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by jxf 11mo ago
I tried this for over 20 minutes and made almost zero progress because I thought the expressions also had to be words, like a crossword puzzle. Oops. It might be worth clarifying that somewhere.
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by jxf 1y ago
The idea with really cheap batteries is that they don't need good energy density. You just swap them every so often and put the one you aren't using in the charging rack. You could even carry your own reserve energy with you!
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by jxf 1y ago
Did you also use Claude, and you like Codex better, or are you making a more general observation about the leapfrog in creative power agents are bringing to engineering?
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by jxf 1y ago
IMO a certain amount of youthful indiscretion that takes the form of challenging systems and structures feels like it's both tolerable and important. Agitation prevents calcification.
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by jxf 1y ago
This is a good reason why even cursory checking for whether dependencies actually get used is valuable.
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by jxf 1y ago
On the other hand, if you find a way to make it easier (I believe the general case is O(n²) in gates), then you've improved a very hard computer science problem!
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PSA: "GitHub Developer Fund" emails are scams(bsky.app)
5 points by jxf 1y ago|0 comments
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by jxf 1y ago
> Why would someone even submit an article with out of date information? The incredulous tone of this hypothetical worries me, because I think this actually happens with troubling regularity.
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by jxf 1y ago
Everything we do is a stochastic process. If you throw a dart 100 times at a target, it's not going to land at the same spot every time. There is a great deal of uncertainty and non-deterministic behavior in our everyday actions.
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by jxf 1y ago
So does the example I provided.
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by jxf 1y ago
Is it really a name collision when they're effectively completely different namespaces? For example, no one thinks Rust's `cargo` might be the same thing as Ruby's obscure `cargo` library.
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by jxf 1y ago
As someone who is operating an enterprise platform that uses vLLM in the stack, it's immensely harder than "pip install vllm" to have it working at scale and kept up to date.
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by jxf 1y ago
> What I don't quite understand is how one library can animate so many different concepts. It's because there are a _lot_ of community objects built from the core primitives that are good starting points that you can customize
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by jxf 1y ago
Pivotal was far from a perfect company (if there can even be such a thing to begin with), but sadly, a lot of good things were lost in its latter days. This was one of them. Are there particular attributes, behaviors, or properties you feel
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by jxf 1y ago
> If Ozempic is so great then how come our bodies don't just produce more GLP-1? We don't know. But one early signal is that you lose an atypical combination of muscle mass and not just fat, which is not a good evolutionary ada
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by jxf 1y ago
> Do they have some extensive network with gov. officials, in the same way top management consulting firms operate? It's a little bit of being good at sales but it's also very much that the integrations with their tools and pla
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by jxf 1y ago
Long-term projects make me strangely proud to be a human (for all of our faults and foibles). "A society grows great when the old plant trees in whose shade they will never sit."
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by jxf 1y ago
Don't think it has the GLM series on there yet.
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by jxf 1y ago
Can you link the session with this output? I've tried several variations but I'm not getting anything that looks like it's impersonating or falling back to Claude.
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by jxf 1y ago
If anything, this highlights the need for continued investment in emergency infrastructure at the nation-state level. Countries and the general public shouldn't be relying on private technology firms to provide this service, nor should
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by jxf 1y ago
Q: Where did he say this? I think this may be apocryphal (or a paraphrasing?) as I couldn't find a direct quote.
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by jxf 1y ago
Regardless of how you feel about the US IC, I think the systematic dismantling of the national infrastructure and capacity to govern is, to put it mildly, a serious problem.
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by jxf 1y ago
Very cool and fun! Props for building this from a fellow fw16 user.
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by jxf 1y ago
There are many such bacteria, some of which are living in and on your skin right now.
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by jxf 1y ago
Where did Meta offer them $100M?
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by jxf 1y ago
This has unlocked a deep part of my brain that I didn't know I had memories about. Bravo, OP.
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by jxf 1y ago
This is a beautiful demonstration of how technology can be simple and powerful for amplifying a message at the same time -- no matter the silliness or seriousness of the message. Very "Old Web" vibes. Anyone who's worked on r
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by jxf 1y ago
There was no hourly rate. It was roughly US$125,000 in today's dollars for the 2-day workshop with some other riders (e.g. additional consultation rate). This factored in my prep time, prototyping, flights (since I didn't live in
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by jxf 1y ago
In distant times (before Microsoft's Satya era) I was the maintainer of a popular OSS product that scratched an important itch for specialist people who were doing work in the early cloud days. It solved my own problems, and I didn&#x2
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by jxf 1y ago
Poetic, or maybe Lovecraftian. A lot of "cosmic horror" has the trope of vastnesses too big to comprehend, where even trying to think about it (or in some cases merely learning of the possibility) causes you to go mad.

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