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by mcv 9mo ago
I think that's still in line with what I mean. Letting the AI solve the problem doesn't work, but I've had several times that simply trying to explain the problem to the AI helped me solve it. Sometimes it's not an inter
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by mcv 9mo ago
I'd briefly come across Elk, but couldn't tell how it was better than what I was using. The examples I could find all showed far simpler graphs than what we had, and nothing that seemed to address the problems we had, but maybe I
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by mcv 9mo ago
I strongly prefer writing the code myself and letting AI review it, over the other way around.
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by mcv 9mo ago
This seems to confirm my feeling when using AI too much. It's easy to get started, but I can feel my brain engaging less with the problem than I'm used to. It can form a barrier to real understanding, and keeps me out of my flow.
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by mcv 9mo ago
Is this not something everybody wants to some degree? Maybe not to the extreme of Akaky, but of course I like being useful. I like solving problems. I like making things that people use, and love to use. It's not always healthy; at my
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by mcv 9mo ago
It's not asteroid extinction that's causing convergent evolution. All those crabs, anteaters and trees still exist. They're simply very effective forms.
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by mcv 9mo ago
I find him neither confident, charismatic, nor attractive. I still don't understand how anyone can believe such a blatant liar. Or like such a terrible excuse of a human being. But clearly there's something about what he does and
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by mcv 9mo ago
At some point he had a mailinglist called Dogbert's New Ruling Class (DNRC) which would soon come to rule the world. In it he wrote lots of really weird, unhinged, occasionally funny stuff. At the time I thought it was all one massive
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by mcv 9mo ago
Scott Adams is a bit of a mystery to me. Like most here, I loved his comics in the 1990s and 2000s. I even joined the mailinglist for his werd rd and surely ironically intended Dogbert's New Ruling Class. Through Dilbert, he came acros
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by mcv 9mo ago
I've got a 4K Samsung Odyssey that I have come to hate because of it's extreme slowness and weird behaviour (I do not recommend this line), but I haven't had any problems with flickering with either M1s or M3s.
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by mcv 9mo ago
I would love linux on Apple hardware. Lots of people would, I suspect. I guess Apple has realized that their hardware is so good that they don't have to worry about the software anymore.
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by mcv 9mo ago
My MacBook is corporate, and it's therefore loaded with a ton of corporate auto-update, VPN and apparently questionnaire software. Stuff pops up at the most annoying times. And sometimes, indeed it takes focus away from the thing I&#x2
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by mcv 9mo ago
Maybe I do need to check out xfce, then. I use kfe, and I'm often frustrated by the ui freezing, and the mouse cursor slows down a lot. Sometimes the delay between clicking and something happening is seconds. I'm baffled at how mo
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by mcv 9mo ago
Does the DE matter for your GPU? Can you give some examples of what xfce does better than kde when you've got Nvidia? Because I've got Nvidia and am using kde.
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by mcv 9mo ago
Using Opus 4.5, I have noticed that in long sessions about a complex topic, there often comes a point when Opus starts spouting utter gibberish. One or two questions earlier it was making total sense, and suddenly it seems to have forgotten
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by mcv 9mo ago
Security and approval is considered more important here. Just getting approval for neo4j on the clearest ever use case for it, took a year. I'm not going to spend my energy on getting approval for Claude Code.
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by mcv 9mo ago
I have no idea. Careless use, I guess. I was fixing a bunch of mocks in some once-great but now poorly maintained code, and I wasn't really feeling it so I just fed everything to Claude. Opus, unfortunately. I could easily have downgra
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by mcv 9mo ago
They do have a knack for missing the point. Even Opus 4.5 can laser focus on the wrong thing. It does take skill and experience to interpret them correctly and set them straight when they go wrong. Even so, for understanding what happens in
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by mcv 9mo ago
> You'll be wanting to stay within the first 100k on all of them I must admit I have no idea how to do that or what that even means. I get that bigger context window is better, but what does it mean exactly? How do you stay within
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by mcv 9mo ago
I've also noticed that going off the rails. At the start of a session, they're pretty sharp and focused, but the longer the session lasts, the more confused they get. At some point they start hallucinating bullshit that they would
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by mcv 9mo ago
Maybe not, then. I'm afraid I have no idea what those numbers mean, but it looks like Gemini and ChatGPT 4 can handle a much larger context than Opus, and Opus 4.5 is cheaper than older versions. Is that correct? Because I could be mis
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by mcv 9mo ago
My employer gets me a Copilot subscription with access to Claude, not a subscription to Claude Code, unfortunately.
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by mcv 9mo ago
I've noticed. I'm already through 48% of my quota for this month.
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by mcv 9mo ago
As a tool to help developers I think it's really useful. It's great at stuff people are bad at, and bad at stuff people are good at. Use it as a tool, not a replacement.
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by mcv 9mo ago
Opus 4.5 ate through my Copilot quota last month, and it's already halfway through it for this month. I've used it a lot, for really complex code. And my conclusion is: it's still not as smart as a good human programmer. It f
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by mcv 9mo ago
I don't want to take my boss's place, though. I don't want to manage people, I want to address problems on a broader scope than I'm currently in a position to do.
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by mcv 9mo ago
I've been using it very recently. Not for mathematics , but for programming. And while Claude Opus is much more likely to admit mistake ("You're absolutely correct!" instead of "That's fine") when I correc
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by mcv 9mo ago
Out with the old, in with the new, doesn't have to be bad, but it depends on what your old and new are. I'd be a lot less skeptical about migrating OS-level sttuff from C to Rust than from C to React.
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by mcv 10mo ago
I'm not buying vinyl records, but I still have a ton of them, and my ancient record player broke down ages ago. Similarly, I've got tons of CDs I'm not using anymore. The fate of old media, I guess. But I do miss selecting a
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by mcv 10mo ago
Why don't TVs support displayport? If HDMI 2.1 support is limited, a TV with displayport sounds like an obvious choice. I thought audio might be the reason, for as far as I can tell, displayport supports that too.

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