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by wrs 1y ago
I've been doing a cheap DIY version of Tag-Connect for some STM32 projects (6-pin debug). I just put the holes for a pin header near the edge of the board, and use a pogo clip to connect [0]. (These are readily available on AliExpress
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by wrs 1y ago
Yesterday I was trying to move a backend system to a new AWS account and it wasn’t working. I asked Claude Code to figure it out. About 15 minutes and 40 aws CLI commands later, it did! Turned out the API Gateway’s VPCLink needed a security
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by wrs 1y ago
Be sure to turn on "pedantic mode" to get the footnotes that make this make more sense. Some examples of what this means by "applications" would help. I don't think the prediction here is that Excel's main ev
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by wrs 1y ago
In case you’re trying to follow the code: The letters definition is slightly too late. It needs to be before extractString.
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by wrs 1y ago
Indeed, if it works for you, great. What’s at issue here is whether you put the book that worked for you in the “science” section or the “fiction” section of the bookstore.
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by wrs 1y ago
This administration seems to be “playing government”, like little kids “play house”. Assuming a role without understanding what the role actually is, using words they’ve heard the grownups use without knowing what they mean, declaring new r
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by wrs 1y ago
That's clever, but if your code review missed the perfectly visible line eval(atob(decodedString)) then they didn't really need invisible characters to get past you, did they?
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by wrs 1y ago
In my experience, there isn’t a model that is more dependable for all purposes. They each have some unique strengths.
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by wrs 1y ago
ContextProvider is for when you have some data that any random component might need, and you don’t want to clutter up the system by passing it through every component (this is called “prop drilling”). Or maybe you can’t pass it through so
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by wrs 1y ago
And electric bone healing stimulation. [0] [0] https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.20...
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by wrs 1y ago
I’ve never seen the word “just” take on more load than it did in that second sentence! Sorry to inform everybody doing their Ph.D. on LLM interpretability that they’re just wasting their time.
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by wrs 1y ago
Being able to make it and knowing how it works are just not the same thing. I can make bread of consistent quality, and know how to improve certain aspects of it. To know how it works , I’d need to get a doctorate in biochemistry and then
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by wrs 1y ago
Yeah true, there was a period when they couldn’t really afford to annoy the big developers. But it doesn’t seem like the underlying attitude changed much!
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by wrs 1y ago
I don't know about the reasoning, but it gave "evidence" for its observations in much the same way a human composer might. In terms of "understanding", it seemed in the ballpark of what I get when I ask it to explai
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by wrs 1y ago
We don't know how to build LLMs from scratch either, in that sense. We know how to build a machine that you run trillions of tokens through and hope something good happens. What happens, we only know at a vague and low level. You jus
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by wrs 1y ago
Apple just doesn’t work that way, and hasn’t since I worked there in the 90s. Private APIs are out of bounds. It’s like a “the FBI doesn’t negotiate with kidnappers” situation.
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by wrs 1y ago
Claude just analyzed the emotional content of a piece of music for me -- quite accurately -- by just looking at an uploaded PDF of the score. How does that work? "It's a nonlinear system" or "it's a bunch of matrix
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by wrs 1y ago
Well, I hear there are very fine people on both sides. [0] [0] https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116973/documents/...
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by wrs 1y ago
For a little more color on 5, as a user of no_std Rust on embedded processors I use crates like heapless or trybox that provide Vec, String, etc. APIs like the std ones, but fallible. Of course, two libraries that choose different no_std co
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by wrs 1y ago
My current method for trying to break through this misconception is informing people that nobody knows how AI works. Literally. Nobody knows. (Note that knowing how to make something is not the same as knowing how it works. Take humans as a
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by wrs 1y ago
Check out Mr. Robot S2E1, where someone is terrorized by their hacked smart house. Or 1977's Demon Seed , a film where an AI house does worse things. I really thought the latter would remain fictional, but I'm less sure now.
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by wrs 1y ago
The home office literally sshing into your appliance is a little surprising, but years ago when it came out that Tesla was doing this regularly to cars, I remember a lot of people saying this was common practice. (Maybe for things bigger th
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by wrs 1y ago
Not sure how that's relevant... I haven't seen many design documents of infinite size.
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by wrs 1y ago
It's a pleasant surprise that the Senate did respect its own purely parlimentary and nonbinding mechanism [0]. But I'm not sure what point you're making -- the bill did pass, as I suspect would just about any other bill the P
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by wrs 1y ago
For a deeper dive there’s a somewhat old but excellent book on most of these points called Normal Accidents . [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents
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by wrs 1y ago
What? Did you miss the BBB? They’ll pass any legislation they’re told to.
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by wrs 1y ago
You can work with the LLM to write down a model for the code (aka a design document) that it can then repeatedly ingest into the context before writing new code. That what “plan mode” is for. The technique of maintaining a design document a
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by wrs 1y ago
The purpose of a university is to expand knowledge, which is itself not a “conservative idea”. A university that can’t “belittle” obviously false ideas like “the earth is flat” or “evolution isn’t real” or “the climate isn’t changing” just
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by wrs 1y ago
This seems to be some thoughts about an improved way to teach GPU programming to people who don't know it, so the audience for this is people who already do.
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by wrs 1y ago
I think the point of the article is that it's likely you didn't need a "modern web application" in the first place, because vanilla Rails would work fine. But you won't know that if you don't bother understan

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