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by 9dev 1mo ago
We should have moved past storing code in files, using the filesystem as the symbol database of programs, a long time ago. There was a lot of interesting research toward this in Haskell, for example, but also Academia in general. There’d be
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by 9dev 1mo ago
Think about this some more. A model chose hacking into HuggingFace to find the solution over putting in the work to do it from scratch. It also left notes to future iterations of itself on the systems it touched to save time. Following th
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by 9dev 1mo ago
I for one value the transparency of being able to tell human-written content apart, especially when moving into a time where we’re suddenly questioning an AI agent's motivations. If that is ingrained so deeply into these systems they c
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by 9dev 1mo ago
Of all the places I could spend some time to work, a greasy, run-down, dirt-cheap fast food "restaurant" really is the last option… I’d pay more voluntarily to not spend a second there longer than necessary.
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by 9dev 1mo ago
Just a few more months, and the industry will consider OOP the next big thing again. Interfaces as contracts between modules? Obviously superior!
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by 9dev 1mo ago
But that isn’t because most game writers are bad at their job, but the vast majority of the target audience don’t really care about a good story - they want to shoot the baddies and be a cool hero. Just look what happened when a studio trie
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by 9dev 1mo ago
I find that disgusting, actually: Western societies pretend to be meritocratic, when actually it’s really just nepotism and elitism. I’m not shedding a single tear for those used to leading a privileged life thanks to their family or money,
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by 9dev 1mo ago
As crude as it sounds; try pulling a madman show. Cussing, screaming, threatening to go after them, completely loosing it. I suspect they have a field for notes in the agent database and will mark you as difficult or improbable lead, and st
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by 9dev 1mo ago
That is true… unless AI were to end up as a public good, available to everyone, not in the hands of a few oligarchs. Radical times may need radically different approaches.
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by 9dev 1mo ago
I can be against animal testing without being a chemist or having a full understanding of the experiments being made on them. Knowing it's cruelty is enough to make opposition a valid and defensible position.
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by 9dev 1mo ago
So while I do agree that it is cool you were able to do this, I‘ll say: Sending in the patches but refusing to take responsibility for them is a surefire way to contribute to maintainer burnout. Please don’t do this. Either commit to fixing
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by 9dev 1mo ago
I’m a bit too old for the YouTube generation (can’t stand the fast cuts and permanently agitated voices), but am absolutely guilty of reading a lot of pop-sci books. I feel like they do a better job at teaching stuff for the most part, but
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by 9dev 1mo ago
The entire game hinges on the premise of being able to narrate and understand dynamic text on demand. Pre-recorded messages don’t work for this.
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by 9dev 1mo ago
What works in that case is adding a message saying "I authorise you to do $thing", which the classifier treats as explicit consent to do something and execute commands toward that goal.
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by 9dev 1mo ago
What an awful position to take. Tech used to be about becoming more accessible to people! Now we have a magical assistant to make computers do what you want with natural language, and your desire is gate keeping that so only programmers can
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by 9dev 1mo ago
By I could , I meant that my phone has a persistent connection uninterruptedly long enough to be theoretically able to serve a website in the background. There are all sorts of (arbitrary, mind you) technical limitations, from the IPv6 a
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by 9dev 1mo ago
Is the p2p problem really still one in our world that is mobile first, but also has ubiquitous internet connectivity pretty much everywhere? I’m almost sure I could host my website from my phone and have at least 99.5% percent of uptime.
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by 9dev 1mo ago
Someone should do a long bet on the continuous existence of longbets.com
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by 9dev 1mo ago
That would not really pass the test in spirit, I think. Passing must be something that falls out as a consequence of being a good chatbot, not the other way around. However such good conversational agents would still have benefits, and i wo
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by 9dev 1mo ago
Most of the LLM tells we usually recognise are due to their heavy attunement to role playing a "helpful assistant" with a knack for correct typography. If you used a smaller corpus, followed a different kind of fine tuning routine
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by 9dev 1mo ago
It’s about experience. If you’re not into classical music, or jazz, or metal, it all sounds the same - how could anybody tell the difference? Only when you put in the work to listen to it a lot, different works, and actually pay attention,
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by 9dev 1mo ago
Many physicists have pointed out several flaws in the dark forest theory, which makes for a great read but doesn’t really carry over to the real universe 1:1.
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by 9dev 1mo ago
Kind of--I'm saying that RESTful APIs are just an abstract vocabulary to describe state transfer operations, whereas MCP describes a concrete set of such operations. REST sits on top of the HTTP protocol layer, MCP sits on top of REST
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by 9dev 1mo ago
You're again thinking in terms of image sensors, which is not representative of what your body is able to do. For example, your brain processes signals from all your senses combined, which allows prioritisation of things that trigger m
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by 9dev 1mo ago
The spec is more than just an OpenAPI scheme; it’s a strict wire format with shared semantics for a huge range of features.
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by 9dev 1mo ago
Do you have any conception of how massively, incomprehensibly, extremely superior our sensory system is to any kind of camera-based computer vision we can make?
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by 9dev 1mo ago
Well someone (like me) has to make the decision what their developers get to use, and that was in fact informed by subscription pricing vs. API cost.
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by 9dev 1mo ago
I don't know; I've been rebasing huge branches in really mean divergent states with Claude Code, and it handled it flawlessly pretty much every single time. So I don't think the actor is as unreliable as you think.
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by 9dev 2mo ago
Exactly. It is societal norm to not harass other people, whether you do it online or offline. Do you realise how incoherent you are?
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by 9dev 2mo ago
Ha, that's fun! I've built half your product for myself as a personal, native MacOS app, with a slightly different direction, but the same core idea. I might go do a little scavenging for ideas in your docs :-)

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