jaredsohn

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by jaredsohn 7mo ago
This question is too vague to answer.
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by jaredsohn 7mo ago
This xkcd is again relevant: https://xkcd.com/2501/
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by jaredsohn 7mo ago
I find it great for nutrition and cooking. I used AI to build a food tracker that works at the micronutrient level (LLMs built the code but are mostly not used in the app itself) but many of my prompts are helping me to learn nutrition in g
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by jaredsohn 7mo ago
Treat context like git shas. Yes, there is a specific order within a 'branch' but you should be able to do the equivalent of cherry-picking and rebasing it
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by jaredsohn 8mo ago
I connected a few times today to the IPv4 one. Have had no problems myself.
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by jaredsohn 8mo ago
To watch Star Wars in ASCII. telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhcf6tc2jeQ (Remember hearing about this a long time ago (from some searching I think it was in 1999 via Slashdot) and verified some
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by jaredsohn 8mo ago
To focus on Excel / Google Sheets itself, AI makes it a lot more usable in that you can describe what you want and it can generate formulas for you. I have a running spreadsheet that I had to manually manipulate because I didn't k
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by jaredsohn 9mo ago
In other discussions of this, I've heard that it can be faked and it isn't great to get people - esp kids - in the habit of sharing video of themselves to websites
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by jaredsohn 9mo ago
To respond to everyone at once - I have experience and teachers so I'm not solely relying on these videos. I use the short videos as a fast discovery of what's out there and I'll sometimes watch long videos afterward. LLM sit
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by jaredsohn 9mo ago
I've started using these platforms for learning (stretch exercises, argentine tango patterns/musicality I might want to lead, etc) and am finding the experience to work better in those kinds of situations. Agree it can be brain ro
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by jaredsohn 9mo ago
Next step is allow viewing TikTok like wikipedia. Take a bunch of popular tiktok posts, use an LLM to describe what's happening via text/screenshots (with references to memes, etc), and link them to other relevant tiktoks. Some me
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by jaredsohn 9mo ago
Good software engineers are concerned with product strategy. They might not be able to decide things but they can help inform product about options because they're closer to actually building things. If you just implement product ticke
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by jaredsohn 9mo ago
You can do balance / stretching exercises - lean against a wall, stand on one foot, etc.
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by jaredsohn 9mo ago
Similar for me but maybe on a 386; used this 1989 book which had its own version of quickbasic called qbi since qbasic only got added to ms-dos in 1991. https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Basic-Now-Mike-Halvorson/dp/155.
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by jaredsohn 10mo ago
Why not just use a standard LLM prompt?
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by jaredsohn 10mo ago
>(my understanding of claude code is that it's a non-interactive agent, which is worse for what i have in mind. iteration and _changing my mind_ are a big part of my process, so even if I let the computer do its own thing for an hou
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by jaredsohn 10mo ago
Ruby has https://github.com/bokmann/business_time but when I looked at it, custom code was needed to calculate holidays that were offset because they are on the weekend.
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by jaredsohn 10mo ago
Another way to think of it is if you're blurting out your thinking you're reducing redundant work and perhaps inspiring the other person to think of additional solutions that are offshoots of what you're dismissing. I see mer
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by jaredsohn 10mo ago
My guess is this is so OpenAI can treat it as annual recurring revenue which helps with their stock valuation. I've seen non-LLM API vendors do this with their credits as well.
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by jaredsohn 10mo ago
I started tracking everything I ate three years ago and even posted about it via this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32552288 I updated it substantially via AI this summer (includes micros, compounds, and var
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by jaredsohn 10mo ago
That's incorrect, though. There needs to be demand for that skill, too.
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by jaredsohn 11mo ago
Tried saving on jsonformatter right now and I see this: "We are stopping save facility to prevent NSFW content and working on to make it better. We understand this may be inconvenient, but we're taking proactive measures to ensure
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by jaredsohn 11mo ago
Or like Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal show on HBO Max. Also, the show's subreddit has a companion subreddit for posting to before you post to the real one.
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by jaredsohn 11mo ago
I'd love to see an actual bug-free codebase. People who state the codebase in bug-free probably just lack awareness. Even stating we 'have only x bugs' is likely not true.
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by jaredsohn 11mo ago
And can't claude code do all those things but more cheaply?
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by jaredsohn 11mo ago
A neat part of this is it mimics how people get onboarded onto codebases. People usually aren't figuring out how to write tests from scratch; they look at the current best practices for similar functionality in the codebase and start t
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by jaredsohn 1y ago
>Plus, .NET is not that popular either compared to proliferation of python/java/node.js frameworks >Look at HN job threads, .NET demand is very limited. I think it just isn't popular for startups or people who read site
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by jaredsohn 1y ago
And they started renumbering at 1 for 2023-2025 when it went to Disney Plus (to onboard new people and because they don't have rights to older episodes.)
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by jaredsohn 1y ago
I don't think there is anything wrong with using AI to help make life decisions like this. You just need to know how to use AI, although people on average will misuse it in various ways. But those people will probably make similar mist
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by jaredsohn 1y ago
> I know who the people in my photographs are. Why is Microsoft so eager to also be able to know this? Presumably it can be used for filtering as well - find me all pictures of me with my dad, etc.

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