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by pmontra 4mo ago
It seems that the point of the paper is that if LLMs have human like attributes they do have them even if instead of running on a CPU/GPU they run on any of the systems that have been demonstrated to be Turing complete, including the o
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by pmontra 4mo ago
I had a lost+found folder in all Unix file systems I used since the 80s. It's where fsck places files that it found during a scan and can't figure out to which directory they belong. Sometimes I found stuff in there. From what I g
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by pmontra 5mo ago
I did not use plan mode but I'll give it a try. I can't provide a transcript because it's work I made for a customer and I'm bound to a clause of confidentiality. What I did is what I use to do while starting to work on
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by pmontra 5mo ago
I'm about to complete a new non trivial functionality in a project of a costumer of mine. I spent an hour writing the spec. Then I asked Claude (Sonnet 4.6) to check if I missed something. I did, the sort of minor issues one notice aft
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by pmontra 5mo ago
IMAP usually means that mail is stored on the provider server even if one can download and delete. Furthermore POP3 is a trivial protocol that could be operated via telnet before everybody went TLS. The real reason I'm still using POP3
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by pmontra 5mo ago
> Your other plans are fixed price with rate limits where you get more tokens than the dollar equivalent you pay monthly. Or the fixed cost plans reflect the real cost and the people paying API prices give them the profit. Anyway, none o
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by pmontra 5mo ago
SMTP is to send mail and that's how I send it from my laptop and from my phone. POP3 is to read from a mailbox.
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by pmontra 5mo ago
I wonder what they are doing with $1500 per month. I'm on Claude Pro $20 plan and I'm doing well. That's 3 days per week. On the other 2 days I'm using a customer's Claude Max, I don't know if it's the $10
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by pmontra 5mo ago
Messing with colors looks like gamma correction and dimming in hardware is the backlight control that does not work anymore on my laptop. I don't remember why gamma correction didn't work for me Wayland but I'll give it anoth
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by pmontra 5mo ago
Probably the nothing to install experience. Every Android phone comes with Gmail and every device has a web browser. Do people have to install Gmail on iOS? I'm using Thunderbird with POP3 accounts, download on my laptop then remove fr
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by pmontra 5mo ago
For the records, Debian 13 Gnome with Wayland works as well as with X11. The only reason I'm still using X11 is that backlight control doesn't work anymore with my old laptop (it did with Debian 11) and X11 can work around it with
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by pmontra 5mo ago
Every time I read something like "completely redefines professional computing" I think that somebody in the marketing department didn't do a good enough job to disguise a sponsored content, or at the very least didn't re
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by pmontra 5mo ago
It's usually enough but not always. Sometimes it happened that my customers using MacOS or WSL were not able to pass some tests or reproduce some bugs. That was due to some differences between the userland of the Linux servers, which a
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by pmontra 5mo ago
Whatever it is, it's the most known WhatsApp alternative in this part of the world and if WhatsApp will start asking again only 1 Euro (about 15 years ago) and enforce it this time, my bet is that people will switch to Telegram en mass
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by pmontra 5mo ago
I don't know what to save from this article. Maybe only "[LLMs are] very bad at spatial reasoning. Which shouldn’t be surprising, because that’s also not in the training data."
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by pmontra 5mo ago
At best they will honor the contract of not tracking your moves through that app. They will use part of your money to buy the information about your moves from other sources, or track you with another app.
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by pmontra 5mo ago
All it would take is WhatsApp going paid plans only. All of Europe will switch to Telegram as primary messaging platform in a couple of days. Hence a paid only WhatsApp will never happen until every plausible alternative will be made imposs
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by pmontra 5mo ago
Are there ads in WhatsApp? I never saw one. Facebook, I remember a lot of ads. Instagram, probably but I don't have an account there.
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by pmontra 5mo ago
It will not scare away bots but 10 seconds of wait (CPU or only a sleep) will turn away many real users. "This site is so slow, I'll use something else." A kind of reverse captcha.
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by pmontra 5mo ago
By the way, Claude Code works well from inside emacs.
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by pmontra 5mo ago
> Microsoft is the enemy This made me smile, sadly. I remember when Microsoft was the new darling not many years ago, because of VS Code and WSL and the apparent goodwill about open source. Some people and I, who lived through all of Mic
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by pmontra 5mo ago
It's only me or it does not explain how it works? > the technology [...] can be separated into two parts. First [...] is the part that tracks eye movements and what they are focusing on. The second part is never written. There is a
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by pmontra 5mo ago
Meta: there is no question mark in the title of the original post.
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by pmontra 5mo ago
A question to all developers working on 12 and 13 inches laptops. Do you spend most of your time connected to an external monitor or do you use the laptop one? My instinct is that there isn't enough space for two side by side windows o
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by pmontra 5mo ago
Interesting points. A couple of questions. Do you have a frontend (React, Vue, anything) and if you do, does it interact with the server using the MCP server or the JSON API? Are all your clients AIs or do you expect that most of them will
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by pmontra 5mo ago
Having my first job in a consulting company. I worked on many projects, many customers, many markets. I developed an encyclopedic knowledge and I noticed the difference with developers of customers that did only one thing for years. Anyway
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by pmontra 5mo ago
Less than once a day but more than once a week. A lot of interesting stuff lies beyond the New link in the HN header.
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by pmontra 5mo ago
And everybody circulating virus for PCs and other systems in the 80s and 90s. I wonder if there was a floppy disk virus for CP/M in the 70s.
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by pmontra 5mo ago
Why do many people mention the need of tests for types in dynamically typed languages? In Rails my tests are mostly to ensure that a request to a controller returns the expected response and the expected changes in the database. Unit tests
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by pmontra 5mo ago
I never bought a programming book in all of my professional career, since the 90s. The only ones I did buy were the K&R C book and the Pascal book at university. They were mandatory readings and basically the only way to learn those lan

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