josephg

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by josephg 2mo ago
Maybe - we'll have to wait and see. By my reckoning, there's a significant chance most software engineers will be unemployable within a few years. But I'm not 100% confident that there'll be a utopia waiting for us, as a
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by josephg 2mo ago
Got everything working and published here: https://github.com/josephg/resolve-aacfix/releases
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by josephg 2mo ago
Weird thing to put behind a paywall! I'll try some extensions.
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by josephg 2mo ago
I think we can compare the human brain and LLMs on a bunch of capabilities today, and see how we compare. By my reckoning: - LLMs have better long term memory (they know more than any human) and more working memory (LLMs have fast, uniform
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by josephg 2mo ago
Why would you need brain emulation to get superhuman intelligence?
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by josephg 2mo ago
> there can be feedback at the moment of confusion while a video can't LLMs are great at this. I’m sure they’re misused constantly. But if you ask the right questions, LLMs are excellent learning aides. Especially for symbolic reaso
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by josephg 2mo ago
> There has always been value in somebody showing you how to apply a math technique and practicing using it to solve problems. Only if your goal is to teach people how to solve that particular problem. But it’s not the best way to teach
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by josephg 2mo ago
I wish YouTube let you increase the speed of videos past 2x. I play almost everything at 2x now, and I have no problem comprehending videos at that speed. I’d like to try 2.5x or 3x but the ui doesn’t have that option.
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by josephg 2mo ago
When I’m understimulated by a teacher, my mind wanders. I’ll start thinking about something else entirely. When my mind comes back, I’ll have missed a couple minutes of content. I can overcome this with willpower, but doing so is exhausting
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by josephg 2mo ago
Yeah. Sometimes I wonder who the long term financial winners will be from the ai boom. It might be ram / gpu manufacturers. Or whoever cracks putting LLMs on asics.
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by josephg 2mo ago
> even the cases themselves are somewhat less likely to slot your wrists Fair. I have a scar on the knuckle of my index finger from breaking off the cover on a 5 1/4” drive bay. I was trying to push it out and it suddenly gave. My f
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by josephg 2mo ago
> Computer building on those days was much more unfriendly. Has it? CPUs ran much cooler back then. And gpus didn’t need brackets and special power cables and all that. Water cooling was harder. But also way less common or necessary.
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by josephg 2mo ago
They don’t though. LLMs are massive cheaters when it comes to unit tests. Claude will just conveniently not write tests for things it knows will fail.
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by josephg 2mo ago
> new PPT Docx/pptx/etc has been around since Dec 2006. Nearly 20 years.
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by josephg 2mo ago
> Getting people aligned on a single template is our biggest headache I’m of the opinion that this is one of those things where the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. It’s a lot of work. And for what? There is no tangible benefit to having p
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by josephg 2mo ago
Thanks! If I can ask - where did you get stuck?
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by josephg 2mo ago
> It has no sense of direction of its own maybe. Once you know what you are doing, you can ride it fine. If not, it makes a misstep so later things go haywire, and you are left guessing why. This is a perfect description. Last week I as
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by josephg 2mo ago
True! How do you set up auto research loops? Are there any special tricks to it?
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by josephg 2mo ago
Yes. It’s also excellent at reading large codebases and putting together a picture of what’s going on. I’ve been using it a lot lately to brief me on projects and design decisions. “Look at these two projects. They both solve task X. Write
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by josephg 2mo ago
> In 28 may 2026, a 26 TB disk cost me 0.36 SEK per gigabyte. The best price I can find for a 24gb+ hard drive is $1250 AUD for a 24gb Seagate Barracuda drive, at my local computer store. They're a similar price on amazon. Amazon US
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by josephg 2mo ago
> iykyk A story. I have a friend, who is - like me - interested in the CRDT / collaborative editing space. He asked ChatGPT to write him a CRDT. Then he grabbed every good CRDT implementation, and asked chatgpt to benchmark and opti
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by josephg 2mo ago
Are you sure about that? My understanding is that Haskell programs generally run much more slowly than their C counterparts because of all of Haskell’s magic. Like lazy evaluation and memoisation and however Haskell manages memory. Rust cer
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by josephg 2mo ago
Oooh I didn't know that was a thing! Yes, I want this but in a fast, compiled systems language like rust.
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by josephg 2mo ago
More than that. Rust requires that a program can be compiled from multiple crates, with those crates all targeting different editions. This limits a lot of breaking changes you might want to make. APIs can never really be removed.
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by josephg 2mo ago
It's definitely an option. Though I'd really need 2 drives - one replacement, and a mirror. And then I could set up weekly sweeps which check zfs checksums to guard against bit rot. And just hope that bitrot never affects the same
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by josephg 2mo ago
> Users won't notice 1ms vs 10ms but will notice 100ms or 1000ms. I just don't see any software made with web tech that loads in less than 100ms. Here in Australia, it usually takes longer than that for a single packet to get t
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by josephg 2mo ago
> You can't say any of that about AI. It’s weird though, LLMs still don’t seem very good at magically enabling most non developers able to make software. I’ve tried with a couple people - mostly for curiosity’s sake. Even when they
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by josephg 2mo ago
> AI on autopilot creating code, text, images or video is nothing more than a curiosity. I wouldn’t say it’s lacking value. Maybe digital plastic is the perfect metaphor. Plastic is disposable and probably bad for the environment. But us
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by josephg 2mo ago
Yes, or the compile time equivalents. Rust’s safety gets you most of the way there. We just need a capability model in the language, a more limited std and a way to ban untrusted 3rd party libraries from using unsafe code without explicit p
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by josephg 2mo ago
The counterpoint is that whatever std invents is probably not going to be as good as what moviated people in the community make. The rand crate is my favorite example of this. They have a whole bunch of different rngs. All rated by quality

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