estetlinus

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by estetlinus 5d ago
I love the level of sassiness this debate brings forward in people
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by estetlinus 5d ago
How much are using Linear if token usage is a problem? Sounds like a case of straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.
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by estetlinus 6d ago
What is a ”deep note”, as opposed to a regular note?
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by estetlinus 6d ago
It’s a good thing writing about money laundering and gambling addiction, no? Smart people are only smart until they aren’t.
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by estetlinus 8d ago
Beautifully written. Hammers for driving screws + sycophancy are horrible together.
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by estetlinus 8d ago
Do they still do Atlas, the web browser? They are indeed throwing shit at the wall, seeing what stick.
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by estetlinus 9d ago
I’ve done this, nowadays asking Claude to rebind things so that I’m forced to learn. It comes with interesting side effects!
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by estetlinus 10d ago
Wait, I thought all hand-curated enterprise code was godly pre-LLMs?
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by estetlinus 11d ago
To your phone, bro
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by estetlinus 11d ago
We’re talking about it as if its not depending on absurd amounts of energy. How do you ”kill” a lightbulb now again?
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by estetlinus 19d ago
I am yet to find a skill useful. It’s usually just vibecoded slop-bloat for a one-off somebody thought they document in a markdown file.
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by estetlinus 22d ago
I can recommend the book telling the full story behind Fermats Last Theorem (by Simon Singh). It’s quite fascinating, and paved with really, _really_ weird characters each chipping in on the final solution.
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by estetlinus 22d ago
Sure, go on and try it ;)
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by estetlinus 22d ago
Just say “box plot” and 99.9999% of the working force gets watery eyes.
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by estetlinus 23d ago
Very nice idea! I think some number are of by a magnitude (DIED BEFORE AGE 5: 4%, for Scandinavium in 1990 - according to UN it’s ~0.6%).
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by estetlinus 23d ago
That definitely reframes it
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by estetlinus 24d ago
LLM: produces a toolbox of an id and a clock User: use them both Made me giggle.
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by estetlinus 26d ago
I think it happened when it solved one of those Erdős problems, while also knowing everything there is to know about birds, mitochondria, history of Uganda, etc. Even my most contrarian friends have a hard time justifying coding by hand. To
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by estetlinus 27d ago
That reframes it and one thing worth knowing before reading the article. The gap — and this is a real one — is AI-fatigue.
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by estetlinus 27d ago
Either I am hungry, or that article was genuine word salad
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by estetlinus 29d ago
Something like this? https://www.homerow.app/
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
The product is becoming load-bearing. That’s not new. That a word salad factory, and you just punched in.
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
I guess what you mean to say is ”read as much BOOKS as you can”. God knows I am reading all day long, but it’s usually news papers, blogs, weapons grade sloptonium from a colleague, etc.
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
The abstract is clickbait. What the hell?
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
Ive been thinking about data accumulated from all the out-of-business companies. Interesting to see data is being auctioned like an asset.
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
Phew. I am sitting here in my fleece feeling attacked.
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
A smart kid can be anything from not eating rocks anymore to multiplying numbers at an early age. Most of us turn out like the rescued exotic bird which turns out to be a seagull covered in curry.
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by estetlinus 1mo ago
I was in a project where we sent the whole taxonomy every request, 40k tokens + one article, ”plz classify”. This was before structured outputs. It was extremely expensive and still hallucinated. Good ol’ days.
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
+1 the vpn is called dev-test-prod and some containers are stored in a dev subscription, but still used in production. Some intangible network error forces you to use the production cluster for testing (the bucket is at least called test).
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by estetlinus 2mo ago
> London cabbies must memorize more than 25,000 streets within a 6-mile radius of Charing Cross, a challenge known as “The Knowledge” that takes three to four years. What the hell. I passed all the test for driving cabs in Stockholm, Swe

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