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by tern 6d ago
A good video from a pro going through why someone might deliberately choose characteristics like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0zH7J_Vmg4 (4:47)
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by tern 7d ago
Reminds of vintage Meyer-Gorlitz or Zeiss Planar. I'm kinda into it.
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by tern 16d ago
A few design bugs in the mobile layout (Chrome)
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by tern 17d ago
And, they have been. Nefarious activity is hidden from view as a rule.
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by tern 2mo ago
I love this question. If history is a guide, some version of that is what will happen (employment doesn't seem to go down, despite technological progress and population + economic growth). I suspect the root cause is that it's h
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by tern 2mo ago
I do the same, but delegate to codex instead via the /smux skill. It's expensive, but I get one long-running Claude context window and one frequently compacting codex, and this saves me from needing to re-gather context all the ti
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by tern 3mo ago
1. A compiler for real-time tensor processing (arbitrary DSP, ML). In something like LISP or Haskell, the goal is to compile lambda calculus for fast/reliable execution—as such, you can express a program in a fully general language tha
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by tern 3mo ago
Nice work. Excited to check this out.
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by tern 3mo ago
Arrived at a version of this view as well and building one on Elixir/Ash.
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by tern 3mo ago
Ah, interested to dive in—and have a project it could integrate with. I built a similar thing recently, for agents, aimed at enabling prolog queries over handles in markdown corpora (and code): https://github.com/flowerornam
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by tern 3mo ago
I suspect most people don't even know there's a there there. For instance, while I now know that file systems have permissions, before I became a programmer, I spent maybe ten years thinking of permissions as a special, obscure sy
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by tern 3mo ago
I mean, fair—it's a possibility. But what are we to do with a point of view that admits no positive outcome?
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by tern 3mo ago
I don't completely disagree, but that's not the entire story, and the efforts of those who fought for good outcomes matter profoundly. For instance, we do in fact have global, effectively ad-free, E2E encrypted messaging. A lot of
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by tern 3mo ago
Yes, I agree, but the relevant debate isn't "pro vs anti-AI." That's a fight only one side can win. The relevant debate is: "human empowerment vs disempowerment". It's still a long-shot, but at least there
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by tern 3mo ago
Sadly, I think this is true, and it's starting to seem like my own personal political imperative is to remind people that AI can be insanely personally empowering. Many people around me are just missing the boat, or don't care, bu
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by tern 3mo ago
> "…we will inquire into something, but we will not grasp it, if in some way we depart from ourselves and from our own nature…" Beautifully ironic, that we find this message.
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by tern 3mo ago
Curious about the perspective from anyone who has a skill set / reputation where finding jobs is easy right now. I imagine people in ML or who've found a good way to demonstrate prowess with agentic systems may be highly in dema
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by tern 4mo ago
Opus 3.x building me a productivity system with Obsidian MCP originally. Next was discovering "create a mathematical model of the problem and derive the solution as a result" type prompts. But, the real "oh s**" was a lo
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by tern 4mo ago
My intuitions for using Elixir: - Durable, 'enterprise grade' software patterns are baked into the runtime and into common, stable libraries that everyone uses - You can use Ash, which pretty much entirely solves architectural con
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by tern 4mo ago
Rust, Elixir, and Go are the way to go for LLMs in my testing and experience, for this and other reasons
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by tern 4mo ago
Do the forms etched into stone by weather over millennia in Moab matter to the wind? Certainly yes, in one sense, but not in the same sense we mean when we say things matter to us, or to animals, or even bacteria.
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by tern 4mo ago
Not optimizing for that. I derive "10x" more satisfaction, because I'm able to work on more ambitious problems. I'm probably making less money than I would otherwise.
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by tern 4mo ago
I work on self-directed projects that don't make any money, currently. My "day job" (not software development) does not have this '10x' quality, though I imagine it could were I allocating my efforts that way.
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by tern 4mo ago
Not publicly yet, but I work on a programming language, compiler, and runtime that achieves magical (to me) things in a niche field. I would never have attempted something at this scale otherwise, so it's a very 0-to-1 experience subje
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by tern 4mo ago
I think it's just hard to know this for the people working on it. AI radically changed my life. I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work. I've been listening to people around me talking about alig
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by tern 5mo ago
I've yet to come across something with vim bindings that lacks a .vimrc where you can map 'jk'. Either way, switching back to ESC is as annoying as it is in the first place.
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by tern 5mo ago
"jk" is even faster (you get to "roll" your fingers)
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by tern 5mo ago
Thank you! I'm writing an APL-lineage language right now (really, APL+Prolog+Lustre "lineage") and hadn't come across this paper. I found an HTML version here: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/J1990.
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by tern 6mo ago
I did an exhaustive comparison of window managers and settled on using Raycast for simple resizing (full screen, center, mid-size centered, 1/2, 1/3, 2/3 left/right) + FlashSpace[1], which implements simple virtual space
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by tern 6mo ago
According to the meter, I used $15k in tokens with my Max plan (along with $5k of Codex tokens) in the last 30 days. That built an entire working and (lightly) optimized language, parser, compiler, runtime toolchain among other things.

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