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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
It’s nice to have access again, but I’m hesitant to include it in my workflow now. In fact I’d rather not use American models at all if I could. I have the sense that this limited usage model will persist, Opus at its current token price wi
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
I can’t think of a single functional language that offers what effect gives you, though. A fully typed and declarative error channel, managed dependency layer with compile time safety, excellent resource management, the best parsing/va
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
You're touching on something I've been thinking about a lot lately. There's this notion that LLMs only increase volume and there's an inevitable intrinsic decline in quality. In reality, it's more like an amplifier
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
I had a similar thought. I bought a computer for $3600 CAD 3 years ago and it shows no signs of limiting my work in any way. I have another from 2020 from my employer that is just fine, likely costing them about $2500 CAD when they bought i
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
> democratization of intelligence I'm not trying to be pedantic; I think this is an interesting topic and there's a worthwhile distinction to make here. It isn't really being democratized for a couple reasons (at least). O
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
Meta's Portal is different from Valve's Portal. https://www.meta.com/ca/portal/
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
I agree that it's crazy to act as though parental leave is anything like a vacation. I would prefer to sleep on my vacations. It's wildly unpopular among people who don't have kids, but I've come to think we should colle
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
What if you're reasoning about how to generate SVG correctly?
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
> messageless commits for intermediate work Would this be like `git commit --allow-empty-message`?
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
If a single outlying case in a broadly used piece of software is your example of an entire language's developer base, well...
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
So much stronger. I went from completely understanding the "we should have restaurants/theatres/etc. where no kids are allowed" people to finding the notion totally incompatible with a healthy society. I love kids. I wan
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
I use it for several applications (frontend, backend, CLIs) in production settings, and it has been excellent. Caveat: I serve small internal teams mostly, some projects only serve < dozen users. One is around 500/day. No issues at
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
I think this is a selection bias speaking rather than a reasonable reflection of what goes on in the Java world. Some insanely sophisticated and high quality technologies are written with Java. The problem is like with JS or PHP, it is ubiq
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
I think they mean deno handles transpiling for you so there’s no visible machinery for this aspect of the program. It’s just convenient.
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
This works well. I’ve been using it to bundle other binaries with my applications and so far my users have had no issues on Windows, Linux, and macOS. I’m still a bit surprised given how new it is
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
Congrats!
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
You’re making it sounds like the margins on this are probably not great. Do you know if it’s likely that these aren’t meant to be directly profitable, or is it possible to get all of this technology together for around $1000–$1500 USD?
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
Strange. I got a lower estimate despite getting more correct than you and getting more grandmaster words. Admittedly I had to guess several. It’s kind of an etymological deduction and estimation game at times.
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
Nice work. I only got 90. It also summarized that as though I might learn English one day. Kind of an odd result. I’m not offended, just confused.
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
They seem similar at a glance but they’re quite different. You can think of SQLite as a transactional database while DuckDB is better used as an analytical database. I can see applications having valid reasons to use both. You can use SQLit
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
The most interesting use case lately has been using it as the transformation and validation engine for a CLI that handles scientific data. Some datasets are small and could have been handled at the application layer, but some are quite mass
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
Yes, it’s amazing for giving rails and structure to data so you can be sure an LLM is making more sense than it might with grep and jq. It also allows a little more sanity at scale with jobs like this. You can get pretty crazy with parquet
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
> DuckDB has received widespread adoption because it's just so damn easy to use. This was a major factor in my initial adoption. Since then it has stuck because it’s also absurdly capable, versatile, and fast. If it wasn’t so easy t
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
Stretching the analogy, something that gets you from point A to point B for a fraction of the price without the same level of comfort is totally fine for me. For some of my tasks, that means using local models. For others it might mean a fr
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
There's one thing that hasn't changed much with LLMs, and that's the notion of 'moving the needle'. People who sling slop don't meaningfully accomplish that if you're paying close attention to how your tea
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
Is the implication that Democrats are less lazy and incompetent? Republicans haven't been lazy at all in their efforts to run the USA in my opinion. Democrats seem to have failed to match their energy. They've also failed to be co
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
No, arguably not. People change their minds over time. We learn things, change, our environment changes. I'm not who I was 10 years ago, but not for a lack of integrity.
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
I agree. Davis intended to do what he did all along. If Watterson deviated and sold the merchandise he would have lacked integrity, sure. But someone like Davis is acting according to their ideals and intentions and so on; there is a lot of
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
Someone making their own is exactly how it should be. This is perfectly aligned with the spirit of the character. A factory churning out clones of Hobbes, and Watterson essentially making a statement that Hobbes is in fact just a toy would
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by steve_adams_86 4mo ago
Did you see much about how his name is tied to it? I wonder in which capacity he intended to be involved and why. He has been associated with other things in the past, only to discover later that he was in a list of people who declined to p

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