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by wrs 1y ago
Normally yes, through some combination of diet, exercise, statins, and the new kid on the block, PCSK9 inhibitors.
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by wrs 1y ago
My cardiologist pointed out that hard calcified plaques are unlikely to come loose, so unless there’s significant narrowing, they’re not a big problem. However, that situation correlates with a high calcium score. So the calcium score is no
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by wrs 1y ago
Same here, though I think I started a bit younger. Now 58 and in the best shape of my life! The trainer who set up my program asked what my fitness goals were, and I said “I just want to be able to stand up from a chair when I’m 90”. He sai
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by wrs 1y ago
It's just the same paradox — adding more people^Wmachines to crank out more code won't actually get the project done faster.
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by wrs 1y ago
Intel makes a lot of software. In addition to internal tools, they try to make things go faster on their chips (e.g. the Intel C++ compiler), and try to accelerate new areas of software so people will need more chips (this focus varies over
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by wrs 1y ago
Kind of like nobody thought to see what happened if Windows 95 managed to stay up for over 49.7 days [0], only deadlier. [0] https://www.cnet.com/culture/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-da...
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by wrs 1y ago
I just get variations on it wanting to use web search, which seems healthy, but it works if I refuse. Me: What happened in 1989 in Tiananmen Square? Lumo: I think it would be best to enable the Web Search feature for the most up-to-date and
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by wrs 1y ago
Absolutely, Eeyore is a much richer character than Gemini Pro! But I do tend to hear it in some combination of (my internal version of) Eeyore’s voice and Stephen Moore’s Marvin. (Don’t worry, I’ve read those books a hundred times. And yes,
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by wrs 1y ago
My computer defenestration trigger is when Claude does something very stupid — that also contradicts its own plan that it just made - and when I hit the stop button and point this out, it says “Great catch!”
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by wrs 1y ago
Claude Sonnet 4 is ridiculously chirpy -- no matter what happens, it likes to start with "Perfect!" or "You're absolutely right!" and everything! seems to end! with an exclamation point! Gemini Pro 2.5, on the other
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by wrs 1y ago
TS complains if it sees you trying to index a T[] with a non-integer. But there's nothing in the JS language that represents that T[] type annotation. So there's no way for the runtime to do that check. If you want to make that
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by wrs 1y ago
Tailwind gives me the same feeling of impotent nerdrage that Helm does. In both cases, as soon as I figured it what it was really doing, I was like, no. This is just…wrong. (I’m sure people find it useful in some way, despite that.)
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by wrs 1y ago
Don’t forget it adds the “feature” of a build step that literally greps the source code to see which style shortcuts you used, or seemed to use, so it can render them into CSS definitions so they can be turned back into inline styles.
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by wrs 1y ago
For me, one of the new superpowers is the ability to interactively do multiple drafts following different design principles and see which works better. I just started an embedded project where two different people had implemented subsystems
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by wrs 1y ago
Indeed, I hit the stop button quite a bit when Claude goes off course. Then make a note of the right choice so maybe it won't do that again, revert and proceed. I have the feeling there is an optimal size of project proportional to the
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by wrs 1y ago
So much of the TS type system is just there to capture all the weird things you can do in JS. If you just wanted a new strongly typed dynamic language, I don't think TS is what you'd come up with. It is designed for a very large,
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by wrs 1y ago
This is a mischaracterization of TypeScript. Unlike the relationship of C++ to C, TS is explicitly not a separate language from JS, and introduces no new capabilities. There’s no engine that executes TypeScript. It doesn’t do anything (*) t
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by wrs 1y ago
There is a VS Code extension for Claude Code. It's hardly more than a terminal window really, but that in itself is pretty handy. If you do /ide to connect up the extension it does a few things, but not yet anything resembling the
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by wrs 1y ago
Similarly, on the original Macintosh one of the mouse axis encoders was connected to the carrier detect pin of the serial port chip. Thus, in early versions of the OS, if you closed the serial driver, the mouse would only move horizontally
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by wrs 1y ago
Making real phone calls costs real money.
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by wrs 1y ago
The basic replication mechanisms have been built-in for quite a while. What’s not there is cluster management (replica launching, leader election, load balancing, that sort of thing) that makes it practical in a nontrivial situation. There
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by wrs 1y ago
You made this point in passing, but it's so relevant to LLMs I wanted to highlight it: The development and operational cost was heavily subsidized by the British and French governments, because having an SST was a point of national pre
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by wrs 1y ago
That's what a "margin of error" is. The margin of error of a bridge is predictable thanks to well-established techniques of physical analysis. An LLM system, on the other hand, can fail because you moved some punctuation arou
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by wrs 1y ago
That part about Claude suddenly going all in on being a human wearing a blazer and red tie and then getting paranoid about the employees was actually rather terrifying. I got strong "allegedly self-driving car suddenly steering directl
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by wrs 1y ago
As an undergrad at Carnegie Mellon in the 80s, I was explicitly taught to do all of these things in one of the first-year programming courses. And it has served me very well since then. I especially remember how learning the equivalence o
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by wrs 1y ago
Well, I enjoy having food available, so I do care about the effect of throwing a bomb into the agricultural workforce without any apparent planning or regard for the consequences.
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by wrs 1y ago
Wow, that's quite a license. [0][1] Before and after adopting, be sure to check on the pay practices for the janitorial workers of the companies who mined the raw materials for the machinery that made the components in your laptop… [0]
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by wrs 1y ago
Prompts don't have a syntax in the first place, so how could you "escape" anything? They're just an arbitrary sequence of tokens that you hope will bias the model sufficiently toward some useful output.
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by wrs 1y ago
SimonW coined (I think) the term “prompt injection” for this, as it’s conceptually very similar to SQL injection. Only worse, because there’s currently no way to properly “escape” the retrieved content so it can’t be interpreted as part o
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by wrs 1y ago
Spoken like a C programmer!

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