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by josephg 8mo ago
I don't think claude code is like 3d printing. The difference is that 3D printing still requires someone, somewhere to do the mechanical design work. It democratises printing but it doesn't democratise invention . I can't
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by josephg 8mo ago
I just tried with chatgpt. It suggests walking in both cases.
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by josephg 8mo ago
I’ve had it make some pretty obvious mistakes. I have to hold back the impulse to “unstick” it manually. In my case, it’s been surprisingly good at eventually figuring out what it was doing wrong - though sometimes it burns a few minutes of
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by josephg 8mo ago
> Its also worth noting that if you can create a business with an LLM, so can everyone else. And sadly everyone has the same ideas Yeah, this is quite thought provoking. If computer code written by LLMs is a commodity, what new businesse
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by josephg 8mo ago
This website says certain features work on firefox. But they don't. You can disregard firefox if you like. But if this "Modern CSS Code Snippets" website explicitly tells me their snippets work in firefox, I expect the snippe
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by josephg 9mo ago
So you want to have fun coding by hand while also making bank along the way? Yeah, those days seem to be increasingly over. This is new for us, but it’s not new globally. There used to be professional portrait painters before photography ru
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by josephg 9mo ago
I believe you. I just suspect stockfish was misconfigured, it wasn’t playing at its highest skill level or something similar was going on. That seems more likely. (I’d love to know for sure though).
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by josephg 9mo ago
Yes. I hear this claim from above: "Some humans can beat stockfish." Evidence given: "There exist some small number of games on lichess.org played against stockfish where the user won." My counter argument is that games
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by josephg 9mo ago
> But to me ear this a bot imitating modern trendy speech from that world. Unless they've had some reinforcement learning, I'm pretty sure thats all LLMs ever really do.
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by josephg 9mo ago
> If you search for Lichess games where strong players play against Stockfish ([..]) you will find that Stockfish by far does not win all the time. I'm sure some of those games are actually stockfish v stockfish or something similar
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by josephg 9mo ago
Do modern chess AIs do any form of opening prep? Like, do they bake any opening analysis into their engines? Or is it all pure search?
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by josephg 9mo ago
Yeah a lot of these demos say the features are widely available, but they don't actually work in my browser (Firefox on Macos). Makes me wonder if these demos (or the browser support tables) were made by LLMs. They clearly haven't
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by josephg 9mo ago
Do you notice a difference if you encode using your GPU vs CPU? I've heard people say NVENC doesn't encode as efficiently as x265 but I haven't actually tried it out. NVENC can obviously encode much faster, but for archive I&
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by josephg 9mo ago
My point isn't that these clowns deserve money. But if you want to avoid h265 because of licensing fees, you should probably avoid h264 as well. It’s the same circus. Switch to AV1.
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by josephg 9mo ago
H264 is controlled by the same consortium as H265. The only difference is that many of the h264 patents have expired over the last couple of years. The free version of davinci resolve still doesn't include h264 support - presumably bec
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by josephg 9mo ago
As I understand it, this is a pretty common legal problem that shows up when multiple parties collaborate to make something. And the result turns out to be legally problematic in some way. Its often incredibly difficult for the plaintiff to
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by josephg 9mo ago
> … when dealing with ancient protocols I’m doing some work with an email company at the moment. The company has been in the email space for decades. Holy moly email is just full of stuff like this. There is an insane amount of instituti
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by josephg 9mo ago
Yep. As well as what Toomim said, eg-walker (another text crdt algorithm) doesn’t need or use tombstones. With eg-walker we just store the history of all changes (kinda like git). Some changes are deletes. The changes are only used for merg
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by josephg 9mo ago
Urgh. This problem with git is so unforced. Essentially, people want commits to mean 2 different things at the same time: 1. Store the uncurated history of how the project was developed. 1 commit is created whenever a dev types 'git co
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by josephg 9mo ago
CRDT hacker here. The talk says CRDTs need to store a history of fine-grained edits indefinitely to make them work. There are some ways around this requirement. I'd be happy to chat more about this if anyone is interested!
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by josephg 9mo ago
> to get Excel to correctly load a UTF8 encoded CSV or similar you must include the BOM Ah so that’s the trick! I’ve run into this problem a bunch of times in the wild, where some script emits csv which works on the developers machine bu
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by josephg 9mo ago
:( I get this from time to time, where people think my writing is at least partially AI generated. I wonder if it’s worth trying to change my writing style to avoid the stigma. If I hand wrote a CV, it would suck to be dumped in with AI gen
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by josephg 9mo ago
> IMO systems should be shipped in "Setup Mode" by default with no keys preinstalled. On first boot which ever OS you decide to install should be able to enroll its keys. I don’t think this works with the security model of secu
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by josephg 9mo ago
It was nothing special. I can't seem to pull up the initial prompt, but it was something like this: > Build a thorough test suite for JMAP in this directory. The test suite will be run against multiple JMAP servers, to ensure each s
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by josephg 9mo ago
No.
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by josephg 9mo ago
Yeah I’m curious how much the moat of big software companies will shrink over the next few years. How long before I can ask a chatbot to build me a windows-like OS from scratch (complete with an office suite) and it can do a reasonable job?
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by josephg 9mo ago
Yeah I’m having a similar experience. I’ve been wanting a standard test suite for JMAP email servers, so we can make sure all created jmap servers implement the (somewhat complex) spec in a consistent manner. I spent a single day prompting
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by josephg 9mo ago
Eh. I worked at a company which made an extension which scraped LinkedIn. We provided a service to recruiters, who would start a hiring process by putting candidates into our system. The recruiters all had LinkedIn paid accounts, and could
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by josephg 9mo ago
Yeah, but thinking with an LLM is different. The article says: > By “thinking hard,” I mean encountering a specific, difficult problem and spending multiple days just sitting with it to overcome it. The "thinking hard" I do wit
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by josephg 9mo ago
I feel this too. I suspect its a byproduct of all the context switching I find myself doing when I'm using an LLM to help write software. Within a 10 minute window, I'll read code, debug a problem, prompt, discuss the design, test

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