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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
Perfect dystopia. Make sure all criminals have guns, then tell citizens "Look! We used the surveillance state to catch this one criminal!" Not all criminals. Certainly not rich criminals. Just enough of the "wrong kind"
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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
I tried writing an AI harness in Python. Seemed the obvious way to go. Tons of libraries. Libraries for talking to model APIs. Libraries for context and conversation management. Libraries for talking to MCPs. It is the language for LLMs!
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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
First, How fast is the Zstd decoder in python at runtime? If rust and python are essentially the same cost, then chose rust. Second, I am surprised that python scored slightly better than rust. My own experience is that, when programming py
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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
Might be time for a "Take your license plates off" day of protest.
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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
>So basically, if you’re promising London safety and the freedom and safeguards of the UK, I’m all for it! Is this sarcasm? A good friend is a criminal defense barrister and his opinion does not match yours on the justice perspective. Me
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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
More than 50% bigger. 62g vs 40g.
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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
Art, Bespoke, Artisinal, Mass produced, Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Material Science. Mass production is certainly here for the majority of programming jobs. The competition for the jobs that are left will
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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
Good article if you read it all. > Those decades spent fighting memory bugs in C or C++, with the scars to prove it, are worthless in the age of Rust, Go, Python and JavaScript. For most people sure. I’ve had GC kill a service in product
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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
Ok so Intel managed to make a 20W TDP chip that gets 6.x Gflops/W. Call me back when they’ve got a chip that still gets 6.x Gf/W with a 200W 1,200Gflop package like the M3 next on your list. This little fellow is only 50% more eff
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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
I have two Apple Studio monitors and a max-ram MacBook Pro. Work only paid for the MBP and only after I jumped through the necessary hoops, which I was happy to do. Had they not, I would have just dropped the $6k myself. One time I did drop
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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
Ok. I had pizza last night. It was delicious. Most meals are packaged protein workout food. But I have a griddle and I love to make brunch, burgers, sliders whatever. A lot of my job is really pizzas. Massive scale pizzas but still pizzas.
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by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
Remember when car companies couldn’t get the chips they needed to make cars? And so now there’s not enough used cars. And so car companies charge way more the new ones and just stopped making cheap cars altogether?
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
> I read loads of books, but nothing you read in a book makes much sense until you do it yourself Yeah, totally agree. Same is true for LLMs. These models have all the information. I use it like an interactive text book. If I just let it
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
I get this is a cheap response but “you’re doing it wrong”. Early last year they were shite. Then they became good enough to write tests. Then they became good enough to write code. Currently they’re good enough to design APIs for “typical”
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
I think that’s the difference. Using LLMs to learn how to write interesting code, I hope, would be welcomed. I’m not confident that’s true though, reading some of these comments.
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
>the US is perfectly capable of ramping up manufacturing to ungodly numbers Evidence? Genuinely curious. I read that for every ship the US can build, China can build 200. Our drones come from China. Have we got a magic tomohawk cruise mi
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
TFA admits that Amazon's AI revenue is only 59% from Anthropic and OpenAI, with 41% coming from actual customers using bedrock. That seems like they are in a winning position. I've run Qwen on Bedrock. Big models on Bedrock do out
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
I would assume that while Iran doesn't have the material for a bomb, they have enough nasty material for an air burst to do significant long-term impact. They couldn't possibly use it unless Israel nuked them first.
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
Difference is, it can teach you.
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
Opus, assume i know nothing about web development. if i wanted to design a new webpage, with a good design, what are some of the terms of art, some best practices? Like if i wanted a big block at the top, some things to click on and some pi
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
Ok. Let’s read the papers cited: > Our results further confirm that experts are more proficient in self-assessing their abilities than novices.
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
Well we all love Liquid Glass. Most loved UX update in iPhone and macOS history. Massive dealbreaker for an app not to look like Liquid Glass. I definitely choose apps based on whether they look like proper Liquid Glass applications instead
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
It’s probably good for Cursor to lose customers like this. The old model of SDE writing code and harness helping with tab completion is just so unproductive that it might reflect badly on Cursor. It’s certainly not worth Cursors effort to k
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
Yeah. It’s propaganda. It ought to be “Not your code? Not hardware you designed and built? Not your coins.” But then like ten people could safely own BTC. BTC is a criminal conspiracy that requires fools for legitimacy.
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
This. This is why the burst of posts on HN of “I made this useful tool/crate/application” were just so sad. The old model was getting what the kids now call aura by developing useful open source products: products where it’s far e
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
Don’t worry. I’m sure they’re not training it to be good at things like writing database backends, financial services, logistics systems, user interfaces, or anything of economic value. As long as you’re not working on three.js specifically
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
32bit ARM remains my absolute favorite instruction set. And yeah, C compiler output was criminal! I wrote products entirely in the BASIC assembler. What a time to grow up!
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
> In this case, there isn’t much of a mistake to point out. I don’t buy this. There is no $249 device that I would trust with even 1 BTC. These folks looked at the options to preserve $100,000 and picked a $249 device over an exchange. O
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
Might have been the plan all along.
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by lowbloodsugar 3mo ago
RAID is not backup. Snapshots on same storage are not backup. For “the oh I don’t like this edit of my Word doc, do I have a version from yesterday”, sure, snapshots. For momma giving birth photos, you need backup. S3 is $1/tb for back

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