vagab0nd

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by vagab0nd 7mo ago
This is great from a technical and artistic perspective. But for me personally, the visual style ruined a great game. I love detective/deduction games. I'm listing some of my all-time favorites in this genre. I'd love to fini
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by vagab0nd 8mo ago
I recently learned a trick to improve an LLM's thinking (maybe it's well know?): Requesting { "output": "x" } consistently fails, despite detailed instructions. Changing to requesting { "output": &quo
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by vagab0nd 8mo ago
The "productivity gain" in the world of bits has been pretty much exponential for 100 years. But as they spill over into the world of atoms, they flatten into step changes, because you lose the compounding effect. I do think we ar
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by vagab0nd 8mo ago
> you will simply be able to put the camera in front of a high resolution screen Are you sure it's that simple? How high does the resolution need to be for the camera to not be able to tell? And I'm sure there are sublet clues.
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by vagab0nd 8mo ago
I'm working on a search engine for clinical trials around the world. I was frustrated by the process of searching for clinical trial info using the clunky and slow registry websites. So I aggregated all trials around the world and made
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by vagab0nd 8mo ago
I have a theory: I think the recent advance in coding agent has shocked everyone. It's something of such unheard-of novelty that everyone thinks they've discovered something profound. Naturally, they all think they are the only on
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by vagab0nd 8mo ago
Interesting article. What prevents me from dumping the memory of the shell process and reading the local variable? My program requires a password on startup. To run it in a loop, I used a script that takes the password as input, stores it i
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by vagab0nd 8mo ago
My outdated/incorrect mental model of how well databases work.
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by vagab0nd 8mo ago
OP here. Roughly 50GB in db size. Fairly standard queries (full-text search + filters). Most queries are on the order of 10-100ms. Some more complex ones involving business logic exceeds 100ms. This is well within my budget, but it sounds l
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by vagab0nd 8mo ago
I recently started digging into databases for the first time since college, and from a novice's perspective, postgres is absolutely magical. You can throw in 10M+ rows across twenty columns, spread over five tables, add some indices, a
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by vagab0nd 8mo ago
You are right. But in the future we'll be refueling the satellites anyway. Might as well maintain the servers using robots all in one go.
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
I feel like there's this weird information gap that shouldn't be there in this day and age. FSD drives me around every day. 99% of the time, I don't touch the steering wheel for the entire trip, both city and highway. It&#x27
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
Damn, I just wrote a note "search is free" in my aggressively-automate-everything-using-llms personal project plan.md. I guess not anymore.
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
So you prefer does tue 11am work for you? no, does tue 2pm work for you? no, does wed 10am work for you? yes, wait which timezone are you in? central? then no, does... Or do you mean you don't like the link in the initial email?
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
I believe it's a play on "Your margin is my opportunity".
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
There's a weird conflict going on here and I've experienced it myself. Essentially we hear 2 claims: - You all should build your own software. AI is so good! - You all should use the software I built with AI. It's so good!
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
Is insider betting illegal? I know it's illegal in the sports context, but not necessarily in other areas. Even for insider trading, it's illegal not because it's unfair, but because the insider is considered to be stealing i
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
Exactly! This is how the future should be: solar panels + portable huge battery arrays doubled as vehicles + grid as backup.
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
Off topic: I think there should be an extension to DHCP that distributes AI session keys, so that your vacuum, thermostats and robot chef can all call the LLM as soon as they connect to wifi.
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
> Am I missing something obvious? To list a few: the risk of Polymarket going under, the risk of Polymarket mishandling your money, the risk of Polygon going under, the risk of Ethereum going under, the risk of USDC depegging, the risk o
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
I'm curious: what's the use case? Usually when I need a server I need it to stay on and have a public IP.
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
And when you layer on top networking, it's another level of sw/hw complexity.
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
Does meditation really work for everyone? I tried it pretty seriously for 2 months, and my mind just wouldn't stop. I'd think of nothing for 10 seconds and then get extremely bored, so essentially every 10 seconds I'd force m
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by vagab0nd 9mo ago
My prediction is that software will be so cheap that very soon, economy of scale gives way to maximum customization which means everyone writes their own software. There will be no software market in the future.
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by vagab0nd 10mo ago
We often hear claims like "do this and you'll make so much money" or "this is so good it's unbelievable." Occasionally, they turn out to be true. I've experienced a couple myself and feel fairly positive a
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by vagab0nd 10mo ago
Every time I want to watch a movie, I go on Netflix and search. Then I want to scream, "What movie DOES Netflix have??"
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
If an outsider is ever allowed to have a simplified mental model of why nvidia was unbeatable, here's mine: - they were way ahead, and they didn't make any big mistakes - they weren't waiting for others to catch up. They were
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
Apparently it has an integrated guide on the right side of the page, which is "Based on \"The Kernel in The Mind\" by Moon Hee Lee".
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
By making it enough of a nuisance such that the next time you book a hotel, any hotel, for 2 platonic friends you are strongly nudged to book two separate rooms.
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by vagab0nd 11mo ago
I did not know this but it's consistent with the behaviors of the CEO.

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