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by monsieurbanana 1y ago
It was a mistake from my part to write a quick comment, there's much more than having a low pay that makes it impossible to have a similar hawker culture in other countries. Singapore is effectively a big city, just the difference in g
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by monsieurbanana 1y ago
That's just part of it. Anyone can deliver food, but effectively being a small food stand is completely different. Now having enough small food stands to create a hawker center is even more difficult. But having a hawker center 10 minu
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by monsieurbanana 1y ago
Hawker centers, like many other nice features of Singapore, is powered by immigrants paid much less than other citizens, while being strictly regulated in a way that only a wealthy yet tiny country can do. I'm not saying it's nece
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by monsieurbanana 1y ago
The internet is 30-40 years old, and has brought an entirely new paradigm to the world. It has abolished distances, disproportionately increasing the reach of a few. I'd love to share your optimism that things will keep improving in th
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by monsieurbanana 1y ago
How much is this costing?
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
Forget the parenthesis, embrace the automatic indentation and code source manipulations that only perfectly balanced homoiconic expressions can give you.
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
I see, thanks. The 4k limit for the gui still seems so low, but I might try the cli sometime.
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
> Upgrade apps in a fraction of the time with the Amazon Q Developer Agent for code transformation (limit 4,000 lines of submitted code per month) 4k loc per month seems terribly low? Any request I make could easily go over that. I feel
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
Don't they have to buy things too?
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
In which case the model couldn't possibly know that the number was correct.
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
My bad, I didn't knew you wanted a serious answer, I should have known that some people would seriously consider having three separate phones for texting, calling and everything else. For a serious answer then: Rather than segregating
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
You still make calls with your phone?
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
The fool, he should have gotten 13 gallons of milk
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
Do you have examples of how it helped? I'm regularly kicking myself for not doing that, so I see the value, but some concrete examples might help my motivation.
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
Slapping a UI on top of that seems easy
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
It's not just a consumer movement, it's Europe itself moving to get away from an unreliable schizophrenic ally. You can't make long-term plans when every 4 years you're playing russian (eh) roulette with your partner. Th
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
Even if I would agree with everything the article says, I have no idea how the author gets to the conclusion that junior developers will prevail because they are faster at adopting LLMs. Didn't he just made a point about how fast the s
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
> Now I prefer declarative approach Doesn't most people? Until you're no longer in the happy path of whatever you use to generate code.
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
Because HN value is the value of the comments, and those are a scarce resource. Making a great website (for whatever is your definition of great) doesn't guarantee that it will become valuable. All this to say, HN shouldn't an exa
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
> because you could use regular find/grep to analyze it They were meant to be analyzable in some ways. Count lines, extract headers, maybe sed-replace some words. But being able to operate/analyze over multiline strings was nev
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047395
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
Not caring about the outcome doesn't make sense, people that are driven by something care about the outcome. To go back to my original point, the simplistic equation falls apart if you spend a second looking for counter examples. Sikhs
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
Delusion + power + conviction doesn't always equal evil, so there has to be something missing in that equation. I'd wager it's evil.
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
Sounds liked programming with extra steps. And I don't like it when the extra steps involving mailing snippets of code
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
> Another example that comes to mind is a backend rewrite of a multi million PHP API to a Java backend. They just put the new Java backend in front of the old API and proxied through while they implemented the new routes. While it took o
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
There's no serious sources about people wanting to fire 100% of [insert title here] for LLMs. It's more about reducing head-count by leveraging LLMs as a productivity multiplier. I haven't heard of companies successfully doin
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
But not the only or main intention. He's never stated that he didn't want to share knowledge and he doesn't have to, it's already implied.
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
When you send a cover letter to apply for a job, you wouldn't say you want to work there because of the salary. Yet we all know.
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
It's weird that's the first sentence of the abstract is different: > In order to thrive in hostile and ever-changing natural environments, mammalian brains evolved to store large amounts of knowledge about the world and continu
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by monsieurbanana 2y ago
Maybe someone knows, what's the usual recommendation regarding big context windows? Is it safe to use it to the max, or performance will degrade and we should adapt the maximum to our use case?

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