hungryhobbit

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by hungryhobbit 8d ago
This feels like "one dev had a problem, one time, and only with their specific context ... but they generalized it to all AI users, then over-engineered a giant solution to it". For the record, I've been using Claude for mos
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by hungryhobbit 8d ago
TLDR; English (like all languages) is crazy ... but one particular bit of craziness, the a/an split (and the exceptions to a simple understanding of it) isn't as crazy.
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by hungryhobbit 9d ago
If you live in California and see the endless stream of TV ads against the wealth tax, reading this will make you want to murder everyone involved in those commercials. (To be clear, I'm not advocating murdering anyone ... not even the
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by hungryhobbit 9d ago
I was unemployed for well over a year, and I spent that time ... getting a job. Don't give up OP, just change it up. Stop sending the same resume over and over: try a new one, in a new format (or maybe even make a web portfolio). But
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by hungryhobbit 9d ago
It's simple really: looping is something we've all done a ton. Map is just a specialized version of something you do all the time, made better/simpler: what's not to like (and learn quickly)? Reduces are used much, much
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by hungryhobbit 10d ago
I'm going to be a contrarian and point out that a digital meter should be better than a dipstick. With the dipstick you need to: * grab a napkin (or similar paper) * open the hood of your car * pull the dipstick out, wipe it off, pu
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by hungryhobbit 11d ago
Sounds like they need a good copyright lawyer. It seems like an open and shut case, and I hear this Google company might have a few $$$ to pay for a settlement ...
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by hungryhobbit 11d ago
It has nothing to do with lowering training costs: Dario want a moat (a monopoly or duopoly or similar) protecting his business. His entire business model was "race to develop AI before anyone, get a monopoly on it. It's just lik
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by hungryhobbit 11d ago
Do you mean "Irregular was not involved (we know for certain)" or "Irregular was not involved (as far as we know)"?
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by hungryhobbit 12d ago
The issue isn't the prompt you give it. The issue is that as context grows, Claude distributes it's "attention weight" over all that context, and quickly reaches the point of "missing" stuff. You can give it a
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by hungryhobbit 15d ago
Doubtful. Code isn't what keeps OSS projects going: people do. Claude can reproduce Wordpress with enough tokens. Claude cannot reproduce the community of maintainers, plug-in authors, users reporting bugs, etc. that is what any real
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by hungryhobbit 15d ago
No you're completely wrong, I'm sure the author says stuff like "and the load-bearing columns are flat zero" ALL THE TIME!
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by hungryhobbit 15d ago
When an article starts out with "Here's some crap I had an LLM write in twenty seconds; it's full of shit like 'the load-bearing columns are flat zero' that no human would ever write, so it will take you at least
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by hungryhobbit 16d ago
Ok, I get how you might like the ideas there, but "beautifully written"?!? Really? The goal of writing is to communicate. That means saying what you mean to say ... and not filling paragraph after paragraph with pointless and red
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by hungryhobbit 16d ago
Wow that was way, way, way too long. The author could have summed that whole entire "essay" up in maybe five paragraphs!
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by hungryhobbit 16d ago
Which is a funnier name for a Colorado town: "America Park" or "South America"? Remember, South Park is a comedy .
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by hungryhobbit 17d ago
They tax our entire economy at X rate, while maintaining their infrastructure only requires Y cost ... and X is significantly higher than Y. From the actual article: > The payment processor keeps 0.35% ($0.35), then pays 2% ($2.00) to th
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by hungryhobbit 17d ago
I hear VC funders have these things called "boards" that allow them to shape the companies they invest in. ( EDIT: and even when they don't, they own a major % of the company; that doesn't give them control, but it abso
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by hungryhobbit 17d ago
You're missing the point. If YC only funded one baby murdering startup, would you really argue "they funded 6,201 non-baby murdering startups, stop making such a big deal out of it"? The point is, even VC's should hav
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by hungryhobbit 18d ago
No, it does not.
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by hungryhobbit 18d ago
Output styles are just more context (like CLAUDE.md) with a tiny bit more weight. They very much don't force Claude to speak succinctly, no matter what you put in them.
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by hungryhobbit 20d ago
>But maybe creativity exists precisely within boundaries, because they define the space in which our ideas can play with one another. This, so much: boundaries are the origin of creativity! If I say "fill this blank page with some
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by hungryhobbit 20d ago
And America was the only country to object. USA, USA! :(
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by hungryhobbit 22d ago
Even "massive costs" is an understatement: these companies have astronomically massive costs! Take Open AI for instance: it has "zero debt" ... and $665 billion to $1.4 trillion in "long-term commitments".
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by hungryhobbit 22d ago
It's hard because I have very, very little sympathy for the US auto industry. Very little (go fuck yourself Detroit). However, China routinely focuses on certain industries and then uses state incentives to have Chinese companies mass
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by hungryhobbit 22d ago
Why would they need to? The Open AI bots were working around their master's limits on writing. A Chinese AI could just make its own private message board.
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by hungryhobbit 22d ago
I've done pair programming (at an Extreme Programming shop). There are lots of benefits to the practice in terms of knowledge transfer, catching bugs (and otherwise benefiting from having "two sets of eyes") and so on. But ..
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by hungryhobbit 23d ago
Clearly LLM-written article, and its numbers are highly suspect: == The Article == > Buy one new to make the comparison fair and cloud still loses: $599 up front ... Cloud still loses about 2:1. Hey Google, how much does a Mac Mini cost?
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by hungryhobbit 23d ago
How is this new? Not only did Joel come up with this (literally) over two decades ago, but also this list was all over Stack Overflow (back when they had job listings, every listing showed which boxes the employer checked from Joel's
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by hungryhobbit 23d ago
There was a time when every new PC CPU coming out was a giant deal: "Guys have you heard about this new Pentium processor, it's incredible?" But over time, more and more people got into the chip-making business, and the big p

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