eddythompson80

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by eddythompson80 7d ago
There is a difference between busy for no reason and busy because of information density. The busy examples in this article aren’t information dense. They just have a ton of different flower types, random animals, background characters, unr
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by eddythompson80 7d ago
I was thinking about that too recently. We have a new service that we’re trying to publish an SDK for. I don’t like the SDK that was created and kept nitpicking about how verbose certain things are and how “unergonomic” it feels (long tedio
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by eddythompson80 18d ago
To some extend. Most Arabs would understaff 95% of the words and sentences in the Quran with any special training. Some vocabulary is no longer used and you might need to look those words up. What you often need training on however is calle
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by eddythompson80 18d ago
I’m basing my assumptions based on a book called Rabid which suggested (if memory serves correctly) that the rabies vaccine (developed in 1885) was the one of the early catalysts for the wide acceptance of germ theory among the American pub
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by eddythompson80 18d ago
Arabic has absolutely a special place in Islam and to Muslims. It’s the language god chose deliberately to communicate his final message to humans, as a well as the language where religious practices in is the “most rewarded” compared to re
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by eddythompson80 19d ago
Germ theory originated in Europe and it took a couple of decades before the knowledge transfer made it to the US and started getting accepted. It took a while for it to be come generally accepted in Europe too. I'm hazy on the exact da
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by eddythompson80 19d ago
I have seen that too many times too in big companies, but I wouldn't say that it results in nothinghappens.jpg It results in the equivalent of treating an infection with Tylenol rather than antibiotics. The exact symptom reported by a
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by eddythompson80 19d ago
Maybe I was wrong in saying it “declares it perfect”, but the Quran declares itself as “sent in Arabic, clear and free from crookedness” or in “a clear Arabic tongue”. Scholars (from Ahl Al Salaf, so they have more authority) often interpre
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by eddythompson80 19d ago
When I used to communicate in Arabiz I would rarely use 5, 6 or 9 too, but I get why they are there. The problem with 6 and 9 is that there are 2 very unrelated sounds for t and d in Arabic. Mixing them is a hallmark of non-native speakers
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by eddythompson80 19d ago
You’re up against a tall order trying to modernize Arabic. Arabic is half a language and half a religious practice in itself. Arabic speakers, who are absolute majority Muslims, have explicit statement from God that Arabic is a holy languag
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by eddythompson80 23d ago
“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”
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by eddythompson80 23d ago
Huh, I guess TIL there is a controversy around Omarchy. I generally dismissed it as a serious distro after 5 second once realized it encourages using the AUR as your default package feed. The AUR is useful, but to me it’s something to be ve
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by eddythompson80 23d ago
The only way to generate a human-only net is to figure out how to remove all economical incentives from there. The “golden age of the internet” a lot of people, including myself, are nostalgic for had very very little economical incentive
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by eddythompson80 1mo ago
Do you have guarantees that the price of the model you’re using in production today won’t increase in the future?
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by eddythompson80 1mo ago
I really highly doubt that. The way Microsoft uses the “for business” branding is not in an IRS/legal way to distinguish between for-profit vs nonprofit entities. Rather more like “Discord vs Slack” or “a subreddit vs zendesk” type off
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by eddythompson80 1mo ago
surely it depends on how the data is labeled or classified. When a model is trained on fiction and medical journals, it doesn't assume that a healing potion is the right answer for a runny nose.
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by eddythompson80 1mo ago
I’ve done that in my own tmux sessions. But due to the ungodly way tmux handles terminal sizing (which I don’t know how else they could) I assumed it was a me-problem.
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by eddythompson80 1mo ago
Well now i feel stupid. For 10+ years I thought it was peer not pair for some reason, but pair programming makes much more sense. And lol yes! if you knew the dude who wanted to try that, you would know what an “extrovert” was. He was the m
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by eddythompson80 1mo ago
You clearly need more Lispmaxxing
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by eddythompson80 1mo ago
I don't understand the fixation the industry has on multi-player development either. Zed isn't the first. It's been 10 or 15 years since I started seeing multi-player development (sometimes called peer programming in an earli
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by eddythompson80 2mo ago
I was borrowing a joke from cycling.
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by eddythompson80 2mo ago
I was drawing the distinction more between productivity vs entertainment uses, as opposed to power vs regular users. The problem with the later is AI’s entire sales pitch is to flatten those definition. If you can type it, the AI should be
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by eddythompson80 2mo ago
Apps like that (a customizable system prompt with a token api endpoint) would become more common if the cost of tokens decreases. Current AI subscription providers have been trying to crack that nut with GPTs, skills, extensions, etc, but t
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by eddythompson80 2mo ago
I personally agree, but clearly the market doesn’t. You will find here people saying they have moved to GDrive, OneDrive or iCloud. They are supplementary services to existing large platforms/ecosystems. If the problem is small and wel
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by eddythompson80 2mo ago
> it’s just a deficit of state capacity. That’s what a “tragedy of the commons” is though. The degradation of a shared resource (state capacity) by people acting in their own best interest. The state using AI “to make bureaucracy insta
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by eddythompson80 2mo ago
How is that different from the current system? Wouldn’t you just bury those fact-finders in paperwork? Or are you trying to shift the cost and responsibility of the discovery phase to the court instead? Would the court pass it through to th
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by eddythompson80 2mo ago
I can see how that agent can be useful in certain scenarios. We just introduced a Cheering agent to help with moral.
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by eddythompson80 2mo ago
You have to have a team of agents with different roles reviewing that for you. An Advocate, a Skeptic, an Architect, a Security Engineer, a Disgruntled User, a Single Mom, a Clueless CTO, etc. each provides their unique prospective on the c
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by eddythompson80 2mo ago
Brave said they’ll keep some select MV2 extensions, though that remains to be seen. Especially if it causes too much maintenance headache with upstream chromium. Also it seems that Brave now distributes these select MV2 extensions. So I’m n
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by eddythompson80 2mo ago
Same here. I’m least familiar with macOS compared to Windows and Linux, but the uninstall story on Mac was always baffling to me. On Windows, it’s not perfect because it’s ultimately cooperative, but at least the developer of the applicatio

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