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by zahlman 2mo ago
The post was published today by someone who is clearly making satirical reference to frontier models ("Pol" alludes to GPT-5.6 Sol).
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Or their predisposition to add, add, and add more stuff when proper engineering practices are more often about subtraction (but I've built mitigation guardrails against a lot of that). > a… personal financial management applica
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by zahlman 2mo ago
It should be expected that more tokens give diminishing returns. Minimally, there's no limit on tokens but there is on quality of output (you can't reach negative bugs, or negative execution time). The graphs I've seen show a
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by zahlman 2mo ago
I think it must depend at least partially on the task, too. At the extreme, there are things where you won't care beyond "it seems to work" because you only needed it to run once and it got useful results.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Nowadays, you buy a new computer when the same software you've been running for years or the OS itself that demands to be updated "free" makes your machine intolerably slow. This is, in my experience, not a thing on Linu
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University of California Faculty Calls to Reinstate SAT(bloomberg.com)
2 points by zahlman 2mo ago|1 comments
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> but the physical books on my shelves are nothing more than art to me …Does it really need to explain why people would be up in arms over the physical destruction of physical art ?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> I can write one using Qt, EGUI, etc (Or many other options), and it will just work on Windows, Mac, Linux/Wayland, and Linux/X. This is hard to square with the continuing obsession with Electron.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> The people that keep arguing for TUIs… Every time I use Claude Code As far as I can tell, practically everyone arguing for TUIs thinks Claude Code is a horrible example.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> I’m not packaging this application up. If you want it, just screenshot this section of the post and give it to Claude. It’ll build something useful. You see where I’m going with this. Does anyone else find that this reflects a really o
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Feels like youre defensive about this would love to know why. It couldn't possibly be that someone else has real-world experiences that differ from your own? > If you havent seen aerosols on a flight youre being disengenous or
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by zahlman 2mo ago
The object itself is the valuable thing, not necessarily the text. Why are so many in the discussion overlooking something so obvious?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Nothing is destroyed, only transformed. What was a physical book is now a digital book. I genuinely don't understand how it's possible for someone to type that out in all sincerity. Have you ever held a physical book?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> If they are truly rare, then they are likely not valuable, otherwise there would be more copies or their contents could be found elsewhere. That is literally the opposite of how it works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Anna's Archive paint a picture like AI companies are some movie villains burning books so no one can see them. but in reality they just disassemble them into pages because it's cheaper and faster to scan. Most of these books
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> The Betty Crocker Corporation could put just egg powder into their cake mix, but they don’t, because cracking an egg into a bowl allows people to pretend that they’re baking. Those who use ChatGPT for research should be advised that it
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Why I Quit the Tenure Track: The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia(theatlantic.com)
13 points by zahlman 2mo ago|1 comments
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by zahlman 2mo ago
I don't think this is a valid counterpoint at all. Math is cooperative, and comprehension is the point : the proof has value exactly because (and only to that extent) it empowers humans to understand an abstract truth. Chess is compet
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Thanks to whoever provided the archive link. I guess the server wasn't quite socially extroverted enough for all of HN's connections.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> This is where my mental model had been backwards. Your keystrokes never go “to stdin.” They go to the terminal, and fd 0 is just a descriptor that usually happens to point there. When the shell pointed fd 0 at a pipe instead, the keybo
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> It’s become readily apparent that LLMs are really quite excellent at building Software for One. Personal apps that side-step all of the complexity and accountability of enterprise software and are custom fit for a single person’s workf
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by zahlman 2mo ago
I'm not exactly sure what's special about version 3.2 of Unicode, but it's special enough to get separate support in `unicodedata`. If there are others who need the 3.2 case-folding behaviour, maybe `str` should get a separat
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by zahlman 2mo ago
They have this sort of thing on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, but I think they take nickels now (since pennies haven't been minted since 2012).
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> What I don't understand is why you're objecting to me voting with my wallet I did nothing of the sort. I simply said that I disagree with your stated motivations for your vote. The way that you discuss your plan makes it soun
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> In all, both security firms said some 434,000 CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) software pipelines had credentials exposed after running the compromised LiteLLM versions. So, averaging megabytes per pipeline
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Chances are, people are just expressing disagreement with you about what "positive" really means. And/or "benefit", "hatred", "ignorance" etc. Like, not what the dictionary says, but what in prac
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Doing brute statistics on em-dash etc. count was always dumb. The issue is how they're used.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Has it occurred to you how this line of argument would sound if the original comment had been about a socially-deemed "privileged" group instead? Do you understand that the nature of the group is actually completely irrelevant to
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Can someone please explain to me why it is apparently off-topic to point out that someone is bringing up irrelevant issues of gender identity, but not off-topic to do so in the first place?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
The point is that Oracle's actions are unremarkable in the context of the existing state of the world, and that corporations are generally not concerned with the morality of their customers. This was, to my thinking, such a straightfor

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