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by dpe82 8mo ago
simonw hasn't shown up yet, so here's my "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/67c13d9a-3d63-4598-88d0-5...
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by dpe82 8mo ago
It's wild that Sonnet 4.6 is roughly as capable as Opus 4.5 - at least according to Anthropic's benchmarks. It will be interesting to see if that's the case in real, practical, everyday use. The speed at which this stuff is i
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by dpe82 8mo ago
Oh sorry, I don't at all intend to say you should write your own parser! Totally agree: "Don't roll your own XML implementation" What I was addressing is, interfacing with an XML parser and converting that into whateve
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by dpe82 8mo ago
It's a perfectly reasonable choice: flexible, well specified, well supported, reasonably performant. I think the extreme level of hype 20 years ago was overdone and (just like with anything) there's good ways to adopt it and bad w
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by dpe82 8mo ago
I accept your proposal; alumium it is.
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by dpe82 8mo ago
Sir Humphry Davy first isolated the stuff and he called it aluminum, so that's good enough for me.
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by dpe82 8mo ago
I was like 11 at the time buying computer stuff with lawn care earnings so I used whatever I could get my hands on. :)
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by dpe82 8mo ago
Also available on msn.com sans paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/he-spent-decades-perfectin...
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by dpe82 8mo ago
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
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by dpe82 8mo ago
There was a sockets API though ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsock ) and IIRC we all used Trumpet Winsock on Windows 3.1 with our dialup connections. But could have been 3.11 - my memory is a bit hazy.
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by dpe82 8mo ago
For sure, but sometimes what you or I think should be important really isn't in the grand scheme of things. An example could be focusing on cost or efficiency - generally very reasonable things to care about - but if all a company care
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by dpe82 8mo ago
There's also a corollary to this: if the organization does not recognize some work as needed or useful, you could well be actively wasting your time putting effort into it. There might be a good reason the company doesn't care tha
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by dpe82 8mo ago
That's a very difficult metric to measure whereas "did this user return and continue paying" is easier. The tyranny of metrics in action.
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by dpe82 8mo ago
ChromeOS is a really great option for "just want to read emails and browse the web".
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by dpe82 8mo ago
Yeah Bazel is a PITA to do yourself. I haven't tried but I'm confident Claude et al. would handle it just fine. By similar logic I recently adopted NixOS for a lot of my servers; Claude is perfectly happy to slog through the pain
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by dpe82 8mo ago
Google's build system Bazel is what you describe.
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by dpe82 8mo ago
If the goal is to simply undercut the incumbent with roughly the same product than it doesn't really matter if the incumbent starts using LLMs too as their cost structure, margin expectations, etc. are already relatively set.
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by dpe82 8mo ago
Having been on a bigco team that underwent the same sort of headcount growth in a very short time I have to imagine that "more than tripling our headcount in that first year" was likely more a driver of the inability to keep up th
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by dpe82 8mo ago
Let go and embrace the weird.
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by dpe82 8mo ago
As a pilot I really hope it's the former. Broadcasting spoofed traffic at minimum would be confusing and distracting to both pilots and ATC.
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by dpe82 9mo ago
That assumes the regime cares more about the economic prosperity of their people than about staying in power. So far they seem to care more about power. North Korea provides a model for how terrible the situation can get for every day peopl
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by dpe82 9mo ago
No wonder our grandparents generation were good with mechanical things. If they were looking at materials like that all the time - I feel like you'd build an intuitive sense of how common household devices work pretty easily if it were
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by dpe82 9mo ago
I've never see the MR-510 dishwashing handle before - that seems so convenient!
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by dpe82 9mo ago
You created a straw man; the parent specifically wrote "ignorance" which is very different from "dumb" or "cruel".
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by dpe82 9mo ago
It's not just that; being a very small undifferentiated supplier in a volatile commodities market with very high fixed capital costs, unpredictable/uncontrollable production capacity and long production lead times is a very diffic
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by dpe82 9mo ago
Minden is a very popular place for gliders; with the right conditions the Sierras trigger serious mountain wave that you can ride for a long, long way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_wave
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by dpe82 9mo ago
Mind helping us all out ahead of time by expanding on what kind of gotchas FUSE is full of?
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by dpe82 9mo ago
We haven't had a major conflict in 80 years. Little skirmishes all over the place, sure, but we've forgotten that significant wars between major powers used to be both terrible for everyone involved and also common. Our grandpar
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by dpe82 9mo ago
Now if only there were a Nix-like system for FreeBSD! :)
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by dpe82 9mo ago
I've recently begun moving the systems I administer to Claude-written NixOS configs. Nix is great but can be a real pain to write yourself; Claude removes the pain.

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