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by pphysch 1y ago
Machines have always had superhuman capabilities in narrow domains. The LLM domain is quite broad but it's still just a LLM, beholden to its training. The average everyday human does not have the time to read all available math texts.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Most(?) devs nowadays are introduced to database migration tools as a DX feature. "Wow, 1-2 command and my app and database are in sync!" In reality, migration tools are 100% about data loss prevention. If you do not care about da
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by pphysch 1y ago
> all humans learn roughly the same concepts representing words like "dog", "house", "person", "boat", and so on, even if those people grew up in different places and never had any overlap between
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by pphysch 1y ago
What would you expect? IME these are mostly unforeseen 500 errors, logged internally, and not something a client can do anything about (or should know anything about, for security reasons).
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by pphysch 1y ago
Boycott particular examples of evil that they disagree with politically .
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by pphysch 1y ago
> One might as well just write a script with a case statement..... I started with this and evolved into simple flat Makefiles, because they're basically the same but Make feels more standard (there's a Makefile here vs. there&#
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by pphysch 1y ago
Pixel phones (at least) have this.
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by pphysch 1y ago
You can hold-press over an autocompleted URL to delete it, which has much less friction than clearing your history.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Given how deadlines/timelines tend to (not) work in SWE, this is not surprising.
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by pphysch 1y ago
> Why always the ridiculous amounts? Too much money with no place to go?
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by pphysch 1y ago
Jeffrey Epstein is speculated to be a Mossad agent, but Robert Maxwell was known to be one. Not exactly a innocent patron of the sciences, as GP sort of implies.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Commercial forests have a lot of trunks but aren't particularly dense , and probably have terrible biodiversity by design. When I say dense, I mean a human needs to be constantly swinging a machete and scrambling to get anywhere. Such
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by pphysch 1y ago
The density and inaccessibility (to large birds and mammals) is critical for sensitive species like butterflies. I'd wager we'd see a resurgence in some declining insect populations if there were more dense pockets of forest.
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by pphysch 1y ago
The user might go to Soundslice and run into a wall, wasting their time, and have a negative opinion of it. OTOH it's free(?) advertising, as long as that first impression isn't too negative.
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by pphysch 1y ago
HTMX can easily get spooky. One pattern to avoid that is to not use separate routes for HTMX endpoints. Instead, use a special GET param or header to tell the server that this request is for a specific HTML fragment. /page1, /page
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by pphysch 1y ago
There's a middle ground which is having an optional <style> block in the page template, this allows you to express local style differences without going crazy with style attributes. And they are easy to refactor into a global sty
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by pphysch 1y ago
> But the main reason why that cost of living is ridiculously cheaper is because human labor is so much less expensive. That's a really bizarre take that is obviously false. The disenfranchised migrant laborer or prison slave produc
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by pphysch 1y ago
Counterpoint: cost of living is ridiculously cheaper in China vs. USA. Workers can be paid 3x less and still have a better QoL. It's a vastly more efficient economy in terms of human capital. Counterpoint: China is the undisputed leade
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by pphysch 1y ago
I do avoid eating (highly processed white) bread in most meals, because it doesn't make me feel great. We're really targeting "highly-processed" foods. Personally I draw a line between sausage that went through something
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by pphysch 1y ago
"Not exercising" also feels very bad, just on a different time scale.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Most of the complexity in observability is clientside. It is not hard to spin up Grafana and VictoriaMetrics (and now VictoriaLogs) and keep them running. It is not hard to build a Grafana dashboard that correlates data across both metrics
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by pphysch 1y ago
A state named "Israel" is not a prerequisite for Jewish people to live peacefully anywhere. In fact, it appears to be the opposite, based on historical fact. There are also Jewish communities that live peacefully with dignity in I
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by pphysch 1y ago
They are doing that. Most people in Gaza were displaced from other legal Palestinian territories. Gaza is was the (big) internment camp.
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by pphysch 1y ago
Israel can't even sustain a hot war with Iran, with US backing, despite assassinating dozens of Iranian top brass. China represents 10-20 Irans. China (and Turkey, Arab states) is more or less content to sit and watch USA destroy itsel
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by pphysch 1y ago
There's plenty of videos of orthodox Jewish people getting brutalized in public by Israeli government thugs. There are many Jewish voices that oppose the genocide. Please don't conflate Judaism with a violent project of political
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by pphysch 1y ago
Trees of different height could have larger radiuses too, maybe loosely negatively correlated with their pitch
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by pphysch 1y ago
MCP is a major lifeline for OpenAI and Anthropic. Their only reasonable way to compete with the big vertical AI integrators is if the "community" does all the hard work of integration, hence MCP. After the initial burst of greenfi
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by pphysch 1y ago
Wielded responsibly, this can be a good thing, because bad practices can be directly fine-tuned out of the model. Thinking about how much junk pollutes legacy knowledge domains, like webdev. But yes it will be abused for advertisement as we
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by pphysch 1y ago
In other words, most of the barriers to leveraging custom software are still present.
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by pphysch 1y ago
> These people have been sitting on the sidelines because the barrier to entry was so high. This comment is wildly out of touch. The SMB owner can now generate some Python code. Great. Where do they deploy it? How do they deploy it? How

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