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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I haven't kept up. Are Siri, Alexa or Google's smart speakers any good now? Or are they still mostly for setting timers and controlling spotify?
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
However if you start current SOTA models out on a bad codebase they will happily write more bad code to fit in with the "conventions" of the existing code. Including authentication and isolation. If you start out your app on the
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
And get sued even harder by publishers? Publishing any out-of-copyright books would be awesome thing to do. But it seems none of the books in this order would fall under that, and it's unclear how many old books they are actually inges
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
You can get some approximation of that with more detailed plans. I use a prompt like "Let's make a detailed plan. Write plan files as markdown to plans/feature-XYZ. [regular prompt]". That way you get much more thorough
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
If for that many people there truly is no way left to provide some economic value (that is rewarded enough to pay for shelter, bread and Netflix), that might mean the end of capitalism. Even living in a slum is not free I'm not sure wh
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
If printing technology took centuries to eliminate the trade of printers, by the same logic computers took about 80 years to eliminate a large chunk of knowledge workers (and that's just counting until today, we might still be a couple
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
If you need a less censored model that's still pretty smart and capable of some lateral thinking, it's great Same niche as Grok, which is also great at search and less censored. Gemini is maybe a bit smarter and better on long con
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
As they say: 80% of marketing is useless, you just don't know in advance which 80%. Same with math
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
Most humans are probably bad at it. Some humans are very good at it. I'd even argue most science does not demand these kinds of leaps and is mostly concerned with incremental improvements, or proving or disproving other people's a
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
If anything, the word STRASSE is a great example why case-folding followed by string comparison is not the same as a case-independent string comparison Or if you really want to do it, your case-folding needs to map certain lowercase charact
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
I'd assume because pigs have to be fattened before slaughter. At the small scale by literally throwing them scraps (pigs eat nearly anything edible). Meanwhile in a pig butchering scam you have emotionally desperate people (who often w
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
Claude code in the cli also has /fork to clone the current session state. But if you use it more than once or twice that quickly becomes hard to manage. Actual tracking in a tree sounds like an awesome feature (and one that I love in c
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
Which is the most insidious kind of automated moderation. In an algorithmic feed like TikTok, strongly downranking content and removing it are close to the same. And by doing it silently with no way to easily get feedback on what you did wr
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
If agents are "like humans" (whatever we mean by that), then shouldn't all the lessons we learned over the decades on how to build APIs for direct and indirect human consumption be extremely relevant?
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
Meanwhile German independently had the word "hallo", which appears in writing since the 15th century, used to call for the ferry man or to call to your dogs on the hunt (meaning something like "fetch"). Then the telephon
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
If you drag the bottom slider all the way to the right you only have plausible skin tones. Drag it all the way to the right and you can match skin tones for orcs, Na'vi and djinn
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166202
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
If a contract dated to the 4th October 1582 specifies you have 15 days to make payment, you would indeed need to know where that contract was signed to determine on what day that deadline expired. And if there is a contract dated to the 6th
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
You download it with Steam, then run Steam's backup function to back up the games you care about to physical media. Or in the vast number of cases you can just copy the game folder Obviously if you buy it with steam you need Steam. But
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
That's the one glaring weakness of relying too heavily on missiles. They are expensive and difficult to manufacture. And they have a limited shelf life, making stockpiles also expensive In previous conflicts the US military could get a
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
Maybe people don't cite specific apps because they like their jobs, and outing apps as vibe-coded is still seen as negative I personally know of two completely vibe-coded large apps in my professional environment. One by a non-technica
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
Celsius maps nicely to the temperatures observed in a typical Finnish sauna. 100C is among the highest typical sauna temperatures (very relaxing in dry air), and afterwards you cool off with water around 0C Also, having 100C as water temp f
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
Academic math is a bit like basic research. You come up with funny ways to look at numbers or prove weird statements about this thing you came up with and call a "group", and a couple years or decades or centuries later it turns o
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
The middle ground would be continual learning for a group of users. For a company with a couple thousand employees, one model learning on all your employees might be viable. With some filtering for information that is supposed to stay compa
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
File hosting is pretty cheap. Egress traffic is about $90/TB in the cloud, but around $1/TB in the real world. Storage is in the realm of $5/TB/month after adding redundancy At the scale of Huggingface, that still amount
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
DeepSeek v4 is honestly good enough that I'm fine throwing it at everything in my hobby projects. I guess now I'll be switching from V4 Pro-Preview to V4 Flash. My only real complaint is that they can't do images, which limit
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
For storage at the level of a home or a grid-level battery, absolutely. Li-Ion is dominating because of the amount of inertia and economies of scale it has. But if we assumed equal amounts of R&D and investment you'd expect a futur
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
Fully closed loop is probably not viable. But I suspect that's not the extreme GP might have meant. If for the sake or discussion we simplify cooling to four options: 1: just passing river water through a heat exchanger for cooling 2:
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
Yeah, but if UEFA stays true to their word, passing this proposal is guaranteed to lead to the end of a FIFA-led world cup. They have the votes to privatize the world cup, but in doing so would destroy the very thing they are trying to priv
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by wongarsu 3mo ago
FTA: "As a result of today’s discussion, no UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have

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