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by com2kid 1y ago
I did embedded work for years. A 100mhz CPU with 1 cycle SRAM latency and a bare metal OS can do as much as a 600MHZ CPU hitting DRAM running a preemptive OS. Specialized tools rock .
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by com2kid 1y ago
Information in an LLM exists in two places: 1. Embedded in the parameters 2. Within the context window We all talk a lot about #2, but until we get a really good grip on #1, I think we as a field are going to hit a progress wall. The proble
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by com2kid 1y ago
> In reality, outside of their major (and sometimes inside it too), students usually pick the absolute easiest classes that satisfy the requirements. In reality, no one eats healthy food, everyone eats fast food hamburgers all day. Just
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by com2kid 1y ago
> I think it would be a waste of this girl's time to be forced to learn about and write about random subjects that don't interest her. This is a common STEM view, but it is inherently wrong. IMHO it dates back to the unfortunat
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by com2kid 1y ago
Outside of code, the current RAG strategy is throw shit tons of unstructured text at it that has been found using vector search. Some companies are doing better, but the default rag pipelines are... kind of garbage. For example, a chat bot
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by com2kid 1y ago
I don't watch TV or listen to the radio. I pay for YT premium so no ads there. Ad block removes removes most of the rest.
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by com2kid 1y ago
This is some real parallel world stuff. I don't think I've ever seen an ad for online gambling, nor do I know of anyone who participates in sports betting. Super weird that apparently 1/3rd of the country does it but exactly
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by com2kid 1y ago
You are technically correct that processed foods are no less healthy than any other foods. However they are engineered to be hyper palatable, meaning they taste way better than other foods and they will not satiate you even after eating and
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by com2kid 1y ago
Nit: MSG is naturally occuring in a lot of foods.
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by com2kid 1y ago
YT premium has higher bit rates and sponsor block built in, but they don't call it that or advertise that it even exists. Instead they say it allows you to "skip commonly skipped segments of video" but basically it is sponsor
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by com2kid 1y ago
This is true to an extent and I'm very fond of the saying, but beyond a certain point you can indeed outrun a bad diet. I used to spend ~4 hours a day training martial arts (kickboxing, BJJ, etc) during which time I could eat almost an
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by com2kid 1y ago
This is already the business model for chargers in other countries. Heck long haul truck stops have used this model for decades. Figure that super chargers are mostly for people on road trips who have just driven 3+ hours, this makes perfec
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by com2kid 1y ago
As everyone else has said, semver. I use semver so often that my initial reading of 9.9 < 9.11 in a Hacker News comment would evaluate to true.
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by com2kid 1y ago
I'd argue that many CLI tools output too much log spew by default and rely on making humans take up the burden of parsing through masses of output to find the one useful line. For another example of where this is a problem, look at any
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by com2kid 1y ago
Honestly if we are using a perfectly phonical system, I feel the correct answer would be to spell it however your local dialect pronounces it. For my Pacific Northwest accent, either pronunciation works fine.
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by com2kid 1y ago
> They've just done the work to tailor it specifically for proper tool using during coding. Once other models catch up, they will not be able to be so stingy on limits. I don't subscribe to the $100 a month plan, I am paying AP
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by com2kid 1y ago
Lightning.ai gives free CPU only dev boxes, I just run Claude code on one of those.
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by com2kid 1y ago
Soundspel is my personal favorite proposal, it is easy for existing English readers to read, I suspect only a few hours would be needed to come to to full speed. With most text being read on a screen now days, phones and computers could hav
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by com2kid 1y ago
My son is playing Reader Rabbit from 2001 on my Windows 10 laptop. I had to clock "enable 640x480" compatibility mode and I need to directly run the EXE (the wrapper launcher doesn't work) but otherwise it works fine.
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by com2kid 1y ago
I see other users conversations on my Gemini dashboard, not sure who to even complain to. Software quality is... Minimal now days.
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by com2kid 1y ago
Except we are experts on programming, and on the development and deployment of new technologies. "Large group of experts software engineers have informes opinions on software engineering" isn't exactly a controversial headlin
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Come back in a week and update us on how long you've spent debugging all the ways that the code was broken that you didn't notice in those 15 minutes. Same as if I let a junior engineer merge code to main w/o unit tests.
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by com2kid 1y ago
Computers ruined entry level jobs for a lot of people. Heck Outlook and PowerPoint put a lot of people out of work. Personal secretary used to be a solid reliable job for many women. Art teams used to exist to make real life presentations
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by com2kid 1y ago
Here is mine: I had never used pydantic before, but I know TS very well. "Here is a Typescript type, explain how it would be expressed in Pydantic and the differences in what each type system is able to express." Boom, instant edu
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by com2kid 1y ago
All of those studies have been torn apart in detail, often right here on HN. > So while it may be a fun toy for senior devs that know what to look for, it actually makes them slower and stupider, making them progressively less capable to
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by com2kid 1y ago
The alternative is to jump through a bunch of hoops to hide the "coloring" behind some opaque abstraction that is complicated and that will still get in the way when things go wrong. Everyone complained when async IO was done with
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Isn't "coloring" just another form of static typing? Yes, and so is declaring what exceptions a function can throw (checked exceptions in Java). > Why is it bad to have functions annotated with this meta data? The fun
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Are we at a stage where an LLM (assuming it doesn't find the solution on its own, which is ok) would come back to me and say, listen, I've tried your approach but I've run into this particular difficulty, Not really. Wha
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by com2kid 1y ago
> but even small SUV are getting 30-40 mpg nowadays. The Pacific Northwest begs to differ. With all the hills in Seattle my subcompact 1.6L Turbo barely got 20MPG driving around like a grandma. Our electricity is cheap, but I drive less
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by com2kid 1y ago
For greeting cards, 300dpi is fine. For photos, the paper makes a huge difference, 1200 dpi on cheap paper is trash, 600 DPI on high quality photo paper looks good. In the race for bigger numbers we lost out on reliability so now we have no

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