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by ramchip 1y ago
Japan doesn't have a housing crisis. I'm in a great location in Tokyo, the rent is under $750/month, and it's been the same for the decade+ I've been in this specific place. If there's a problem, it's too
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by ramchip 1y ago
The way Erlang does it is to use buckets so it looks like a single queue to the user code but really is more like multiple queues behind the scene. Scales extremely well. It's certainly not "just moving a pointer to a piece of sha
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by ramchip 1y ago
Do you also go to police officers and tell them how much more they'd enjoy being a firefighter?
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by ramchip 1y ago
The result is encrypted. It's useful to the key holder, not to the party doing the computation.
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by ramchip 1y ago
> As the invasion enters a fourth summer, drones are currently thought to account for around 70 percent of all Russian and Ukrainian battlefield casualties. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukr
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by ramchip 1y ago
You can prototype by hand too. Personally I find it might take me 10 min to try a change with an LLM that would have taken me 30 min to 1hr by hand. It's a very nice gain but given the other things to do that aren't sped up by LLM
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by ramchip 1y ago
It's not even hypothetical: https://www.latintimes.com/trump-ally-slammed-saying-alligat...
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by ramchip 1y ago
How does this differ from the KDF chain in Signal? Looking at it naively - deriving a new key sounds similar to picking a new function within a family of possible functions?
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by ramchip 1y ago
This is very similar to Jose Valim's "Mocks and explicit contracts" from 2015, down to using a Twitter client as example. https://dashbit.co/blog/mocks-and-explicit-contracts
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by ramchip 1y ago
I think a common opinion is that it's useful as a research and code generation tool, and that it has some really negative effects on the Internet and society in general. Since the discussion on HN is often focused on coding the first a
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by ramchip 1y ago
I was very put off by his article "A knockout blow for LLMs?", especially all the fuss he was making about using his own name as a verb to mean debunking AI hype...
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by ramchip 1y ago
Right. I don't treat the LLM like a colleague at all, it's just a text generator, so I partially agree with your earlier statement: > it's like reviewing a PR with no trust possible, no opportunity to learn or to teach, an
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by ramchip 1y ago
I think that's right, and not a problem in practice. It's like asking a human why: "because it avoids an allocation" is a more useful response than "because Bob told me I should", even if the latter is the actu
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by ramchip 1y ago
Like the article says... I feel it's counter-productive to picture an LLM as "learning" or "thinking". It's just a text generator. If it's producing code that calls non-existent APIs for instance, it'
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by ramchip 1y ago
It gives you more effective search keywords. "Fibers in feathers" isn't too bad, but when it's quite vague like "that movie from the 70s where the guy drank whiskey and then there was a firefight and..." gettin
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by ramchip 1y ago
Personally, I spend _more_ time thinking with Claude. I can focus on the design decisions while it does the mechanical work of turning that into code. Sometimes I give the agent a vague design ("make XYZ configurable") and it impl
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by ramchip 1y ago
> assuming a single character immediately means they used an LLM is just plain wrong I don't see anyone doing that here. LLM writing was brought up because of the writing style, not the dash. It just reinforces the suspicion.
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by ramchip 1y ago
The massive concurrency and fault isolation properties are very nice for telephony switches (and web servers etc.) but not usually super relevant for phone apps.
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by ramchip 1y ago
Fascism rewards loyalty above competence.
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by ramchip 1y ago
> For example, if a process has taken an item off a queue and then crashes before having fully processed it, how is that accounted for? I'm not sure I understand the question - all queue systems I've used separate delivery and
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by ramchip 2y ago
My personal experience (mostly TF2) is that a lot of players just don't pay attention to chat and votes.
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by ramchip 2y ago
The US is threatening to take my home country by force and subjugate us. Maybe that context helps understand?
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by ramchip 2y ago
Did you read the article? > Moreover, the policy cost $375m in all—from the Chivo rollout, subsidised transaction fees, bitcoin ATMs and more—according to Moody’s, a rating agency. That far exceeds the profits on bitcoin holdings, which
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by ramchip 2y ago
> If using USD was voluntary in the US a lot less people would use it. I'm curious what makes you think so, and what the alternatives would be. My impression is actually that if shops weren't forced to accept USD, 100% would st
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by ramchip 2y ago
Thanks for the link. Yeah that's reasonable for 2025, it's perhaps comparable to the yearly flu vaccination now.
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by ramchip 2y ago
Where do you get "a couple months of partial protection" from? The numbers I saw are very different, take for instance: > COVID-19 vaccine efficacy or effectiveness against severe disease remained high, although it did decrease
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by ramchip 2y ago
I think so, it's common for large businesses in Japan to rotate employees through departments at the beginning of their career, and to hire people for engineering with a degree in another field. In the English language FAQ for instance
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by ramchip 2y ago
I highly recommend this video "A new stage of Russian hybrid warfare" from military analyst Anders Puck Nielsen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yabwyb14-BQ Basically, Russia's goal is not so much to cut som
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by ramchip 2y ago
Have you tried drinking a verification can?
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by ramchip 2y ago
I think the conventional wisdom is to lean on the DB to maintain data integrity, using constraints, foreign keys, etc.; not to use it to run actual business logic.

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