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by cvwright 7mo ago
Or maybe this is like fondly remembering the busted economy car that you drove around with your friends? I have my first 386DX sitting on my desk right now and it looks exactly like the top left of that photo. The hot car that we all lus
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by cvwright 7mo ago
You’re not wrong, but you probably could have built the thing with Claude in the time it took you to write this comment.
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by cvwright 7mo ago
The closest thing we have is, in security / privacy / cryptography, you can write "attack" papers. It's not perfect. You don't get any credit unless you can demonstrate a substantial break of the prior work. Bu
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by cvwright 8mo ago
Several people have tried over the years. We all failed, because it doesn’t work. The economics don’t work because no one is willing to pay. The network effect doesn’t exist, because real people don’t post enough to get the flywheel starte
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by cvwright 8mo ago
Very likely they got the causality backwards. Every time there’s a big war, technology advances because governments pour resources into it.
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by cvwright 8mo ago
Just burn the tokens. It’s an upfront cost that you pay once at the beginning of a project, or on a smaller scale at the beginning of a major feature. For context, I’ve built about 15k loc since Christmas on the $20 plan, plus $18 of extra
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by cvwright 8mo ago
It’s really not. For anything substantial, the things that you do to manage an LLM are the same things that you should be doing to manage a team of human devs, even if the team is just yourself. Documentation. Comments. Writing a plan and&
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by cvwright 8mo ago
Having someone else pay for your national defense for 80 years sure doesn’t hurt.
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by cvwright 8mo ago
What an understatement :) It’s a lovely language but the compiler has got to be the most unreliable I’ve ever seen. It crashes semi-frequently. And it will sometimes try to run analyses that are way beyond O(n). So you can have perfectly
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by cvwright 8mo ago
They made a couple of Intel boxes in the very late 90s / very early 00s, but the company was already on the way out by that point.
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by cvwright 8mo ago
I think Claude’s estimates are biased towards huge enterprise projects. I asked it to estimate a timeline for a feature in my hobby project and it confidently replied, “4.5 weeks to code completion”. Less than 4 hours later, the feature was
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by cvwright 9mo ago
By that logic, the European members who didn’t meet their defense spending obligations for years and years have already left NATO too.
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by cvwright 9mo ago
Unfortunately you can’t even get the RAM for $400 anymore.
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by cvwright 9mo ago
But mining all the tracking data in order to show profitable targeted ads is extremely intensive. That’s what kicked off the era of “big data” 15-20 years ago.
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by cvwright 10mo ago
The redneck version that I heard as a kid was way worse than that. Things I won’t repeat…
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by cvwright 10mo ago
Don’t blame the user - blame Matrix for designing the system like this. > They have to be stored somewhere. You want private keys on the public server? Yes. Encrypted. The feature is called “dehydrated devices” and the Matrix team has
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by cvwright 11mo ago
Well but then they spent 100 years telling us that the toddler stuff was the good stuff. Just as long as it was created by a “real artist”.
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by cvwright 11mo ago
Usually in this context it means “the max effort that you can sustain for 2 minutes”. Same thing goes for a 20-minute max effort or even an hour etc.
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by cvwright 1y ago
The contradictions are difficult but wisdom has always been like that. See for example the book of Proverbs, it’s full of contradictory advice. “Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.” Versus “Answer a fool
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by cvwright 1y ago
A big part of modern discourse is people tactically pretending to not know stuff
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by cvwright 1y ago
So you’re telling me that, in the past 10 years, this was the only speech on network TV that the Trump crowd didn’t like? Kimmel got caught spreading blatant falsehood about who the shooter was. That has always been against the rules for p
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by cvwright 1y ago
How are the grades of a student in a prestigious position at Oxford not relevant to the academic reputation of Oxford?
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by cvwright 1y ago
And it’s being reported that the new president of the Oxford Union only had A B B.
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by cvwright 1y ago
Safety is the much bigger challenge for public transit in the US right now. Since the pandemic, most cities have really eased off of any enforcement of rules or laws in public spaces. Driving in rush hour traffic sucks, but it beats gettin
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by cvwright 1y ago
It’s the end of the postwar consensus and the return of the “strong gods”. Before: hands-off economic liberalism. Now: doing what seems best for ones own nation state. See “Return of the Strong Gods” by RR Reno for an interesting explanatio
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by cvwright 1y ago
Good news. We’ve waited so long that AES is pretty damn lightweight now too.
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by cvwright 1y ago
This illustrates the dangers of training on Reddit.
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by cvwright 1y ago
Americans can do software development as well
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by cvwright 1y ago
Are you trying to imply something racist? Just come out and say it.
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by cvwright 1y ago
I think Apple has historically used the college student market to clear out their remaining stock of last year’s MacBooks. Otherwise why release the new models just after classes have started?

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