sampullman

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by sampullman 7d ago
It's unfortunate, but to come across as genuine now I think you have to actively avoid AI-isms. In this case it feels AI generated with human polish, or vice versa. A couple tells are "One caveat worth stating up front..." an
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by sampullman 7d ago
But it takes so little effort to wade through an LLM readme and cut out or edit it down to something palatable. Just the bare minimum effort to do that would be nice.
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by sampullman 8d ago
I'm not sure what your argument is. I don't have anything against fanfiction, but a couple of sites with a few million users falls under my definition of niche. "Extreme" might be taking it a bit far, but it's a lon
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by sampullman 8d ago
Fanfiction is already an extreme niche.
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by sampullman 9d ago
If you don't have the authenticator backup codes and you didn't turn on cloud sync in the app, you might be out of luck. You can get a replacement SIM though and use it with a new phone, so the phone number recovery option should
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by sampullman 9d ago
We'll have to check back in 5 or 10 years to see if anything new has been created.
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by sampullman 9d ago
I don't think that's true. Domain experts with the desire to create and experiment aren't going away any time soon.
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by sampullman 9d ago
The feedback loop is too long, it's not like a software development harness that can direct the model to write some tests for complex behavior, and iterate until they pass. There a lots of things that can be subtly wrong, and it gets m
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by sampullman 9d ago
How is that not a form of censorship? It is direct suppression of certain forms of speech. YouTube has its problems but I don't think it's had quite as strong of an effect on language.
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by sampullman 9d ago
It's not the sole cause, but I believe it's the main driver behind a bunch of specific substitutions that are mainstream now or nearly so. For example, dih, ahh, and unalive. They may not have been invented on tiktok, but that&#x2
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by sampullman 9d ago
America is partly guilty, but TikTok censorship is a big part of the younger generation's tendency toward self censorship.
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by sampullman 11d ago
I randomly had a conversation with a guy at a bar in Taipei who was an administrator during the transition to self rule, and he said basically the same thing. He said about many of the tribes modernized within a generation or two, and the o
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by sampullman 11d ago
What's your criteria for mundane? Basically every decent sized island in that part of the world is going to have beautiful beaches, coral reefs, mountains, and jungles.
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by sampullman 13d ago
I'm sure that's part of it, but I run it side by side in my review bot, and Astra medium effort consistently catches more issues than Sol 5.6, using fewer tokens. For coding it's a little harder to tell, but at least the pros
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by sampullman 14d ago
Write a decent comment, for one. It struggles with some of the firmware stuff I do, though that's more due to a lack of a proper automated feedback loop.
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by sampullman 15d ago
Many of my tests after a certain point were open book, or at least explicitly allowed a cheat sheet. It wasn't going to help you if you didn't know the material, though writing the cheat sheet in the first place is a pretty good f
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by sampullman 15d ago
Hand writing assembly produces more efficient and concise code, at the cost of developer time and required expertise. It was true for a long time, now not so much.
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by sampullman 16d ago
Is this sarcasm? I assume most studios are integrating AI into their workflows, but I still haven't seen a single vibecoded game that looks interesting.
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by sampullman 16d ago
You can get a pretty good 1080p60 video at only 6mbps. Depends on how well the sender is encoding I guess, but it shouldn't be too much more than that.
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by sampullman 16d ago
Rotation data isn't included in the file, or it just doesn't display with the correct orientation? Sometimes Google photos shows the wrong orientation for my pixel photos/videos but it's just a display issue.
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by sampullman 17d ago
Is the core of your argument that the industrial revolution and other such changes should have been aborted due to their downstream negative affects? They also lead to great advancements in quality of life, and the capability of sustaining
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by sampullman 18d ago
It looks at least partially hand edited to me, although it's getting pretty difficult to tell with Astra...
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by sampullman 18d ago
This is difficult to read, maybe just link to a gist?
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by sampullman 18d ago
Can't rule out privilege without knowing a bit more background. Most people work hard, it increases the odds of success but isn't necessary.
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by sampullman 18d ago
Sol and Opus are pretty good with the right prompting and feedback framework. Or, my standards are lower. It's sometimes hard to tell in these discussions whether people are talking about getting production quality results, or stuff th
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by sampullman 19d ago
Right, it's all just text file management. My point is that if I can add a few lines of description with links in my readme/agents/etc instead of manually including skills in the prompt, without any downside, I'd rather
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by sampullman 19d ago
How about linking to a separate docs file from the Readme, same as how you'd split separate topics into different files for humans? The context cost is low and as far as I can tell it's pretty much how Claude's "memory&q
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by sampullman 20d ago
It's not so simple, the rampant corruption under Ngô Đình Diệm, misappropriation of aid, etc. shouldn't just be swept under the rug. Hindsight says remaining capitalist probably would have been better for the average person, but i
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by sampullman 20d ago
I remember some people doing this maybe 15 years ago, I think these types of hipster-ish trends recycle every generation or so. I don't see it as harmful, but it's not for me either. My personal stuff goes down when my DDNS script
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by sampullman 20d ago
This is exactly what I meant, and Japan is not special in this regard. In nearly all cases, with a few exceptions, external influences are molded and integrated into the underlying culture. It's the same story with American influence o

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