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by pxc 6mo ago
If this is true, shouldn't LLMs perform way worse when working in Chinese than in English? Seems like an easy thing to study since there are so many Chinese LLMs that can work in both Cbinese and English. Do LLMs generally perform bett
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by pxc 6mo ago
Maybe it should be treated like on-call duty and have the load spread between existing engineers on some kind of schedule, maybe with some extra comp as incentive because it's boring and will take more effort/time in the "eas
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by pxc 6mo ago
Humans just don't commit the same kinds of booboos as LLMs do. My team at work recently started using LLM agents for coding and I have since seen WTFs that I know no human would ever write. It's not all bad! It's also enormou
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by pxc 6mo ago
Some editor integrations are a bit like this already, where during use you don't actually touch the built-in TUI even for prompting or viewing the output and approving permissions requests. I imagine how they treat these things will be
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by pxc 6mo ago
And you can also use the long context version on their cheaper plans, where as with Anthropic it's only available to enterprise and Max customers
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by pxc 6mo ago
I feel the same way about Cisco Umbrella where I work. The worst breakage by far is protocol breakage; basically anything that uses HTTP as a basis for building some other protocol gets broken all the time. None of the people implementing i
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by pxc 6mo ago
If they pass what closed models today can do by much, they'll be "good enough" for what I want to do with them. I imagine that's true for many people.
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by pxc 6mo ago
If you're visually impaired, you can hit it even with just a few icons on a 14" laptop. Fonts anything other than tiny + overloaded menus + even a handful of app icons means I always hit this unless I'm docked. Hacky menu bar
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by pxc 6mo ago
It's striking to me that while the article argues that LLMs and agentic development tools will increasingly trend towards higher and higher quality, but the "pro-AI" comments in this discussion and others tend to announce a &
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by pxc 6mo ago
I'm only beginning to use "agentic" LLM tools atm because we finally gained access to them at work, and the rest of my team seems really excited about using them. But for me at least, a tool like Git seems pretty essential fo
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by pxc 6mo ago
You can disclose that you used an LLM in the process of writing code in other ways, though. You can just tell people, you can mention it in the PR, you can mention it in a ticket, etc.
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by pxc 6mo ago
F-Droid is in fact what an app store concerned about user safety looks like. Nobody gets hoodwinked into installing apps that track them or sell their data or otherwise abuse them on F-Droid.
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by pxc 7mo ago
I used WINE a lot in the 2000s, mostly for gaming. It was often pretty usable, but you often needed some hacky patches not suitable for inclusion in mainline. I played back then with Cedega and later CrossOver Games, but the games I played
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by pxc 7mo ago
Less charitably, pacman is fast because it's wrong. The dependency resolver is wrong; it fails to find correct answers to dependency resolution problems even when correct answers are available.
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by pxc 7mo ago
I would guess this change builds on the existing json endpoints for package metadata but that the Ruby DSL is remaining intact. I think how to marry the Ruby formulas and a Rust frontend is something the Homebrew devs can figure out and I&#
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by pxc 7mo ago
It is really coll that Homebrew provides a comprehensive enough JSON API to let people build on Homebrew in useful ways without directly running Ruby, despite everything being built in a Ruby DSL. That really does seem like a "best of
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by pxc 7mo ago
If you use the Homebrew module for Nix-Darwin, running `brew` against the generated brewfile becomes the slowest part of a `darwin-rebuild switch` by far. In the fast cases, it turns something that could take 1 second into something that ta
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by pxc 7mo ago
I've been looking for something like this, especially to use only with casks now that Homebrew has removed support for not adding the quarantine bit. Looking forward to giving it a try!
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by pxc 7mo ago
My hypothesis is that generally, there's no quality floor at which security departments are "allowed" to say "actually, none of the options on the market in this category are good enough; we're not going to use any
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by pxc 7mo ago
The main problem I raised with the Gaokao isn't that it's biased, but that it has negative effects on the way education is conducted prior to university. It's not difficult to find first-hand accounts of this; go browse socia
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by pxc 7mo ago
The question is what you're measuring. You can have a test that gives you whatever distribution of scores you like. But is the thing it measures competency in the subjects it tests, general intellectual ability, familiarity with the te
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by pxc 7mo ago
Chinese education is also extremely constrained by the practice of "teaching to the test" to the point that the Gaokao indirectly stands in the way of innovation and reform in education. Schools doing interesting things to improve
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by pxc 7mo ago
Are the Linux graphics drivers actually worse, though? I thought it was widely agreed that the open-source user-space drivers, e.g., in Mesa, are actually very good these days.
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by pxc 7mo ago
Idk how anyone could sustain the impression that pip was not broken unless they had basically never used anything else (including Linux package managers) long enough to have even a basic understanding of it. And that's a big part of wh
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by pxc 7mo ago
Nowadays most people try VSCode or JetBrains "by default" in school or at a first job. It's Emacs that's for explorers who actually try alternatives
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by pxc 7mo ago
Is this a repost? I saw an extremely similar post a few months ago, even down to that last line.
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by pxc 8mo ago
I'm a lifelong KDE person but it's still clear to me that GNOME is crafted with care, and I find it pretty usable.
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by pxc 8mo ago
Aren't most ads in scummy mobile games ads for other scummy mobile games, to this very day?
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by pxc 8mo ago
Yep. This seems somewhat similar in motivation to the cuts to USAID.
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by pxc 8mo ago
> If you look at hk you will understand what I'm talking about in regards to parallelism. hk uses read/write locks and other techniques like processing --diff output to safely run multiple fixers in parallel without them stompi

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