jbritton

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by jbritton 6mo ago
I wonder how often problems happen that the redundancy solves. Is radiation actually flipping bits and at what frequency. Can a sun flare cause all the computers to go haywire.
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by jbritton 6mo ago
More complexity, no benefit. Human languages have lots of problems. I would simplify English if I knew how and had the power to make it so.
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by jbritton 6mo ago
I strongly dislike flexible input like __Unambiguous___, *Unambiguous* I’m reminded of the time Microsoft allowed mistakes in html writing. They attempted to parse a wide variety of common user errors. The effect of this was no standard and
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by jbritton 7mo ago
On X11, the window manager handles the window decorations. So splitting them is going to involve some possibly non-trivial messaging and config.
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by jbritton 7mo ago
I’m developing on an Nvidia Orin which requires Ubuntu 22.04. Snaps are broken on this platform. I used an alternative ppa that provided a chromium.deb.
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by jbritton 7mo ago
Also true of specifications. Anything not explicitly stated will be decided by the implementer, maybe to your liking or maybe not.
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by jbritton 7mo ago
It’s kind of interesting relating this to LLMs. A chef in a kitchen you can just say you want PB&J. With a robot, does it know where things are, once it knows that, does it know how to retrieve them, open and close them. It’s always a m
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by jbritton 7mo ago
I find dark mode much easier to read and far less eye strain. I guess it just shows that users should be the ones to set the preference. There are studies on monkeys showing light mode leading to myopia. Although lately I have come to learn
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by jbritton 7mo ago
I tried this recently with what I thought was a simple layout, but probably uncommon for CSS. It took an extremely long back and forth to nail it down. It seemingly had no understanding how to achieve what I wanted. A couple sentences would
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by jbritton 7mo ago
It appears the error message has been improved.
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by jbritton 7mo ago
When I wrote my very first Rust code, I was trying to write to a socket. I got stuck on this task with misleading error messages for the longest time. I finally realized I had not made the socket object mutable. I’m used to Posix where you
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by jbritton 7mo ago
I think this is different. It’s a statement that this product is not qualified to perform that function(autonomous killing decisions). I think it is pure madness to think AI is currently up to this task. I also think it should be a war crim
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by jbritton 7mo ago
It’s not clear to me that the AI itself will refuse. You could build a system where AI is asked if an image matches a pattern. The true/false is fed to a different system to fire a missile. Building such a system would violate the cont
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by jbritton 8mo ago
The article mentions shallow copy, but does this create a persistent immutable data structure? Does it modify all nodes up the tree to the root?
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by jbritton 9mo ago
The Reddit example is about two different design choices. The DOM is a tree of state that needs to stay in sync with your app state. So how to make that happen without turning your code into a mess. The old Reddit had to first construct the
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by jbritton 9mo ago
I had a conversation with Claude about what language to work in. It was a web app and it led me to Typescript mainly because of the training data for the model, plus typing and being able to write pure functions. Haskell might have been pre
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by jbritton 10mo ago
I have often thought layouts should be done by a constraint solver. Then there could be libraries that help simplify specifying a layout, which feed constraints to the solver.
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by jbritton 10mo ago
I was thinking about C++ and if you change your mind about whether some member function or parameter should be const, it can be quite the pain to manually refactor. And good refactoring tools can make this go away. Maybe they already have,
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by jbritton 10mo ago
These were paper trades, not actual trades. Sometimes a few seconds can significantly effect the price one gets.
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by jbritton 11mo ago
I don’t have a log of work that I can post.
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by jbritton 11mo ago
Gotham Chess has done chat bot chess championships. The chat bots make a few good moves, and then begin making illegal moves, randomly removing or adding pieces, and completing ignoring obvious threats and attacks. It is so obvious that the
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by jbritton 11mo ago
I have been spent many hours with them on coding tasks. As things currently stand once context or complexity reaches a certain point they become completely incapable of solving problems and that point occurs on very simple things. They appe
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by jbritton 11mo ago
Some have realized that LLMs don’t really reason and that LLMs may not be as amazing as the claims. However, I think LLMs plus agents, plus advances that are likely to come may very well prove to be more valuable than anyone can foresee. It
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by jbritton 11mo ago
A CIMT scan is another option. It uses ultrasound to measure carotid artery wall thickness.
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by jbritton 1y ago
ICE is targeting groups of people based upon a probability that some are illegal. This violates the 4th amendment. The 4th amendment requires reasonable suspicion of a specific individual. This is also why they don’t have warrants, because
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by jbritton 1y ago
If Tesla has a “no charge” list, they should at a minimum notify Carfax. However, everybody buying a used Tesla needs to be knowledgeable about this caveat. Tesla has a duty to inform the public. How they do this I have no idea. Perhaps the
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by jbritton 1y ago
Something that might be useful would be a sub language that didn’t support all the dynamic features that make JIT difficult or slow. Perhaps a module could have a pragma or something to indicate the language set in use. Maybe like Racket. S
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by jbritton 1y ago
I recently saw an article about LLMs and Towers of Hanoi. An LLM can write code to solve it. It can also output steps to solve it when the disk count is low like 3. It can’t give the steps when the disk count is higher. This indicates LLMs
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by jbritton 1y ago
I sometimes wonder if the issue is really the parentheses or the ease of nesting. In LISP it’s natural to write (f (g (h x))). Whereas most people are used to. a = h(x); b = g(a); c = f(b); In C/C++ most functions retur
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by jbritton 1y ago
The article didn’t discuss ACK. I have often wondered if it makes sense for the protocol to not have ACKs, and to leave that up to the application layer. I feel like the application layer has to ensure this anyway, so I don’t know how much

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