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by hliyan 1y ago
I installed and played around with Cursor for all of perhaps 2 hours before giving up in disgust. The first few generations are generally quite good. After that, problems started to stack up so exponentially that I found myself rubbing my t
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by hliyan 1y ago
There's another, similar genre of non-fiction books: Sapiens, Outliers etc. I notice these tend to be unusually popular with people who have too short an attention span to absorb knowledge rigorously (e.g. high net-worth individuals),
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by hliyan 1y ago
> where the analogy does not hold true: > 1. Voluntary participation Ten (or even five) years ago, I would have wholeheartedly agreed that our current economic system is entirely voluntary compared to feudalism. But as of late, lookin
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by hliyan 1y ago
Tried this with my native language. Many errors. Probably because the language is only spoken by 20 million people (Sinhala). Suggestion: ability to highlight one word and have its translation highlighted. Could catch errors like the one I
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by hliyan 1y ago
There needs to be regulations about deceptive, indirect, purposefully ambiguous or vague public communication by corporations (or any entity). I'm not an expert in corporate law or finance, but the statement should be: "Open AI fo
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by hliyan 1y ago
The JS ecosystem would be so much better if developers concentrated to contributing to libraries rather than writing new frameworks. After about 10 years of JavaScript, I recently moved over to .NET and I'm finding that my team can foc
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by hliyan 1y ago
I've been thinking similarly. Bertrand Russell once said: "there are two types of work. One, moving objects on or close to the surface of the Earth. Two, telling other people to do so". Most of us work in buildings that don&#
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by hliyan 1y ago
I'm a bit confused as to why something that could be achieved with a single Saturn V launch 60 years ago, now requires about 10 launches of a heavy lift vehicle with 100t LEO payload, plus an additional launch of another, completely di
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The Myth of scarcity and its threats to human society(kemendo.com)
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by hliyan 1y ago
I would say that corporate personhood is a better example. It seems very natural to us, but I'm not sure if it's an idea other intelligent species would also independently arrive at.
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by hliyan 1y ago
If a person does not (and does not want to) drive, how do they identify themselves? Where I live, everyone gets a government issue ID card, and the ID number is the citizen's primary key. Our government is still largely paper-driven, b
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by hliyan 1y ago
A few things came to mind as I read this. 1) About 8 years ago I was gifted a copy of Ray Dalio's Principles . Being a process aficionado who thought the way to prevent bureaucracy was to ground process in principles, I was very excit
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by hliyan 1y ago
Can OSes offer an application sandbox feature, where I can define sandboxes within which to install applications. Applications within a sandbox only has visibility into the resources I define: some folders, no camera or mic etc. I understan
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by hliyan 1y ago
What's worse, we're now at a stage where we might have to apply psychology to the models themselves, seeing how these models appear to be developing various sorts of stochastic "disorders" instead of more deterministic &
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by hliyan 1y ago
+1 for ls and cd. I would also suggest numbered output for ls, so that the user can select using the numeric keypad. Or, up/down nav, TUI-style. I wish ecommerce sites could be more like this.
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by hliyan 1y ago
Yes, but if I really wanted, I could go into a specific line of code that governs some behaviour of the Linux kernel, reason about its effects, and specifically test for it. I can't trace the behaviour of LLM back to a subset of its w
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by hliyan 1y ago
We are, if speaking uncharitably, now at a stage of attempting to finesse the behavior of stochastic black boxes (LLMs) using non-deterministic verbal incantations (system prompts). One could actually write a science fiction short story on
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by hliyan 1y ago
I wish more writing in the software world was done this way: "Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) service which provides managed instances of the PostgreSQL database. We show that Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL multi-A
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by hliyan 2y ago
> "Josh Adler - the son of Kerry Adler, a wealthy Canadian businessman - presided over a culture of instability, resulting in high turnover of staff and errors due to "cutting corners" and hiring and firing inexperienced c
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by hliyan 2y ago
Some of the perpetrators: "Two former students from the prestigious Seoul National University (SNU)" and "a quiet, introverted student “someone you’d never imagine doing such a thing,”". "...lot of articles and comm
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by hliyan 2y ago
Minor issue, Chrome on Windows: cursor position seems to have an offset error -- can never quite get to the end of a line. As you type, text doesn't quite appear where the cursor is.
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by hliyan 2y ago
Wait, your title says this "runs locally"?
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by hliyan 2y ago
This one sentence throws the entire article's objectivity into question: "This is why today we’re announcing Earthly Lunar."
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by hliyan 2y ago
On that note, whatever happened to netbooks? As someone who writes a lot and need a mobile device to do it on, they used to be perfect. Can't seem to find the form factor anymore. Even the smallest Chromebook seems only slightly smalle
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by hliyan 2y ago
I always wondered how programming would be if we hadn't designed the assignment operator to be consistent with mathematics, and instead had it go LHS -> RHS, i.e. you perform the operation and then decide its destination, much lik
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by hliyan 2y ago
Not sure if this is accurate. I was once a member of an astronomy club and its patron was a Catholic priest who was very much into the subject. And he wasn't even a Jesuit.
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by hliyan 2y ago
In terms of professional ethics, where should a product manager stand, when the business asks them for a customer-hostile solution like this (or on the opposite end of the developers suggest a customer-hostile technical solution)?
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by hliyan 2y ago
I wonder whether we will have another Jesuit Pope. Jesuits are supposed to be generally very education focused, more progressive (especially w.r.t science) and stand less on ceremony. I know nothing about how the College of Cardinals work,
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by hliyan 2y ago
Just yesterday I saw an ad for an "AI enabled dishwasher". I suspect things are about to get even worse.
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by hliyan 2y ago
One thing I realized was: the presence or absence of smartphones is an easy way to determine whether something happened before circa 2009 or after. Another: indoor smoking.

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