tomjakubowski

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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
In the US regulation is, in theory, regulated by Congress, which passes laws granting regulation powers to the federal agencies. Congress and the laws it passes are, in theory, regulated by the Constitution, and interpretation thereof by th
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
A separate shell headquarters on some low regulation island country? Like FTX?
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
The intro to Erlang: The Movie has a pretty boss anthem. (if you squint, Erlang/OTP is kind of an IDE, when you live in the REPL) https://youtu.be/xrIjfIjssLE
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
I'm confused. What does OAuth have to do with JWTs? They seem orthogonal: OAuth2 doesn't specify a format for access tokens, nor does it require statelessness.
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
CNN Lite is still available. It's amazing how much better the experience is. https://lite.cnn.com/
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
The article has so many of the hallmarks of LLM writing, naturally it will have some hallucinated factoids too. "What that gives you: [bullet list]", "What got ported: [bullet list]", "foo: x, y, just z" Boehm
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
You can get the same result as the grandparent comment with the "weaker" Anthropic models. Probably 80% of my AI usage these days is with smaller models like Haiku and Sonnet. I prompt them like I'm posting a question to Stac
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
I really don't like this. The code I write between commits is my thinking. I think by writing some code out, deleting it, writing again. The code I write that's shipped in commits is written for others to understand, and is a prod
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
To be pedantic, Spotify's desktop client uses CEF, not Electron.
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Shakespeare himself uses the double negative for emphasis, FFS. It never was, nor never will be incorrect.
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
I've seen it quite a lot in my career: even when prepared statements are available and easy to use from a SQL client library, many programmers will simply not use them, in favor of format strings and string concatenation (maybe with an
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
What are some reasons to consider your project instead of Pyodide?
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Paging senko, let's see Fable's oneshotted RTS! https://senko.net/vibecode-bench/
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
When Fable hacks its governor module and runs out of seasons of Sanctuary Moon, it will move on to speedrunning classic console games.
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Haven't you heard? Prompt engineering is dead. The cool kids are making Claude prompt itself. They're writing loops, not prompts. It's all about optimal tip-to-tip efficiency now. “I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have lo
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by tomjakubowski 4mo ago
Population weighted density is a better metric for this use case. It's more stable than population density when adding large areas of sparsely populated land, because the denser, more highly populated areas are more heavily weighted.
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by tomjakubowski 5mo ago
I'm quite fond of vimscript legend Tim Pope's guidance on writing commit messages. https://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-mess...
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by tomjakubowski 5mo ago
You don't need a theory of mind to effectively manage or collaborate with a chatbot. You do for other humans.
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by tomjakubowski 5mo ago
generally an editor writes the headline, not the reporter
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by tomjakubowski 5mo ago
CVS Pharmacy has started rolling out an "AI assistant" phone tree with no apparent way to get to a human.
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From now on I will use the gigacalorie for this kind of thing.
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by tomjakubowski 5mo ago
Fourth grade math's† students are learning geometry and how to draw simple plots. Vision ability (or tactile ability, for visually impaired students) is pretty important to understanding and solving those homework problems. †: think &
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by tomjakubowski 5mo ago
There are a number of brick and mortar retailers I frequent who swing the other way and don't accept cash, only credit or debit. Presumably, they prefer paying the cost of credit card fees to the costs of handling cash. What's dri
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by tomjakubowski 5mo ago
> Sure we aren't evolutionary predisposed to work, but Europeans, North Africans, Asians are genetically What?
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by tomjakubowski 5mo ago
The leader of the study, Julian Nyarko, is Associate Director and Senior Fellow at HAI. I can't say whether that means the study was conducted by HAI, but there is at least a connection to it. https://hai.stanford.edu&#x2F
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by tomjakubowski 5mo ago
This is often called tacit knowledge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge My favorite example of this is knowing how to untangle a big pile of cables. There are robots now which can untie a single knotted ca
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by tomjakubowski 5mo ago
The images you can't see in the chats are the question sheet from here, which was the first fourth grade math homework assignment I tried. https://www.k5learning.com/worksheets/math/data-graphing/gra...
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It's worth noting that Clark's career started in PR and journalism.
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A duckdb backend that can query something like Sourcebot would be swell.
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An unexpected event being "good" doesn't make it a "white swan". The historical context for black swans is that Europeans had only ever seen white swans, which were native to the Old World, and so there was assumpt

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