lambdaba

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by lambdaba 3y ago
Not my experience even with GPT-4, but certainly not with Claude 3. And not even with bash, it gets things right in rather niche technologies and I can supply documentation if needed, and it gets it right in one shot.
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Diet and lifestyle of course, but mostly diet. I suggest everybody interested listen to this interview of Dr. Thomas Seyfried with an open mind https://youtu.be/qa3j40c8iAo?si=DTeIAaO2_Unn-dpL In short, chronically elevated
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by lambdaba 3y ago
What are the technical merits of Guix compared to Nix? Also, what's the situation with unfree packages? And package availability in general?
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by lambdaba 3y ago
You just need to VPN during the sign-up process, phone activation works with international numbers, and a virtual US prepaid card, I used usunlocked.com. I don't think you should stay at what it looks from a distance, I saw the same th
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Yes, as mentioned the context length makes a big difference because you can feed it most documentation not even bothering to edit it since I you don't try to save tokens. I'm sure that a more structured tool (like an actual IDE) c
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Even following all of this very closely it's hard to tell where the ceiling is, there are constant improvements, in 1 year or so we've seen at least 3 generations of significant performance upgrades. I have not read the report, wh
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Ask HN: Experiences with Claude 3 and future of LLMs?
7 points by lambdaba 3y ago|9 comments
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Omega Point Cosmology(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by lambdaba 3y ago|0 comments
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by lambdaba 3y ago
same, mine dates back to november 2009, I think it might be to the day it was introduced, through my HTC Dream/G1 phone
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by lambdaba 3y ago
I hope this is not inapropriate but I wanted to share this interview with a person using a high fat diet for ALS: https://youtu.be/GoF4GZ1NoBQ?si=Y-yEnquZsLXXb2po Noting that ketogenic diets are already proven to improve ou
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by lambdaba 3y ago
> I really hope it lasts for more decades to come. What I love most about Linux is you can keep the same workflow for as long as you like. Of course, in practice you always end up tweaking and improving, but it's not on the whim of
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Cowsay has been around for decades. It's here to stay.
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by lambdaba 3y ago
> Additionally, docker’s liveness checks broke, because the images don’t have curl in them anymore And that's why you use Nix to build your Docker images!
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Auto-expanding aliases seems like it would help: function expand-alias() { zle _expand_alias zle self-insert } zle -N expand-alias bindkey -M main ' ' expand-alias
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by lambdaba 3y ago
I actually use `alias -g L='| nvimpager'`, As for accidental invocations, yeah I agree it feels dangerous, but in a few hundred thousand lines of shell history since I set them, never had a problem.
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by lambdaba 3y ago
What's the scenario?
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Zsh global aliases can be nice for commands commonly used in pipelines: alias -g V='| grep -vE' alias -g L="| $PAGER" Then you can do cat log V spam1 V spam2 L I also like alias -g G='| grep&#x27
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by lambdaba 3y ago
it's pretty funny that Zsh only came out one year after Bash... in 1990
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Ruby can do this too: require 'bundler/inline' gemfile do source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'json', require: false gem 'nap', require: 'rest' gem &#x2
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by lambdaba 3y ago
What makes Ruby great for this is you can specify dependencies inline require 'bundler/inline' gemfile do source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'json', require: false gem 'na
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Oh, sorry, I had no idea, my impression was I often see correlated stories but I didn't know it's something to be avoided.
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Nice. There's also "comma" ( https://github.com/nix-community/comma ) that allows running any executable from nixpkgs by prepending ",".
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Nix-shell shebang: run any script with arbitrary packages, self-contained(nixos.wiki)
46 points by lambdaba 3y ago|21 comments
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Somewhat related: nix-shell supports an additional shebang, allowing summoning of any combination of packages, to be made available inside a script. An example from the docs[1]: #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell #![allow()] &#x2
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Ask HN: Experiences with Datomic?
6 points by lambdaba 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Immutable DBs like Datomic or DBs with similar features outside Clojure?
4 points by lambdaba 3y ago|0 comments
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Sublime is the king of latency IME
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by lambdaba 3y ago
This isn't mine, it's from sindarin.tech, they already have paid versions, with one plan being $450/50 hours of speech (just checked and it's up from 30 hours).
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Believe it or not I had actually read the article, somehow minus that single line :P. I don't think this situation will last long though, there's going to be a way to update the models continuously, but even so, they might remain
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by lambdaba 3y ago
Nowadays it's "take the road most LLMed", a sentiment I've read time and time again as some chose not to work with newer libraries because they are not in the ChatGPT training set.

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