neoncontrails

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by neoncontrails 18d ago
This looks like it could potentially be a huge productivity win. The ergonomics seem tantalizingly similar to the infamous scene from Minority Report where Tom Cruise manipulates translucent data streams with his bare hands. Could I suggest
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by neoncontrails 1mo ago
And it will have the effect of making these tools more popular, as it boldly proclaims how effective they are against even nation-state–level threats.
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by neoncontrails 1mo ago
This is a good question! The answer is, unfortunately, uncomputable – or so we think. But if you manage to find a more satisfying answer, you'll have solved one of the more beguiling problems of the last century, which is the basis for
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by neoncontrails 1mo ago
I know you jest, but both the IPFS contributors I knew in college graduated to become web3 degens working on decentralized file storage projects. Specifically Walrus, which grew out of Meta's Libra project.
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by neoncontrails 1mo ago
Well, the alternative is a lot of us spammed A to get to the end, so the data quality is already horrendous.
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by neoncontrails 1mo ago
Exactly the same here. 4/5.
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by neoncontrails 3mo ago
Ah yes. It is clear that the root cause of this CVE last month is a lack of spend. Lessons learned: 2.1 trillion tokens is insufficient to detect obvious malware; increase token spend by 10x. https://nesbitt.io/2026/06&
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by neoncontrails 5mo ago
The difference is twofold. First, junior devs who ask for code reviews on massive, 2000+ line diffs get coached, and eventually fired if they persist at it. And second, even the most prolific junior engineer would take years to write what C
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by neoncontrails 5mo ago
Can you name an active filesharing app that's in use today? The action against Napster might not have killed filesharing, but it was p2p's Antietam.
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by neoncontrails 1y ago
I'd be interested to try this out. I'm especially keen on AI tools that implement a native RAG workflow. I've given Cursor documentation links, populated my codebase with relevant READMEs and diagram files that I'm hopin
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by neoncontrails 2y ago
I have such a love/hate relationship with dunders. On the one hand, I get warm fuzzies from simplifying a module's interface with `__call__`. More than once I've seized an opportunity to rewrite some ugly conditional logic wi
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
> In the following, we show that [taking cosine similarity between two features in a learned embedding] can lead to arbitrary results, and they may not even be unique. Was uniqueness ever a guarantee? It's a distance metric. It&#x27
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
Give it until the end of the year. These systems are new. Legal and logistical frameworks are being created around them. Southeast Asia will have a streamlined import/export relationship with Japan by the end of the year. Where it goes
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
The speculative currency crises in Europe during the 90s helped drive the adoption of the Euro in the first place. It's a bit outside my ken, but I do wonder if Italians of a certain age would agree that the older system worked "j
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
You're missing the point. The reason the dollar is the global currency of choice is because it offers the infrastructure for any two parties to settle a transaction. The existence of CDBCs for wholesale purposes has the potential to fu
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
Bitcoin? No. But if you're asking whether digital currencies (which share a lot of the same underlying characteristics) might transform the global monetary landscape, well, they already have: 11 countries have issued CBDCs, and another
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
What makes you think the US would be motivated to hamstring its own Federal Reserve, or threaten the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency?
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
I was in the market a couple months ago (US). If you haven't given the 2023 Id.4 a look, you might consider it. They're practically giving them away right now due to surplus inventory. The lease deals are especially attractive. My
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
They do. If there are stories of recruiters getting married to engineers who viewed their profile, I would love to hear them.
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
Amazon Drawer of Old Android Devices has a certain ring to it.
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
But that's not what an LLM does.
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
My experience was similar. I've built far more impactful things since then, but at the end of the day, the software that I'm most proud of was a calculator, of all things, that I made in Clojurescript. It was loosely based on the
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
Wow, didn't realize folks were still actively developing on Python 2.x. FWIW, the Python steering committee takes backwards-compatibility pretty seriously these days. Here's a recent mailing list discussion on it's decision t
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
Which syntactic features have changed in ways that aren't backwards compatible? I've had some minor headaches, don't get me wrong, but in each case those headaches are a result of interface changes to common objects, like Exc
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
I've been programming in Python for most of the past 10 years, and I've never experienced a regression in backwards-compatibility between minor releases. What problems have you had?
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
I've been thinking about the strange loop that emerges when enough humans hire human-emulating machines to ghostwrite enough of their correspondence. Book reports, inane business emails, wedding vows. All of it. The full spectrum of th
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by neoncontrails 3y ago
With just a tiny sed find-and-replace (possibly generated by GPT) this sounds exactly like: What Assembly developers said about C; What C developers said about Java; What Java developers said about Python; It's interesting though, this
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
Is cantor dust available as a plugin now? I remember watching the creator's tech talk as a young dev and being incredibly inspired by it. But I've looked it up a few times over the years, didn't find any evidence that the too
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
What does this mean? I'm unfamiliar with Teams, the only person I know who uses it is my partner who works for the government (non-technically).
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
I was every bit as skeptical (and agree there's nothing particularly meaningful about a bargain on a product that's unavailable), half expecting the available eggs to cost $6-7 or more as they do just about everywhere I shop in

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