noisy_boy

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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
Or maybe just use a pencil to make notes. The buyer of the second hand book can still enjoy your opinions while being able to erase them at will.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
Now I don't need to imagine how a conversation on maths between two highly intellectually advanced aliens would go like.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
Lots of people take LLM feedback as mostly trustworthy because it doesn't _directly_ try to sell you stuff, yet. Once it gets more in your face, the trust average people place in the quality of answers should see some erosion. In terms
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
I run Jellyfin on Raspberry pi and access it with Android app. The main issues I have with the app are: 1. Subtitle management is a total pain. Sometimes it doesn't show any subtitle toggle, sometimes it does. There isn't an optio
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
> You'll have so much more time now that you aren't AST wrangling. So much time because you were fired and have nothing to do. Nothing is as good as oodles of quality time worrying about funding your family's needs. It&#x2
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
I fully agree. This isn't my usual pattern. I have a Claude pro subscription + some money loaded into DeepSeek which is super cheap. Just wanted to try out Kimi K3 and sort of got into the flow with the personal project. I am definitel
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
Damn some timing, I just signed up few hours ago and within 3-4 hours spent over 50 bucks on my personal project (didn't realize that the launcher script I copied from an example had set effort to max). This is API use that consumes fr
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
What I said was specific to work and it is not entirely clear to me why the cost goes up so much the moment I switch to medium with just Sonnet 4.6 (newer models would be even more I guess). There is a monetary budget allocated and I'v
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
That's what I have been doing with Cursor with auto mode. Let the model manage the cache through compaction but staying focused on the topic. It has been quite efficient cost wise and quality wise too. It found issuesbat cheaper cost t
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
> arbitrary numeric values which are defensible Defensible on account of discharging their relentless duties of generating shareholder value within legal limits... i.e. profit. The fact that it is done in a lopsided way at the expense of
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
> Where has all the empathy gone? And common sense? :( Contrary to popular belief, I don't think common sense has gone away. It just has been deprioritized at the altar of profit. It'll be visible loud and clear the very insta
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
If I can expect to be penalized for not paying my legitimate bills, companies should also be penalized for failing to implement common-sense reasonable safeguards that prevent them from slapping their consumers with such absurdities.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
In that case, they settled with Robinhood and FINRA fined Robinhood 70 million dollars. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/01/business/robinhood-lawsui...
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
I am not certain about Windows but on Linux, aren't applications supposed to use PATH based resolution provided by shell for this? Why go to the root of the project directory at all looking for binaries? Because it has been become thei
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
One thing that I have noticed somewhat cuts through the haze of prompt->change->prompt is to drop into the editor when I notice something that is not exactly bad but isn't exactly what I want. It doesn't even have to be a bi
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
> FDEs generally work with customers, long-term. In these days of mass layoffs every month, talking about "long-term" sounds like a cruel joke.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
> It's okay to not do something for a minute. Not doing anything and being totally idle for a while is nothing to sneeze at. Especially in this day and age.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
Seems like if the experiment didn't work, nothing to lose. But it did and he capitalized it in the most in-your-face possible. it would be interesting to line up the timelines of the Rust experiment vs him joining Anthropic.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
> This is true in Singapore and Malaysia, as well, where Filipino or Indonesian cooks and housekeepers are extremely common, as are separate entrances--typically into the kitchen. Live in housekeepers are very common indeed in Singapore.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
> Anyway, reading this reminds me of the old chestnut from networking about choosing UDP over TCP for its low-latency and simplicity and then eventually adding nearly all the reliability facilities of TCP to the app (automatic retry Som
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
It would be if it suddenly became popular and they could show more ads to people for using it.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
> Because you're probably come from a high trust culture where you've been taught reciprocal trust... That is just a long sentence for "us" vs "those people". Having said that I don't entirely deny the
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
I did the side by side between Claude code (effort medium) and Cursor (auto). Asked Claude to prepare a plan and asked Cursor to review it and it found tons of gaps in the plan. Cost-wise, it came out better too. I have been using Cursor da
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
This is like repeatedly trying to train a dog with amnesia to not poop in the bedroom. Despite the dog repeatedly doing so and moreover being particularly easy to be fooled into doing so. It can't reliably learn so stop trying to teach
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
- I am shell-shocked at the lack of quality assurance! Can you at least apply a patch?
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
Employee as Kubernetes pod.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
Maybe I am being naive but doesn't that seem like a basic and effective approach that others should have been able to implement too? Why doesn't Xbox or Microsoft do it? Optimistically download updates so that if the user wants, i
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
> this is a good lesson for founders. The culture you build into your company will likely outlast your tenure. Good founders already know this. Bad ones don't care.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
> The biggest casualty of that is probably stored procedures. Not much can beat stored procs when it is dealing with multi-step heave volume stuff. But I don't miss not having to do hacks for logging and debugging compared to the fl
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
That was one of the needs we had during my initial days - dynamic DDLs/DMLs. It was basically a bash + SQL stack which is fairly low level. I remember discovering Perl was installed on the Sun Solaris boxes, learned it and soon everyon

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