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by ericb 1y ago
To serve multiple users, probably not. But--if you don't think of asking Hacker News every single thing you need to know beforehand, I think you still want the LLM to answer questions and help you bootstrap it.
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by ericb 1y ago
I would add an LLM like QwQ-32B to the mix--that has a ton of compressed knowledge embedded in it. I would also store it in a steel Oscar the Grouch style trash can for a cheap faraday cage, which gets you protection from solar flares, and
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by ericb 2y ago
> educating people on what the best choice is and letting them make it themselves. If we go that way, we should have some sort of Department, to make sure Of the Education being consistent.
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Ask HN: Best workflow for modernizing a website's design via LLM?
2 points by ericb 2y ago|3 comments
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by ericb 2y ago
Very cool! Just digging in. Does it works with the new JSON format clickhouse introduced recently? Also, what service did you use to make the video, if you don't mind my asking?
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by ericb 2y ago
Very cool concept! There's a lot of potential in reducing the try-debug--fix cycle for LLMs. On a related note, here's a Ruby gem I wrote that captures variable state from the moment an Exception is raised. It gets you non-interac
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by ericb 2y ago
I like it too. Memorable is good! Why not just put Hydraulic in front of the name of each other product? Hydraulic Deploy. Hydraulic Build. Etc. Seems scalable.
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by ericb 2y ago
Yes, thank-you.
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by ericb 2y ago
You mistook my meaning. Great thought from op. Horrible implications.
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by ericb 2y ago
That's a really fascinating, but horrible, point. Every AI decision becomes a way to shirk responsibility, even more than just automated ones (because then its "your" rule). Welcome to the brave new world of AI-decision laund
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by ericb 2y ago
> Over the last 20 years, 100-200 such cables globally have been damaged annually. [Citation Needed]
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by ericb 2y ago
Pair programming is draining for most introverts, and there are a lot of introvert programmers. I love coding, but I'd rather work a McDonalds fryolator than pair for more than an hour at a time. Short bursts--fine. Mentorship--fine.
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by ericb 2y ago
I like to hear these stories--feel free to share. I guess, usually, I feel like the battle scars are from Rails users, though, which is made up of hundreds of core extensions which make it nicer to use, so reducing the practice is a good
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by ericb 2y ago
That's fair, and I removed that comment for seeming snarky or directed at the author--it wasn't. My meaning was, like strong typing, it is an idea from a different context that works well there, but may not translate well to the R
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by ericb 2y ago
I don't think I'd use this in production. Testing/development--sure. A class added a method with a require or dynamic definition and that was cause to crash a production activity of some kind? You'd discover the attempte
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by ericb 2y ago
If that's the goal, the problem itself has been re-implemented by the Javascript ecosystem.
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by ericb 2y ago
For now, taste and debugging still rule the day. o1 designed some code for me a few hours ago where the method it named "increment" also did the "limit-check", and "disable" functionality as side-effects. In th
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by ericb 2y ago
This is the way. It achieves 95% of the effect, and you maintain one implementation, not two.
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by ericb 2y ago
Bing is now better than google . You're right, though, it isn't quite as good as old google.
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by ericb 2y ago
No one suggested perfect efficiency. I'm debating with you, a product of a similar reproductive process (evolution) where a system of throwing away the bad offspring has worked just fine. Magical indeed!
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by ericb 2y ago
> The system has to change, randomly and unexpectedly. Entropy must accumulate. Yes to the first two, but "has to fail over time" is something you are making up--not a law of physics. Local decreases of entropy happen continual
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by ericb 2y ago
I can't speak to Interface Builder, but in VB 6 Hooking resize was SO easy, and the math you do inside it was so easy, too. It took maybe 5 minutes to do almost any layout. It was frankly, a shock to see how easy this model was and the
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by ericb 2y ago
Why is grey goo implied? Send one probe per solar system. If two probes meet each other, have them pick a random number to decide who flies off to find another solar system or into the sun. If there were probes here, are you sure you'd
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by ericb 2y ago
If I could attach a software program to every replicating chunk of DNA, I'm pretty sure I could write a checksum and diagnostic and instructions to shut down if they failed. That's not a variable that does anything to feasibility.
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by ericb 2y ago
> haven't consumed the galaxy That's absurd. If you can make a self-replicating probe, you can code a heuristic that prevents a grey goo scenario. Cells reproduce, but they haven't consumed the galaxy. > doesn't ex
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by ericb 2y ago
It doesn't seem like you read my full comment?
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by ericb 2y ago
> That's a big if. Is it? Since humans can send probes, and reproduce ourselves, technology and civilization, it proves that a slower self-replicating bio-mechanical system has this capability and now we're left debating if a f
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by ericb 2y ago
> It's never aliens. Why? Shouldn't probes be here by now? There are 200 sextillion stars in the observable universe. We know of one civilization--ours, and it immediately began sending probes once capable. If Von Neumann self-
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by ericb 2y ago
Which one?
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by ericb 2y ago
What model do you use?

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