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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
Does V2 finally imminentize the eschaton? V1 has completely failed at this so far
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
Unfortunately not a choice at my organization
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
A couple of my coworkers think I’m nuts for watching cost explorer so closely but 1. The time it takes to look and notice costs that don’t make sense easily pays for itself, and then some (in my experience). I doubt you spent $7k of your ti
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
It’s a niche, yes, but there could be others like it. No idea about how the company should be valued. We pay them chump change for our services, but enough that with any scale it could be meaningful. And their reach is pretty incredible, so
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
> Whenever I leave a company I make sure everything that belongs to the company goes back to them Right. I noticed a coworker who recently left the organization was still running some of our software on his personal computer (evident in
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
Here along the BC Coast, the organization I work for has an expansive sensor network. Weather stations, CTDs, custom equipment in watersheds, research facilities with all kinds of equipment to monitor, and so on. There is no broadband or fi
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
If you ever watch these guys in an aquarium, you notice they're basically constantly chewing on things. I've wondered many times how they keep such tiny teeth in good condition if they never given them a rest, but, here's why
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
In their defence, google searching anything about plants these days leads to awful results. It’s saturated with slop. A response from an LLM might be slightly more reasoned and targeted. It’s hard to tell. This is a category of knowledge th
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
Fascinating, I am remarkably bad at this and consistently fail at the 8th word. This might be limitation caused by whatever ADHD does to me; in particular, holding the sets of letters in my memory as I try to compose words in my mind. It&#x
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
It's so absurdly sensitive. It bailed out earlier today working on a TypeScript client for a sensor network API which happens to include some temperature and pH sensors for tanks, which yes, are used for biology experiments. But wow, w
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
I’ve been noticing that it will test hypotheses for evidence frequently. I really like that. With Opus I have to instruct it with a skill to build prototypes, but Fable will do it and do it really well by default. Really nice detail. I’m gu
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
It’s literally the price of lost opportunities. It’s not understood to be a financial cost. It’s exactly what it says on the tin. Lost opportunities may not be a financial cost, but they’re certainly a cost.
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
I think this depends a lot on two things: how well-defined your requirements are up front, and how well-defined the problem space/domain are. If there's some clarity and structure with clear expectations, it seems to produce fairl
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
I didn't mean to paint with such a broad stroke, there. I've worked with people who are capable of writing exceptional software without type systems or other abstractions. I'm not that smart, though. I need a lot of guard rai
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
Cool, it worked! https://drop-1e1a536f-10d.honeysuckle-gull.workers.dev/ It's minesweeper, but the logic uses xstate/store. The link in the bottom is broken; it's supposed to go to `building-minesweeper-with-
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
The solar system diagram doesn't work for me. When I click on the planets, it will center on them. When I click on the sun, nothing happens. When I click on a planet next, it goes to the sun.
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
Absolutely, TypeScript is remarkably expressive in my opinion. The inference and option to bail out with `any` is nice for some teams in some cases, too. They did an excellent job of making it accessible.
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
I worked with people who would consider themselves serious, and are still in the industry and doing fine. A few have certainly gone on to be more prominent and get paid a lot more than I am—not that it's a perfect measure of seriousnes
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
That’s fine, but I trust him to play the YouTube game as a result, not as an engineer.
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
He's clearly very knowledgeable about some things, but I think he has harmed his credibility be becoming a 'tuber who prioritizes thumbnails and hot takes over engineering.
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
I find it very useful. What do you use that’s better?
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
I like super powers because I can be more in the loop editing and understanding the plan. Letting fable loose is genuinely impressive, and probably perfect for vibe coding, but I can’t be that far away from the plan and steps for code that
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
Anecdotal, but working on a biodiversity-related project has made Fable completely useless to me. It sends literally everything to Opus immediately because it’s related to biology. No word from Anthropic since I sent feedback, so I won’t bo
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by steve_adams_86 3mo ago
Lately I wonder if people should learn philosophy because it teaches you how to reason, what to reason about, and why. Just like with programming, you’re constantly forced to interrogate your impressions and reconsider what you took for gra
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
We will always find ourselves in situations in which our existing laws allow for people to fall through cracks. I can see pardoning as a way to address that partially, yet it doesn’t explain what an adequate judgment would be instead. It’s
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
What did you expect, though? dead-dove.jpg
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
They also offer some degree of curation, so your dollar goes further by volume/weight/unit on average, but also in less quantitative ways quite often. I trust what I buy from Costco, but I’ve completely stopped buying from Amazon
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
Genuinely one of the most fun performances I've ever been to, as well! The small venue accentuated Al's insanely huge personality.
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
I’m with jpeeler here and I don’t think there’s a single optimum harness. Pi is really nice in that it allows you to hone in on what suits your needs, though. Some people won’t want to manage their harness though, so for them it’s probably
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
> There is no reason to think any non american company wouldn't follow this strategy. This is generally true, but there are some providers offering inference at relatively stable prices. They aren’t Opus-tier models, but some appear

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