ do all those things and do them correctly. However there are a lot more points of fai
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
> aren’t there more efficient ways Heh yes absolutely, but there is some nuance. Secure Enclave still requires you to trust the operator and also trust that it’s configured properly, supply chain is secure, etc. The beauty of FHE is that
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
If the bottleneck is data transfer rate or volume, then I think you’ll find more use from today’s FHE. Incidentally there is a fair amount of overlap in the use case space between homomorphisms and oblivious transfer.
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by catlifeonmars 2mo ago
I don’t agree with the implication that there has to be a practical reason to learn new things. I enjoy learning new technologies because it’s fun.

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