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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Los of innocent people are convicted of crimes they didn’t commit, often on the basis of their conversations with the police. You have every right not to fear it, but it is not an uncommon occurrence
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Somebody else linked to a follow up talk by the lawyer in the video[0], in which he gives an example where this exact thing happened , and they wound up convicting the guy based on his attempts to help them. He was later exonerated. [0]:
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Thanks for the link to this! The whole talk is a great follow up to the original, and convinced me to buy his book
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Y’all are not good at reading comprehension, is the only label I’ll apply to you here. I’ve had good friends work for Meta, and I don’t judge them for it. I wouldn’t work there, because how I feel about the company means I can’t feel good a
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
My answer already addresses this? I didn’t say every engineer works on those things. I said it’s a spectrum, with the people working on those things at one end. I also already answered that they all contribute to the edifice, with different
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Obviously it’s a spectrum, no? Anyone contributing to the edifice is in some way furthering its core mission (giving girls depression, or utterly destroying society, depending on who you ask). At one end of the spectrum you have very talent
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
I have rolled my own config now, but I started in spacemacs, and then moved to doom a while later. FWIW I found doom much easier to grok and generally stabler.
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
TBF to the parent, I also started in spacemacs, then doom, before rolling my own config some years ago, and my early experiences also felt like upgrades were really hard to deal with and often breaking. I think most of that was because I di
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
agent-shell is a great package. I’m not an AI booster by a long shot, but it makes integrating LLMs into your standard emacs flows ezpz
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
I do think the community recognizes this to be an issue and is steadily working on improving beginner-friendly docs. I am about seven years into using Nix for various things, and can mostly solve most problems, but I won’t deny that the lea
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
I resisted buying an apple tv for a long time, because I was going to have a playstation either way for games! The (relatively) poor quality and difficulty of hooking my laptop up to the TV for criterion eventually pushed me to get one just
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Yes, it has netflix, hbo, hulu, crunchyroll, etc etc etc. Even Apple TV (the streaming service). The only thing I use but isn’t on there is criterion.
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Agree Apple TV is not especially impressive (like, it’s fine, but I especially dislike the remote). I mostly just use my playstation, but there are some apps (criterion being the main one) that are not on the PS, so I use the Apple TV for t
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Thanks for the links, added! The bit at the end with the assembly put me in mind of another favorite post, aphyr’s hexing the tech interview: https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
I just read your article, and please don’t listen to the machines!!! It’s a very fun read, and I for one love some personality in an otherwise dry topic. The thing about keeping your personality in your writing is that you will have to be p
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Programs: emacs, awk, LaTeX Stuff: cast iron cookware (my favorite pans are circa ~1910-1920), acoustic guitar, knives, pen and paper
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
There’s a lot to be said for shared culture and customs. I am a second-generation American, and I love the familiarity and uniqueness of my family. I think people get really wrapped up in this idea of food as a proxy for culture, which make
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
I lived in Austin for a decade, and I think this is off base. Yes, Austin is not like rural Texas. But also, the state legislature is in Austin and loves nothing more than voting down or making illegal any progressive measure Austin tries t
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
I have found a decent trick to be to write a parameterized test with e.g. a `cases` array that tests a function how you want it tested. Then ask the LLM to fill out more cases. It’s not perfect, but results in much less brittleness since yo
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
There are so many early-stage startups also competing in this space right now. I’ve been on the interview circuit the past few weeks and talked to at least two. It’s going to be stiff competition for any of these tools to get well-establish
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
RDS caps out at 64 TB unless you use Aurora, so 20 TB is totally manageable without sharding.
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
If I ever get to be a millionaire, it’s certainly on my list!
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
You can pay Amtrak to haul your train car around[0], so you’ve just got to figure out a way to get the car from Switzerland to the US, and then you can really get around in style. [0]: https://www.amtrak.com/privately-owned-
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Have you addressed anywhere why you chose not to keep the copyleft license? It burns a lot of goodwill to use an AI for what many people will see as copyright laundering, and git has done just fine with the GPL, so it doesn’t seem like a
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
TBF, I believe Blacksmith runs their own hardware, so they aren’t just middlemen. I still think the billing thing feels scummy, though.
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Best of luck! We used mlua at $JOB for scripting support, and it worked great, but we’d have preferred a pure rust solution if one existed with the right performance profile
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
Could you quote that? I don’t see it.
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
The WASM thing makes sense. Do you need unknown-unknown? Seems like support exists for emscripten and wasi: https://github.com/mlua-rs/mlua/issues/366 It just seems like a lot of hassle to write a lua interpr
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
This is a shallow dismissal of GP’s point. The point is more, “we aren’t sure it won’t work because it has never been tried,” which is much less of a straw man to argue with.
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by mplanchard 4mo ago
This seems hard to tease out from the fact that a) the majority of companies do not survive, b) the large, large majority of companies that do survive do not wind up being large or innovative, and c) there are far fewer coops than regular c

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