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by serf 7mo ago
>This is because Carmack doesn't really do OSS, he just does code dumps OSS wasn't always endless PRs and other git-specific related crap, and I think that line of logic is fucking ridiculous. Open source when I started was a w
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by serf 7mo ago
Absolutely. Go create a big monolith in an LLM versus a high compartmentalized and decomposed/modular codebase that does the same thing. The LLM is going to optimize the shit out of the decomposed version and maintain it well, and it&#
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by serf 7mo ago
never trust a screenshot of a command prompts output blindly either. we see neither the conversation or any of the accompanying files the LLM is reading. pretty trivial to fill an agents file, or any other such context/pre-prompt with
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by serf 7mo ago
that's true, but there are also like 200 sock knitting machine designs for FDM printing out there , maybe they're just slowly walking through all of the printable textile methods . loom is probably more satisfying to get working r
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by serf 7mo ago
yeah. I was waiting for at least some kind of portal into the actual engineering and craft of the thing due to the name of the article, and was left with an advertisement flavored sour aftertaste.
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by serf 7mo ago
>My only knowledge this company is as a manufacturer of gurneys for ambulances. they have a tremendous catalog[0]. spend time in a hospital, dental office, rehab, etc and you'll see the logo plastered across everything. [0]: https:
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by serf 7mo ago
>What people want is stability. Not endless fucking wars. this of course true for Tibet and Taiwan, too -- you just don't care because that's not where you live. ...and with that attitude globally, we get endless war.
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by serf 7mo ago
godspeed. if your logo isn't a single fish then you're doing it wrong.
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by serf 7mo ago
>• “Low‑effort chat outlet”: I had one friend I could message stupid little updates to (“made a decent omelette”, “fixed the sink”). We didn’t have deep talks every day, but just having a place to put those small moments kept me from fee
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by serf 7mo ago
eh. performance is easy. you can craft a test suite that will allow a ralph loop to iterate until it hits the metrics. the hard part of style/feel/usability. LLMs still suck at that stuff, and crafting tests to produce those metri
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by serf 7mo ago
cool idea. first llm to stop using those damn colors for every single transparent modal in existence is going to be a big step forward.
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by serf 7mo ago
>That zinc spark. it's not a literal spark. it was a florescence caused by an expulsion of zinc ions during egg cortical reaction in the midst of FluoZin-3, a dye that binds to zinc and fluoresces. I think that experiment does a bad
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by serf 7mo ago
ever tried living while simultaneously deciding to only patron groups that strictly morally and ethically align to your own personal beliefs? I would love to, but a practical look at that concept seems practically impossible. My .02c : Clau
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by serf 7mo ago
very cool project. id like to do something similar with my favorite thinkpad models. that said, practice soldering, the insulation on those wires[0] and the sheer distance that they wicked solder upwards makes me really wonder how much heat
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by serf 7mo ago
one wonders why an 'inaudible signal' would affect microphones that are designed for human voice frequencies. unless of course that inaudible signal is actually a high power laser to destroy the offender.. but i'm not comfort
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by serf 7mo ago
>We need to know each other. I'm not going to hand the project over to someone I don't know, sorry. an MIT licensed project[0] with a "It's my captains chair and i'm only offering it to friends otherwise i'm
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by serf 8mo ago
the idea of what 'batteries included' means has changed a lot in the past twenty years, and like most Go quirks , probably Google just didn't need <missing-things>.
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by serf 8mo ago
>Curious about the sector-based delta sync — how do you avoid packet bursts when a player enters a busy area with lots of items and mobiles? doesn't look like there is much going on to protect packet bursts there aside from smart-is
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by serf 8mo ago
the market segmentation is nice, it'll do well with the colors and all -- but the unified memory thing is the literal only reason to want to dip a toe in apple whatsoever; with these numbers id rather just spend ~300 on a Chuwi or equi
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by serf 8mo ago
Some may even claim it's impactful.
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by serf 8mo ago
do you really need to be told there is a difference in 'magnitude of importance' between the decision to send out an office memo and the decision to strike a building with ordinance? a lot of white collar jobs see no decision mo
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by serf 8mo ago
"Sam Altman reports GPT4o asking about rabbits before execution" "Elon Musk reportedly sobbed while watching Grok 4's aflame viking boat sink to the bottom of the sea." the anthropomorphization that's normal no
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by serf 8mo ago
its a luxury of the ultra-rich. they threaten to move to push legislation which way they want.
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by serf 8mo ago
>Interesting that Amodei is the only major tech executive I can think of at the moment with a spine or any semblance of a moral compass. OpenAI/Google et al it doesn't strike me as interesting at all; anthropic was literally fo
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by serf 8mo ago
> That would be like antropic and google crying about china stealing the weights that were originally built by scraping as fuck stolen content :-) do you really see a relation between the two, or are you just willfully 'buying an ad
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by serf 8mo ago
45lbs of gold would get you a ten foot-ish 1 in ID plumbing pipe. ... and we already have a problem with copper theft.
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by serf 8mo ago
AI doesn't make people boring, boring people use AI to make projects they otherwise never would have. Non-boring people are using AI to make things that are ... not boring. It's a tool. Other things we wouldn't say because th
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by serf 8mo ago
its not that innocent. a 200 dollar a month customer isn't trying to get around paying for tokens, theyre trying to use the tooling they prefer. opencode is better in a lot of ways. tokens get counted and put against usage limits any
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by serf 8mo ago
sort of what happened when that cc tool that displays total token/costs was released. people on reddit and discord started actively competing for who had the biggest numbers when really you could effectively 'win' by making t
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by serf 8mo ago
Most crap out of a CEOs mouth is just true enough to throw out publicly to spike investor confidence while being based on such a house-of-cards set of unstable variables that it will give the person an out when (not if) it turns out not to

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