not_kurt_godel

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by not_kurt_godel 1mo ago
I have encountered the behavior you are describing too many times to count and then some. Of course step debuggers are going to expose and hide race conditions. In fact, exposing them is often the explicit purpose of using a step debugger i
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by not_kurt_godel 1mo ago
Some napkin math - total Internet bandwidth is estimated to be 3-4 petabits per second. Let's say 1% of that is inference traffic - 35 terabits - then that's ~4.375 trillion characters per second at 8 bits per character. A single
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by not_kurt_godel 2mo ago
Step debuggers don't "create Heisenbugs", you're just much more likely to notice race conditions while step debugging than print debugging. If anything, print debugging creates more bugs because you're altering the
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by not_kurt_godel 2mo ago
I would estimate print debugging is usually twice the work for 30% of the effectiveness of step debugging. It's the screwdriver to step debugging's drill. Fundamental and absolutely necessary sometimes but not the first tool you s
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by not_kurt_godel 2mo ago
VS Code is not fit for professional software development. JetBrains products are far and away superior. Sublime Text is nice as a notepad, extended clipboard, and quick file editor.
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by not_kurt_godel 3mo ago
> It is also, believe it or not, possible to own a moderately loud car (even with a modded exhaust) Not legally in many places. California limits exhaust levels to 95 dbA or less, and I'm betting that OP's mods violate that gi
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by not_kurt_godel 3mo ago
Yes, that all tracks, and all of those skills are worth maintaining and improving. Great to tinker with LLMs locally hands-on to learn, and having a powerful enough machine to enable that to a reasonable degree is just one of many reasons w
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by not_kurt_godel 3mo ago
> Having a machine that can run some modest local LLMs, like the Gemma 4 12B, is really worth it. Agree having a powerful machine is really worth it in general for professionals, but strong disagree that running local LLMs has anything t
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
> is it even possible to do read-write to a git repo over https instead of ssh? Yes; it's not only possible but very common: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/about-remo... (IIRC it is
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
I had some local model FOMO, trialed for a few days, and tentatively arrived at the same conclusion. I can get a better ROI on the time I spent waiting and dealing with poor quality by just programming by hand myself instead.
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
main character syndrome
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
Saving this for the next time someone trots out the "All cloud providers are the same" line
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliputian_hallucination
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
And putting aside the definition of "earn", extreme wealth inequality is objectively bad for society regardless of how it arose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_economic_inequality > Effects of in
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
Doing so would be an effective admission that LLM guardrails are inherently probabilistic, unpredictable, and insecure. Plus the only truly robust sandbox approach would be clunky setup of a local VM.
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
> When I came back a few minutes later I saw my machine open a browser window in my regular Firefox and then navigate to the dialog in question. I had not told Claude Code to use any browser automation, and I was pretty sure it wasn’t po
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
https://gizmodo.com/meta-settles-lawsuit-that-claimed-social... > Meta Settles Lawsuit That Claimed Social Media Addiction Screwed Up Schools > On Thursday, Meta settled a lawsuit brought by a Kentucky school district
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
Poor Marky Z. always getting a bad rap. Let s/he who hasn't made zillons getting billions of people hopelessly addicted to social media while facilitating a genocide or two and generally destroying the world order as we know it th
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
Correct, I was referring to being arrogantly blunt and insensitive, not short/efficient emails.
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
Yeah that attitude will not get you far in life unless you're Steve Jobs, and it'll sink your ship unless you're obnoxiously rich. And even if you're either/both of those things: A. you can and should act better, an
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
Haiku/Flash/small models are underpowered for literally anything where being non-false-positively correct on details matters at least like 25%. (That's not to say they are only correct 25% of the time, it's definitely mo
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
Thank you for your topical pontification in response to my input.
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
Thank you for this addition to the conversation. Perhaps you wish to also contribute your own response to the question posed by GP.
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
My comment was in response to: > How much pontificating needs to be done before people acknowledge nobody has any idea what to do with AI on an individual level? I explained the idea of what I do with AI on an individual level. Hope that
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
Servers and/or their supporting infrastructure break in a million annoying ways when you throw a bunch of traffic at them. The top 2 culprits I've seen over the years are memory leaks and disks getting full from non-existent/
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
I write software that makes money and AI helps me write software that makes more money.
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
Call me old-fashioned and quaint, but I don't like to build software that doesn't work all the time if I can help it, whether it's for 10 users or 10 million.
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
Ok, now tell me the stat by percentage of overall market revenue rather than project count
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by not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
> But now you have another process to babysit. How do you keep it healthy? I've been assured by many HN users that running apps/sites on a single VPS requires near-zero maintenance or monitoring to achieve acceptable uptime 24&
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by not_kurt_godel 5mo ago
Not strictly possible per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

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