hathawsh

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by hathawsh 8mo ago
Please help me understand better, because it feels like part of the problem has already been solved. Specifically, I've been told that the independent journalists that I watch on YouTube Premium receive a portion of my subscription fee
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by hathawsh 8mo ago
Python has an "email object" that you should definitely use if you're going to parse email messages in any way. https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.message.html I imagine other languages have si
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by hathawsh 10mo ago
Ha ha, well that's a relief. I thought the article was going to say that enabling TCP_NODELAY is causing problems in distributed systems. I am one of those people who just turn on TCP_NODELAY and never look back because it solves probl
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by hathawsh 10mo ago
Erasure coding is an interesting topic for me. I've run some calculations on the theoretical longevity of digital storage. If you assume that today's technology is close to what we'll be using for a long time, then cross-devi
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by hathawsh 10mo ago
OTOH, all that data is built on patterns that evolved from many years of evolution, so I think the LLM benefits from that evolution also.
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by hathawsh 10mo ago
> as well as an axis for rounded terminals (as in terminals in letters, not command-line apps). Now I want to see a rounded terminal (as in command-line apps, not terminals in letters.) Would I type in a circle? Sounds cool.
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by hathawsh 10mo ago
I'll take a stab at this: LLMs currently seem to be rather good at details, but they seem to struggle greatly with the overall picture, in every subject. - If I want Claude Code to write some specific code, it often handles the task ad
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by hathawsh 10mo ago
Are you sure? The third section of each review lists the “Most prescient” and “Most wrong” comments. That sounds exactly like what you're looking for. For example, on the "Kickstarter is Debt" article, here is the LLM's
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by hathawsh 10mo ago
I think your intuition matches mine. When I try to apply Claude Code to a large code base, it spends a long time looking through the code and then it suggests something incorrect or unhelpful. It's rarely worth the trouble. When I give
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by hathawsh 11mo ago
The article suggests that because the power and cooling are customized, it would take a ton of effort to run the new AI servers in a home environment, but I'm skeptical of that. Home-level power and cooling are not difficult these days
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by hathawsh 11mo ago
Yeah, that was a little joke I slipped in, but OTOH, I've seen headphone kits that used 3D printed parts and it's not difficult to imagine someone replacing the 3D printed parts with handcrafted wood.
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by hathawsh 11mo ago
While I agree with you in principle (people should do their own thinking if they want gifts to be genuine), I thought I would go ahead and see how well Gemini can advise someone on choosing a gift for you. https://gemini.google.c
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by hathawsh 11mo ago
I usually want to cut pies into 14 pieces. Some might want 11 or 13. (17 is just too many.) I demand that we implement a system where a circle is 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 7 * 3 * 11 * 13 = 360360 degrees, so that we can cut pies evenly at anywhere
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by hathawsh 11mo ago
I've seen similar results in physics. I suspect LLMs are capable of redirecting the user accurately when there have been long discussions on the web about that topic. When an LLM can pattern-match on whole discussions, it becomes a nex
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by hathawsh 11mo ago
Most of HN has probably seen this gem about "thinking meat", but in case you haven't: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
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by hathawsh 1y ago
Very insightful and very weird. It's impractical now, but it's a glimpse into some significant part of our future. I can imagine an app called The Last Game, which morphs itself into any game you might want to play. "Let&#x27
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by hathawsh 1y ago
The "Wham Baam" YouTube channels have a running joke about Hondas bumping into other cars with concerning frequency.
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by hathawsh 1y ago
Consider these thoughts: https://wiki.c2.com/?SoftwareIsArt
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by hathawsh 1y ago
I think you're headed in a helpful direction, but I'm looking for ways to narrow the phenomenon a little more. For example, yesterday I heard from my mom, who is not into technical things, that a lot of the Internet was down. She
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by hathawsh 1y ago
A few years ago, I plugged a single 100W solar panel into a battery pack that advertised it accepts 18 volts. I left it plugged in, on my deck, for hours. When I came back, there was a foul smell and some parts of the battery pack had turne
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by hathawsh 1y ago
Good point. I suppose he has addressed this stuff already. I wish every city planner would watch his videos.
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by hathawsh 1y ago
I really hope the Not Just Bikes YouTube channel takes a look at this. I love the analysis they do there.
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by hathawsh 1y ago
In case anyone else has never heard of POSIWID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
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by hathawsh 1y ago
That's an interesting question that hasn't been tested yet. I suspect we won't be able to answer the question clearly until something bad happens and people go to court (sadly.) Also IANAL.
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by hathawsh 1y ago
Here is what Illinois says: https://idfpr.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idfpr/news... I get the impression that it is now illegal in Illinois to claim that an AI chatbot can take the plac
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by hathawsh 1y ago
My point exactly. Thanks.
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by hathawsh 1y ago
Perhaps. Intelligent beings are always more skilled in some domains than others. I don't know why AGI would be an exception to that rule.
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by hathawsh 1y ago
There are areas where we seem to be much closer to AGI than most people realize. AGI for software development, in particular, seems incredibly close. For example, Claude Code has bewildering capabilities that feel like magic. Mix it with a
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by hathawsh 1y ago
Yes. Me, typing into a search engine, a few years ago: "Postgres CTE tutorial" Me, typing into any AI engine, in 2025: "Here is my schema and query; optimize the query using CTEs and anything else you think might improve perf
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by hathawsh 1y ago
Velocity alone can also kill: https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ Randall Munroe rules this space IMHO.

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