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by pkulak 5mo ago
Most voters don’t understand how the US government works, so EOs seem to be a way to pretend that the executive can pass laws. A way to make good on the campaign promises that require laws to be passed, which is usually all of them.
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by pkulak 5mo ago
UTF-8?
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by pkulak 5mo ago
Yup, very "Georgist", which I'm a huge fan of. You can move your money to another country, or hide it entirely in stocks that you borrow against until you die. But, you gotta live somewhere. Land is the only thing the state r
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by pkulak 5mo ago
If we were doing novel things, we’d be scientists. I’m an engineer though. I don’t think I’ve been writing slop for 30 years.
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by pkulak 5mo ago
Wow, that's really nice. I'm absolutely stealing that. Thanks!
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by pkulak 5mo ago
JJ is a whole different way to think about source control. The fact that you don’t need to run an agent just to use it is a nice bonus.
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by pkulak 5mo ago
Doesn't Pi Agent do exactly this? Assuming "append only" means they do some kind of compaction as well.
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by pkulak 5mo ago
I just like that Openai let's you use your codex subscription with whatever harness you like. I prefer Pi, so that's what I use. GPT 5.5 xhigh feels equivalent to Opus to me, so there's no reason for me to be locked into the
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by pkulak 5mo ago
Personally, and this is just my wild guess; I think almost no one is _really_ going to learn to code again. That's not a slight on the next generation or anything; I wouldn't know how to code right now if LLMs existed 25 years ago
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by pkulak 5mo ago
Yup, this was my first thought. Tell an LLM that there's a bug, and it will _happily_ add 200 lines to the project, usually wrapped in if statements so that it all interleaves with existing code. Then it will write twice as many lines
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by pkulak 5mo ago
> without signature or review What are you on about now? I got _one_ of my projects accepted into NixPkgs a couple years ago and have never done it since due to the huge PITA it was to find someone with contributor rights to sign off on
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by pkulak 5mo ago
I feel like if you trained better for "I don't know", it would drag down competence everywhere else somehow. Like, the strength of a model is exactly it's ability to grasp at straws and very often find the right one. If
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by pkulak 5mo ago
They are still pretty widely use for HLS/DASH streams. You may not be dealing with them, but you're probably watching them.
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by pkulak 5mo ago
But those giant models get the boilerplate correct the first try! You're totally right though. My favorite thing to do these days is to hand craft the code in the middle of the app, then tell AI to make me a rest endpoint and a test. I
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by pkulak 5mo ago
I can't get used to vibe-coded projects on Github. One that I was using for a little while is about a year old, with 40,000 commits and 15,000 PRs. And it has "lite" in its name; it's supposed to be the simple alternativ
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by pkulak 5mo ago
One of the best uses of AI I've found is code reviewing stuff I've written either entirely myself, or even code generated in a previous session.
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by pkulak 6mo ago
I also assume that forcing usage to spread out, via those 5-hour windows, has cost advantages.
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by pkulak 6mo ago
Not to mention substantially less open. I've been using an OpenAI subscription in Pi Agent for a couple weeks now and it's great. And from what I can tell, 5.5 is a heck of a model.
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by pkulak 6mo ago
Are Waymos cheaper than hiring a person?
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by pkulak 6mo ago
Same here, as someone who doesn't drive much, and is generally a "vulnerable road user". I've seen Waymos drive. When they screw up, it's by stopping dead under an abundance of caution. They never speed. They can sp
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by pkulak 6mo ago
Well, that's the hope, but the bar is pretty low. Portlanders constantly block streetcars, usually by doing a shite job of parallel parking.
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by pkulak 6mo ago
> why not also bring in mandatory exercise and ban people from sugar and alcohol too I literally said "so care needs to be taken" and you hit me with a slippery slope argument?
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by pkulak 6mo ago
Democracy is the problem?
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by pkulak 6mo ago
Wow, lots of libertarian absolutists up this morning. Guys, that's all well and good as a philosophy, but you need to integrate your views into the world around you too. When you live in a society that has _decided_ to collectively sho
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by pkulak 6mo ago
Forking and coming back is what I like to do. At this very moment I've got a forked project that I'm actively using and making tiny changes to as things come up in my workflow. In another week or two, when I'm certain that ev
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by pkulak 6mo ago
I've been running Opus and GLM side-by side for a couple weeks now, and I've been impressed with GLM. I will absolutely agree that it's slow, but if you let it cook, it can be really impressive and absolutely on the level of
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by pkulak 6mo ago
Oh man... they even have a Nix flake in the repo. That pretty much sells it right there. :D
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by pkulak 6mo ago
Man, this just bit me too. I started playing with OC over the weekend (in a VM), and the spend was INSANE even though I wasn't doing anything. I don't see this as very useful as an "assistant" that wanders around and ant
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by pkulak 6mo ago
We use GitHub at my work. And I think I’m the only one using JJ.
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by pkulak 7mo ago
The Steam Controller will be such a blessing when it comes out.

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