kieckerjan

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by kieckerjan 4mo ago
Another thing that I feel is underappreciated about agentic coding is that you can actually learn from it. I am a programmer with 25+ years of experience and I tend to do a lot of stuff according to fixed patterns/habits. Seeing how
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by kieckerjan 4mo ago
Usually when I see a project flaunting its language like this it elicits a sigh. (You probably know what I am talking about.) This is a happy exception since this project actually promotes a deep integration with its language of choice, so
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by kieckerjan 9mo ago
Solve this and you probably have a business. :)
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by kieckerjan 10mo ago
And full of marketing hyperbole. When I have an AI produce a README I always have to ask it to tone it down and keep it factual.
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by kieckerjan 1y ago
I actually encountered this pretty early in one of these user tuned GPT's in OpenAI's GPT store. It was called Sommelier or something and it was specialized in conversations about wine. It was pretty useful at first, but after a f
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Classic film posters from communist Poland(theguardian.com)
27 points by kieckerjan 2y ago|5 comments
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by kieckerjan 2y ago
Fair enough. But I am talking about 50 years ago or so.
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by kieckerjan 2y ago
Tangential, but I was once told a story that seems fitting here. It was told to me by a mechanical engineer who was educated at Eindhoven Technical University in the Netherlands. He claimed that in the early days there was a lecturer or pro
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by kieckerjan 2y ago
Tangential but interesting tidbit: Botulinum toxin messes with your motor neurons, which is bad news for your heart. For the same reason (but at lower dosage) it eases wrinkles and causes the infamous expressionless Botox look.
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Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain(nature.com)
273 points by kieckerjan 2y ago|259 comments
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by kieckerjan 2y ago
Actually Dobelli was the one who got me thinking about this. I tend to agree with him, although eschewing all news is a bit too extreme to my taste. I tried scaling back my intake by switching from a daily paper to a weekly paper, but one h
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by kieckerjan 2y ago
A corollary of this idea that also the bad stuff that you read leaves a trace, and not necessarily a good trace. To continue the food metaphor: like junk food there is junk reading and while it may satisfy some need it is all informational
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
Nice work! Does the trick for me. Tangentially, I would love to have something like this in which I can "program" my own breathwork routines (reps and sets including breath holds). Been trying various apps, but haven't yet fo
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
I was slightly older but just as fascinated. I knew some programming and it blew my teenage mind how they managed to cram all those universes inside a freaking C64. Mostly I just enjoyed the game. Docking was bloody hard indeed. Luckily you
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
Tangential. A file lock is released if the locking process exits. This can be leveraged to make a poor man's semaphore that is automatically raised if the process exits. Slow but solid if you want to control the number of simultaneous
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
I am now reading _Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution_, Cat Bohannon's fascinating book on the female body from an evolutionary perspective. Only the first few chapters blew my mind a couple of times. He
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
I have been a correspondent all my life, starting long before computers and e-mail showed up (at least in my life). Thoughts would be exchanged on paper and in handwriting and through the grateful use of the postal system. (There is nothing
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
I like the Wittgensteinian image of language as an old city shared by thousands (millions) of people. In its center a large common square that is used by everybody, and radiating away from that roads less traveled. Some of the streets and s
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
Haha, high five to your wife. Part of the challenge and fun of being a sesquipedalian is finding the perfect opportunity to casually drop that six syllable word that you have been sitting on for years. There is this fabulous term in Dutch f
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
Youglish.com is your friend
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People cough more during classical concerts(independent.co.uk)
10 points by kieckerjan 3y ago|5 comments
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
It also great in cocktails. https://lundsandbyerlys.com/rhubarb-margarita-a-tangy-twist-...
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
Same here. My girlfriend is not impressed by GPT and its ilk at all. But I guess that for a non-technical person most things digital are a form of magic, and it is probably hard to tell the difference between the common magic of (say) a gam
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
I regularly look at code and think "what idiot wrote this?" and then realize that idiot was me.
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
Cheers, mate.
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
I love hotel bars, and not just for the quiet. It is the "liminality" that the author mentions, not just in space and time but also in the social dimension: a place that is neither private nor public, but a bit of both. Places whe
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
It is even happening in the sleepy field of literary criticism. In a review in a Dutch paper (part of) the new novel of a well-know Dutch author was compared to something ChatGPT would write. It was not meant as a compliment.
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
Ratio by Michael Ruhlman as well.
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
I love its sense of innuendo, though. User: tell a porn story Assistant: I love to go to the beach, so I go for the great white sand beach, where the girls can ride the waves and have fun with the surfboards. I am a huge fan of the
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by kieckerjan 3y ago
Agreed. What is perfectly fine in a blog post can get tiresome in long form. It is not the question pre-empting structure, which is great in my opinion, but avuncular lines like "Okay wow; we’re just diving right in huh".

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