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by nine_k 5mo ago
An LLM may be bad at trading stocks, but an LLM may be good at analyzing the wider context, like the news feed, to inform automated trading driven by a more sophisticated model, called by the LLM as a tool. I don't think that this cont
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by nine_k 5mo ago
This should be limited to giving advice (education, warning, explicit consent), unless there's harm to third parties. Because, you know, certain actions and even thoughts can lead to eternal damnation in Hell, according to what a socie
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Where I used to sit, they very often were.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
I think these are different use cases. If you talk about SIMD, you talk about the CPU and efficient processing of large numbers of integers. I think that when a solution like this crops up, it's about storage or transmission, and dense
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by nine_k 5mo ago
In short: instead of a truly indefinite-length solution with a signal bit on the current byte saying whether to check the next byte, this uses a counter. Values 0x0 to 0xF7 are one-byte integers, 0xF8 to 0xFF use the upper 5 bits as a count
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by nine_k 5mo ago
It allows finding out the length (and allocating memory) after reading the first byte.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Two-layer, thermopot-style kettles are a thing; I own one. All-steel interior is a natural consequence.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
My $300 Sennheisers have a detachable cable. My son's $99 Sennheisers have a detachable cable. My $25 almost-noname headphones have a detachable cable. I think a detachable cable is a widespread option, as long as the headphones are la
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by nine_k 5mo ago
> just some shelf space Unless the store owns its building and has too little inventory to cover the shelves, the cost of not filling the shelves with the right goods is quite serious. In a low-margin business like retail, "just s
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by nine_k 5mo ago
All short names, that is, pronounceable strings of 4 or maybe even 5 letters are already taken. Some of them taken many times over. I think fewer people now care about mail notifications in a terminal session than about wrangling datetimes
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by nine_k 5mo ago
These are booleans with a bit more context. They may only apply to a particular geographic area, and may have dependencies: if we turn off flag X, we automatically turn off flag Y.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
"If you are not ashamed by what you are shipping, you are not shipping early enough" (Quoting from memory)
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by nine_k 5mo ago
When passing a pedestrian crossing, the driver should look everywhere, including the screen that shows the otherwise invisible space right before the front bumper. Looking at the mirror when maneuvering is a normal practice, and it takes mo
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by nine_k 5mo ago
This sounds like CRUD, distilled. I suppose it works in terms of your domain model?
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by nine_k 5mo ago
If you can switch from Rust to Ruby, and it would make sense, choosing Rust in the beginning was a mistake.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Maybe it's the misguided fear of "cannibalizing" the sales of the ICE cars. It's based on an assumption that whoever is now driving an ICE car wants to drive another ICE car, and EVs should tap into a new segment. Many h
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by nine_k 5mo ago
In 1993 that was true. In 1998 it was starkly different, due to the advent of DOM, and JavaScript to manipulate it.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Historically, it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile) Would be handy today.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Maybe not complete weightlessness, because at 80-90 km the atmospheric drag is still noticeable. But it should be enough of a unique experience.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Google tried to become a national security contractor, and the backlash among the engineers was very intense.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
But if you need clearance to do your work, how can it be bait-and-switch? You need to hire people who are able and willing to obtain a clearance.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
I agree, "AI" is being pushed beyond reason, in an attempt to make it look like what it's not, or at least not yet. And yes, people do act irrationally due to that, see all that tkenmaxxing and layoffs. I don't think it
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Sad! It mush have been something amphetamine-based. Ritalin, from experience, makes me visibly grumpy, because everything is wrong! Everything should be properly fixed! The desk should be cleaned. The code should be reviewed, bugs fixed,
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by nine_k 5mo ago
I wonder why all these trucks (with the size, these are not cars) don't have forward-looking cameras mounted somewhere near headlights and feeding a screen on the dashboard, which would offer a "window" through the motor comp
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by nine_k 5mo ago
It's like people complaining about "poor quality plastic trinkets" that replaced well-made household items. Of course high-quality things can be (and are) made of plastic. The problem is that you can still make a very cheap
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Modafinil? Ritalin? The latter is great for tedious tasks.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
But isn't the flow nearly identical with jj, because the key part, the moving of hunks, is interactive (aka manual) anyway?
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Imagine that you use jj, while everyone else who works on the repo along with you uses regular git. Is it easy?
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Bun is not peripheral, it's what Claude Code runs on.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Since the plant was around long before the homes, the homes were built around it. Zoning laws, if they existed then, should have prevented the homes from building, not the plant.

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