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by xienze 5mo ago
> I don’t think -$2000 is a conservative enough figure for standard depreciation either (a lot can happen in a year) We aren't exactly in "standard" times and haven't been for quite a while. Even five year old graphic
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by xienze 5mo ago
The usual answer is some handwavy nonsense about "well if you were too lazy to write the text, why should I read it?" said by the same people too lazy to write the code...
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by xienze 5mo ago
> people who hate programming and avoid doing it as much as possible, because they only got into it for the money. Yeah, not the case at all. I love programming, I've been doing it since I was a kid, for over 30 years. But I DO have
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by xienze 5mo ago
> I built my own extensions if I needed them. You're a programmer, right? The whole point of extensibility is that you, or your company, can program what you need from your IDE, Dude, get real. We don't all have the luxury of b
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by xienze 5mo ago
It's very simple, just don't make it accessible outside your home network. Clients sync when the server is accessible and use last synced data otherwise.
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by xienze 5mo ago
> how do you harden it? By not exposing it to the wider internet. When I use a client (iPhone, browser, etc.) while on the home network, it syncs. While off the network, the last synced data is still there. That's been good enough f
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by xienze 5mo ago
> I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work. Is your pay scaling in a similar manner? Or have you just raised the floor for what's expected of you?
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by xienze 5mo ago
Well obviously I'm not talking about buying over MSRP.
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by xienze 5mo ago
In this particular case, inference and training are intertwined. It might be one thing if Anthropic could get away with training a new model every five years and control costs that way. But they can't. Put another way, their inference
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by xienze 5mo ago
> in addition to receiving LLM output, you have also received a laptop in exchange for your money And, since it's a Mac, whenever you're ready to upgrade it'll still have a fairly decent resale value.
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by xienze 5mo ago
I think the point is you should probably run that tool and fix all the issues _before_ merging into the master branch.
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by xienze 5mo ago
Sure, but the point remains. They could've used Claude to build a Zig to Rust converter, ended up with something that was both deterministic _and_ beneficial to the wider community.
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by xienze 5mo ago
> Even with AI, just tell it to make smaller self contained PRs. Do you want one big PR or 100 small ones? You can't escape the sheer volume of code it's going to produce.
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by xienze 5mo ago
The fact that Vaultwarden exists?
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by xienze 5mo ago
> I'd also be interested generally in how much tacit knowledge was needed to come up with these rules and how much iteration on this file was needed, for example how many of the rules here came from a failure case hit as part of ite
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by xienze 5mo ago
Yeah the problem is that's just the start of the context. There's, you know, all the tool call results and file reads and stuff.
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by xienze 5mo ago
I don't want to be a jerk but 31t/s prefill is basically unusable in an agentic situation. A mere 10k in context and you're sitting there for 5+ minutes before the first token is generated.
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by xienze 5mo ago
Well the popular argument is that it takes so long to pass any kind of bill that smaller bills would just mean more bills and a bigger backlog. I don't really buy that. The real reason is that it's easy to sneak stuff into a bill,
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by xienze 5mo ago
Yes, exactly. I'm reminded of the articles detailing how Gen Z has fewer computer skills than previous generations because computing has become so abstracted -- turn on iPhone, tap button. "What's a directory?" -- files
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by xienze 5mo ago
> most programmers and hobbyists could code without the need of a University or a Corporation. I don't think so. Back then, the pool of people doing such a thing basically self-selected for intelligent, motivated types who were capa
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by xienze 5mo ago
I think you misunderstood what I was talking about, or perhaps you're an example of it. > And what does "EU goes off the rails" actually mean here? It means, "what if the EU starts acting belligerently to other countr
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by xienze 5mo ago
Trump was "researching" and not "implementing" taking Greenland by force, yet it sure did whip people up into a frenzy. Meanwhile, "researching" chat control, VPN restrictions, etc.? "Oh it's just res
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by xienze 5mo ago
Yeah except he made multiple exceptions and justified them with "OK well I guess these can stay because they're better than what's available in Europe." So it's not exactly "I have my values and I'm sticki
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by xienze 5mo ago
> While I agree with him that the US is becoming more unpredictable, I don't think the EU is much better, especially with regards to digital things where they can be worse in some ways. It makes a lot more sense if you realize prett
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by xienze 5mo ago
> I'm reminded of a speech Barack Obama gave many years ago about the difficulty and necessity of finding a "happy medium" between protecting individual liberties and providing law enforcement with the abilities to provide
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by xienze 6mo ago
> 1 person did a rust rewrite that took 6 days that would have taken hundreds of engineers more than a year to do. Even cheaper would just be to not do it in the first place. Was there a pressing need to rewrite it?
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by xienze 6mo ago
> A wealth tax than caps one's inflow to something like a million a year makes a lot of sense. To all the billionaire sympathizers Perhaps the "billionaire sympathizers" are people who can manage to see that the bar for wh
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by xienze 6mo ago
> We don't like LLMs throwing giant walls of code in PRs at repos and expecting devs to read and respond to all of them. One giant PR versus dozens of smaller ones, what's the difference? LLMs are going to send it your way whet
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by xienze 6mo ago
Users interface with programs, which are code. And even if you don't think that matters, do instances of "it's not X, it's Y" in a blog post make the text less readable? You could make a compelling argument that man
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by xienze 6mo ago
> code is not user-facing The user interacts with the code, and if it's sloppy AI generated code, it's going to impact the user somehow. Be it through poor performance, bugs, security holes, you name it. Maybe I was naive in th

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