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by dilap 7mo ago
I think you'd be much better served by writing something rough that maintains your own voice!
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by dilap 7mo ago
> The problems aren't bugs; they're consequences of design decisions that may have made sense a decade ago, but don't align with how JavaScript developers write code today. > I'm not here to disparage the work that
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by dilap 8mo ago
Leadership matters!
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by dilap 9mo ago
Well sure, but lots of big companies have all the resources in the world and can't execute. Google really did turn things around in an impressive way.
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by dilap 9mo ago
Haven't used Linux in forever, but middle-click to paste was like the one thing that consistently worked everywhere. So it makes some sense that someone want to break it somewhere. With enough fingers meddling all conventions are bro
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by dilap 9mo ago
It's neat! Suggestionms: A version where you actually need to find sets -- "have two, find third" is way too easy. Monospaced font -- it's too hard visually to see difference in word length right now, w/o counting l
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by dilap 10mo ago
I read about 4 paragraphs of the blog post, it does not at all read like it was written by ChatGPT! Some people are perhaps overly focussed on superficial things like em-dashes. The real tells for ChatGPT writing are more subtle -- a tenden
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by dilap 10mo ago
Yeah, by design, of course, but I still think it's bad (& there are plenty of ways to scare grandma without lying to her, if you really need to do that). In general I'd contend that the mindest which leads you to believe &quot
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by dilap 10mo ago
It's basically a "when to rip the band-aid off" type of situation. Briefly poked around w/ linux again for the first time in years (Omarchy, DHH's tune of Arch + hyprland), and hoo boy, it's come a long way! No
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by dilap 10mo ago
Saying "Foo.app is damaged" is lying to the user though, which is not nice, and not a good sign, in general, for the health of a company / its culture.
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by dilap 11mo ago
If you find it useful no harm in enjoying it! The main problem with AI content is it's just not good enough...yet. It'll get there. The LLMs just need more real-world feedback incorporated, rather than being the ultimate has-read-
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by dilap 11mo ago
I read the first few paragraphs. Very much reads like LLM slop to me... E.g., "Zig takes a different path. It reveals complexity—and then gives you the tools to master it." If we had a reliable oracle, I would happily bet a $K on
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by dilap 11mo ago
I'm a huge K2 fan, it has a personality that feels very distinct from other models (not syccophantic at all), and is quite smart. Also pretty good at creative writing (tho not 100% slop free). K2 hosted on groq is pretty crazy for inte
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by dilap 11mo ago
They crossed it definitively, and still unbelievably, to me, when they started showing ads as the first result in App Store search. For a long time searching "ChatGPT" in the AppStore would surface a rip-off clone w/ a lookal
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by dilap 11mo ago
X has everything, and you can pick what you follow (there's a "For You" tab, but also a strictly chronological following tab). I like it for variety of political views (e.g. super-lefty @caitoz, super-righty @L0m3z), followin
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by dilap 11mo ago
Huge fan of X, but it's pissing in the face of your fans to tell such obvious lies.
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by dilap 11mo ago
Light-weight wrapper over C, so as fast as C when you want it to be. Message passing isn't as fast as, say, vtables, but is still quite snappy and flexible for loosely binding objects together. No generics avoids code bloat. In practic
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by dilap 11mo ago
Taste & trade-offs aside, you've gotta make it compile reasonably fast! I do get that Objective-C is not the pinacle of language development, but you shouldn't give your main language the rough edges of a research project. (An
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by dilap 11mo ago
Swift is an early example of Apple losing its way. Such a stark contrast to Objective-c -- which was a simple, fast compiling language that hit way above its weight for expressivity and runtime speed. A great language for its day. Swift is
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by dilap 1y ago
There is a website forvo.com which has a bunch of community-generated pronunciations of words in a ton of languages. I used to use it a lot when I was playing around w/ learning languages. There's also a paid API. I made a very ba
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by dilap 1y ago
Forget privacy, imagine what someone like @elder_plinius could get up to if you invited them over to dinner. All of the "AI Safety" issues get a lot more real once the AI's have bodies.
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by dilap 1y ago
Nah, I don't think so -- it really was a big deal to have a bug back then, and software quality used to be a lot higher. We could go back and run some VMs to try to objectively quantify this (and it would be interesting to do so), but
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by dilap 1y ago
Besides the bad design, the implementation is awful as well. Slow and flickery.
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by dilap 1y ago
I think having a world (3d maybe, or maybe just 2d) you could talk about in a really simple way might be useful here. Imagine something like "el gato quiere la pelota roja" and you have to carry the red ball to the cat to pass to
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by dilap 1y ago
Playing briefly, looks pretty good! -- though I wonder if there's a way to move away from using a source language (or maybe it does this in later lessons?). You really want to try to get your head 100% inside the target language as qui
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by dilap 1y ago
Duolingo is terrible†, but proper gamification combined w/ LLMs for real conversations could be an incredible learning tool. (I might build this if no one else does.) †It can be useful for going from absolute 0 to epsilon, just to kind
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by dilap 1y ago
YouTube is incredible, YouTube is poorly run. If I were making the laws, I'd do something similar to mandatory licensing of songs for radio: mandate that YouTube, as a sort de-facto content monopilist, provide third-party access to its
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by dilap 1y ago
I didn't know that, but please accept SF as a sloppy metonym for bay area. :-)
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by dilap 1y ago
We're in agreement about the facts on the ground. Setting aside safety for a moment, consider just hygiene : BART is shockingly dirty. Which suggests mismanagement, above and beyond just a lack of detterence of criminality. As for saf
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by dilap 1y ago
You think that's setting the bar too high or too low?

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