reedlaw

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by reedlaw 7mo ago
Plasma Bigscreen has been around for 6 years: https://itsfoss.com/news/plasma-bigscreen-comeback/
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by reedlaw 7mo ago
https://github.com/mickeynp/combobulate
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by reedlaw 7mo ago
Isn't this the premise behind Dilbert?
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by reedlaw 7mo ago
LLM-generated snippets of code are a breath of fresh air compared with much legacy code. Since models learn probability distributions they gravitate to the most common ways of doing things. Almost like having a linter built in. On the other
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
Whatever agent I tried would include thousands of tokens in tool-use instruction. That would use up most available context unless running very low-spec models. I've concluded it's best to use the big 3 for most tasks and qwen on r
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
This seems like a perfect use case for a local model. But I've found in practice that the system requirements for agents are much higher than for models that can handle simple refactoring tasks. Once tool use context is factored in, th
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
Maybe a better way to handle "minimize cyclomatic complexity" would be to set an agent in a loop of code metrics, refactor, test and repeat.
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
I don't know about Opus, but Codex suddenly got a lot better to the point that I prefer it over Sonnet 4.6. Claude takes ages and comes up with half baked solutions. Codex is so fast that I miss waiting. It also writes tests without pr
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
Great feedback. On the Inverness to Gibraltar race the leaderboard has impossible times, including some negative numbers. According to Google Maps the best time is 1 day 8 hours, but this requires leaving Inverness at 6:44. The race starts
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
I'm using the Aristotelian definition of my linked article. To understand a concept you have to be able to categorize it correctly. LLMs show strong evidence of this, but it is mostly due to the fact that language itself preserves cate
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
Yes, LLMs mimic a form of understanding partly through the way language embeds concepts that are preserved when embedded geometrically in vector space.
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
That's true. Older books require skill to restore, so choosing old or new is a balance.
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
This is a fine and useful project, but my experience with newly printed classics is the quality is inferior for a number of reasons. Besides paper and binding, typesetting is something that older editions rarely messed up, but some new edit
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
This article, ( https://michaelmangialardi.substack.com/p/the-celestial-mirr... ), came to similar conclusions as the parent article, and includes some tests (e.g. https://colab.research.google.com/drive&
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
I've already tried to do what the article claims to be doing: handing-off the context of the current session to another model. I tried various combinations of hooks, prompts and workarounds, but nothing worked like the first screenshot
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
Under the Cons section the article says: > Full analog functionality often depends on proprietary software support (and not all boards execute it well). Could you elaborate how that works? I'm on Linux. I find with Keychron I can vi
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
From the article I like the characteristics of hall effect better than TMR (although one of the cons under HE, "Since the sensor is reading magnet position, any wobble in the switch can change the magnet’s alignment and affect the sign
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by reedlaw 8mo ago
Could you give examples of excellent typing keyboards from China for $30-50? Every mechanical keyboard I've owned eventually suffered from key chatter or inconsistent actuation.
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by reedlaw 9mo ago
Great article, but doesn't address the fundamental issue: defining quality. Other than some objective metrics like code coverage, there is little agreement about what constitutes good code. The closest thing to a consensus might be the
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by reedlaw 9mo ago
Unfortunately, reading before merge commit is not always a firm part of human team work. Neither reading code nor test coverage by themselves are sufficient to ensure quality.
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by reedlaw 9mo ago
Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer) interviewed Yegge [1] and Kent Beck [2], both experienced engineers before vibe coding, and they express similar sentiments about how LLMs reinvigorated their enjoyment of programming. This introductio
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by reedlaw 9mo ago
That sounds nearly perfect for FSRS [1], the default spaced repetition algorithm used by Anki, which aims at estimating the time it takes for memory stability to decline from 100% to 90%. At the estimated 90% stability point, FSRS would req
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by reedlaw 10mo ago
John Carmack's and Martin Fowler's coding style advice are diametrically opposed. Carmack advocates inlining complex code that is only used once. Fowler advocates extracting it with a good name to clarify intent. I'm not sure
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by reedlaw 10mo ago
The first sentence is problematic: > For decades, we’ve all known what “good code” looks like. When relatively trivial concerns such as the ideal length of methods haven't achieved consensus, I doubt there can be any broadly accepte
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by reedlaw 10mo ago
I'm on my fourth George Eliot novel this year, Adam Bede, which was her first published novel. I started with Middlemarch and proceeded to read Silas Mariner, Romola, and Daniel Deronda. The 1985 film adaptation of Silas Marner is very
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by reedlaw 10mo ago
This even has a way to make flyover animations: https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/wiki/Studio
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by reedlaw 10mo ago
How does DSPy.rb differ from BAML?
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by reedlaw 10mo ago
I had a Pangolin instance compromised by this: https://github.com/orgs/fosrl/discussions/2014
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by reedlaw 10mo ago
This concept is also known as Borg Complex: https://thefrailestthing.com/2013/03/01/borg-complex-a-prime...
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by reedlaw 10mo ago
Although Immich does backup from your phone, I don't see it as a viable backup solution. Git-annex, Unison, and Syncthing are much better at keeping files synchronized across devices. Immich will create its own copies of photos and tra

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