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by johnfn 1y ago
OP counts the number of bundles, so I don't think this solves it.
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by johnfn 1y ago
That's not an answer to the problem - it just makes the discrepancy greater.
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by johnfn 1y ago
Style matters. If you submit a manuscript full of typographical errors, no one is ever going to publish your novel, no matter how ground-breaking it might be. If you write a mathematical paper but scribble all your math notation in pencil r
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by johnfn 1y ago
The sentiment highlighted in various comments on this post isn't that the blog piece is 'too long'. The sentiment is that it is incoherent, illegible and borderline unhinged. It clashes so strongly with what I consider to be
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by johnfn 1y ago
Agreed. OP says "I think it’s because we live in Hell." and then goes on to describe how sometimes buttons on apps don't work or he gets notifications that aren't well-targeted. Really? That's Hell? Hell must have
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by johnfn 1y ago
I wonder what recipients would think if I sent this sentence 10 years back via time machine.
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by johnfn 1y ago
The title doesn't match the title of the article, which is "macOS Tahoe Beta 2 Fixes the Finder Icon"
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by johnfn 1y ago
That makes sense, because it's Rust. :)
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by johnfn 1y ago
That's great, I'm definitely going to roll that into my vocabulary.
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by johnfn 1y ago
HN judges rationality quite severely. I mean, look at this thread about Mr. Beast[1], who it's safe to say is a controversial figure, and notice how all the top comments are all pretty charitable. It's pretty funny to take the con
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by johnfn 1y ago
If a park ranger said "I looked over the first 2% of the park and concluded there's no mountain lions" - that is, made an assessment on the whole from inspection of a narrow segment - I don't think I would take his word
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by johnfn 1y ago
To be honest, if I encountered Scott Aaronson in the wild I would probably react the same way. The guy is super smart and thoughtful, and can write more coherently about quantum computing than anyone else I'm aware of.
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by johnfn 1y ago
> Your two first examples, you just hide the complexity by using another tool, no ? The article says that the best way to manage complexity is to find good cut-points to contain complexity. Another tool is an excellent cut-point, probabl
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by johnfn 1y ago
I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but if you listen to Carmack in the interview, it's quite interesting. He would occasionally use one to step through an entire frame of gameplay to get an idea of performance and see if there were
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by johnfn 1y ago
If you listen to what he has to say, it’s quite interesting. He would occasionally use one to step through an entire frame of gameplay to get an idea of performance and see if there were any redundancies.
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by johnfn 1y ago
On the other hand, John Carmack loves debuggers - he talks about the importance of knowing your debugging tools and using them to step through a complex system in his interview with Lex Friedman. I think it's fair to say that there&#x2
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by johnfn 1y ago
As much as I love to hate on Uber and Lyft, tacked on fees like this are often due to state / federal government, and the rideshare service hands are tied. Uber tags on a very long list of random fees when I Uber out of SFO, but when I
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by johnfn 1y ago
Your comment seems to contradict itself, or perhaps I’m not understanding it. You find the risk of AIs trying to escape “absurd”, and yet you say that an AI could totally plausibly launch nukes? Isn’t that just about as bad as it gets? A nu
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by johnfn 1y ago
> First, let me assure you - yes, we (as in, the Rust Project) absolutely do care about the performance of our beloved compiler, and we put in a lot of effort to improve it. I'm probably being ungrateful here, but here goes anyway.
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by johnfn 1y ago
A minute is pretty bad. I understand it may work for your use case, but there are plenty of use cases out there where errors typically don't fail the compile and a minute iteration time is a deal killer. For instance: UI work - good lu
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by johnfn 1y ago
When did I say I was blindly allowing an AI to set up my docker infrastructure? Obviously I wouldn't delegate that to a junior. My goalposts have always been in the same place - perhaps you're confusing them with someone else&#x27
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by johnfn 1y ago
I read the quote just fine. I don't understand 100% of what my junior engineers do. I understand a good chunk, like 90-95% of it, but am I really going to spend 30 minutes trying to understand why that particular CSS hack only works wi
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by johnfn 1y ago
> For starters Junior engineers can be held accountable. What we see currently is people leaving gaping holes in software and then pointing at the LLM which is an unthinking tool. Not the same. This is no different than, say, the typical
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by johnfn 1y ago
Senior engineers delegate to junior engineers, which have all the same downsides you described, all the time. This pattern seems to work fine for virtually every software company in existence.
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by johnfn 1y ago
> who even wants their next cursor position predicted I'm fascinated by how different workflows are. This single feature has saved me a staggering amount of time.
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by johnfn 1y ago
Not sure I follow - Gemini has ELO 1470, GPT3.5-turbo is 1206, which is an 86% win rate. https://chatgpt.com/share/6841f69d-b2ec-800c-9f8c-3e802ebbc0...
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by johnfn 1y ago
To be honest, I haven't, because the "This model is extremely expensive" popup on Cursor makes me a bit anxious - but given the accolades here I'll have to give it a shot.
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by johnfn 1y ago
The chat was in Cursor, so I don't know a way to provide a public link, but here is the last paragraph that it output before I (and it) gave up. I honestly could have re-prompted it from scratch and maybe it would have gotten it, but a
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by johnfn 1y ago
Well, Google Search never released an API that millions of people depended on.
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by johnfn 1y ago
Impressive seeing Google notch up another ~25 ELO on lmarena, on top of the previous #1, which was also Gemini! That being said, I'm starting to doubt the leaderboards as an accurate representation of model ability. While I do think Ge

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