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1y ago
> People were saying they'd kill themself if OpenAI didn't immediately undeprecate GPT-4o. I would not have this reaction to a game being shut down. Perhaps you should read this and reconsider your assumptions. https:/&#x
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> Fast-forward some number of years (...) I repeat: OP's home server costs as much as a few months of a cloud provider's infrastructure. To put it another way, OP can buy brand new hardware a few times per year and still save m
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1y ago
> i'm not the person you replied but if wages lag furhter, how rents going up? The greater the number of people who cannot afford buying a home, the greater the number of people whose only option is to rent. The more people enter th
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1y ago
> You seem to be confusing the construction of system prompts with "training". I'm not. What part are you having a hard time following?
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1y ago
You're using a lot of words to say "I believe yesterday's hardware might not run models as as fast as today's hardware." That's fine. The point is that yesterday's hardware is quite capable of running yest
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1y ago
> If the political angle is not relevant to the analysis, then why do you enjoy it? The politics angle is unavoidable because Krugman is commenting on the impact that the economic policies of the current US administration is having on th
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1y ago
> As the hardware continues to iterate at a rapid pace, anything you pick up second-hand will still deprecate at that pace, making any real investment in hardware unjustifiable. Can you explain your rationale? It seems that the worst cas
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1y ago
> Don't spend your time hunched over servers. Spend it doing things you love with people that matter to you. To some, spending time hunched over servers is doing things they love. I mean, each and every thing you said about maintain
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1y ago
> I think you got that all wrong and strongly misinterpret "modern functionality" as some generic library here... I didn't. I am telling you exactly why polyfills exist, and why people use them. More importantly, I am expl
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1y ago
> This is the equivalent of a law firm hiring a lawyer then adding a tool that checks their work when drafting documents making sure they don’t make mistakes I don't agree. A better fitting comparison would be if a law firm enables
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1y ago
> Are you serious here? I am. If you check the definition of polyfill, you'll eventually arrive at something like the following: > A polyfill is a piece of code (usually JavaScript on the Web) used to provide modern functionalit
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1y ago
> There's no reason that an LLM couldn't (or isn't) being trained on commit messages. You are arguing that it could. Hypotheticals. But getting back to reality, today no coding assistant supports building system prompts fr
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1y ago
> The behavior seems likely to mislead a lot of people even if it doesn't confuse you. You need to go way out of your way to toggle a switch to enable this feature. The toggle says very prominently "Cloudflare allows HTTPS conn
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1y ago
> You are sadly completely missing the point of ever-self-improving automation. Just also use the commit history. I don't think you understand the issue you're commenting on. It's irrelevant whether you can inject commit h
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1y ago
> Forgive my ignorance of js matters but how does adding packages improve backward compatibility at all? The scheme is based on providing polyfills for deprecated browsers or JavaScript runtimes. Here is the recipe. - check what feature
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> This is a cursed idea to begin with, so I can't fully blame PostgreSQL. After going through the list, I was left with the impression that the "cursed" list doesn't really refers to gotchas per se but to lessons lear
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1y ago
As a side note, it's becoming increasingly important to write down this info in places where LLMs can access it with the right context. Unfortunately commit history is not one of those spots.
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Older browsers don't support foreach, so it's not like a polyfill is unheard of https://caniuse.com/?search=foreach
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> Disappointing to hear about the Cloudflare fetch issue. You mean the one where explicitly configuring Cloudflare to forward requests to origin servers as HTTP will actually send requests as HTTP? That is not what I would describe as di
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1y ago
> I get that it's a compatibility workaround (...) but it's a.) super dangerous (...) It's a custom mode where you explicitly configure your own requests to your own origin server to be HTTP instead of HTTPS. Even Cloudfla
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> (...) but a particularly paranoid interpretation is that this person is setting up for a massive, multi-pronged software supplychain attack. That person might not be doing it knowingly or on purpose, but regardless of motivations that
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> This is whack as hell but doesn't seem to be the default? I don't think so. If you read about what Flexible SSL means, you are getting exactly what you are asking for. https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl
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> first of all because the key point is they didn't even look at his application (...) Apparently the only suggestion that OP's application might not have been considered was due to the fact it was filed already too late in the
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> (...) so we eventually end up with two divergent implementations of Widgetness. That means they were never the same implementation to begin with. > Then somewhat later, Jolene Developer joins the project and is asked to fix an inter
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1y ago
> But it does show that he can develop and ship a popular product, something outside the capability of so many “great engineers”. Does it, though? I mean, the key differentiating factor is being able to stomach the cloud infrastructure c
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> I do want them to hand over driver information to the police when they have a case number and the customer's request. Hold on. In the previous message you didn't mentioned "customer's request". You explicitly s
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> Yeah, no. You have to pass tech interviews and generally know your shit You don't understand. You need to meet the hard skills bar, but there are far more bars than the hard skills one. I think a hefty share of people here fail to
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> I hope that this Hacker News post will get to one of the key people at Anthropic and they change their minds. Honest question: what leads you to believe they should change their mind?
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> This is cope and propaganda to discourage people from developing their own brand. This is such a US-centric cliche that it even reads as a parody. No, the man isn't keeping you down.
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