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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Nobody’s coined a fun catchy phrase for half vibe coding / half real engineering, so I will continue to refer to my AI assisted adventures as vibe coding :) Sometimes I call it vibe coding ++.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Housing regulation should be dramatically improved and streamlined, but we also have a deep cultural problem of nimbyism. Humanity needs to learn how the cooperate much more effectively, or we are going to fuck everything up.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
I see your points, but is this actually slop in this case? Is the comment incorrect or misleading at all? It felt interesting and informative to me, but I didn’t verify any of it. Good eye btw.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
The law is a much more ambitious attempt at formalization than any programming language, hence the more dramatic failures. Comparatively, programming languages are very constrained. The environments in which they are interpreted and execute
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Please define “real reasoning”? Where is the distinction coming from?
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Oh I tried codex for the first time last night with gpt-5. It looked stuck twice when it used the grep tool (after working successfully for minute or so), and both times I canceled after seeing no output for more than a minute. It would hav
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Microwaves are relatively simple machines with fundamental limitations in how they cook food. With gen AI, it’s much less clear cut what the long-term limitations are.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Can’t hate on JS anymore, we have typescript now :)
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
The post may not have a ton of meat, but it resonates and seems ripe for discussion. It’s quite timely as we all try to figure out how and when to use these tools. Your comment doesn’t add much. Where’s the substance to your critique?
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
The current administration, maga folks, the freshly anti-woke techies. Etc Top level comment was referencing the energy policies mentioned in the linked site, which of course left out renewables entirely.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
They aren't neutral on energy sources or simply agnostic to environmental impact. They are anti-renewable, because renewable = woke. Tribal politics at its best.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Do you have any example prompts of the level of specificity and task difficulty you usually do? I oscillate between finding them useful and finding it annoying to get output that is actually good enough. How many iterations does it normally
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
The original guy’s rep is on the line for making the referral, so if there is already a relationship, he will want to rec someone who will do good work.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Doesn’t make sense. All groups are trending towards sub-replacement fertility. Even the mormons.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Wait what? So everything is already HATEOAS? I thought the “problem” was that no one was building proper restful / HATEOAS APIs. It can’t go both ways.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Can you be more specific? What exactly is the partial knowledge? And how is that different from non-conforming APIs?
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
I'll never understand why the HATEOAS meme hasn't died. Is anyone using it? Anywhere? What kind of magical client can make use of an auto-discoverable API? And why does this client have no prior knowledge of the server they are ta
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Please describe in detail how biological mechanisms are uncountable. And then you need to show how the same logic cannot apply to non-biological systems.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
I see you also have your word-knife handy. places mine back in its sheath
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Gotcha, I guess I missed the playful wink ;)
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Do you really view people who tip as “losers”? Do your friends know you think of them that way? What a depressing way to live…
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
I wasn’t making a moral statement. It’s a matter of practical reality. Humanity doesn’t really know how to do global policy, even if there are massive potential benefits.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Thank you for explaining this.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Currently, US taxes are primarily used inside the US, the exception being foreign aid, which relatively is a small amount. Are you suggesting the US should fund a global UBI?
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Talk to them for 2 minutes when they are having an episode. The effects are not subtle. It’s an extremely debilitating condition.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
The meat of the post does not depend on the characterization AI as “mere statistical correlations” that produces “plausible sounding word salad”. I encourage people to not get too hung up on that and look at the arguments about the effects
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
There are inputs and outputs. The human body can be analyzed systematically (not necessarily easily). There’s no “magic”.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
Humans are not physical machines? Please explain.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
That’s a very cool app, but I think it is missing many, many references to books in HN comments? It only has like 15 total sci-fi books. I don’t see any of my comments mentioning some sci-fi books.
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by dwaltrip 1y ago
That's a good point. But on the other hand Google search usefulness didn't have "scaling laws" / lines on capability graphs going up and up...

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