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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
For me turbo pascal - with inline assembly - was the pinnacle. I got into c and later c++ because I had to, but always found the symbols slightly harder on the eyes and surprisingly not faster to type. And I was always frustrated by the b
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
The real question as xAI has just made Musk a trillionaire is how this, the most recent blow in a fight between the administration and Anthropic, impacts Anthropic’s IPO. I’ve used Fable a lot. It’s a marginal improvement on Opus. It’s re
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
Related post from same site earlier this week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385457
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by wood_spirit 4mo ago
Of course we can hope for more, but would you agree it is a good start though?
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
Same! And there is no obvious close button etc on the overtop blocking modal dialog either. It’s a dark pattern.
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
As soon as I saw the beautiful rendering I wondered if it was using spherical geometry so I asked an AI. It dug and found discussion on d3 from the author about the algorithm :) https://github.com/d3/d3/issues&#x2
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
Beautiful :) The idea that springs to my mind is to do Delaunay and Voronoi using spherical geometry. I think the article uses flat Euclidean geometry but if we tweak the fifth axiom we could do spherical or hyperbolic?
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
If you need (or want the convenience of) a uuid and the time of creation is not secret then use ulids eg uuid v7.
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
I have my own llm wrapping harness, which does this and has a few more tricks. For example, it doesn’t have a lot of mcp but it does have search_mcp and load_mcp tools (and search_skills) so the llm can find what it needs when it needs it
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
This is like so counter to how it feels on the ground. I genuinely don’t know anyone in Sweden who has cash or wants cash in their pocket anymore.
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
Reallocating human time is also going to cause problems. But it’s a great short term business opportunity for AI vendors and it was Anthropic who went all in on being knowledge worker outsourcing in a big way first whilst OpenAI thought the
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
The US is a country with lower hunting participation than many other western countries and yet an order of magnitude more gun owning households.
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
Presumably the police computer system is told about the transfers automatically and it has no capacity problems. I know my own country has long had such a system and these days is almost entirely cashless.
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
The thing is the internship or code campfire or probation or whatever all need the hiree to stop doing what they were doing. It’s incredibly intrusive. Lots of the best candidates have jobs and families and aren’t going to give up their c
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
That is a mean person
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
The article title actually says it is a success as well as a disaster. The title here has been shortened. And, as the professor in the article explains, it is a “disaster” for a small minority. And those are not he same minority who strug
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
I think we’d get just as frustrated with a dumb robot. It’s the dumbness that is the problem.
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
Many of us could easily imagine, once chance puts us in the position of the person who can’t walk past, taking a concerned interest in the outcome and, realising that the baby would go into the care system, stepping up and doing the massive
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
To put it into perspective, a long time ago a friend made this https://williame.github.io/map_of_worlds_religions/
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
So what is the solution? Can Europe start building the next gen fab now already? And if it can technically, and if it can politically, even at great expense, should it?
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
It’s a tangent but two points: First, the reason LLMs learned to like em dashes is that they are common in the training corpus - they are a thing before LLMs that LLMs have learned, not invented? Second, work browser has nice blue swiggles
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
My thinking is that if it really was super duper then Anthropic could charge eye watering amounts and have willing customers and set up expectations going forward that SOTA costs a lot to use. That they don’t suggests that really it is only
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
I’m super interested to know what the back and forth between models and tools really looks like in practice. Are there any much more detailed walkthroughs of how it works and how it decides the tools to use and the grep to use etc and what
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
The tree needs the bark to live. Peeling a ring of bark off around the tree is a well known to kill it.
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
The last year I’ve been doing all my dev on a vscode VM thingy my company set up. It’s just been getting better and better. It’s like local dev but, tbh, better. It’s at the point where I don’t even install dev tooling locally any more a
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
GitHub is becoming Sourceforge. Remember them?
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
FWIW virtual threads are great this time around. That’s something whose time has come generally. But yeah for me Java took a big leap forward when it got lambda but there hasn’t been another big leap since. Still so many obvious features
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
The idea of what to change is perhaps an llm task but the job of doing the find replace and that kind of tooling is something LLMs actually struggle with and have all kinds or crutches and try retry loops to paste over in coding agents etc.
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by wood_spirit 5mo ago
This is interesting. Java desperately needs an array of struct for type safe sugar over high performance arenas, but the areas you’d turn to this would be in a zero allocation effort where the cost of the this library’s off-heap and the ob

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