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by jongjong 1y ago
It seems that a lot of the Claude system prompts are there just to cover themselves from liabilities... I noticed a few prompts related to not quoting source material directly like music lyrics. This is to prevent copyright violation. A lot
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by jongjong 1y ago
My experience is that as the prompt gets longer, performance decreases. Having such a long prompt with each request cannot be good. I remember in the early days of OpenAI, they had made the text completion feature available directly and it
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by jongjong 1y ago
Requirement. Had to use Azure too. I use Linux at home.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Completely worth it IMO. My philosophy nowadays (on my side projects) is to make every software feel like a complete product that you can run out of the box, batteries included... I also try to support older engine versions to avoid setup i
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by jongjong 1y ago
We do use docker compose (thank god) but I also need to run a server from source for most of the microservices in order to modify and debug the code. There are around 20 something containers in practice, 6 pods/services. All interdepen
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by jongjong 1y ago
In my last job, just to run the software on my local machine, I had to launch 6 different microservices running in a containerized, Linux virtualized environment on Windows and had to launch them in a particular order and had to keep each o
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by jongjong 1y ago
This article resonates. After coding obsessively for almost 20 years, it's muscle memory. I don't have to find bugs anymore, they find me. I can feel their presence. Pretty much all the bugs I write now are intentional "will
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by jongjong 1y ago
IMO, people tend to overestimate how monstrous some people are. I think they're probably not that much more evil than the rest of us. It might seem shocking but my experience tells me that the most objective perspective is often in-bet
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by jongjong 1y ago
This is one of the reasons why software development is so difficult, most people cannot even begin to imagine how complex the user environment can be. Even within very niche problem domains you may have to deal with a broad range of differe
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by jongjong 1y ago
Makes sense. It's hard to imagine this for people who don't have access to such opportunities. Myself included to some extent. Most people will never have to make any truly difficult or impactful ideological decision in their enti
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by jongjong 1y ago
I feel like forces such as globalization have significantly extended the shelf life of 'short term rewards' for bad actors but I think ultimately, the debt will have to be repaid. Advantages were a tradeoff, not a gift.
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by jongjong 1y ago
It's actually quite profound, politically speaking. I understand why Kim Jong Il thought it was a Masterpiece. To get hung up on visuals and call it a knockoff is itself tacky and shows a lack of appreciation for context; which is what
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by jongjong 1y ago
I was already a bit of an amateur conspiracy theorist before LLMs. The key to staying sane is to understand that most of the mass group behaviors we observe in society are rooted in ignorance and confusion. Large scale conspiracies are actu
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by jongjong 1y ago
Look behind and you will find that this so called 'patchwork' all benefit a small number of centralized entities who define the standards, ultimately. True decentralized communities do not require standards. They don't requir
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by jongjong 1y ago
Small producers would benefit. Producers who produce solutions that are most compatible for a specific community would benefit from other solutions not being compatible. In such system, everyone would be a small producer. So everyone would
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by jongjong 1y ago
Standards are a bad thing. Convenient isn't the same as good. They mostly help large companies to monopolize large markets. Without standards, there would be a patchwork of companies catering to different communities. It would create a
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by jongjong 1y ago
No, they're dying because of a global financial system which systematically steals from them by corrupting their governments into making decisions which benefit large western corporations at their expense, while depriving them of resou
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by jongjong 1y ago
I wish the government took more steps to fix the monopolizing forces in the system instead of focusing on antitrust. The way the monetary system is set up guarantees that market monopolies will occur. The monetary playing field is centraliz
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by jongjong 1y ago
I disagree. I agree that the system shouldn't be creating so many billionaires. It's a flaw in the system. But Musk is among the best of them IMO and his contrarian position makes him essential, even if you disagree with him and h
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by jongjong 1y ago
Basically every big tech company engages in much worse forms of government manipulation. At least this one aligns with citizen interests. IMO, if gov manipulation benefits citizens; e.g. creates meaningful jobs or opportunities for citizens
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by jongjong 1y ago
From my perspective, as someone who is not good at marketing and sales, this is going to be positive because the playing field will have to focus more on product. Currently, I'm being out-competed by people who can sell well. A landing
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by jongjong 1y ago
What we have is an ignorance-based society. The more blind-spots you have, the higher you rise. The higher your rise, the easier it is to maintain your blind-spots because nobody will dare question your worldview. Even those few who do, the
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by jongjong 1y ago
A non-tech co-founder can bring value in two ways; their social networks and deep market domain knowledge. Finding a good niche and refining a concept to find market fit isn't easy. As a tech guy, it's often not clear where the bu
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by jongjong 1y ago
I would say that MBA means nothing by itself. It's 100% about their social network. MBAs were a great way to network as a lot of elite kids got MBAs. An MBA is just a proxy for something else which isn't necessarily there...
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by jongjong 1y ago
>> So don't tell the client that it cannot be done because we'll find [a contractor] that can do it when they've paid As a software developer (who did contract work in the past). I think this is actually sound logic wit
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by jongjong 1y ago
It's not like OpenAI would struggle to acquire users for a new AI browser. It's not like they don't have a platform with millions of AI-loving users already.
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by jongjong 1y ago
WTF. I had the exact same idea. Why buy Chrome when Chromium is open source and there are existing successful forks (e.g. Brave browser) which managed to do it... Why pay $100 million for something you can have for free? It's not like
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yep. It's all about the codebase. Even if you know the codebase very well, its complexity can still constrain you significantly in terms of speed. For projects which I've built from scratch, I move blazingly fast. I can get more d
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by jongjong 1y ago
That's correct. Writing code isn't like building a house. It's not like you just add one brick on top of another and every brick you added stays in its place forever. It's much more complex. As requirements change, you m
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by jongjong 1y ago
Pipelining is great. Currying is horrible. Though currying superficially looks similar to pipelining. One difference is that currying returns an incomplete result (another function) which must be called again at a later time. On the other h

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