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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
I was wondering the same thing. That translateZ is a bit fiddly to get right, so I could believe this is a bit easier to use, maybe? And presumably this could be used for other properties besides position, like colors, opacity or blurs.
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
Very different reports of the keyboard in this thread. Are there different builds of this or something? Or is it just a very polarising keyboard?
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by iainmerrick 4mo ago
Yes, I’d be wary of going anywhere near this for that reason alone. You can’t just say “the keyboard is terrible” but then that you still like it overall -- more detail needed!
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
They have containers, does that count? If you’re specifically thinking of native ephemeral workers with very fast startup, it seems like those would have to be sandboxed somehow, and WebAssembly seems like a decent solution. Is there really
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
Why are HTML5/JS games so much laggier and buggier than Flash games? I’m not sure that’s actually the case. Steve Jobs argued in his “thoughts on Flash” letter that Flash was too buggy, insecure and resource-hungry for mobile platfor
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
Right -- like the famous zinger about democracy, Google Docs is the worst implementation of collaborative word processing except for all the others that have been tried.
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
Write your own extension, then, and make it cheaper than the others -- or free!
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
I’m glad the era of Flash games existed. I’m glad it’s now possible to do all the same stuff in standard JS.
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
I understand the frustration but don’t take it too far. People often post great games here, cool visualisations, useful utilities. Hardly any of those would work at all without JavaScript. You can do terrible things with JS but you can do g
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
To be fair, on the Monday morning after a holiday, that’s exactly what I’m like too.
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
There is no way to allow each limb to do its own thing What? Why not? It's physically possible in terms of limb motion. It's very difficult for most people to actually do, sure; but impossible? or the brain not to decide what c
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
They’re shorter. Why so pedantic?
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
I can't see any information here about prompt caching (AKA prefix caching). That's absolutely required for any serious API usage with pay-per-token pricing. Anyone from Civo or relaxAI here able to clarify that? Thanks!
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
That’s what they said - “JavaScript interpreter wrapper”.
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
Maybe I'm just using it wrong, but typed Python seems a long way behind typed JS (i.e. TypeScript). In Python in seems like there are multiple type-checkers with widely differing levels of coverage, so it's not at all obvious whic
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
Back in the day there was an attempt to introduce "matrix URIs" as a more structured alternative to query strings: https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/MatrixURIs.html Of course there's nothing to stop you us
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
There's a rumour, probably apocryphal, that Richard Attenborough only got his knighthood because of David. Somebody at the palace or the civil service was reviewing the nominations, saw "David Attenborough" and thought "
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by iainmerrick 5mo ago
I can tell the difference between Pianoteq and a real piano, but I can't in general tell the difference between Pianoteq and a recording of a piano. That's a great way to put it. There's no way to fully reproduce that live
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
I tried to be generous and phrase my question in a balanced way; your answer isn't exactly making it sound super legal. If it were completely above board, presumably you'd be willing and able to explain it clearly.
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
I hadn’t realised that’s a thing (although I probably shouldn’t be surprised) -- I thought all these dual-citizenship tax agreements worked such that you aren’t double-taxed, but the total amount paid needs to meet the minimum for each coun
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
Plan for a world where we are just as stupid tomorrow as we are today. In other words, the action item can’t be “be more careful next time”, because humans forget sometimes (just like LLMs). That’s a great way of putting it, I’ll remember
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
It’s a good cautionary tale -- in hindsight the danger signs are clear, but it’s also clear why you thought it was OK and how third parties unfortunately let you down. The “agent’s confession” is the least interesting and useful part of t
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
That sounds very plausible. But it implies they could offer even higher performance models at much higher costs if they chose to; and presumably they would if there were customers willing to pay. Is that the case? Surely there are a decent
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
Can’t you just make the first post say “whoosh”, and have that be the post?
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
Depending on what you mean by "made the backend explode", that is a server error, so 500 is correct! Bad input should be a 4xx, but if the server can't cope with it, that's still a 5xx.
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
Are you mixing up Anthropic and OpenAI here?
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
At least it’s a bit harder because you need to finesse the manual review somehow; and it’ll leave a bigger paper trail. It’s not a perfect defence but it’s an improvement.
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
Tell us your hopes and dreams for a Cloudflare-wide CLI This is only partly about the CLI and mostly about the API itself, but a straightforward and consistent way to manage environments would be nice. I have a project using CF workers an
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
Yes, Magic Containers is excellent. I don't know if it scales up to huge loads well -- that might be expensive -- but it scales down really well. For a very lightly loaded hobby project it's almost free. A few people here are
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by iainmerrick 6mo ago
That's a very good point. Although I think maybe there are some crucial differences with LLMs here. First, the extra speed makes a qualitative difference. There is some communication overhead when you're instructing an LLM rather

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