drob518

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by drob518 7mo ago
As a wise man once said, anything plus computer equals computer.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Interesting. At one point I pinched my iPad to zoom out of habit and it got very confused. But yea, interesting.
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by drob518 7mo ago
You’re right about inference speed being a concern. I was assuming it’s a small model but even then, one of the browser automation frameworks is going to be faster.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Same! Just downloaded the latest version for nostalgia’s sake.
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by drob518 7mo ago
I agree with most of that. To be charitable to Nadella, at the time he first came into the role, Microsoft needed someone yelling "Cloud! Cloud! Cloud!" because the company was certainly behind folks like AWS. But for a long time
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by drob518 7mo ago
My point was, it's a spreadsheet in a term window. That's basically what VisiCalc was in the 80s.
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The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok(bramcohen.com)
616 points by drob518 7mo ago|512 comments
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by drob518 7mo ago
We made the most of limited resources back then. Back in 1980, I was living large with my 64KB Apple II with dual 140KB floppy drives and a 10 inch (9 inch? I can’t quite remember) amber monochrome monitor. Most had less.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Isn’t that what reinvention means?
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by drob518 7mo ago
So, everyone needs to have $500 to be able to purchase a smartphone, otherwise they can’t participate in society?
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by drob518 7mo ago
Exactly. I immediately thought, “So, we’ve invented VisiCalc all over again.”
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by drob518 7mo ago
No, it is used for loops within functions as well. But it’s not fully generalized like in Scheme. You can’t have mutually recursive functions using tail recursion via “recur,” for instance. There is another Clojure technique for that (“tram
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by drob518 7mo ago
Seems like this might be a great way to do web software testing. We’ve had Selenium and Puppeteer for a long time but they are a bit brittle with respect to the web design. Change something about the design and there’s a high likelihood tha
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by drob518 7mo ago
Yea, I need to try those.
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by drob518 7mo ago
In a bubble, everyone looks like they’re doing well. Don’t confuse that with an actual strategy.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Clojure’s “recur” form works similarly in that it’s guaranteed to be tail recursive, and if it isn’t the compiler will throw an exception.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Nadella thought he could take the reins and start yelling “Cloud! Cloud! Cloud!” and that would be successful. He doesn’t have a strategy and now that’s becoming apparent.
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by drob518 7mo ago
I don’t find many issues with Clojure. The main problem is that it sometimes gets the paren balance wrong when it’s proposing an edit. Sometimes it will spin for a bit on that. A harness can help there, I’ve heard, but thus far I’ve just do
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by drob518 7mo ago
S-expressions are just lists and trees. That’s it. If a language has groups of words and any hierarchy, you can use s-expressions to represent it. Sure, some human languages might be more or less flat and the groups might represent differen
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by drob518 7mo ago
Hm. Not a lot of technical details about the bitrate improvement of the streams of the CPU required to decode them. I’m also wondering if all the encoding and decoding was done by software reference implementations (just VLC?) or whether an
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by drob518 7mo ago
So, is that a good thing? There’s still something to be said for experience, no?
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by drob518 7mo ago
Yep, surely humans write bad code, too. But not nearly as fast. This feels a lot like hiring oodles of hyper-productive junior developers. Are we going to get true productivity out of that or a scrambled mess? I don’t know the answer to tha
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by drob518 7mo ago
Yea, I was curious about that, too. It’s one thing to vibe code a one-off personal project. It’s another to create something that can run the distance.
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by drob518 7mo ago
LLMs can drown a fleet of paid maintainers. Machines can generate code (even good code, not just slop) far faster than humans can evaluate it.
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by drob518 7mo ago
So, I’ve explored AI coding, but my conclusion up to this point has been that it’s interesting, but the code is sometimes a mess, and sometimes it will completely crater the project to the point where you just have to throw it all away and
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by drob518 7mo ago
This whole endianness issue can be traced to western civilization adopting Arabic numbers. Western languages are written left to right, but Arabic is right to left. Thus, Arabic numbers appear as big-endian when viewed in western languages.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Well, sort of. Instruction fetch is always little-endian but data load/store can be flipped into big. But IIRC the standard profiles specify little, so it's pretty much always going to be little. But yea, technically speaking data
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by drob518 7mo ago
What do you mean by “networking protocols,” exactly? Most packet level Internet protocols (TCP, UDP, etc.) are big endian. Ethernet is big endian at the octet level and little endian on the wire at the bit level. Network order is big endian
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by drob518 7mo ago
I apologize. I didn’t mean to suggest a “publicity stunt” was a negative. Perhaps I should have said that it was a great marketing strategy. My point was, they can cite all the metrics associated with a frontier model and yet to actually ge
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by drob518 7mo ago
On one hand, yes, all true, it’s definitely a bit of a mess. On the other hand, what’s the alternative and don’t all languages with limitations ultimately get extended by various parties in non-compliant ways? Can anyone point to any altern

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