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by dirkc 1y ago
Type hints and/or stronger typing in other languages are not good substitutes for testing. I sometimes worry that teams with strong preferences for strong typing have a false sense of security.
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by dirkc 1y ago
I don't know about billion dollar ideas, but I encourage you to make a product even if something similar exists. If you squint enough there is nothing new under the sun and chances are that you will take a very long time to find someth
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by dirkc 1y ago
Thanks. I found that very informative! I also now have the dreadful notion of debugging a non-deterministic deadlock or race condition in a workflow that takes a week to run!
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by dirkc 1y ago
I hope they include instructions on holding it correctly ;p
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by dirkc 1y ago
I had a minor scare some time ago with npm. Can't remember the exact details, something like I had a broken symlink in my homedir and nodemon printed an error about the symlink! My first thought was it's a supply chain attack look
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by dirkc 1y ago
I also liked it! Since it's based on a research data set, I'm sure someone has written some "normal f###ing prose" about it somewhere on the web. A search for "Candor corpus" yields some results, although none
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by dirkc 1y ago
Interesting to think that the answer to banning thinking computers in Dune was basically to indoctrinate kids from birth (mentats) and/or doing large quantities of drugs (guild navigators).
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by dirkc 1y ago
I love having deep conversations with fellow passengers while driving long distances. I've never felt like it distracted me while driving. I'd be curious to see any research to the contrary. My hunch is that the moment some form o
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by dirkc 1y ago
Might be true, idk? For all we know that professor now gives a 2.5-day take home assignments where they are allowed to use LLMs, and then assess them in an 1 hour oral exam where they need to explain approach, results and how they ensure th
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by dirkc 1y ago
I had a like minded professor in university, ironically in AI. Our big tests were all 3 day take home assignments. The questions were open ended, required writing code, processing data and analyzing results. I think the problem with this is
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by dirkc 1y ago
Well done at taking on a problem you're having and building something! > So, now I start studying javascript, html, and css for implementing those features, hope to implement those features someday. For me this is the highlight of y
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by dirkc 1y ago
When I use notebooks, I always leave the left page blank for corrections, future summaries or reflections.
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by dirkc 1y ago
I can attest to the follow-on traffic. I had a showHN on the front page for a brief moment. A few weeks later it was featured in a popular Chinese newsletter. There's also been a few smaller spikes that is attributable to HN.
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by dirkc 1y ago
That sounds like my preferred setup! I use a static site deployed to cloudfront backed by a Django app on Digital Ocean :) It might not work for all applications, but it tends to hold up great against traffic spikes and the hosting costs st
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by dirkc 1y ago
Nice visualization! 2 suggestions if I can nitpick :) 1. Make the grid render as a square when rows == columns 2. Default to the largest number of rows and columns that would still avoid page scrolling
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by dirkc 1y ago
I like the idea! You would still need something to serve the HTML file, but that isn't so bad. But in my experience the potential audience shrinks significantly once anything git related is expected from a user.
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by dirkc 1y ago
Initiatives like this that makes creating web pages more direct are great! I've done something similar using IPFS for persistence [1]. The format is different - it's a tutorial starting out with the dev tools that guides you to bu
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by dirkc 1y ago
My 2c when it comes to python packaging: 1. do dev in an isolated environment like docker 2. install deps from config - ie. build a new image when adding a dep
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by dirkc 1y ago
I see VC money as an artificial force propping up a project. It is not bad per se, but VC money is not a constant and it leaves a big drop at the end. If there is a big enough community that has grown around the project, that drop might be
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by dirkc 1y ago
Maybe local models can address this, but for me the issue is that relying on LLMs for coding introduces gatekeepers. > Uh oh. We're getting blocked again and I've heard Anthropic has a reputation for shutting down even paid acc
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by dirkc 1y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or if I'm seeing something different? I only see "Norman Foster" listed in the team section?
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by dirkc 1y ago
> On average, Adam puts in 0-10 hours of deep work a week. The rest of his work hours are spent mindlessly coding, listening in on various meetings with his camera off, and on TikTok. What is mindlessly coding and how does that work? See
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by dirkc 1y ago
Thanks for sharing the presentation. I wish I could download it to look at it in a few years from now. I hope durable file formats regain popularity before humanity starts embarking on interstellar voyages :)
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by dirkc 1y ago
Have you considered adding some 'rendered' examples of what the model sounds like? I'm curious, but right now I don't want to install the package and run some code.
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by dirkc 1y ago
I can't say for Anthropic, but I've seen Google hire people working on open source projects that were aligned with the skills they were looking for. Desktop search and collaborative editing comes to mind, although I might be mis-r
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by dirkc 1y ago
Interesting, I've never actively thought this, but I think this is why I've never gotten security cameras. Do you have any specific links to studies you recommend looking at?
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by dirkc 1y ago
I like seeing courses created like this. I also wish there were more good tools to create rich/custom experiences yet are simple to host and durable.
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by dirkc 1y ago
At some stage Google will need to be accountable for answers they are hosting on their own site. The argument of "we're only indexing info on other sites" changes when you are building a tool to generate content and hosting t
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by dirkc 1y ago
I've personally felt this way about many proprietary tech ecosystems in the past. Still do. I don't want to invest my energy to learn something if the carpet can be pulled from under my feet. And it does happen. But that is my per
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by dirkc 1y ago
If you have an agent (person or LLM model) building software for you, you place a very high level of trust in that agent. Building trust is a process - you start with some trust and over time increase or decrease your level of trust. In gen

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