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by jwr 5mo ago
> Anyone building software can start using a harness with a modern model to find bugs and harden their code today. We recommend getting started now. From what I understand, that is a recipe for getting quickly banned by commercial LLM pr
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by jwr 5mo ago
Not everybody might realize this, but this is a truly excellent and very impressive result. Most models on my M4 Max run at 150W consumption.
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by jwr 5mo ago
What are "bots"? If I use Claude to gather and summarize information for me, is that a "bot"? Because I recently hit that wall and it wasn't great. Turns out in our quest to fight "bots" we also force huma
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by jwr 5mo ago
I find the "em dashes mean AI" trope annoying — I've been typing em dashes since I learned how to do this on a Mac, which was around 2007 I think. Shift-Option-hyphen became second nature, just like Option-; for an ellipsis (
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by jwr 6mo ago
The 555 timer is still the most popular chip that hobbyists add to their parts inventory (see rankings at https://partsbox.com/ecdb.html ). I find this both interesting and curious — I'd say it has mostly nostalgic va
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by jwr 6mo ago
No, it's not! If you don't like the super-monetized over-optimized AI-generated walled garden we've-got-you-hooked experience — just don't participate in it and do your own thing. Start your own blog. Without ads, not to
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by jwr 6mo ago
Well, you can fund individual developers on GitHub (like David Nolen), which I do. I would also gladly fund the core, although I do not feel it is "falling apart", quite the opposite in fact — I am very happy with what it provides
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by jwr 6mo ago
EV batteries last much longer than we were told: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2022/08/01/electric... and, after they are no longer useful in EVs, they are still useful for at least ano
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by jwr 6mo ago
I recently read an article about a company that develops technology for re-using worn-out EV batteries for grid storage. After all, your EV battery with 70% capacity would be useful for many years somewhere in the desert with thousands of o
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by jwr 6mo ago
If you use Clojure for your business, please consider funding this effort and also directly developers who work on software that you use. It makes for a sustainable ecosystem. The Clojure community is very mature and incredibly nice, so thi
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by jwr 6mo ago
I would still like to understand the business model and pricing?
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by jwr 6mo ago
...and what about this harness?
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by jwr 6mo ago
This looks interesting and promising! But I'm confused about your business model and pricing, which mentions "creative generations"? I'd like to understand it better before investing time into this.
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by jwr 6mo ago
I have no idea why people still even attempt to believe anything that comes out of Altman's mouth. Do we not learn from the past?
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by jwr 6mo ago
I still remember how Google execs were using the word "open" almost as a comma. Android was Open, Google was Open, this was so different from the Closed Apple World. Everything would be Open! I hope we will remember this lesson
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by jwr 6mo ago
I just realized that the fact that LLMs work so well for me in Clojure might be partly because of the clojure-mcp tools. They provide structural browsing and editing.
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by jwr 6mo ago
When I think about it, I don't understand why Apple wouldn't want to help this effort and just provide all the documentation. All the classic reasons ("competitive advantage", "secrets", etc) do not hold water
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by jwr 6mo ago
Why did you build something different? What was the motivation compared to Bear? I'm a heavy Bear user, recently migrating most stuff to Drafts. My problems with Bear is that it's getting slow and I don't have easy direct acc
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by jwr 6mo ago
That is not what I wrote. The phrases "without informing them", "in an underhanded and undisclosed way" and "secretly changing things" were important. I'm all for product evolution, but users should be inf
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by jwr 6mo ago
What's "open" about any of these companies? I'm tired of words being misused. We have hoverboards that do not hover, self-driving cars that do not, actually, self-drive, starships that will never fly to the stars, and &q
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by jwr 6mo ago
These controversies erupt regularly, and I hope that you will see a common thing with most of them: you make a decision for your users without informing them. Please fight this hubris. Your users matter. Many of us use your tools for everyd
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by jwr 6mo ago
This does look very cool. Every peripheral one could think of, even LoRA!
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by jwr 6mo ago
Yes, this is the one I wrote about. I used it quite a bit a long time ago to get more performance. I remember vaguely that the performance was indeed there, but the package wasn't that easy to use and errors were hard to debug.
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by jwr 6mo ago
I'd say SERIES is it's older cousin.
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by jwr 6mo ago
I think, like with the rest of Clojure, none of this is "revolutionary" in itself. Clojure doesn't try to be revolutionary, it's a bunch of existing ideas implemented together in a cohesive whole that can be used to buil
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by jwr 6mo ago
Performance is one of the niceties of transducers, but the real benefits are from better code abstractions. For example, transducers decouple the collection type from data-processing functions. So you can write (into #{} ...) (a set), (into
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by jwr 6mo ago
Hmm. I'm not sure what you are looking for — myself, I write software that supports my living, and I'm not looking for thrills. What I get with Clojure is new concepts every couple of years or so, thought through and carefully imp
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by jwr 6mo ago
Transducers are IMHO one of the most under-appreciated features of Clojure. Once you get to know them, building transducer pipelines becomes second nature. Then you realize that a lot of data processing can be expressed as a pipeline of tra
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by jwr 6mo ago
> without losing its values I would disagree here. Apple actually did lose their values, or they are in the process of doing so. Ads in App Store results, Ads in Maps (coming soon!), constant upsells and pushes of subscriptions and ser
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by jwr 6mo ago
I use it all the time, because its driving directions interface is so much better than Google, it's not even funny. But it is overall worse than Google Maps. And they are planning to make it even worse with ads, so.

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