sam0x17

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by sam0x17 1y ago
If you subscribe to extended mind theory and Merleau Ponty's brand of phenomenology, tools are just an extension of your cognitive process, and "shelling out" in this way is really to be expected of high intelligence, if not
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by sam0x17 1y ago
It affirms that being nice is a role model / thing we want to do in the Ruby community
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by sam0x17 1y ago
one quick little usability thing, clicking the logo on the web version doesn't bring me back to the main page
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by sam0x17 1y ago
rails has been doing this with turbolinks (not even called that anymore) since like 2012
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by sam0x17 1y ago
or maybe we could do this revolutionary thing where we use code on the server side to generate different HTML for different requests!!! we've come full circle <3
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by sam0x17 1y ago
I'm a bit confused. What are they sending over the wire exactly? I thought the whole point of quantum communication is you use entanglement to instantly send from point A to point B, and there is no wire?
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by sam0x17 1y ago
> It took the author just few minutes to solve this but for someone like Perplexity it would take hours of engineering and maintenance to implement a solution for each custom implementation which is likely just not worth it. These are tr
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by sam0x17 1y ago
I mean 5% not failing is pretty standard for any startup-driven thing.
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by sam0x17 1y ago
Yeah see my other comment above, I've done it with arbitrary grammars, works quite well, don't know why this isn't more widespread
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by sam0x17 1y ago
Didn't want to bury the lead, but I've done a bunch of work with this myself. It goes fine as long as you give it both the textual representation and the ability to walk along the AST. You give it the raw source code, and then als
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by sam0x17 1y ago
Yeah I quite agree with this take. I don't understand why editors aren't utilizing language servers more for making changes. Crazy to see agents running grep and sed and awk and stuff, all of that should be provided through a very
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by sam0x17 1y ago
> Language requires grammar and vocabulary Which OP demonstrates through a tokenized vocabulary
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by sam0x17 1y ago
Only things for which you have parsing rules and a parser and a thing that can form sentences. This is literally the CS definition. It just doesn’t require consciousness. Truly random tappings on a tree are not language, but if a type of bi
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by sam0x17 1y ago
Show me two rocks where one forms a sentence and another one parses it and sure. Now if your definition of language is something arrogant like “a system of communication where combinations of tokens are given semantic meaning that correspon
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by sam0x17 1y ago
We have formal definitions, it’s anything that can have a grammar, these definitions are incredibly broad, big endian two’s compliment integer encoding has a grammar consisting of two tokens, 0 and 1. All you need is something that can form
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by sam0x17 1y ago
I love how arrogant humans get when you hit at their “that’s supposed to be a human thing!” nerve. Sign language is language, dance is language, writing is language, speaking is language, semaphores in a sail boat is language, Morse code is
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by sam0x17 1y ago
Hiring of juniors is basically dead these days and it has been like this for about 10 years and I hate it. I remember when I was a junior in 2014 there were actually startups who would hire cohorts of juniors (like 10 at a time, fresh out o
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by sam0x17 1y ago
This is what Facebook was the last time I used it, which is like a decade ago at least
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by sam0x17 2y ago
> You are missing something really really important. > Most startups don't have product market fit. Further, most startups make things no one wants. The product might sound good to you and you will think "oh I can sell this&
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by sam0x17 2y ago
TIL fonts have more than just a collection of vectorized glyphs in them
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by sam0x17 2y ago
I agree. For me though it was only when slashdot started to shrink that I heard about HN, so I was a bit late to the party. To be fair, I still check slashdot almost daily!
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by sam0x17 2y ago
users of dark reader: the buddy is invisible if you have dark mode turned on
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by sam0x17 2y ago
This is their strategy to improve their public image??
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by sam0x17 2y ago
I think one of the key problems here is depending on the system prompt and the prompt itself the LLM will take on completely different personas, but I think OP very correctly takes a look at "well then how do different models handle th
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by sam0x17 2y ago
This is huge, when can we get a rust implementation?
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by sam0x17 2y ago
> There are a few reasons for this, but the most concrete is that your behavior in this job has an impact on getting the next one This is completely false. I literally haven't seen someone do a reference check once in the last 10 ye
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by sam0x17 2y ago
awesome, feel free to shoot me an email if you want to connect!
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by sam0x17 2y ago
I was actually tasked with building essentially this same thing back in 2014 when I was a junior dev for a fintech startup. They needed an anonymized version of prod database suitable for support team to pull up when trying to reproduce bug
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by sam0x17 2y ago
I wonder if this hardware could shake things up in a "what cryptographic hashing algorithms are currently secure" sense
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by sam0x17 2y ago
would love to be able to see them sorted by [insert 2025 equivalent of Alexa traffic rankings here]

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