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by wongarsu 6mo ago
The USB A connector stayed the same between USB 1, 2 and 3. Yet most manufacturers voluntary distinguished them by giving USB 1 and 1.1 a white insert in plug and port, USB 2 a black insert and USB 3 a blue one This was neither standarized
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
See also https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code-historical-perform... for a more conventional approach to track regressions This project is somewhat unconventional in its approach, but that might reveal issues that
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
HN automatically removes the word "How" from the beginning of titles. I suspect this title is one instance of that
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
'no real standard library' doesn't seem entirely fair. Rust has a huge standard library. What it does have is the policy to only include "mature" things with little expected API evolution in the standard libary, whi
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
No, you see, if you lose your job you are poor. And in America, the poor don't deserve leisure. And any work they do has to be as punishing as possible, no matter how little effect that cruelty has on the bottom line If there's no
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
I would assume those in ~/.claude/projects/**/*.jsonl. They contain full conversation history, including the tool calls that were made, how man tokens were consumed, etc
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
We probably need something like the WET principle for skills. If you need to explain the same thing to an agent more than twice, turn it into a skill (or add it to AGENTS.md, or CLAUDE.md, or to you docs folder, or your guides folder, or wh
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
If you had shown this to someone in 2018 they wouldn't have hesitated to call it an AGI. We truly reached the state where we have one model that performs at usable levels across a huge range of tasks. You don't need to assemble a
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
Windows Program for Word
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
Not to mention it's really hard to statistically tell the difference between people spending a lot of time with a feature because it's really useful or because it's really difficult to get to do what you want Telemetry is a r
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
A more intuitive git UI would reduce engagement. Do you really want to cut a 30 minute git session down to five minutes by introducing things like 'git restore' or 'git undo'? /s
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
In a clockless cpu design you'd indeed expect xor to be faster. But in a regular CPU with a clock you either waste a bit of xor performance by making xor and sub both take the same number of ticks, or you speed up the clock enough that
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
And [as mentioned in the article] even modern x86 implementations have a zero register. So you have this weird special opcode that (when called with identical source and destination) only triggers register renaming
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
Especially since the other subsystems were referred to as the OS/2 subsystem, Posix subsystem, Win32 subsystem, Security subsystem, etc
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
We grow a lot of human-edible food for the sole purpose to feed it to livestock, who then spend most of those calories on existing and put a small portion into body mass that we eventually eat. Sure, that stuff isn't of the same qualit
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
"encrypted at rest" is great to guard against stolen laptops, or in the server room both against people breaking in and stealing servers (unlikely at the security level of most hyperscalers, but possible) or more commonly broken H
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
As somebody who tried selling cybersecurity software: Cyber-related OpSec is bad in most companies, AI or not. If effort and budget is allocated to it at all it's usually to a box-checking exercise that is about optics, liability and s
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
We usually build the tokenizer by optimizing for one goal (space-efficient encoding of text), then use it in a model that is trained for an entirely different goal (producing good text, "reasoning", "coding", etc). It is
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
Well, mermaid diagrams are "just" a list of nodes and their relations. You'd expect any llm capable of generating code to be able to generate them Writing an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle without being able to see the res
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
But you can't use an old model with a new tokenizer. Changing the tokenizer implies you trained the model from scratch
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
I suspect that lets the model "roleplay" as Claude, promoting reasoning like "would Claude do X?" or "what would Claude do in this situation?"
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
They really should have just set the cache window to 5:30 or some other slightly odd number instead of using all those tokens to tell claude not to pick one of the most common timeout values
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
On API pricing you still pay 10% of the input token price on cache reads. Not sure if the subscription limits count this though. And of course all conversations now have to compact 80 tokens earlier, and are marginally worse (since results
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
For regular, undiscounted prices the subscription prices were somewhat fair. Regular Photoshop CS5 was $700, or $1000 for the extended version. And $200 to upgrade. Now it's a $300/year subscription. But students really got shafte
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
In dense cities parking garages (both underground, free standing and on top of commercial properties) works great to give high-density parking space The difficulty would be in transitioning. Building spots only open up so often
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
Garages are the easiest way to get cheap storage space attached to or close to your home. Apart from garden sheds. The issue is really the perverse incentive: if there is free onstreet parking, its usually more useful to put your car on the
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
When I studied CS in Germany in the 2010s (also in the Bologna Bachelor/Master system) most courses had weekly graded assignments. But the assignments didn't count towards your grade, instead you needed to reach a certain total of
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
But would we have said the same in 1996 or 2000? Part of the adoption curve seems to be that it took years to abandon some of the bad ideas around IPv6 and readopt some of the better ones from IPv4. And a good chunk of the complexity of IPv
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
A lot of it seems to boil down to "IPv6 was too early". Had IPv6 been developed a couple years later DHCP would have been mature, and SLAAC would have never been invented (since DHCPv6 is fairly obvious when you have good experien
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by wongarsu 6mo ago
The article describes coexistence as both dual-stack and connectivity between single-stack IPv6 and single-stack IPv4 host. And that in the autor's opinion all the complexity is in the latter, not in the dual-stack You raise a good poi

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