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by noahbp 6mo ago
The same criticism has been said of Deno and Pnpm and bun, and yet, despite all these years since their respective releases, node and npm remain slower than all three options.
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by noahbp 6mo ago
3. Superior CPU schedulers, which do not ever undergo serious regressions that are not ever fixed: https://x.com/SheriefFYI/status/1856356547875541196 https://x.com/itsHemu2K/status/18873
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by noahbp 6mo ago
Opus 4.6 has gotten pretty good at writing Powershell. It’s the first model where I didn’t have to ask, repeatedly, that it use Powershell 5, and never use emojis or other invalid characters, like Gemini and those non-ASCII spaces.
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by noahbp 6mo ago
Why would you think that the same thing preventing density and new development in cities won’t stop your new city from growing before any building taller than 2 stories is built?
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by noahbp 7mo ago
It’s a good thing that businesses can make investment plans with legible rules to follow. Too many communities are blocking data centers for no good reason, and this preempts NIMBYs and unreasonable local opposition. “What about my water?”-
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by noahbp 7mo ago
When I lived in Costa Rica, I lost three surge protectors in a year to power surges. During one such power surge, I didn't notice that the red light indicating surge protection was already out, and a power surge fried my (knockoff) Mac
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by noahbp 7mo ago
In case anyone doubts it's AI-written: https://www.pangram.com/history/b7433cbe-08e7-43fe-9a32-3e43...
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by noahbp 8mo ago
They seem to have copied Cursor in hijacking ⌘Y shortcut for "Yes" instead of Undo.
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by noahbp 8mo ago
I don't think we should excuse Microsoft for bloating Windows because memory became abundant.
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by noahbp 9mo ago
https://x.com/nickgerli1/status/2006872715316121750 Permitting reform made Austin, Texas the second-most affordable city in America by rent to income ratio. >There are neighborhoods full of affordable new const
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by noahbp 9mo ago
>That includes determining the rental price, and imposing fines for empty units. We already have a fine for empty units. They're called property taxes, and they're the strongest and easiest-to-use tool that local governments ha
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by noahbp 9mo ago
How does this help young people who want to move to a new city, but can't because all apartments are already rented because rents are far below market rate? This is reality in cities like Berlin and Stockholm. You need more housing. Re
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by noahbp 9mo ago
It's frustrating that the problem is acknowledged (Housing prices are too high) but the solution seems to evade the author and nearly everyone involved in setting housing policy; not because of a lack of rent control. Housing is too ex
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by noahbp 9mo ago
It doesn't reduce the amount of RAM you need at all. It does reduce the amount of VRAM/HBM you need, however, since having all parameters/experts in one pass loaded on your GPU substantially increases token processing and gen
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by noahbp 9mo ago
That's not saying much, since it's still dependent upon the untyped mess that is YAML.
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by noahbp 10mo ago
The Paramount+ user interface on my Samsung TV is horrendous. It frequently crashes after displaying ads, forcing me to re-open the app and watch ads again. When watching ads does succeed (all 3 minutes of them…) and playback of my show beg
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by noahbp 11mo ago
"Government actions that restrict the ability to privately own or make use of computational resources for lawful purposes, which infringes on citizens' fundamental rights to property and free expression, must be limited to those d
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by noahbp 1y ago
Is that the updated Kimi K2, or the old Kimi k2?
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by noahbp 1y ago
>As you dig down you would get lighter and lighter on your feet. Fun fact: Gravity doesn't decrease the entire way down! Only when you get to the core does it decrease monotonically: https://physics.stackexchange.com&#x2F
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by noahbp 1y ago
If you can't see it, you're likely on the free tier and using the latest mini model.
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by noahbp 1y ago
>The logic above can support exactly the opposite conclusion: LLM can do dynamic typed language better since it does not need to solve type errors and save several context tokens. If the goal is just to output code that does not show any
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by noahbp 1y ago
As long as at least half of the lines are well-written tests, this is more achievable than you'd think.
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by noahbp 1y ago
“In some regions” Guatemala is the only place outside the US where I was not quoted 3-5x Uber prices by very pushy taxi drivers. Taxi drivers are scam artists and thieves. There’s no reputational damage either, as you will never see them ag
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by noahbp 1y ago
This would change if there wasn’t a culture of giving 5 stars to every driver. It started because Uber unfairly punished good drivers for very good but honest 4/5 reviews, and now every Uber driver who uses their phone while driving or
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by noahbp 1y ago
> I've tried: > - Cursor (can't remember which model, the default) > - Google's Jules > - OpenAI Codex with o4 Cursor's "default model" rarely works for me. You have to choose one of the models your
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by noahbp 1y ago
What is your preferred static text embedding model? For someone looking to build a large embedding search, fast static embeddings seem like a good deal, but almost too good to be true. What quality tradeoff are you seeing with these models
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by noahbp 1y ago
Onnxruntime supports CoreML, though if my experience with converting an embedding model to CoreML using Apple's CoreML conversion tool is similar to the ORT maintainers', I can see why it would be unmaintained. It took multiple tr
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by noahbp 1y ago
I've never heard of this, and I'm pretty sure my coworkers haven't either. Thanks for mentioning it! https://chatgpt.com/share/68104c37-b578-8003-8c4e-b0a4688206...
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by noahbp 1y ago
This is so good I disabled my ad blocker. Thank you. Seriously. Note: I searched "Protein bars", and it treated all protein bars equally. The 1st-20th cheapest had <15g of protein per bar. I had to scroll down to the 50th-60th
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by noahbp 1y ago
Not Dune exactly, but having to run 'eval $(opam env)' in the terminal every time you open an OCaml project rather than the default being npm-like, where you can just open the directory and use the package manager command without

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