merlincorey

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by merlincorey 29d ago
The skill floor has gone down dramatically, but the skill ceiling is still quite high depending on the domain.
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by merlincorey 4mo ago
The "Why" section exclusively opens with a reference to zstd-rs: > Why though? > Using zstd in Rust is already supported via the zstd crate, so why bother with a whole new implementation? Separately, I'd say their end g
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by merlincorey 4mo ago
Yes, and IBM has current documentation if you need to that has been updated in 2026: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.2.0?topic=considerations-u... It's generally and simply an encoding of what amounts
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by merlincorey 7mo ago
The CDC recommends against heating milk in a microwave[0] whether it's human milk or formula meant for a baby due to the creation of "hot spots" and also the potential destruction of nutrients. [0] https://www.cdc.
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by merlincorey 8mo ago
"Flappy Bengt"[0] is broken at least on my browser it's not playable as a human (nor LLM) due to requiring too large of an APM for anything but TASbot or a special purpose mechanical robot to play. [0] https://beng
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by merlincorey 9mo ago
Which ones are you claiming have already been achieved? My understanding of the current scorecard is that he's still technically correct, though I agree with you there is velocity heading towards some of these things being proven wrong
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by merlincorey 9mo ago
"Code is a liability. What the code does for you is an asset." as quoted from https://wiki.c2.com/?SoftwareAsLiability with Last edit December 17, 2013. This discussion and distinction used to be well known, but
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by merlincorey 9mo ago
> Meanwhile, my cofounder is rewriting code we spent millions of salary on in the past by himself in a few weeks. Code is not an asset it's a liability, and code that no one has reviewed is even more of a liability. However, in the
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by merlincorey 9mo ago
I'm glad we agree.
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by merlincorey 9mo ago
Interesting and thanks for clarifying that aspect. I have a few more questions if you would be able to answer any of them at any level of detail I would appreciate it. How much would you be willing to pay to continue using Claude on a mont
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by merlincorey 9mo ago
Again, I disagree and reaffirm my being full of inquisitiveness. You are being downright unpleasant and I don't think we should continue this conversation further until you open your mind.
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by merlincorey 9mo ago
I'm inquisitive not narrow minded. The GP didn't mention anything about freelancing so unless you know them or stalked them you are perhaps being narrow minded here.
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by merlincorey 9mo ago
It sounds like you use your personal Claude Code subscription for work of your employer, but that is not something I would ever consider doing personally so I imagine I must be mistaken. Can you elaborate slightly on what you pay for person
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by merlincorey 9mo ago
Thank you for the explanation, but I did fully understand that is what you were saying. What I don't fully understand is how you can characterize that as "not limited" with a straight face; then again, I can't see your f
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by merlincorey 9mo ago
> The $200/month plan doesn't have limits either... once you've expended your rate limited token allowance... pay for the extra tokens out of an additional cash reserve you've set up You're absolutely right! Lim
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by merlincorey 10mo ago
LLMs aren't calculators; for example, your calculator always gives you the same outputs given the same inputs. Long division is a pretty simple algorithm that you can easily and quickly relearn if needed even your LLM of choice can lik
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by merlincorey 10mo ago
I believe prompting an AI is more like delegation than abstraction especially considering the non-deterministic nature of the results.
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by merlincorey 1y ago
Too bad they haven't done a release song since 7.3: https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#73
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by merlincorey 1y ago
It seems we're still collectively trying to figure out the boundaries of "delegation" versus "abstraction" which I personally don't think are the same thing, though they are certainly related and if you squint
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by merlincorey 1y ago
There's a section on "why not printf" which is Standard C, but I can't find any section on "why not std::format"[1] which is Standard C++ since C++20 and works on all major compilers today in 2025. They do ment
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by merlincorey 1y ago
Was the website the only thing down? This community Starlink Status page doesn't seem to show any outage: https://starlinkstatus.space/
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by merlincorey 1y ago
Additionally, you can store other data for example one could have scans of important documents that are stored in Pass which means they are GPG encrypted and backed by a git repository so they are versioned and shared across multiple machin
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by merlincorey 1y ago
Greenspun's tenth rule: > Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. > -- Philip Greenspun,
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by merlincorey 1y ago
Delegation is not the same as abstraction, to my understanding.
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by merlincorey 1y ago
> on different projects This seems like an important caveat the author of the article failed to mention when they described this: > you can have several agents running simultaneously - one building a user interface, another writing AP
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by merlincorey 1y ago
Claude is making $72k a year for a consistent $300/day spend.
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by merlincorey 1y ago
> However, it won’t suggest a radically different approach unless I specifically ask it to, which I have never tried. Assumptions without evaluation are not trustworthy.
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by merlincorey 1y ago
It's "both" because if I want to interact with the SBCL REPL in SLIME I swap to the buffer for it and type in whatever I want which includes reader macros and such mentioned in the article.
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by merlincorey 1y ago
> * I want to apply some repetitive change across a large codebase that's just too complicated for a clever regex, bam work you literally would have never bothered to do before done in 2 minutes. You would naively think that, as did
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by merlincorey 1y ago
The article mentions SBCL which is a well regarded open source Common Lisp implementation. Common Lisp invented REPLs and the way most people use it now answers your question with "both". A REPL usually runs locally in a subproces

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