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by mg 1y ago
I am developing this project, which replaces product lists with what I call "product charts": https://www.productchart.com The idea is to sort products not by one parameter (like price or release date) but by two - whi
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by mg 1y ago
Which LLMs have you tried?
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by mg 1y ago
The way I "ask" is that I really ... ask! I ask the LLM "Can you find anything in this file(s) that can be made shorter or more logical?" And then as I said, I like less than 10% of the ideas the LLM comes up with. But i
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by mg 1y ago
Refactoring is indeed one of the areas where LLMs already shine bright. And I love it. I have been coding since I am 12 years old. I always loved writing code. But I also always loved reading code. I don't know, for me code is a kind o
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by mg 1y ago
Only more expensive in terms of the initial purchase price. Maintenance and energy costs are much lower than for a gasoline bus.
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by mg 1y ago
Electric buses are not just about the environment. They are also so much more comfortable. Less noisy, less rattly. I would think it makes society healthier to have quieter, less annoying ways to commute.
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by mg 1y ago
The nature of technological progress is that it makes formerly uninhabitable areas inhabitable. Costs of buses are mostly the driver. Which will go away. The rest is mostly building and maintaining them. Which will be done by robots. The re
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by mg 1y ago
Would you be ok if instead of 97% of earth being empty 94% is empty and your rent is cut in half? Another plus point of the future: An electric autonomous bus is at your disposal every 5 minutes, bringing you to whatever nice lonely place y
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by mg 1y ago
One thing nobody seems to discuss is: In the future, we will do a lot more. In other terms: There will be a lot more work. So even if robots do 80% of it, if we do 10x more - the amount of work we need humans to do will double. We will writ
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by mg 2y ago
Hopefully, over time, we will get better and better in creating the world of software from small interoperable pieces that can be maintained by small teams or even solo entrepreneurs.
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by mg 2y ago
I think it is a balance. My current view on this is: For the frontend, everything but plain HTML, CSS, JS is too much. For the backend, an opinionated framework like Django is too much. Even a less opinionated framework like Flask is too mu
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by mg 2y ago
I would say the even bigger problem is that the pieces you stitch together to make a web app will rot rather quickly. He mentions supabase and vercel. It will only take so long, until the supabase code or the vercel service will have a brea
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Andrej Karpathy on the State of Web Development(twitter.com)
48 points by mg 2y ago|56 comments
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by mg 2y ago
The site should have an RSS feed. I sometimes visit Berlin and if I could add their news and events to my Berlin feed, that would be nice.
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by mg 2y ago
The persistence of Marginalia's creator is impressive. I run a web search comparison site (Gnod Search) and every time I saw Marginalia, I played around with it for a while and thought "What is this for? Does anybody actually use
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by mg 2y ago
I keep it in Yaml because that makes it easy to build upon it. For example it lets you easily make your own project based on mine which renders the Yaml file in a way that is suitable for reading. Even if I add more attributes to each entry
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by mg 2y ago
Maybe. But this way, the project layout is better suited for future enhancements.
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by mg 2y ago
Over the last months, I have been compiling a list of state of the art in Mandelbrot implementations that run in the browser: https://github.com/no-gravity/WorldWideMandelbrot Every solution has its pros and cons. I st
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by mg 2y ago
On the phone I don't. In Vim, I use multiple shortcuts that I made for this use case.
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by mg 2y ago
Sure. But even when you add noise to the described experiment, you get useful data. That is the point I am making: Experiments of a single person can be useful. The critics of single person experiments usually come up with examples vastly
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by mg 2y ago
an effect large enough to be apparent just from plotting And how large is that? Without putting a number on it, how do we come to the conclusion that the effect is not large enough? That it didn't show in their sample o
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by mg 2y ago
An experiment of 1 person can very well produce useful data. It depends on the setup of the experiment. Imagine an experiment where a person's thumb gets randomly hit with either a hammer or a feather once per day. And they then subjec
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by mg 2y ago
I write into a text file on my phone. And later move those lines into the file on my computer. It's a bit cumbersome, but not too much. But yeah, I look forward to when I finally get around to writing an app for it.
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by mg 2y ago
This is great. The author defines their own metrics, is doing their own A/B tests and publishes their interpretation plus the raw data. Imagine a world where all health blogging was like that. Personally, I have not published any resul
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by mg 2y ago
Isn't the price of a KW of solar panels similar to the price of a KW of nuclear power these days? I wonder what hinders us to replace the roofs of all houses with solar panels and put batteries in all cellars? It might still be useful
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by mg 2y ago
Is this solution different from just executing this: docker run -it --rm -e DISPLAY --net=host -v $XAUTHORITY:/root/.Xauthority -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix debian:12-slim And then run the GUI app
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by mg 2y ago
Why would there be an uppper limit for the number of buses? I would think that as long as there are cars on the road, each new bus is a net positive, as it replaces 100 cars.
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by mg 2y ago
So you expect the number of buses in the metropolises of the world to stagnate?
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by mg 2y ago
Segregation is not neccessary to have more seats. If we double the number of buses, we can increase the number of seats per bus and still have a higher overall passenger capacity in the city. In my city, I see buses that have only seated
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by mg 2y ago
why any public transport authority would do seating-only urban buses To get people to use the bus instead of a car. The average car costs €300/month. Plus about the same amount of opportunity costs, missed by having to contro

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