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by pton_xd 1y ago
AI is only different if it reaches a hard takeoff state and becomes self-aware, self-motivated, and self-improving. Until then it's an amazing productivity tool, but only that. And even then we're still decades away from the impac
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by pton_xd 1y ago
As far as I know lambdas in C++ will not heap allocate. Basically equivalent to manually defining a struct, with all your captures, and then stack allocating it. However if you assign a lambda to a std::function, and it's large enough,
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by pton_xd 1y ago
"Zig doesn’t have lambdas" This surprises me (as a C++ guy). I use lambdas everywhere. What's the standard way of say defining a comparator when sorting an array in Zig?
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> "look at this shitty game it made" This is basically every agentic coding demo I've seen to date. It's the future but man we're still years and years away.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Layman's perspective: we had hints of reasoning from the initial release of ChatGPT when people figured out you could prompt "think step by step" to drastically increase problem solving performance. Then yeah a year+ later it
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> What is your argument that Safari is not a good browser? https://ios404.com/ Safari is missing many performance and device-related features that would allow you to create a compelling web application and bypass the App
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Yep, this is exactly the situation in the Seattle area. Here it makes little sense to take on a mortgage when renting is so comparably cheap. But go anywhere else like say Atlanta where rents are roughly equal to a mortgage payment and the
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by pton_xd 1y ago
I really want the "Note from the Founder" to be fully AI generated too, image and everything. Our fully unauthentic web of the future has finally arrived!
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> Crawling and scraping is legal. If your web server serves the content without authentication, it's legal to receive it, even if it's an automated process. > Cloudflare and their ilk represent an abuse of internet protocols
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by pton_xd 1y ago
How about "proc"? Too different? I don't like fn either but function is too much. Fun and func aren't great either. I'd go with proc or fn.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Claude, here is the bug, fix it. This is the new log output, fix the error. Fix the bug. Try a different approach. Reimplement the tests you modified. The bug is still happening, fix it. Fix the error. We're out of credits, create a ne
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by pton_xd 1y ago
You'd think so but the rate of autism in the US just keeps going up, it's something like 1 in 31 kids now. Many people will know someone with an anecdote. Social media definitely does its part though, I agree.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> The modern anti-vax movement has been traced back to Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent 1998 Lancet paper As far as I can tell, the modern movement is fueled by personal anecdotes of family members / friends having young children
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Yeah that'd be a big misteak
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Why does WASM need to manipulate the DOM when JS already excels at that? Interfacing with JS was never really an issue; yes you do have to design reasonable module boundaries and understand how data is going to be shared. That just leads to
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Wondering the same. I've been using magit for a long time now and never use the git cli anymore. Going back to manually typing in commands doesn't sound appealing. The unified index/workspace non-stash-workflow does sound som
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Reading through the LLM log entries, it's just astounding the amount of depth current models are capable of. It's almost hard to comprehend that this is even possible. Yeah the current ones mess up after a while, but ... the futur
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by pton_xd 1y ago
also flush less and get a no-flow shower head, those chips need all the water they can get!
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by pton_xd 1y ago
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by pton_xd 1y ago
I guess hosting binary files for a niche community just isn't that time consuming! Really surprised there isn't some social network angle yet.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> dismissing the extremely concrete case of outright theft seems pretty indefensible to me. Outright theft is a meaningless term here. The new rules are different. The AI space is built on "traditionally" bad faith actions. Mis
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> Where‘s the struggle? If there are no real consequences for reading stale data, and your writes are infrequent enough, then indeed you're lucky and have a relatively simple problem.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Yeah as someone who writes C in C++, everytime I see posts bending over backwards trying to fit parameterized types into C I just cringe a little. I understand the appeal of sticking to pure C, but... why do that to yourself? Come on over,
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Yeah, the whole thing is full of AI-isms. Started skimming and every other sentence has one. "Picture this: Panic mode activated. You heard that right. But here's what surprised me the most" and so on. Ugh.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> Think about all the domain experts, entrepreneurs, researchers, designers, and creative people who have incredible ideas but have been locked out of software development because they couldn't invest 5-10 years learning to code. &g
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by pton_xd 1y ago
That's pretty much the state of today. Frontier LLMs are already trained on all publicly available human-generated text, and they are already heavily training on synthetic data to improve at verifiable tasks eg coding.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
Makes sense to me! Everyone with enough C++ experience has dealt with that nightmare at one point. Never again, if you can help it.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
I'm sure this all fits neatly into their EA "maximizing positive outcomes for humanity" world-view somehow.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
> Elixir has no types. Elixir is strongly typed. I think you mean it is not statically typed.
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by pton_xd 1y ago
This mirrors my experience and those I've talked to. LLM assisted coding is a way to get stuff done much faster, at a greatly increased mental cost / energy spent. Oddly enough.

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