hankbond

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by hankbond 3mo ago
So, tactical ocean trash?
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by hankbond 3mo ago
TLDR I care more about the outcome not being slop than I do an LLM being involved in its creation. Sure but not everyone is as process driven, some are more outcome driven. Personally I care more about the outcome of your software (its qua
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by hankbond 3mo ago
That was also my reasoning. I'm a fan for abstraction and nesting for DRY reasons but always find it mentally taxing to dive in and out of "functions". So while the code is organized this way to create the settings, they ca
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by hankbond 3mo ago
I'm in a charitable mood so I will just say that we rarely live up to our ideals.
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by hankbond 3mo ago
Necessity being the mother of all invention. I also thought the compute-in-memory approach was interesting re: https://mythic.ai
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by hankbond 3mo ago
> Whatever software you’re building, you can be absolutely certain that people will use it in ways you didn’t anticipate. Your software will become a part in a larger system—your only choice is over whether it will be a well-behaved part
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by hankbond 3mo ago
Re: default values are bad One of my recent projects has contributable code (via extensions) with a central settings management (json file). What I do is take all the defaults contributed by the extensions (namespaced by extension name) an
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by hankbond 3mo ago
> does it truly matter how it was created To users of the software, no it doesn't really. Users only care about results aligned with their priorities. That said, the act of creation changes the creator, so make sure that you are ac
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by hankbond 3mo ago
I'm not learned enough on the topic to really comment on it but I appreciated the diagrams and the simple fluid prose. Overall the meta lesson reminds me of the building adage "measure twice cut once".
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by hankbond 3mo ago
Total slop website. Reads like a scam. No company info.
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by hankbond 3mo ago
> It is not a picture. It is a cryptographically verifiable credential, and the most important thing it can do is answer a question without handing over the data behind the answer. Is that what the current ID-on-digital-wallets do, or ju
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by hankbond 3mo ago
Ok yeah fair enough I think thats a sizable distinction. FWIW you can do the same thing inside a python process with eval()/exec(), or if we were still keeping it external to the harness process you could just run python as a persiste
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by hankbond 3mo ago
I don't mind reading stream of consciousness, thats how I think anyway. Not everything you write has to be tight and polished, it just has to have value to the reader one way or the other. Try using claude to suggest structural improv
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by hankbond 3mo ago
I feel like I have not really heard a compelling reason why student debt should not be dischargeable thru bankruptcy like (afaik) all other forms of debt. I am curious what the ramifications would be if higher education institutions had to
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by hankbond 3mo ago
Good point. Things cost more not just in unit cost but amortized over the item's lifetime (or I guess put differently, how much Refrigerator $ you spend over the course of your life).
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by hankbond 3mo ago
I appreciate the amount of detail in the post, I think it's a useful addition to the space. That said, I have to read LLM output all day all the time, and I would implore you to take the time to explore your own voice a bit more. >
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by hankbond 3mo ago
Technically not civil engineering but similarly enough in the home-reno space. You can knock down a retaining wall relatively willy-nilly but a load-bearing wall needs a replacement thought out ahead of time. So extended to concepts it alw
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by hankbond 3mo ago
Maybe this is a reductive comment, but how does this differ from just letting your agent bash tool a `python -c` command (or anything of that class)? I'm not really getting where this is a "wow" moment? It is always nice to
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by hankbond 3mo ago
I have heard it in the way that Claude uses it going way back. Since I have to use Anthropic models for work, and they use that term prodigiously, it's been added to the list of "perfectly fine phrases that have been ruined"
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by hankbond 3mo ago
Please take this gently, but I did not really walk away from this post having gained anything. I don't have any problems with the post in isolation but I just don't feel it really offers enough weight to be here if that makes sen
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by hankbond 3mo ago
Website design is borderline unreadable and the copy just drips LLM slop. This is your first interaction with potential users. Please put some care into accessibility and originality (just write like we are chatting). Your current websit
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by hankbond 3mo ago
This seems very lazily/sloppily put together. I think it would have been far more useful if a more involved and holistic approach to measure/estimate the proposed idea was taken.
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by hankbond 3mo ago
I have not set up Hister yet but it's on my list to try out. How would I do something like host it on my Unraid box but have it index/persist my local MacBook browsing history?
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by hankbond 3mo ago
Now this is personal computing done right!
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by hankbond 4mo ago
Very well written article. Had a natural feel to it that was engaging and relaxing. The broader point of just having complete abandon for natural resources when manufacturing was certainly of the era (not that it has directionally changed
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by hankbond 4mo ago
As a new TypeScript user these are concepts that have greatly helped me simplify my code and improve reliability discrete of testing. Many LLMs guide in this direction if you loosely ask them, but having a concise post like this with the wh
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by hankbond 4mo ago
> 2. LLMs can somehow be asked to arbitrarily elevate and lower abstraction level (can be seen as a special form of perspective taking) yes but from my experience abstracting (at least upward) is something all models really struggle with
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by hankbond 4mo ago
This is awesome thank you for making this!
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by hankbond 4mo ago
do you propose its maybe closer to the idea that you can regain strength faster after having lost it (in the context of bodybuilding and extended time off)? Gaining something from scratch requires much effort and experimentation, regaining
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by hankbond 4mo ago
People also build the same things if they have the same needs. That doesn't mean creativity is dead. My life as a software engineer is not that unique of others. This isn't really something to lament. There's nothing wrong wi

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