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by jonahx 2y ago
> It looks like there's not much progress done since in the field LLMs help here. From my own experiments chatGPT is pretty good "smart, context-aware" OCR agent.
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by jonahx 2y ago
> Using threejs has completely changed the way I look at website development. I'm curious to hear about the changes.
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by jonahx 2y ago
Serious answer to a legitimate question: 1. Good senior developers are taking the tools seriously, and at least experimenting with them to see what's up. Don't listen to people dismissing them outright. Skepticism and caution
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by jonahx 2y ago
No, I was replying the general principle. At the same time, I don't take issue with the title -- I don't read it as abdicating responsibility. The author knows he can remain ad-less. It's just a catchy way to say "I ha
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by jonahx 2y ago
> Nobody makes you do anything. That's true from a strict personal responsibility standpoint, and it's an important boundary and important to remember: it's always your choice. There's truth in this old chestnut but i
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by jonahx 2y ago
Nice idea. So to recap: 1) Nango supplies easier-use-to-use wrappers over a host of common APIs, making the most common operations simpler. Nango generally handles auth, logging, pagination. 2) Nango is extensible through custom scripts wh
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by jonahx 3y ago
> is that gaming financial markets is the only real application of anything scientific medicine (living longer, curing disease, vaccines, etc), cheaper energy, cheaper transportation, cheaper construction, cheaper food, better communicat
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by jonahx 3y ago
Without vouching for the validity of this source, a quick search on perplexity.ai (which is good for this kind of thing) gives: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01461672231198... It also mentions
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by jonahx 3y ago
I appreciate short, accessible writeups on subjects like these.
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by jonahx 3y ago
Fair point in theory and I'm not familiar with the literature, but I'd guess at least some researchers have studied ways of controlling for this: eg, looking at cases where father dies early and mother does not remarry, single mo
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by jonahx 3y ago
Their mission statement is disingenuous, to say the least, and I sensed it as soon as I started the current post. Here is the mission statement, in bold, and in this form, great, I'd be all for it: The Pudding explains ideas debated
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by jonahx 3y ago
I also had a homebrew installed affected version. I understand it's unlikely, but is there anything I can do to check if the backdoor was used? Also any other steps I should take after "brew upgrade"?
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by jonahx 3y ago
Fair enough, and I have had similar experiences. I would note a few things: - Sounds like a major undertaking. - You note this was done in service of refactoring. So you didn't test yourself out of the mess so much as use testing to
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by jonahx 3y ago
1. There is no substitute for simplification and good design. You cannot test yourself out of a mess. 2. What you actually want is confidence in the code, and your ability to make changes. Sometimes tests are a good tool to achieve that,
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by jonahx 3y ago
The problem is that you still need a human in the loop to determine if you're in the 13% success bucket, or 87% failure bucket, and the time it takes to make that determination is still a significant fraction of just solving the proble
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by jonahx 3y ago
Nice post. Interesting that the fastest Java beats the fastest Go, though they are close: AY fastest Go version 2.90s 36.2 TW fastest Java version 0.953s 110 I would have expected Go to win. That JVM works pretty good...
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by jonahx 3y ago
> that could also be compatible with more gun crime equaling more surveillance Not just could -- without more information, it's the far more likely and economical explanation. The phrasing in the article imo is intentionally infl
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by jonahx 3y ago
Really impressive for any age. Quotes about Malbolge: "The day that someone writes, in Malbolge, a program that simply copies its input to it's output, is the day my hair spontaneously turns green. It's the day that elephants
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by jonahx 3y ago
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by jonahx 3y ago
(not affiliated, just a happy user) It's paid, but if you want to deeply learn CSS interactively, I can't recommend this course enough: https://css-for-js.dev/ Not just the best CSS resource I've encountered,
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by jonahx 3y ago
> Would you honestly expect someone to know by heart what "sort -rn" or "uniq -c" do? For people that program regularly in bash, I would. If it was a rare bash script in a code base where many team members didn'
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by jonahx 3y ago
Doing this for every intermediate result badly harms readability. Consider McIlroy's famous 1-liner: tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | sed ${1}q Adding intermediate v
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by jonahx 3y ago
This is a great answer. Thanks for taking to the time to post it.
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by jonahx 3y ago
Fair enough, I do agree with all that.
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by jonahx 3y ago
> Yes it seems like a fancy combo of words if you don't know what they mean, but that's true for anything. This is untrue: it's possible to make things much more accessible than they are here. You write for an audience. T
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by jonahx 3y ago
"Some of this cost is for hosting ziglang.org. Since our free AWS credits have expired we have plans to switch to Fastly which should save about $500/month." Just curious why a static site would cost so much even on AWS? Wou
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by jonahx 3y ago
Is the architecture they use in this diagram currently the best way to train LLMs in general on custom data sets? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vanna-ai/vanna/main/img/va... That is, store your train
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by jonahx 3y ago
It's not obvious to me that the benefits outweigh the benefits of a single, easily readable file.
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by jonahx 3y ago
While on this topic, can anyone recommend a good open source alternative to Ring cameras (hardward and software)?
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by jonahx 3y ago
This is a great question. I love htmx but in situations that have to work offline I can't use it. Would be a great hack to be able to just run your server code in a worker.

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