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by xigoi 7mo ago
Git may have an arcane interface, but if you learn it, you can be sure what exactly will happen when you run a Git command. Unlike with LLMs.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
If you have to put in this much effort, why not just write it yourself?
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by xigoi 7mo ago
It’s only “easy to try” if you’re okay with using proprietary software and having to rely on an evil megacorporation that engages in cyber-warfare.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
The question is why we don’t have database management systems that integrate tightly with the progmming language. Instead we have to communicate between two different paradigms using a textual language, which is itself inefficient.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
Common facts like “what is the capital of Hungary” are repeated so many times in the training data that the LLM knows them without a search.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
An important part of a font is kerning. I’m guessing that LLMs would be really bad at kerning because they don’t have visual intuition.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
> Yes, that's the whole point of the exercise. Have you ever reviewed the -S output from GCC? No? So do you really know what your code is doing? Because I gave it some code in a different language and it mechanically translated it t
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by xigoi 7mo ago
It seems that the person you’re replying to is also deterministic. No matter how many times you explain what “deterministic” means, they fail to understand it.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
https://kagifeedback.org/d/1338-provide-a-plan-without-ai-fu... > A common misconception is that AI is more expensive than search. Opposite is true - performing a search is 100x-1000x more expensive than doing an in
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by xigoi 7mo ago
I think their point is that an AI user makes fewer searches on average because AI helps ttem find what they’re looking for faster.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
According to the Kagi team, customers who don’t use AI cost them more, so you’re not subsidizing anything.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
If you already have your HTML and CSS, just upload it to https://surge.sh/ or another one of the bajillions of static site hosting services.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
How does Google know the phone number if it’s not on a website?
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by xigoi 7mo ago
> I'm curious what you're looking for on a website that you can't otherwise find on a well organized Google Map page or Instagram profile. If you don’t have an Instagram account, you can’t find anything on an Instagram pro
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by xigoi 7mo ago
Did you need an account to read the Yellow Pages?
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by xigoi 7mo ago
It uses an LLM to do the translation, so there is no point in restricting it to a specific set of languages.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
You can curate the resutls yourself by telling it to uprank or downrank specific sites. Also, they have an initiative called SlopStop for detecting AI-generated websites.
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by xigoi 7mo ago
> The harder problem will be (or already is) that most products will be partially AI-assisted and a binary label can't really capture "we used AI for the layout but a human drew every illustration." Good luck defining that
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by xigoi 8mo ago
One of the many frustrating things about C++ is that “const” means “immutable” and “constexpr” means “constant”.
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by xigoi 8mo ago
Natural language is not a higher abstraction than code, it’s just more ambiguous.
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by xigoi 8mo ago
I was wondering why `this hideous quotation style' is used in so many places. Good historical window.
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by xigoi 8mo ago
I wish we could sue developers who create unusably bad software wasting time of millions of people.
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by xigoi 8mo ago
Jupyter notebooks are a form of scripting in JSON. Anyway, all this is the fault of specific tools, not of YAML. This is like saying that laundry pods are bad because people eat them.
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by xigoi 8mo ago
Steal? Their server gave me some HTML and it’s up to my user agent to present it however I want.
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by xigoi 8mo ago
> Please stop blaming the devs. You're laundering blame. Almost no detail of a web site or app is ever up to the devs alone. If a bridge engineer is asked to build a bridge that would collapse under its own weight, they will refuse.
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by xigoi 8mo ago
There are certainly more programmers who know Haskell than this <minuend> abomination.
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by xigoi 8mo ago
This scripting is not a part of YAML. It could be done in JSON as well: {"command": [ "/bin/sh", "-c", "rm -rf $HOME" ]} In fact, this is completely equivalent to your Y
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by xigoi 8mo ago
Even tobacco, the second most widely used drug, has a group of contrarians still today. Amazing.
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by xigoi 8mo ago
I am doing so, but I keep seeing people say that LLMs have completely removed the need for writing code.
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by xigoi 8mo ago
> In 2026 even the proverbial grandma should know what a backup is https://xkcd.com/2501/

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