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by javawizard 5mo ago
It's better than bleen I suppose. Speaking of, I'd be curious about a similar experiment but one that compares how grotesque, for lack of a better word, certain words sound. The word bleen makes me uncomfortable, I think becau
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by javawizard 5mo ago
> 1. Github could choose to grandfather in those plans and make no changes until those plans expire. They explicitly stated that they won't be doing that: the multipliers go into effect in June for everyone, annual plan or not.
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by javawizard 5mo ago
That deserves to be on a plaque somewhere. I've been using LLMs for much the same purpose: solving problems within my field of expertise where the limiting factor is not intelligence per se, but the ability to connect the right dots
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by javawizard 5mo ago
I gotta say, I love my macbooks. Every Apple laptop I've owned that has USB-C ports will happily charge itself from a 5V/1.5A wall charger (albeit extremely slowly).
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by javawizard 6mo ago
Not when the article they're commenting on was doing literally exactly the same thing.
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by javawizard 6mo ago
Love this. How did you implement gates? Are they simply tasks Claude itself has to confirm it ran, or are they scripts that run to check that the thing in question actually happened, or do they spawn a separate AI agent to check that the th
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by javawizard 6mo ago
That's fascinating. Any idea what their test harness looks like? My experience comes primarily from Claude Code; this makes me wonder if recent CC updates could be more to blame than Opus 4.6 itself.
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by javawizard 6mo ago
The trouble with that argument, though, is that it works the other way as well: how do I, a random internet citizen, know that you're not doing the same thing for Anthropic with this comment? (FWIW I have definitely noticed a cognitive
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by javawizard 6mo ago
No, menu bar items being hidden when there are too many of them has happened for a decade. The notch has just made menu bar space more scarce than it used to be.
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by javawizard 6mo ago
> I know software quality has been going down in recent versions of macOS Note that this particular problem has existed for well over a decade. It's atrocious, but let's not pretend it's anything new.
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by javawizard 6mo ago
Yes, and: If I recall correctly, cloudflare is sinking all the extra traffic for him, so it doesn't actually impact him. Last I heard it's a morally objectionable thing at this point rather than something that's having any pr
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by javawizard 7mo ago
I wonder if that was an automated HN edit? Similarly to how titles that start with "how" usually have that word automatically removed.
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by javawizard 8mo ago
If I had any NTP servers under my control, I probably would :)
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by javawizard 8mo ago
Oh now that would be a fun version 2 challenge: have all the clocks in one household synchronize such that they're all early by the same amount at any given time. Easy enough for wifi enabled ones: a UDP broadcast to discover other clo
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by javawizard 8mo ago
I used to work at a place that had the famous Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote painted near the elevators where everyone would see it when they arrived for work: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when ther
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by javawizard 8mo ago
Ah, very fair. Without otherwise taking a position on the article, I can totally see how that's editorialized.
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by javawizard 8mo ago
Got it. Out of curiosity, what was it?
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by javawizard 8mo ago
The article and the submitted HN post both appear to have the same title to me: "Margin Call". What are you talking about? Did one or the other have a different title when you wrote your comment?
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by javawizard 8mo ago
Jet engines do not strike me as being inherently simpler than muscles, not by a long shot. They're still the best way we know of going about the business of building a flying machine, for various reasons.
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by javawizard 9mo ago
> But the other way around is not possible due to the closed nature of GPT-5. At risk of sounding glib: have you heard of distillation?
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by javawizard 9mo ago
Plenty of sources suggest it is: https://github.com/giladoved/webcam-heart-rate-monitor https://medium.com/dev-genius/remote-heart-rate-detection-us... The Reddit comments on that second one have
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by javawizard 9mo ago
Xoogler here. When you get to a company that's that big, the roles are much more finely specialized. I forget the title now, but we had someone who interfaced with our team and did the whole "talk to customers" thing. Her fee
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by javawizard 9mo ago
I would.
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by javawizard 9mo ago
Big companies are soulless. I've related elsewhere[0] my story about how Google laid me and half my team off 2 weeks before we were set to receive a six-figure retention bonus following an acquisition. In the original Q&A with corp
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by javawizard 10mo ago
I wish CPLDs were more well known in the common vernacular. The industry draws a distinction between CPLDs and FPGAs, and rightly so, but most "Arduino-level" hobbyists think "I want something I can program so that it acts li
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by javawizard 10mo ago
Hence the presumed implication behind the public_id field in GP's comment: anywhere identifiers are exposed, you use the public_id field, thereby preventing ID guessing while still retaining the benefits of ordered IDs where internal l
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by javawizard 10mo ago
I'm not but I totally could! Feel free to drop me a line - my email is firstname@website, where both can be found on my GitHub profile (same username as HN). And yes, the A64 is still available! https://www.lcsc.com/pro
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by javawizard 10mo ago
You know the fun thing is, something like the Allwinner A133 - which is one of the most popular SOCs in lower-end tablets today - is like $5, or $3 in quantity. It turns out it's actually not as hard as you'd expect to whip togeth
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by javawizard 10mo ago
I'm actually curious, how do we know for a fact that this is the case?
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by javawizard 10mo ago
Woohoo, I got number 10,000 on the altar! https://youtu.be/4KYI8CgGrLw Now who was there with me running it up at the same time :)

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