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by skybrian 2mo ago
Yep. I'm actually using ChatGPT integration via exe.dev to write code. It uses my subscription through an API and runs down the usage limit in a similar way. The part I don't understand is how usage is "charged" against
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by skybrian 2mo ago
How do you know? I see a “weekly usage limit” bar in my ChatGPT settings, but I’m pretty fuzzy about what makes it go down. If I stick with Luna, I can make it through the week.
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by skybrian 2mo ago
If you compare with work that’s contracted out, it’s quite similar. When a company does poorly, it will cut its budgets and spend less, so its suppliers lose business. Whether or not anyone at the company takes the blame for it is a separat
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by skybrian 2mo ago
Giving kids a computing device isn’t much like giving them a car so that analogy fails for me. Instead, think of it like a portal to a child’s view of the Internet. Child-locked devices get one view of the Internet and unlocked devices get
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by skybrian 2mo ago
The main problem that age verification is solving is that we want children to be using child-locked devices, and those devices need to identify themselves. In theory this could be solved simply by locked devices sending an HTTP header. Then
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by skybrian 2mo ago
Neat! The graphs show the "best validated result" for each model. I wonder how much variation there is between runs for a model?
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by skybrian 2mo ago
There are multiple ways to paraphrase and the paraphrasing model is going to use its own random number generator whenever it thinks there's more than one possible choice. (Not really binary; the RNG will have more or less effect.) So
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by skybrian 2mo ago
It seems like organizations will mostly want remote access via http and the other flavors of MCP aren’t so useful? Although, I suppose if you install an app locally, it might have an MCP interface.
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by skybrian 2mo ago
It's been 16 years since Google announced they were working on driverless cars. Waymo's been offering service to the public for six years. There's been plenty of news coverage and people already know about them. Being in the
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by skybrian 2mo ago
I assume it’s a reference to “everything is amazing and no one is happy.”
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by skybrian 2mo ago
> Corporate profits drove more than a third of inflation from the start of the pandemic This seems like it’s getting causation backwards. Shortages directly result in corporate profits somewhere, because there are companies that can rais
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by skybrian 2mo ago
I find collecting “gotcha” questions helpful because when a new model can answer them, it shows improvement, and if it doesn’t, it’s a reality check that, despite the model being helpful for many tasks, there are other things it can’t do ye
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by skybrian 2mo ago
Maybe having an alternative "outline" view that works like hierarchical menus might be an interesting way to navigate?
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by skybrian 2mo ago
Since you use it yourself, sharing your own topics seems like a good way to start?
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by skybrian 2mo ago
This might be more interesting if you could read other people's discussions. As it is, it's like visiting an empty forum.
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by skybrian 2mo ago
A do-what-I-mean interface using pseudocode seems like an interesting idea to explore, but perhaps it should be automatically reformatted by the AI to conform to some grammar? The idea would be a documentation standard (like Markdown), not
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by skybrian 2mo ago
This is an excellent post that explains why their version of git hosting is more scalable. But it seems like most people won't need it, assuming Github remains free to use and they get their availability problems fixed. Will free Git h
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by skybrian 2mo ago
Not true, I’m running Chrome on my iPad. (Though yes, it uses WebKit.) Also, typically a web app stores state in a database in the server.
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by skybrian 2mo ago
It sounds like the idea is to turn on a math generator and keep running it until it generates something interesting. And it might be fun to try it. But if it’s too much output to read and we don’t understand the output either, how does anyo
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by skybrian 2mo ago
Maybe that will be true when it's math with practical applications, but most theoretical math isn't like that. If it's not practical and it's not for mathematians to understand, what good is it?
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by skybrian 2mo ago
It looks interesting, but deciding on where to put object storage is what keeps me from doing this. I don’t have an AWS or Cloudflare account and I’m not sure what to commit to. Also, apparently Litestream could use a filesystem instead of
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by skybrian 2mo ago
I worked at a series of startups and I think having lunch every day with the other employees was an excellent way to get to know them. These jobs didn't last long because the startups weren't all that successful, but I remember th
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by skybrian 2mo ago
Job-hopping doesn't seem to have those downsides in Silicon Valley though? I think the "feeling like a cog" aspect has more to do with company size. Can you get a meeting with the CEO?
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by skybrian 2mo ago
Possibly of interest since it seems vaguely similar: I wrote my own property-testing framework for TypeScript that allows you to write arbitrary code provided that it's deterministic, so you don't need to mess with combinators as
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by skybrian 2mo ago
The only way around this is to not to have any employees in the same country as the men with the guns.
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by skybrian 2mo ago
A non-extreme position is that we do need the police… but not like this. We need systemic reform from the ground up, but punitive measures wouldn’t do that.
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by skybrian 2mo ago
In the product search results game, I imagine Google and Amazon will soon have competition from AI chatbots linking to product pages in response to user queries. Also, OpenAI is getting into ad business. Seems like that will add a different
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by skybrian 2mo ago
They're big, but they don't have that kind of power and people would be very suspicious if they tried to get in the position to have that kind of power. Hoping that they solve those huge problems themselves is basically hoping tha
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by skybrian 2mo ago
“Cure cancer” is vague shorthand. A more charitable interpretation would be something like “provides important assistance to research scientists who come up with new cures to most kinds of cancer.”
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by skybrian 2mo ago
My understanding is that it’s a common LLM API with common billing for multiple LLM providers. You can switch between LLM providers whenever you like, and the way you pay for API usage doesn’t change. You don’t even need to create an accoun

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