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by chaboud 8mo ago
Possibly, but Waymos have recently been much more aggressive about blowing through situations where human drivers can (and generally do) slow down. As a motorcyclist, I've had some close calls with Waymos driving on the wrong side o
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by chaboud 9mo ago
Next time you're vibe coding something, have the system generate a mermaid diagram to show its understanding. Though visual generation can be hard for models, structure/topology in formats like mermaid is pretty gettable. I'v
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by chaboud 9mo ago
BMW and Toyota have famously used bio-derived insulation reported to be like catnip for rodents. The bio-oil plasticizers also migrate out more quickly in thermal cycling than the old dead dinosaurs approach. Hilariously, when I asked my me
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by chaboud 9mo ago
Having come from graphics in the 90's, practical high-performance answers typically involve fakery on both primary surface shading and shadow calculation. I've pulled some tricks like "object-pre-pufficiation" (low-frequ
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by chaboud 9mo ago
Someone will end up writing "Scholastic Parrots"...
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by chaboud 9mo ago
There's a link to the author's work here: https://github.com/mavdol/capsule (From the article) Appears to be CPython running inside of wasmtime
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by chaboud 9mo ago
If you have reliability and accuracy (big if) then the practical usability and cost become performance problems. And this is a bit of a sliding scale. Of course users want the best possible answer. However, if they can get 80% (magic han
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by chaboud 9mo ago
I don't know if there's a named law, but the word for not knowing and believing that something remembered is a novel idea is "cryptomnesia". Knowing that you know something by teaching is Feynman's method of underst
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by chaboud 9mo ago
Huh... they better build some readily-available hyper-powerful infrastructure, pronto, or that next election could hand power to folks that don't have the best interest of the country in mind: https://thedreydossier.substack
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by chaboud 9mo ago
I love that I can now just drop the link to this gem: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1165555.1165556 Aggregability is NP-Hard... Useful the next time someone insists that it's possible to find a "perfect
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by chaboud 10mo ago
I had the opportunity to meet with folks from Histosonics at a Canopy Cancer Collective (pancreas cancer focused group - https://canopycancer.org/ ) annual meeting a couple of years ago. They had shown very promising result
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by chaboud 10mo ago
Your last point is the stronger one. Live events, including sports, are a heavy driver of these subscriptions. Another is broadband deployment. Choice is low in many parts of the country, and bundled service offerings are frequently price
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by chaboud 10mo ago
In various sectors, you need to be able to explain why you/your-system did what it did. Exchange Act Rule 15c3-5 is probably the most relevant in financial circles: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-17/chapt
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by chaboud 11mo ago
"without shit" translated... "Scared them shitless" in faux franglais. Probably something like this would be close to the same colloquial meaning (I'm not familiar with any pants-shitting slang in French): EncroChat
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by chaboud 11mo ago
Well, this is THE Bay Area, where we live in THE city, drive on THE 101, and eat in THE Chinatown.... wait... Funny enough, though, it wasn't until I moved here 15+ years ago that it struck me how odd it is to call it "the Bay Are
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by chaboud 11mo ago
Oh man. This system prompt is everything I'm looking for in my coding agents. This shit should be fun. Let it be fun!
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by chaboud 11mo ago
The shop will. It can be a lot of money in aggregate. It also creates really pathological purchasing incentives, where spreading out large purchases over several small purchases can yield significant savings for the purchaser. There's
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by chaboud 11mo ago
“For all the history of computational mathematical visualization, graphing equations has been done in binary mode...” Intentional or not, the linked article opens with a comically untrue statement, that, because it is verifiably false, does
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by chaboud 11mo ago
If the URL is your state container, it also becomes a leakage mechanism of internals that, at the very least, turns into a versioning requirement (so an old bookmark won’t break things). That also means that there’s some degree of implicit
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Show HN: I didn't make a costume, so I had AI do it(chaboud.github.io)
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by chaboud 11mo ago
https://chaboud.github.io/costuma/site/basic-costume.html It's a simple quick-and-dirty vibe-coded "virtual costume" static site that hopefully makes up for having phoned it in this year. https:&#x
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by chaboud 11mo ago
It's possible to be exposed to, and understand, high end things. I've had $2000+ bottles of wine, listened to music on $100k+ speakers, driven $500k+ cars, seen Keith Jarrett Trio at Montreux, had cat-shit coffee, etc. And I'
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by chaboud 1y ago
I’ve been using AI coding systems for quite some time, and have worked in neural networks since the 90’s. The advancements are, frankly, almost as crazy as 90’s neural net devotees like me were claiming could be possible in the eventual fu
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by chaboud 1y ago
I agree. It’s pretty easy to put-up or shut up. I recently vibe coded a video analysis pipeline with some related arduino-driven machine control. It was work to prototype an experience on some 3D printed hardware I’ve been skunking out. By
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by chaboud 1y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Emacs is a spreadsheet, photo editor, toaster oven, or hair stylist. For the right people, it’s a desert-island app.
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by chaboud 1y ago
I thought this was a joke about two things having the same name… nope! One funny thing about software is that beautiful things can emerge from the most unexpected places. I appreciate that there are folks out there with the bravery to shar
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by chaboud 1y ago
Funny enough, that’s what photographers are doing when they shoot a color checker chart (e.g., Munsell, Macbeth, X-Rite). White balance is hard, in part, because the sensitivity bands of our vision and the camera sensors do not align. Take
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by chaboud 1y ago
Making the text on the page not selectable is chef’s kiss good.
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by chaboud 1y ago
That sounds quite a bit like fraud.
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by chaboud 1y ago
Note how I structure my problem solving questions to be progressive and adjustable, both up and down. This gives me room to simplify and get the candidate to a place where they can show me something (candidates who truly come up goose eg

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