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by gavmor 1y ago
> We have built _a lot_ of things on top of shaky foundations. [Technical] debt is a choice , and the gene that makes "perfect" the enemy of "good" misses opportunities for inheritance! As a dev--as an adult!--I stil
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by gavmor 1y ago
> It's a shame people lose sight of the ground beneath their feet when reaching to the sky Shakespeare: > 'tis a common proof \ That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, \ Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; \ B
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by gavmor 1y ago
> Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good
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by gavmor 1y ago
Why skip ollama? I can pull any GGUF straight from HuggingFace eg: `ollama run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-0528-GGUF:Q8_0`
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by gavmor 1y ago
Why is modifying weights sensibly impossible? Is it because a modification's "sensibility" is measurable only post facto, and we can have no confidence in any weight-based hypothesis?
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by gavmor 1y ago
For a quick dive into some accessible CAD, check out https://www.tinkercad.com/
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by gavmor 1y ago
So he's good at one of the two hard problems—naming things. He's a science fiction author, not a tech exec or statesman. The bar is low.
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by gavmor 1y ago
Yes, it would—the dialogic interface is an anchor weighing us down! Yes, yes, it's an accessible demonstration of the technology's mind-blowing flexibility, but all this "I, you, me, I'm" nonsense clutters the conte
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by gavmor 1y ago
Still, there's something to be said for the variance in the number of prime factors. https://quickchart.io/sandbox/#%7B%22chart%22%3A%22%7B%5Cn%2...
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by gavmor 1y ago
How can a layperson approach and develop correct intuitions for "the multiplicative view" of numbers? Is it practical?
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by gavmor 1y ago
The primes are some of the worst offenders, eg the transition from 647 (prime) to 648 (3×3×3×3×2×2×2), but as we approach infinity, the visualizations increasingly appear circular, and it's the least-primey (?) that break from the tr
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by gavmor 1y ago
The jumps between neighbors are sometimes so drastic—are we sure our numbers are in the right order?
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by gavmor 1y ago
I always get a little confused when people fact-check bare foundation models. I don't consider them as fact-bearing, but only fact-preserving when grounded in context. Am I missing something?
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by gavmor 1y ago
Here's a recent thread on Ollama hate from r/localLLaMa: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1kg20mu/so_why_...
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by gavmor 1y ago
That may be its primogenitor, but it's long since become a meme: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=unreasonable+effectiven...
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by gavmor 1y ago
> Write the program Sounds hard! Jokes (?) aside, the scientific method is a loop, so it probably doesn't matter long at which phase you enter.
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by gavmor 1y ago
"Sound documentation" becomes something like SEO for agents. Take a look at the MCP spec[0]: ``` "metadata": { "name": "My MCP", "description": "A description of my MCP", &qu
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by gavmor 1y ago
> Or, do you simply wait until after the program is written to [observe] its [behavior]? How is that even possible?
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by gavmor 1y ago
Ha! I always feel more than a little embarrassed when it happens, but I can't sit idly by while TDD is slandered, especially from so seemingly oblique an angle! While I agree with you regarding microservices (eg language abstractions p
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by gavmor 1y ago
> then go off and debug/code until Yes, this is a missed opportunity! Well said. I try to write tests in place of print statements or debuggers, using assertions like xray glasses. Fun times!
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by gavmor 1y ago
If you don't try static typing, first, I feel like you're leaving money on the table... on your way to burn a pile of money. Right? If you're looking to reduce bugs and errors... this is like putting a jetpack on a window-was
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by gavmor 1y ago
Michael Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code . https://understandlegacycode.com/assets/legacy-code-commitst...
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by gavmor 1y ago
Besides Obsidian Publish , one may consider the Digital Garden extension or https://benchristel.github.io/mdsite/
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by gavmor 1y ago
More reachable, more accountable, and more surveilled by whom ? And can we flip the relationship, creating dashboards or whatever from which agentic systems reach, hold to account, and surveille right back? I'm thinking pro-active a
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by gavmor 1y ago
> The cofounders didn’t have access to the code repo Get the fuck outta here. I couldn't read past that. I'm done. Thanks for the writeup. Godspeed.
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by gavmor 1y ago
I'm sure that the complex logic and state management were not trivial to implement, but the link said GUI so I wanted to see some screenshots, but all I saw were two very dim simple forms. This space is REALLY struggling to graduate fr
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by gavmor 2y ago
I can't recommend Zero-K enough. It plays like a dream. Super fun at all levels. Great 8v8 clashes of robots. Unbeatable price ($0). Great dev blogs. https://store.steampowered.com/app/334920/ZeroK/
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by gavmor 2y ago
Beyond All Reason is a SpringTA fork (hack? build?) like Zero-K ? So the underlying engine isn't Lua, but higher level scripting is. I'm pretty sure this is fairly common, or was once. Other games with Lua scripting: Roblox, Ba
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by gavmor 2y ago
Right? Right. I had similar thoughts (API that's the parent of the view? You mean a controller ?), and quit very early into the post. Didn't realize it was Dan Abramov, or I might've at least skimmed the 70% and 99% marks, b
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by gavmor 2y ago
For rich, authentic old-style maps you want to make at home on the PC (or iPad) is there any better resource than K. M. Alexander's? https://kmalexander.com/free-stuff/fantasy-map-brushes/

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