christiangenco

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by christiangenco 2mo ago
will they give me free tokens
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by christiangenco 3mo ago
My understanding of injecting money in education is that it's proven to be extremely ineffective at improving outcomes. Schools just hire more administrators and build nicer gyms.
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by christiangenco 8mo ago
Perhaps you could, but you probably always could've built a clone of any SaaS app you wanted, it's just become faster. I'm reminded of the infamous Dropbox Hacker News comment[1]. If you're looking at stuff like this t
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by christiangenco 10mo ago
Wow, what an exquisite piece of writing. The core idea of modernity's tendency to take a Good Thing and chop it up into tiny pieces and bind it into Something Resembling Good Thing[1] hit me hard. I've long felt a discomfort with
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by christiangenco 1y ago
To those who have everything more will be given; from those who have nothing everything will be taken.
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by christiangenco 1y ago
Looks like there's still no support for the M50. I hope with the revitalized development it's on the roadmap!
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by christiangenco 1y ago
Hah, I'm curious if this is legally possible. I've never seen that on any non-ThinkPad laptop.
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by christiangenco 1y ago
I'm with you on desktop but I've been craving some sort of way to interact with Claude Code from my phone while I'm out and about. What I want at the core is to be able to open up access to my laptop's currently running
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by christiangenco 1y ago
Preordered! I'm so excited; I had a pebble way back in the day and I remember liking the vibe of it way more than any Apple Watch/fitbit I've owned since. It feels the closest to the watch I would make if I made watches. Wher
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by christiangenco 1y ago
The world is a slot machine. There’s a reason intermittent rewards are so intoxicating to naturally evolved brains: exploiting systems that give intermittent rewards is a great resource acquisition strategy.
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by christiangenco 1y ago
I was surprised recently to see that gemini-cli[0] and codex[1] each have way more GitHub stars than Claude Code[3]. Currently 62k, 31k, and 25k respectively. Stars are only a proxy for use, of course, but I'm not sure what a closer pu
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by christiangenco 1y ago
> I would argue that there are very few benefits of AI, if any at all. What it actually does is create a prisoner's dilemma situation where some use it to become more efficient only because it makes them faster and then others do th
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by christiangenco 1y ago
I think the idea with unregistry is that you're still building somewhere else once but then instead of pushing everything to a registry once you push your unique layers directly to each server you're deploying.
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by christiangenco 1y ago
I think it'd be a perfect fit. We'll see what happens: https://github.com/basecamp/kamal/issues/1588
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by christiangenco 1y ago
I'm a big fan of Mochi[1] (also unaffiliated) after getting frustrated with the clunkiness of Anki. Mochi has great native apps on macOS and iOS (and maybe more?), the cards are formatted in markdown so I can generate them with LLMs wi
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by christiangenco 1y ago
I solve this problem with a system prompt in my LLMs[1]. ChatGPT is the main spot where I'm going to be trying to understand a new concept, so after groking it I'll ask it to make flashcards which I can then just copy and paste in
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by christiangenco 1y ago
I've had the same sort of difficulty with phrases like "most" or "almost all" or "hardly any"—I crave for these to map to unambiguous numbers like the probability yardstick referenced in this article. I sp
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by christiangenco 2y ago
My wife and I have a daughter in the demographic of these shows, though she's a little young for Bluey. There's a YouTube (and now Netflix) show called Ms. Rachel for a younger audience that I'd put in the same positive categ
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by christiangenco 2y ago
IMO it's all about privacy. Perhaps also availability if the main LLM providers start pulling shenanigans but it seems like that's not going to be a huge problem with how many big players are in the space. I think a great use case
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by christiangenco 2y ago
Hacker News is such a cool website. Hi thank you for writing this!
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by christiangenco 2y ago
I love this! I was similarly inspired by the Wait But Why article[1] and made a chrome plugin several years ago that shows this for my life every time I open a new Chrome window[2]. It's also a handy countdown for big events like vacat
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by christiangenco 2y ago
I freakin' love Sublime Text but the AI chat features of Cursor make all of the benefits in this post irrelevant. It's fast? Not as fast as an LLM. LSP code completion? Not as good as LLM completions aware of your entire codebase
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by christiangenco 2y ago
I'm new to ClickHouse. Why is this necessary? Isn't there a native way to do ClickHouse migrations?
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by christiangenco 2y ago
Television in particular seems ripe to be reallocated. Didn't we go through a whole analog-to-digital conversion over a decade ago that led to TV going through wires instead of through the air?
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by christiangenco 2y ago
> in my book that's as bad as it gets. In the book of world history things have been way worse[0]. In the book of world futures things could get way way worse[1]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%9
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by christiangenco 2y ago
This is neat! I have a few thoughts: - my intuitive sense of animals that are thin or fat is totally off. I think of cows as being fat (ex: "fat cow") but their body fat percentage is only 6%! I think of Gorillas being super fit a
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by christiangenco 2y ago
I think verbal abuse is terrible and should be prevented by the state, just not under the umbrella of limiting free speech. For me verbal abuse is in the same sort of category as rigging up a bomb to detonate when I've tweeted a keywor
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by christiangenco 2y ago
In my personal experience on X it seems like the platform has become way more tolerant of more types of speech from more diverse perspectives. I feel this change has been an improvement. I’m curious about accounts you’ve noticed get censore
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by christiangenco 2y ago
Oh that was fascinating! Thank you for bringing those standards up—it seems like the US legal system landed in a similar place as my intuition. “Imminent Lawless Action” is where I’d also draw the line.
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by christiangenco 2y ago
I've been thinking a lot recently about where I would personally draw the line on what sorts of speech should be criminal. If someone publicly called for specific violence (ex: "let's all meet at Joe's house to burn it d

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