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by klodolph 8mo ago
Sure, that makes sense. Use the 74AHCT125/6 or 74HCT125/6 to drive a 5V chip from a µc with 3.3V IO.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
I’m mostly just curious about how people use LLMs to learn. I don’t know what your goals are, and even if your goals were the same as mine, I don’t know how LLMs stack up against the way I learned (mostly from books). At least, not long-ter
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by klodolph 8mo ago
I see the chat, but it looks like you’re not actually considering using TTL anywhere, and ChatGPT isn’t giving any explanations about TTL? > I would definitely like to understand HCT vs HC (CMOS vs TTL) much better than I do, which curre
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by klodolph 8mo ago
> But if you were watching them, was there really no freedom from consequences? Ah, so I think you may have done a little hop and a jump over a critical, load-bearing term which is “feel like”. You get to observe people who feel like t
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by klodolph 8mo ago
What was the answer? I’m just curious at this point about what the quality of the answer is, just because you made a point about LLM use not turning your brain into mush. I’ve not really used LLMs to answer questions, since it hasn’t gotten
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by klodolph 8mo ago
2009, please, sorry. 1993 is fun and all, I can go relive the dreams of Microsoft Encarta, but 2009 has Mac OS 10.6, gigabit ethernet everywhere, and USB.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
What are you doing with TTL logic in 2026, out of curiosity? (I’m not saying it’s not used, but the only thing I’d use TTL for is building old circuits out of the Forrest Mims books.)
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by klodolph 8mo ago
Hm, I think you kinda know what people are like by seeing what they do when they’re under no stress and feel like they are free from consequences. When they have total power in a situation. The façade drops because it’s not necessary.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
If Claude chooses GitHub actions that often, well, that is DAMNING. I wasn’t prepared for this but jeez, GitHub actions are kind of a tarpit of just awful shitty code that people copy from other repos, which then pulls and runs the latest c
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by klodolph 8mo ago
So… this has been happening for a long time now. The baseline set of tools is a lot better than it used to be. Back in 2010, jQuery was the divine ruler of JSlandia. Nowadays, you would probably just throw your jQuery in the woodchipper and
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by klodolph 8mo ago
Third option, which is that there was a partially automated system with a person in the loop.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
I remember this in the news, but I had to look stuff up on Wikipedia to refresh my memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_(blockchain) > The Anchor Protocol was a lending and borrowing protocol built on the Ter
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by klodolph 8mo ago
The $50bn is what you get when you multiply the number of coins times the price of one coin. This is a kind of fun number to think about but there are a lot of ways it doesn’t match up with reality. Like, if I make a company with ten billio
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by klodolph 8mo ago
It was not healthy in 2015 either, which is around the last time I visited.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
This mirrors the increased costs of people who already space + power in a DC, and want to buy new machines to fill their racks. Everybody is being hit.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
Kind of like databases and web servers, then? I don’t think “categorically different” has legs. I work on the operations & hosting side of applications like this. There’s an operations burden to maintain, deploy, and scale web servers.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
N=2, no thank you. Web browsers used to be exclusively paid software, if you were serious. So did operating systems, SQL databases, C++ compilers, and video codecs.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
> How does AI change the build vs buy trade off in a way that eliminates economies of scale? I think a more likely scenario here is that something good and free escapes containment at some point and Slack’s core product just kind of
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by klodolph 8mo ago
A list of outcomes: 1. They did, and still sell it. You can buy it. 2. They did, and then exited the market. Employees gradually migrated off the internal platform. 3. They weren’t in the business of selling software, and didn’t sell their
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by klodolph 8mo ago
Every company I worked at in the past 10 years has created an internal version of Slack. Four companies.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
The sheer amount of information asymmetry is the tricky part here. I think that’s the only relevant part of the equation. The company hires N people per year, you get hired by 1 company every N years. Maybe you work for a company that hired
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by klodolph 8mo ago
> I think the problem with insisting on using "is" that way is that you then can't distinguish between two things you might reasonably want to express, i.e. "is isomorphic to"/"has the same structure as
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by klodolph 8mo ago
> But on the other hand, I think following "therefore X is Y" to its logical conclusion will lead you to commit to things you don't really believe. I would love to hear an example… but before you do, I’m going to clarify t
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by klodolph 8mo ago
> but anyway it's not going to be like "physics NEEDS C", but rather, physics uses C because C models the algebra of the thing physics is describing. Maybe it’s just my math background shouting at me about what “model” mea
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by klodolph 8mo ago
In my experience, LLMs are bad at designing even repetitive boring things.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
It was a big mess, because users didn’t expect it, developers wanted users to just have everything run as admin, and the UAC user experience wasn’t polished yet. But that’s what you expect from new security features being introduced.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
…you don’t, just like you don’t need the bank’s permission to withdraw funds… but they will still try and stop you pulling out $10,000 so you can buy iTunes gift cards to pay off your taxes.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
Vista gets maligned but UAC is a good feature to have around, and Vista introduced it.
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by klodolph 8mo ago
Respondeat superior and vicarious liability don’t specifically require an employer-employee relationship.
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by klodolph 9mo ago
I’ll say that the parent comment is correct and explain why I think it’s correct. Amazon has demonstrated a preference for “unregretted attrition” (URA). URA is the name for what happens when engineers exit the company and Amazon is happy t

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