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by dahart 7mo ago
What do you mean about vendor lock-in? I haven’t yet seen any meaningful barriers to switching between different companies’ coding agents. Are you talking about AI market lock-in and not vendor-specific lock-in? > these loss making AI co
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by dahart 7mo ago
The book is fantastic, I’d recommend reading it one way or another. ;) Speaking personally, I lose some motivation to read a book after seeing the movie. But book-based movies of course rarely if ever live up to the book. I read first, so I
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by dahart 7mo ago
That’s not a compelling argument. Sometimes bad reviews can be useful when there are a lot of them, but you’re taking them out of context and ignoring the mountain of good reviews, and furthermore making unsupportable claims about why there
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by dahart 7mo ago
You are still making assumptions.
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by dahart 7mo ago
Is your problem with the movie or the book? It sounds like you didn’t read the book…? It is a buddy story and the author Andy Weir has stated he wanted the story to be different from the typical scary first encounter and send a positive hop
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by dahart 7mo ago
That proves nothing. You are making assumptions. Did you look at the submission history of the poster? HN runs on user-submitted posts. People submit things they find interesting, and things they believe others will find interesting.
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by dahart 7mo ago
Those handful of 1-star reviews seem the same as the 1-star reviews on all movies, including all of the good movies you probably liked: “boring”, “overhyped”, “doesn’t live up to the book”, etc.. Are they manipulated? Go ahead and name a mo
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by dahart 7mo ago
> There's a plethora of people who convert to religion at an older age, and that seems far more far fetched than Santa. Being in a religion doesn’t imply belief in deities; it only implies people want social connection. This is clea
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by dahart 7mo ago
Me too, but I don’t like referring to Dunning-Kruger ever for multiple reasons. There are perfectly good labels like cockiness, arrogance, ignorance, presumptuousness, and wrongheaded. ;) There are many issues with DK, and the paper’s widel
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by dahart 7mo ago
I looked up persuade and convince in the thesaurus and dictionary, based on the title, and then came to say the same thing. But then I got a little curious about the source of the title’s claim, and looked up Chaim Perelman. He really did t
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by dahart 7mo ago
> consider that houses/building are all different (not commodities) The vast majority of US housing construction is tract housing, which is a commodity. In the EU, flats, which are also commodities.
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by dahart 7mo ago
> I would bet on the mobility impaired people to win the cage match Why frame it as a fight? There’s no need to start there; you don’t need to waste time fighting against people not in your group. You just need to establish group status.
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by dahart 7mo ago
The Nvidia driver has used system memory fallback for a couple of years now. https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5490/~/s...
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by dahart 7mo ago
You’re right for some workloads, but not all of them. The same could have been said for disk swap since the beginning though, and people still found it valuable. Disk swapping with spinning drives did used to be multiple orders of magnitude
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by dahart 7mo ago
Try turning swap off and really find out if you’re not grateful for it. Might be fine if you’re never using all your RAM, but if you are, swap off isn’t fun and you might realize you’ve been unconsciously grateful this whole time. ;) Swap m
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by dahart 7mo ago
I agree with that. I don’t know what your prompt was, but I wasn’t arguing in favor of subscription access to hardware, I said flat upfront fee based upgrades make more sense, and I was only pointing out that market segmentation over a sing
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by dahart 7mo ago
Yes, as far as I know, and I hope so. Looks like BWM did try it, and rolled the program back after backlash. Maybe I recall it was hacked too?
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by dahart 7mo ago
> you're buying a vehicle that already has the capabilities, but are disabled, then paying rent (or a fee) to turn them on. I'm much more likely to buy from a manufacturer that doesn't play these games. Ongoing subscriptio
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by dahart 7mo ago
> codegen changes the cost structure of writing code, not the cost structure of knowing what to write. Yes, and knowing what to write has always been the more important challenge, long before AI. But - one thing I’ve noticed is that in s
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by dahart 7mo ago
This got me through many of the first 100 problems on Project Euler: n = 1000000 # must be even sieve = [True] * (n/2) for i in range(3,int(n**0.5)+1,2): if sieve[i/2]: sieve[i*i/2::i] = [False] * ((n-i*
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by dahart 7mo ago
The Pseudosquares Sieve will drop the memory requirements much further from sqrt(n) to log^2(n). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11792086_15
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by dahart 7mo ago
I hope it helps, Bézier curves are so simple and fun. I found a picture of the ‘lerp tree’ that might help even more: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/De-Casteljau-algorithm-t... The cool part about this is that you
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by dahart 7mo ago
Here’s an interactive picture of how the splitting with lerps works: https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/#splitting Did you ever doodle parabolas on graph paper by drawing straight lines? That’s one way to see why you c
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by dahart 7mo ago
It’s not a contradiction, as my previous comments clarified. You’re rationalizing, making assumptions, and jumping to a conclusion.
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by dahart 7mo ago
Then your point eludes me. You complained about the length. If you don’t want it shorter, then what do you want? To me, the fact that the tracking code is visible and separate from the video code is evidence of the complete opposite of your
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by dahart 7mo ago
Please. The URL above is pretty short, this is not the kind of URL link shorteners were made for, in fact it’s already shortened, as @alecco pointed out. Pleasant? I could not care less about the pleasantness of the video code, but a shorte
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by dahart 7mo ago
You’d rather have the video code and the tracking code baked into the same code just to save a couple of characters? Why? That would result in a longer code than the video code alone, you would save very few characters. It would not be nice
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by dahart 7mo ago
Do you understand the evolution of stringed instruments? That response totally convinces me otherwise. Please feel free to elaborate. What about the Spanish Guitar? It came from the vihuela which came from the lute. The Spanish guitar is eq
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by dahart 7mo ago
Add a REFLECT phase after IMPLEMENT. I’m finding it’s extremely useful to ask agents for implementation notes and for code reviews. These are different things, and when I ask for implementation notes I get very different output than the imp
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by dahart 7mo ago
I care about the privacy implications, but not the length. Out of curiosity, why do you care about the URL length at all? What is the cost to you?

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