mwkaufma

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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Money quote: The reason my redirect rules still work after more than a decade isn't because I got everything right the first time. I still don't get it right! But it's because I treated URL management as a first-class pro
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Simultaneous claims that 'agentic' models are dramatically less efficient, but also forecasts efficiency improvements? We're in full-on tea-leaves-reading mode.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
[Cope Intensifies]
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Big "college freshman" energy in this take: I personally prefer to make the error state part of the objects: Streams can be in an error state, floats can be NaN and integers should be low(int) if they are invalid (low(int) is
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Says more about the relatively poor infosec on etherium contracts than about the absolute utility of pentesting LLMs.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Bliss: Installation Add two files to your project: src/im_anim.h src/im_anim.cpp That's it. No build system changes, no external dependencies.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Stating a 20-year trend like it's a new development :P
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Some real hard-hitting "reporting outlandish self-serving claims by CEOs as accurate forecasts" journalism.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Dark gray on black text? lol
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
>> It is time to do AI the right way. Some "No True Scotsman"-flavored cope.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
It feels like it's creating economic activity in the tech sector the same way that walking down the street and smashing everyone's windshields would create economic activity for local auto shops.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
My spider sense was going off because they spend the first several pages constructing the most obtuse definition of Inflation without just saying it.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
By the article's _own_ parable: if you were starving on a desert island, you wouldn't be relieved to be airdropped a briefcase full of gold. You're benchmarking money to money.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
>> Rather, what we need to do is to calibrate the physical economy such that we can benchmark the monetary against the material. This enables us to avoid the futility of measuring the monetary only against itself. Garden-variety Gold
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Aside from financially-motivated "testimonials," there's no broad evidence that it even works that well for coding, with many studies even showing the opposite. Damning with faint praise.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Jeff Preshing was a longtimer at Ubisoft, and developed for Corel before that in their heyday. His blog makes for good reading: https://preshing.com/
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
"Exceptions are values within the system’s expected operating boundaries." This makes sense in narrow context, but as a question of intent - exceptions are not expected. Common example I encounter in prod are .net platform librari
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Misleading use of the term "runtime" as it does not implement lua, but just links nonrust implementations into a webserver "runtime."
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Wealth, not Will
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
I would simply spend $5 at an asset store for some blobby generic buildings, than orchestrating a 12-figure corporate debt bubble to build warehouses of rapidly depreciating rust that boils a lake in order to generate them, but I guess that
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Publicly funded noise-pollution.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Pet Peeve Trifecta: (1) Wielding "OOP" as a pejorative without justification or context. (2) Transferring critiques from one subject to another via superficial similarities. (3) Patronizing twee storybook tone.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Scrolled a few pixels to be hit with a terms of service demand to accept mandatory arbitration and class-action waiver... to read an article??
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Yes, but they said that in the context of a tailored language for persistent/HDD-backed data, where implicitly performance crosses the line into an additional measure of correctness, rather than an orthogonal one. ("to find live r
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
No but they are under-specified. OP is specifically working with a document-hierarchy data-structure with a natural ownership/weak-pointer distinction to exploit -- no need to abstract it to a general graph.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
"How do you apply algo X to a problem which has been narrowly-tailored and/or under-specified to specifically exclude X" isn't exactly a constructive inquiry.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Don't write in the papers that I got mad.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
HN "Fell For It Again" Award
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
Yeah, oddly Avalonia mostly passes that litmus test, but this added MAUI layer doesn't.
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by mwkaufma 11mo ago
This + a reasonable data transaction layer that supports undo and reasonably large (multi gb) data structures.

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