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by skybrian 3mo ago
Deno resolves import statements in its own way. For example, you can import URLs and JSR packages directly, but the file is usually loaded from Deno’s global module cache. To resolve imports you need to look at the deno.json file and deno.l
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by skybrian 3mo ago
No TypeScript compiler API yet, but I'm encouraged to hear that they're working on it.
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I’m wondering about privacy tradeoffs. Looks like they’re similar to Discord where the chats won’t show up in web searches and you can’t read anything without joining. But if anyone can join, it’s not like Signal either and end-to-end encry
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by skybrian 3mo ago
There's a Cambrian explosion of promising-sounding AI tools, all of which seem to work reasonably well for their authors, but it's unclear which ones to try. It seems like what we're missing are in-depth product reviews?
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You will probably want a search engine though. Perhaps a small LLM would work well as a component for that?
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It’s true that they are only as good as their input data, but the same is true if you do your own web searches.
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This is just based on Ramp’s data about their customers, but it seems that some companies are hiring more people after adopting AI? https://econlab.substack.com/p/we-can-finally-say-ai-isnt-ki...
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by skybrian 4mo ago
It’s no longer true that AI tools primarily get knowledge from their pre-training input data. That gives them a baseline, but nowadays AI chatbots and coding agents routinely assume they need to get up-to-date information in other ways, via
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by skybrian 4mo ago
This looks like AI-written blather, but it links to an article with useful information by someone who actually checked: https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/gemini/articles/fact-check-google-...
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Maybe the author has been overly influenced by Claude's writing style?
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Doesn't help in California because people buy them in Nevada and resell them. Apparently that's easier to do nowadays due to the Internet? https://oaklandside.org/2026/07/01/illegal-fireworks-police-
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Selection effects are extremely important in education. Dartmouth students have already had a large selection effect. If you try to apply this more broadly then it might not work. Motivation is also a huge part of the problem. I'm wond
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Seems like to make agents safe we need tentative, reversible transactions. How do you set up a travel plan and then review it? How do you modify it later? Unfortunately, travel keeps getting less flexible, with worse cancelation policies.
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Output per worker is the formal definition of productivity, but that doesn't mean we should assume fixed output. Under conditions of scarcity, it's usually beneficial to increase output or to produce different kinds of output. At
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by skybrian 4mo ago
I see this as the gap between an general-purpose agent and a coding agent. A coding agent can imagine something to be true, test it, discover that it's wrong, and recover. But if you go beyond what can be tested easily, asking the agen
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There's zero overlap between this list and the blogs I read. Looking over the list, there seem to be a lot of "mommy blogs?"
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If you're maintaining Markdown with a coding agent then you need linting tools to do things like checking for broken links. Without consistency checks, it will often make mistakes. The more internal consistency checks you can do, the b
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by skybrian 4mo ago
It wouldn't work for a movie, but it might be good for a concert video, stage play, dance, or sports, where you're capturing something happening in a defined space. You could pick a different seat in an auditorium. Also consider c
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by skybrian 4mo ago
Not a lot if you're going to run the code anyway. But when looking at open source code you don't trust yet, you might want to build code, without running it, so your development tools will work.
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From a landlord’s point of view, efficiency is about how much rent you can get for it, either directly or by making nearby units more attractive. Hidden away on an upper floor doesn’t seem very attractive as a commercial space? If they can’
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Works on my iPad using Chrome or Safari.
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Ramp data shows heavy AI adopters hire more(econlab.substack.com)
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The article goes into this: > The city of Seattle estimates that, with aggressive incentives, conversions could generate up to 6,000 housing units over the next seven years. At a rough approximation, that would use around a fifth of the
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They don't want grocery stores to carry product that's too old because customers will try it and decide they don't like it, not realizing that it's old. And a grocery store worker won't know when to get rid of it un
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> Experts say the term “sell by” is generally for retailers to know when to rotate inventory, compared with labels like “best if used by” and “use by,” which indicate quality. ... > Under the state’s bill, “sell by” dates can still be
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Would you prefer that it weren’t used in Ukraine? I believe they find it rather useful.
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The build files aren’t written in Lua. It defines its own language. The user’s guide seems like the place to start: https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY/blob/main/docs/The_BUS...
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Yeah, I see this as a design flaw in Civ. Better to limit the player's moves per turn to keep things moving. There's a game called "Ozymandius" that I quite like, or for a simple online game try Compact Conflict: https:
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There are low-end and premium smartphones, with different profit margins. Similarly, it seems like open weights models and high-end models could co-exist? I don’t think there’s any way of knowing what the market structure will be in the end
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Commoditization means there's price competition. From a consumer perspective, that's good. You want it to be a low-margin, high volume, competitive business. Although from a business perspective, it can end up being ruinous compet

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