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by ericrallen 2y ago
This is a tangent, but addresses are also way more complicated than most people realize - especially if you’re relying on a user to input a correct address or if you need to support multiple countries, somewhere with unique addresses like
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by ericrallen 2y ago
This is an interesting way to frame the finding: We suggest we found these similarities because humans and whales share a learning mechanism: culture I feel like we often have such an anthropocentric view of intelligence, learning, a
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Not an up or down here, but I’d be curious to see some sources for this claim: > Properly prompted LLMs yield much better results and are already helping human translators produce better translations than they could on their own.
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by ericrallen 2y ago
> ...it's code generation through an AI model, without even understanding it... Are you implying that Andrej Karpathy[0] doesn’t understand how the code generation from these models works? Or are you saying he isn’t capable of under
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by ericrallen 2y ago
I also really enjoyed Chiang’s “Exhalation” anthology. There are some great short stories in both collections.
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by ericrallen 2y ago
After reading the article, the tags are actually related to the content due to the user-supplied “random” number nature of the project and no restriction against users submitting non-numbers.
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by ericrallen 2y ago
You can replace the `www.` in the URL with `lite.` to get the text-only version[0] which has no ads, no paywall, and no images. Not sure if it will continue to work for the paywalled articles, but it’s a much more pleasant reading experienc
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Just saw this reposted, but figured I’d come back to give this one some love. This is an interesting approach and seems like a great way to deal with the conflicting dependency issue. I’ve contributed to an open source Python command line i
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by ericrallen 2y ago
The Chess Notation lesson[0] from Lichess was really helpful when I was learning the notation a few years ago. If you have a physical chessboard it can also help to try to play out a game from it’s notation and stop every few moves to chec
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by ericrallen 2y ago
> #8 ...(according to a Youtube video, unverified). Seems like that “finding” isn’t really a finding then, right? It’s great to investigate how private a local LLM server actually is, but including unverified claims from undisclosed sour
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by ericrallen 2y ago
In my experience, most teams are not operating at a level of comment saturation where we can worry about this kind of thing. It can be hard enough to get folks to accept that their code isn’t “self-documenting” and actually write some comme
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by ericrallen 2y ago
For behavioral interviews: 1. Write up some really basic bullet points for the stuff that commonly gets asked like, “Tell me about a time where you failed/had a disagreement/etc.” Just something you can quickly glance at and keep
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Totally forgot about CSS Zen Garden. What a blast from the past. I remember digging into a lot of the themes in my early career to understand how folks were achieving certain layouts.
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by ericrallen 2y ago
You can run any OpenAI API-compatible local models via Ollama, LM Studio, etc.
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Void Editor[0] looks promising. [0]: https://voideditor.com/
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Most of us think our operational security is way better than it actually is. Unfortunately the Internet does not forget.
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by ericrallen 2y ago
This is an interesting approach. I like the idea of cataloging stuff that you find frustrating as a way to keep it in mind when prioritizing what you want to try to change. It’s easy to get caught up in a recency bias and forget about the o
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Just as a note, you can almost always get by with `xcode-select --install`[0] which installs the Xcode Command Line Tools, which is what `brew` et al. need. `brew` added this as a step in its install script[1], too. So, unless you are plann
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by ericrallen 2y ago
If you haven’t checked out the Pimsleur[0] app, you might find it useful for learning a language. It’s the only language learning system that has ever worked for me. It focuses on speaking and every day language rather than reading, writing
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Firefox’s screenshot tool is a little more advanced than Print Screen. [0] There are situations where it’s really useful to be able to capture the entire web page and not just the visible viewport. [0]: https://blog.mozilla.org&#
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by ericrallen 2y ago
I really appreciate hyperlinks that serve as citations, like “here’s some prior art to back up what I’m saying,” or that explain some joke, reference, jargon, etc. that the reader might not be familiar with, but unfortunately a lot of sites
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by ericrallen 2y ago
I’m not sure if other terminals support this feature[0] because iTerm was the first one I discovered with it and I haven’t tested all of them yet, but I use it for the global, Quake-style[1] terminal that slides down from the top of my scre
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Having been through the pain of getting teams to adopt conventional commits a few times, I found that integrating a wizard like commitizen helped folks who were annoyed by commit linting learn and get comfortable with the rules and format s
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Named groups are awesome. I feel like the commented regular expression is actually harder to parse because of all the extra noise. Maybe a good comment in the programming language’s native commenting syntax would be almost as effective? Eve
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by ericrallen 2y ago
Pretty solid list. Feel like I agree with a lot of it, but would have definitely put Channel Orange (Frank Ocean) and Random Access Memories (Daft Punk) on there, though.
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by ericrallen 3y ago
Conventional commits are great, especially if you add in commit linting. Being able to programmatically increment semantic versions and automatically generate relevant changelogs is awesome. It’s also nice to implement Commitizen[0] for a l
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by ericrallen 3y ago
I can’t remember if I’ve ever encountered a UI that annoyed me as much as that virtual password entry. I ended up getting locked out of my account due to some issue trying to enter what my password manager generated for me and eventually ju
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by ericrallen 3y ago
It’s interesting how much the placement of vowels can help you imagine the shape of the word. One small point of feedback. It wasn’t clear that you were expected to enter a space when the clue has multiple words and uses a slash `/`. M
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by ericrallen 3y ago
I think we’re probably way to early in the AI lifecycle to really form any strongly held beliefs yet. In the 11 months since ChatGPT was released, things have come a long way. Who knows where we’ll be in another 11 months.
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by ericrallen 3y ago
That sounds a lot like gatekeeping. These tools will empower folks who aren’t developers to build stuff and maybe learn a bit more about how programming works. They will enable folks who have ideas, but can’t express them, to actually be ab

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