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by cruffle_duffle 7mo ago
Sorting Lego is such a pain in the ass. I have like a huge stash from when I was a kid. Back then we just had it all in a few tubs and dug to find a part. But somehow now I feel I must sort them… but the “right way” is ill defined and kind
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by cruffle_duffle 7mo ago
I mean, the person above complaining about it not being able to create a simple thing is absolutely holding them wrong! They aren’t feeding the right context, aren’t using the correct tools or harnesses, who knows. But the problem exists b
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by cruffle_duffle 7mo ago
You mean Micro$lop or the classic M$?
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
I mean for one thing your garden variety LLM had been substantially trained to handle Django. That is less context for it to bootstrap every time you summon it. Just like rolling your shitty homebrew framework is a bad idea because only you
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
I mean docs are largely written for an LLM-in-a-harness. That’s how it goes! If the LLM bootstraps with the right understanding of the universe and knows how to quickly build specific context flavors… life is good.
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
“right-wing rage bait” Assuming you mean crap like “school book bans”, climate change denialism, or some dude coal rolling… You realize that is actually bait targeted at you specifically right? It wouldn’t work as bait if it was shit you ag
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
It’s HN. People create new accounts here all the time to protect their anonymity.
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
That sort of rage bait is literally targeted to rile up people sitting on the opposite side of the kind of people watching that other media site that rhymes with socks. It’s all fake bullshit algorithmically optimized to divide. Everybody t
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
> never threatened democracy The beautiful part is how non-partisan this is. It cooks all minds regardless of tribe.
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
More like a flu in terms of IFR but yeah.
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
Step one: you have to know to ask that. Nobody in that orbit knows how to do that. And these aren’t dumb people. They just aren’t devs.
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
The number of non-technical people in my orbit that could successfully pull up Claude code and one shot a basic todo app is zero. They couldn’t do it before and won’t be able to now. They wouldn’t even know where to begin!
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
3d printing is something I think about. LLMs do their best work against text and 3d printers consume gcode. I’ve had sonnet spit out perfectly good single layer test prints. Obviously it won’t have the context window to hold much more gc
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
New metric: agent-hours spent on a task. Or so we measure in tokens. Clearly more tokens burned == more experience right?
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
Honestly responses like this should just be straight blocked by the moderators. They are so super lame and go directly against the rules.
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
The more I dive into this space the more I think that developers will still be in heavy demand—just operating in a different level of abstraction most of the time. We will need to know our CS fundamentals, experience will still matter, juni
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
Those people are absolutely going to get left in the dust. In the hands of a skilled dev, these things are massive force multipliers.
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
> This one, in a way, is the ultimate abstraction. Is that really true though? I hear the Mythical Man Month "no silver bullet" in my head.... It's definitely a hell of an abstraction, but I'm not sure it's the
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
> If you've ever enjoyed the sci-fi genre, do you think the people in those stories are writing C and JavaScript? To go off the deep end… I actually think this LLM assistant stuff is a precondition to space exploration. I can see th
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
All I’m going to say is if your press release is titled “an update on heroku” instead if something exciting it means you aren’t delivering happy news that is good for the user. I bet I’m right. Haven’t read the article or comments, I’m jus
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
That is so annoying too because it basically throws away all the work the subagent did. Another thing that annoys me is the subagents never output durable findings unless you explicitly tell their parent to prompt the subagent to “write the
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by cruffle_duffle 8mo ago
Did you point that out to one of them… like “hey bro, I’ve asked y’all this question in multiple threads and get wildly different answers. Why?” And the answer is probably because there is no such thing as an ideal temperature for waterfow
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by cruffle_duffle 9mo ago
"Except that this lets OpenAI gain research data and scientific ideas by stealing from their users, using their huge mass surveillance platform. So, tremendous overlap." Even if what you say is completely untrue (and who really kn
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by cruffle_duffle 9mo ago
As a datapoint, when I read this headline, the very first thing i thought of as "wasn't PRISM some NSA shit? Is OpenAI working with the NSA now?" It's a horrible name for any product coming out of a company like OpenAI.
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by cruffle_duffle 9mo ago
Why though? polars sounds like the rewrite! It’s okay to cycle into a new library. Let pandas do its thing and polars slowly take over as new projects overtake. There is nothing wrong with this and it happens all the time. Like jquery, w
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by cruffle_duffle 9mo ago
Why are you on a technology site?
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by cruffle_duffle 9mo ago
$99/month plus tax is a pretty fucking steep price for any kind of subscription! Holy cow!
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by cruffle_duffle 9mo ago
As a paid YouTube subscriber, I’ve always wondered if that skip was only for us. It would be kind of bullshit if it was also for ad-based free viewers too as it would imply that google is free to show you ads they make hard to skip but they
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by cruffle_duffle 9mo ago
You’re not getting $4 lunch bowls in Seattle when minimum wage is more than $20/hr. You aren’t getting affordable anything when labor is so expensive. (You also aren’t getting your 16 year old their first job either when labor costs m
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by cruffle_duffle 9mo ago
We are going to have to rethink power for smart dust. Like consider that no creature out there is powered by batteries. From the biggest land animal to the smallest microbe it’s all chemistry. Maybe the smart dust will have to eat microbes

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