LiamPowell

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by LiamPowell 5d ago
Why do you want you coding agents to be in a terminal? A terminal is missing latex rendering, inline images, a browser showing what the agent is clicking on, being able to view a spreadsheet and then select a region to reference in the conv
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by LiamPowell 5d ago
I don't understand the trend of forcing everything into terminals. It's needlessly constraining and it's much more work that just using Qt (or any other UI framework).
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by LiamPowell 5d ago
It also incorrectly says that Emacs has no mouse support. When you first open Emacs the default buffer has clickable links in it, it's impossible to miss the fact that Emacs has mouse support if you ever even open it.
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by LiamPowell 7d ago
That's not what the comment you're replying to or the article says. I feel like I'm going crazy reading comments here and elsewhere, am I not reading the same articles as everyone else?
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by LiamPowell 8d ago
Note that all of the authors of this paper work for a company that sells this snake oil. This entire idea of charging or discharging your body for some physiological effect is fundamentally flawed. It is indeed true that touching the ground
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by LiamPowell 10d ago
Were you one of those people who said "strawberry is the best icecream flavour"? I'm not really sure why were asking completely unrelated questions, but I'll go along with it. Though for the record, there was no communit
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by LiamPowell 10d ago
I can't tell if this is really good satire or genuine. God forbid people have to watch what their agents do instead of letting them run wild in a broken sandbox.
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by LiamPowell 11d ago
Not just that, some actions spawn an entire Chromium instance. For example, any time you click on a music video (not a new thread, an actual full Chromium instance).
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by LiamPowell 12d ago
It's not even a build flag, it's a setting that you can just go and enable in Chrome's own settings menu (chrome://settings/content/v8).
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Day: Create native apps for every platform from a single Rust codebase(daybrite.dev)
3 points by LiamPowell 16d ago|0 comments
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Firefox's password "security" is mind-numbingly stupid(blog.liampwll.com)
6 points by LiamPowell 17d ago|1 comments
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by LiamPowell 22d ago
It's useful to have all your tools automatically apply metadata in a standard way instead of having to keep track of it manually. Most cameras already add metadata that says what camera and lens were used, but you lose that as soon as
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by LiamPowell 22d ago
> However I question the value-add when e.g. the BBC website is already authenticated by nature of being served over HTTPS, and anyone who redistributes BBC content can and should link back to the source. The value would be in images rep
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by LiamPowell 22d ago
I always got the impression that C2PA is a way to say "this photo came from the BBC (for example) and they've only signed it because they've verified the supplied edit chain". It's always been obvious that one could
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by LiamPowell 26d ago
You don't need to jailbreak it. Swipe from the top and press the big button labelled "dark mode".
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by LiamPowell 26d ago
LLMs are particularly strong for this because it really doesn't matter if the code is a hacked together mess. Most user configs are already like that anyway.
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by LiamPowell 1mo ago
Latex rendering, inline images, inline browser showing what it's clicking on, being able to view a spreadsheet and then select a region to reference in the conversation, clickable links when it references a specific line number with mo
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by LiamPowell 1mo ago
Testing in that way will only tell you if the two devices work with the given cable. It won't tell you what sort of margins you have. Not all devices are made equal. A device isn't even necessarily better if it works with one cabl
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by LiamPowell 1mo ago
At a minimum, if plugging it in to a device and measuring waveforms is good enough for your application, you need an oscilloscope with 10 GHz bandwidth or so (don't quote me on that, I don't remember the max speed used by USB). Sc
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by LiamPowell 1mo ago
I also agree it's stupid when google puts UI over the webpage, but at least in that case they're not going out of their way to do it over an existing alternative. For anyone not aware of how bad google is getting about this: Did y
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by LiamPowell 1mo ago
> Firefox likes to draw the websites underneat the scrollbar. This was a choice that they actively made. It's not hard by default, they just chose to do something stupid because they think it looks pretty.
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by LiamPowell 2mo ago
Artists will at least show up further down the list usually. With songs it often just will not show the song at all when the title is an exact match, it will instead fill the entire results list with "lyric matches" that I'm
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by LiamPowell 2mo ago
The "gotcha" here, if you want to call it that, is that the picking the next token based on probabilities (either in training or in the sampler) is not an argument that LLMs are inherently flawed, especially when one reduces a LLM
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by LiamPowell 2mo ago
The natural next argument that I see a lot is "well it's still all probabilistic", which is technically true. However, don't the atoms that make up the cells that make up a human move around and interact based on probabi
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by LiamPowell 2mo ago
Sure, but it doesn't really fit there as a joke, it looks like it's just meant to be part of what they were trying to say.
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by LiamPowell 2mo ago
> Honestly? That's not just valuable—it's essential. I'm curious if you wrote this or had a LLM write it. I'm genuinely curious to be clear as I don't see why anyone would bother to go through a LLM to write such
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by LiamPowell 3mo ago
I suspected as much, and that brings us to the second issue where if we use a cohort of judges then the model that likes it's own code the most still wins.
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by LiamPowell 3mo ago
Here's the question I ask about every project that claims to make a LLMs output so much better: If it works so well then why would the model provider not just put it in the system prompt? Or in the case of interactive skills, why would
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by LiamPowell 3mo ago
This is not actually what the reviewer prompt says, or perhaps it is, I don't know since they don't make it public. I'm just pointing out how it seems like a bad idea to ask a LLM to make a subjective judgement on things like
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by LiamPowell 3mo ago
> You are a senior SWE-Bench reviewer, make no mistakes. I don't know what a better approach would look like while still remaining feasible, however this approach of telling a LLM to make a subjective judgement seems fundamentally f

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