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by xnorswap 9mo ago
I find it fascinating that it uses a 2-9 scale to grade difficulty. The rating is described as a rating "1 - 10" But every trick is actually graded 2 to 9. ( https://libraryofjuggling.com/TricksByDifficulty.html )
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
Why would you rob yourself of the chance of a wordle-in-one?
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
Have you checked it didn't come up before you started?
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
Was the crumpet buttered with "I can't believe it's not butter"? ( The typeface looks a lot like https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/i-cant-believe-i... )
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
It's directly an inversion of https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/437173-talk-is-cheap-show-m...
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
Crypto only looked like it solved friction in places with messed up banking. To people in the EU/UK who had free faster payments before Bitcoin was a thing, it never looked like an improvement at all. The solution expensive and slow ba
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
The difference is, for the claims of blockchain, it was trivially easy to look at and say, "This could have been a database". Almost every single blockchain "product" (outside of the peer-to-peer trustless currency ) cou
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
We don't have the infrastructure for it, but models could digitally sign all generated messages with a key assigned to the model that generated that message. That would prove the message came directly from the LLM output. That at least
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
You just gave me flashbacks of mistyping a folder share name on windows and having the whole PC lock up for a minute or two.
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
For a 2M+ LOC codebase, the plans alone are never adequate. They miss nuance that the agent will only have to rediscover when it comes to operate on them. For spec driven development (which I do for larger issues), this badly affects the pl
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
In some sense people here have solved it by simply embracing it, and submitting to the danger and accepting the inevitable disaster.
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
I've long said that the next big jump in "AI" will be proactivity. So far everything has been reactive. You need to engage a prompt, you need to ask Siri or ask claude to do something. It can be very powerful once prompted, b
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
One thing that could be a strong degradation especially for benchmarks is they switched the default "Exit Plan" mode from: "Proceed" to "Clear Context and Proceed" It's rare you'd wa
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
I don't think I've encountered that style of inventory-combining problem since the frustrations of Discworld, are there many modern games in that style? When I think of puzzle games I think mostly of geometric reasoning problems l
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
Most of the subheadings starting with "The" and "What Actually" is a bit of a giveaway in my view. Not exclusive to AI, but I'd be willing to bet any money that the subheadings were generated.
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
He is indeed incredibly prolific, anyone taking a train around london will recognise 10FOOT. But he is not an artist, he literally just tags 10Foot in what could be described as looking like it was done with a marker pen. something like thi
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
> it really doesn't need anything else than cannot be done in a terminal I strongly disagree with this. Claude-code would be super-powered if it had a better grasp of running processes without logging output . Imagine if it could s
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
"TikTok doesn't live up to the best of TV" is true, but that's not the argument I'm making. OP asked for "newer", and yet you've not named anything created in the last 10 years. ( And named a 30+ year
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
You're right, there are plenty of sympathetic ones too, but it's the unsympathetic ones that really don't do so well to a US audience. There's a reason that The Office (US) hard pivoted Michael Scott after season 1.
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
What do you mean by "this type"? The sketch show format has been pretty much entirely killed off by TikTok & Instagram. It's very hard to do a sketch that hasn't already been done on TikTok with a tiny fraction of th
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
To go full British, you need characters like David Brent, who aren't sympathetic. They have no redeeming heartfelt goodbye. No-one is sad when they're gone, life moves on. I would also say that the Always Sunny gang really aren&#x
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
People put value in effort for efforts' sake. An example is there's a split in the woodworking community between people who use power tools and those who use hand-tools only. The latter often seeing it as more pure. Those same pow
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
I browse HN too much, I recognised most the removals as simply recent duplicates.
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
Does this story have a happy ending such as a conviction for fraud?
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
Do you think C# / .NET doesn't stack up in terms of budget, or not stack up in terms of runtime speed?
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by xnorswap 9mo ago
I'd argue that makes Black Mirror more prescient. In the case of Black Mirror, it was a set of studies on the dangers of current and near technologies. That some of those fears are materialising not long after the episodes, is in my op
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
It's missing what's sadly the only important difference: Git: Used by everyone else Fossil: Not used by everyone else Everything else is kind of irrelevant. Git is hard to use and awkward to master, but you need to do so
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
Yes. There are a few other title-mangle rules that HN has. It's an attempted technical solution to try to remove / limit the amount of "clickbait" in titles. It does not work very well.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
I'm with you on this one, the idea of trying to "optimise" away lunches and break time to cram in more "study time" seems utterly alien.
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by xnorswap 10mo ago
CRTs were often deeper than they were wide, they were incredibly bulky in all dimensions. It's not as if CRTs didn't also have package and padding.

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