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by efitz 9mo ago
This is awesome, thank you for doing this work; it’s not glamorous but it’s a key feature to making computers productive. I know it’s not a popular opinion here but I think that Windows has two killer features that are always overlooked- th
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by efitz 9mo ago
In my experience LLMs excel at SQL.
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by efitz 9mo ago
This is interesting research; thank you for doing it. I am not sure token efficiency is an interesting problem in the long term, though. And in the short term I wonder if prompts could be pre-compiled to “compressed tokens”; the idea would
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by efitz 9mo ago
How do you differentiate between "never moved" and "moved but moved back"?
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by efitz 9mo ago
There's a logic error from assuming that because the rook is in its original position that the rook has not moved. Also I'm not sure if en passant is available if the pawn has moved from its home file, even if it subsequently mov
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by efitz 9mo ago
> A bunch of his ideas were crazy Which ones? btw young idealistic me voted for Perot in 1992
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by efitz 9mo ago
I used to work at Microsoft in the Windows team (XP/2003/Longhorn/Vista/7). The product today doesn’t feel like the product I worked on; I feel no connection to it, and every time I think that there’s nothing they could
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by efitz 9mo ago
One BASIC class on a mainframe at the local community college in 7th grade. Then 5 years of teaching myself BASIC and 6502 assembly and Logo and Forth on the Apple //e that I begged my parents for. And one year of Pascal in high
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by efitz 9mo ago
When I worked at Microsoft years ago, me and my team (a developer and a tester) built a high volume log collector. We used a streaming compression format that was originally designed for IBM tape drives. It was fast as hell and worked reall
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by efitz 9mo ago
So full of humility.
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by efitz 9mo ago
Ok then I’ve been using en dashes forever :-)
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by efitz 9mo ago
I have been using the em dash in writing forever - in Word, for example, you type a word, then space-hyphen-space, then you type another word and the hyphen is autocorrected to an em dash. I don’t regularly use en-dashes, cause I don’t know
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by efitz 9mo ago
When you start out with a store like git, with file system semantics and a client that has to be smart to handle all the compare and merge operations, then it’s practically impossible to migrate a large client base to a new protocol. Takes
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by efitz 10mo ago
Because of the nature of how software is built and deployed nowadays, it’s generally not possible to write single log entries that tell the “whole story” of “what happened”. I could write about this for hours, but instead I’ll just discuss
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by efitz 10mo ago
Why does anyone serious about art want to make art with AI? A large part of the magic of art is the human choices that go into it.
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by efitz 10mo ago
> Nobody is building open source software for [niche professional vertical] in their spare time. As a matter of fact, I am (in the computer security vertical) - look for an announcement on Hacker News at the beginning of the year. I sus
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by efitz 10mo ago
I don’t know what you build, but I’ll share some thoughts from the other side (customer): Many SaaS products I am interested in have very little “moat”. I am interested in them not because I can’t build them, but because my limited enginee
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by efitz 10mo ago
I’ve been saying this for months: https://efitz-thoughts.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-effect-of-ll...
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by efitz 10mo ago
It forgot the “I got <complex modern software> running on my <ancient underpowered hardware>” pattern.
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by efitz 10mo ago
AI has made me question what it is to be a human. I am not having some existential crisis, but if we get to a point where X% of humans cannot outperform “AI” on any task that humans deem “useful”, for some nontrivial value of X, then many a
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by efitz 10mo ago
This makes me happy. What would make me even more happy is if we linked our foreign policy, especially our trade and aid policies, to align with our Constitution. Other governments can do what they want, but we should prefer to interact wit
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by efitz 10mo ago
The article barely mentioned “open”, and certainly gave no insight as to what “open” actually means wrt AV1.
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by efitz 10mo ago
I don’t like the clickbait title. Many people today find LLMs useful, as evidenced by willingness to pay to use them. That alone IMO largely demolishes the “wasted” argument; markets will find the right price vs cost vs value trade-off whe
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by efitz 11mo ago
Large service providers hate you. Not just you; they hate all humans, especially those that they have to pay or those that cost them money. They want you to pay them money and leave them alone. They literally don’t want to talk to you; the
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by efitz 11mo ago
The angle and position of the transducer would make them leveragable by future VR headsets.
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by efitz 11mo ago
I think most people, when they think of “middleman”, thinks “rent seeker by means of bottlenecking an upstream producer”. I don’t know why one would classify an accountant as a middleman.
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by efitz 11mo ago
I really want it to use my LLM and API key, so that when you get tired of paying for LLM processing to generate the scripts, that the tool doesn't become useless.
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by efitz 11mo ago
I created a script that removes the "videos", "short videos", suggested searches, and "people also search for" on Google search results page (videos only suppressed when not searching for videos). https:/
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by efitz 11mo ago
Redefining doing the thing into a complex process, where actually doing the thing is only one step of the process, and then other steps, is not doing the thing.
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by efitz 11mo ago
I haven’t seen this new google model but now must try it out. I will say that other frontier models are starting to surprise me with their reasoning/understanding- I really have a hard time making (or believing) the argument that they

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