selcuka

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by selcuka 1y ago
> Printing money (monetary inflation) is essentially just a stealth tax on everyone who holds or earns dollars. Of course it is. My point is someone doesn't need to donate labour or capital to make this happen. Governments, not peop
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by selcuka 1y ago
It's easier to reuse existing code and simply bump the number of digits required to store the IP address.
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by selcuka 1y ago
> Neither labor nor capital are free. They are both free when you are the one who prints the money. Governments can definitely afford to plant trees, even though I agree that it won't solve the problem.
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by selcuka 1y ago
Are you sure? There are currently 3 trillion trees on earth and they only absorb about 20% of greenhouse gas emissions (~9.5 GT of CO2) per year [1]. Apparently not all trees absorb the same amount of CO2 as in your assumption. Adding 1 mor
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by selcuka 1y ago
> If something isn't completely breaking the use case of a program, or doesn't have any viable work around, I just don't expect it to ever get fixed Yep. That has always been the general industry sentiment [1]: > Here’s
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by selcuka 1y ago
I mean, it's nice to have a GUI when running multiple containers on Docker, or Kubernetes, but I've never used Docker Desktop on my work Mac either. For Kubernetes, something like K9s [1] or Headlamp [2] works fine. I remember see
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by selcuka 1y ago
> which slows down market share of Linux on desktop as the primary OS I think what slows down market share of Linux on desktop is Linux on desktop itself. I use Linux, and I understand that it's a very hard job to take it to the lev
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by selcuka 1y ago
> It can be actually good if you do "structured procrastination" This is actually what John Perry, an emeritus professor of philosophy at Stanford calls it. There is even an essay (and a whole website) called "Structured P
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by selcuka 1y ago
It's an argument against the original argument: > you're at the mercy of the AI companies You are not at the mercy of anyone. There are capable, open models that are self-hostable. For example, JetBrains IDEs come with a free l
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by selcuka 1y ago
I'm surprised to see that the 1084 still has the front cover intact.
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by selcuka 1y ago
> If your developers don't know how to build applications without using AI, then you're at the mercy of the AI companies. The same can be said if your developers don't know how to build applications: - without using syntax
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by selcuka 1y ago
But that's a completely different story, no? Cutting off Windsurf has nothing to do with enforcing that T&C.
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by selcuka 1y ago
> OpenAI could train against Claude weights OpenAI can always buy a Claude API subscription with a credit card if they want to train something. This change only prevents the Windsurf product from offering Claude APIs to their customers.
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by selcuka 1y ago
Anthropic models are slightly better for coding tasks anyway. I believe Windsurf is in more trouble.
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by selcuka 1y ago
True. Otherwise Anthropic would cut access to other code assistants too as they all compete with Claude Code.
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by selcuka 1y ago
> the python library from Microsoft that converts all of their formats to markdown Thank you for pointing me to the MarkItDown library [1]. I had no idea such a thing existed. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/markitd
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by selcuka 1y ago
> dialects are killed off through standardized education etc. Sorry, I didn't mean that it would be a smooth transition. It might even be impossible. What I wrote above is (paraphrasing myself) "Once you switch to a phonetic re
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by selcuka 1y ago
> since pronunciation tends to diverge over time, it will create a never-ending spelling-pronunciation drift Once you switch to a phonetic respelling this is no longer a frequent problem. It does not happen, or at least happens very rare
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by selcuka 1y ago
What about the other way around? Why don't we see a US court order that is in conflict with EU privacy laws as a political catastrophe, too?
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by selcuka 1y ago
5 bits would be a weird size for a word.
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by selcuka 1y ago
The probability of getting it right at least once in your first 2 attempts is even higher (6.15%).
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by selcuka 1y ago
Yes. Yellow and grey mean exactly the same thing in this game: Flip it.
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by selcuka 1y ago
Fair point, but "cookies" didn't mean anything to the average user either, and "cookie consent" banners are the norm now.
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by selcuka 1y ago
Where does it say that? Besides the GP clearly discloses that it is LLM-generated.
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by selcuka 1y ago
Why not? How is this different than, say, location access, or microphone access? I want to be able to configure this per web site, and a permission prompt is a better interface than having an allow/deny list hidden in settings.
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by selcuka 1y ago
Well, maybe not wc directly, but they have access to sandboxed Python environments. It must be trivial for an LLM to write the Python code that calculates this. I don't understand why Gemini insists that it can count the lines itself,
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by selcuka 1y ago
Both GPT-4o and o4-mini got it right for me. They both wrote and executed a small Python program: # Let's read the file and get line 27 file_path = '/mnt/data/code.py' line_27 = None try:
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by selcuka 1y ago
Most LLMs have access to such tools. Well, maybe not a Unix shell, but something similar. This is from GPT 4.5's system prompt [1]: python When you send a message containing Python code to python, it will be executed in
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by selcuka 1y ago
Nothing at IBM is ever straightforward. Decades ago, I was working with three IBM employees on a client project. During a discussion about a backup solution, one of them suggested that we migrate all customer data into DB2 on a daily basis
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by selcuka 1y ago
Even if current models never reach AGI-level capabilities, they are already advanced enough to replace many jobs. They may not be able to replace senior developers, but they can take over the roles of junior developers or interns. They migh

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