leptons

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by leptons 6mo ago
I find it intellectually exhausting to describe to a machine what I want, when I could build something better in the same amount of time, and it isn't for lack of understanding how the LLM works. It takes a lot of cajoling to get an
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by leptons 6mo ago
"TDS" is not a thing. It's a made-up term that people accuse others of, because they can't cover up a felonious president's many failings, lies, graft, and corruption. You use it to try to discredit a person who is
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by leptons 6mo ago
It's not slower to do by hand. I race the AI all the time. I give it a simple task to write a small script that I need to complete a task that is blocking me... and the "thinking" thing spins and spins. So I often just fire u
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by leptons 6mo ago
"The dog that caught the car" refers to how dogs sometimes chase cars. Suppose the car stops and the dog catches up - what is it going to do? It has no plan, it has no purpose, it isn't going to bite the car, it isn't go
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by leptons 6mo ago
I'd be fine with a world without AI, honestly. Nobody really wins this race except the very wealthy. And I don't think it's really going to play out the way the wealthy think it will. It's more like a dog catching a car
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by leptons 6mo ago
100% agree with this take. As I find myself using AI to write software, it is looking like gambling. And it isn't helping stimulate my brain in ways that actually writing code does. I feel like my brain is starting to atrophy. I learn
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by leptons 6mo ago
"Shorts" is the #1 reason I switched to the SmartTube app on my Chromecast. No more Shorts. It also has other great features that are well beyond what the Youtube app lets you do to customize the expernience. And then I realized,
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by leptons 6mo ago
I wouldn't be proud of having so many guns and the highest rate of gun deaths by far in the developed world (except maybe countries currently at war). "Guns are amazing"? Really? Nevermind, I know someone just like you. He
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by leptons 6mo ago
An LLM is never, ever going to find "other near infinite sources of energy". All it can do is predict the next word in an effort to make the user stop prompting it. That's all it does. It does not have the ability to find sol
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by leptons 6mo ago
He died in India.
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by leptons 6mo ago
He lived in India. In the early 1900s. The average lifespan in India in 1920 when he died was 21 to 25 years old. He was 32 when he died, so better than the average. The math checks out.
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by leptons 6mo ago
Does Claude know the plane isn't at the car wash?
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by leptons 6mo ago
Node has an extensive "standard library" that does many things, it's known as the "core modules". Maybe you're referring to Javascript? Javascript lacks many "standard library" things that Nodejs prov
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by leptons 6mo ago
When I'm looking for a new NPM module to do some heavy lifting, I always look for modules with zero dependencies first. If I can't find one then I look for modules with the fewest dependencies second. No preinstall or postinstall
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by leptons 6mo ago
For most things I personally use AWS Lambda and S3, with some SimpleDB. If I needed something more in the DB department, I'd probably use DynamoDB, but S3 actually works well for most of the data I need to store. I pay about $0.50&#x2
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by leptons 6mo ago
I'm not anticipating everything ahead of time, I'm choosing mature tech that does what I need and then some. There's no misstep there. The real problem I've seen with choosing software tech is "new, shiny".
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by leptons 6mo ago
A feature you don't think you need today, might be one you actually need tomorrow. It would be short-sighted to choose some tech based only on what you need today. If the extra features don't cost you anything, I can't see th
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by leptons 6mo ago
I recently went (almost) all-in on Linux after many years on Windows. The final straw for me was that I paid for a "lifetime license" for Outlook, because I've been using Outlook for decades, and have every email I've ev
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by leptons 6mo ago
I've never really understood how Apple can let people download MacOS for free, and then tell them where and how they can run it - only on Apple's hardware. If I download a copy of Windows or any software ever written, I can run it
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by leptons 6mo ago
>I run macOS because Apple understands that QA testing is something of actual importance, and designing yet another package manager is not. Apple demonstrated with their latest releases that they don't give a single fuck about QA. O
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by leptons 6mo ago
Most "serious" companies do not support Linux in their IT infrastructure. I've begged to run Linux, but it's a hard no from IT. They only support Windows and MacOS, and that's all. So I choose a Windows desktop, bec
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by leptons 6mo ago
Recently an article on HN front page was about a guy who had to file down his MBP because the front edge of it was too sharp and resting his wrists on it hurt his hands. At least two people in the comment section noted how the sweat on thei
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by leptons 6mo ago
I've run MacOS x86 VMs on Windows, it used to work great for a while. I haven't done that lately. I just don't care that much about supporting Apple users anymore, Apple makes it too expensive and difficult.
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by leptons 6mo ago
But aren't Mx based macs supposed to be the fastest computers you can get? Why wouldn't they be able to run more than 2 VMs? I can run a ton of Windows VMs at the same time, wouldn't Windows be a comparable resource hog to Ma
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by leptons 6mo ago
>The "two VMs per unit hardware" has been in their license for at least a decade. I'd be pretty surprised if there isn't a workaround or hack for this. Microsoft has had limits on some things like RDP on some versions
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by leptons 6mo ago
You are not Apple's target market, and never will be. They don't care what you want to do with the hardware you own.
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by leptons 6mo ago
I tried to launch a MacOS instance on EC2 recently (on my work account), and was blocked. So I asked the IT dept and they said it's stupidly expensive to run a MacOS instance on EC2, and that they would just send me a Macbook Pro inst
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by leptons 6mo ago
Frustrating for you, hilarious for me. I had no idea they had hobbled MacOS in this way. It doesn't surprise me at all really, and it's pretty ridiculous. I'm not sure why people keep giving Apple their money, especially tech
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by leptons 6mo ago
>90% of the jobs people have today didn't exist 50 years ago. We also have 100% more people on the planet than we did 50 years ago.
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by leptons 6mo ago
I frequently look at the DOM of webpages, so that I can bend them to my will. There's always some things about practically all websites are frustrating. I fix that with custom CSS and/or Javascript that runs when I load specific s

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