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by OneOffAsk 8d ago
It’s all speculation (you too), but I think the effect you’re describing is instead getting calibrated to the model’s limits. Next time a new model comes out, wait a month before trying and see if you have the same feeling of rapid quality
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by OneOffAsk 3mo ago
People often need a little nudge not to be on the defensive. I usually try to find a point that I agree with and let them know “that’s a good point”. It takes some listening and a lot of patience, but folks tend to reciprocate. It takes two
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by OneOffAsk 3mo ago
> because just like in actual fracking, it is immensely harmful to the long-term health and sustainability of anything it is applied to An otherwise good article, but weakened by this bit. Fracking and the use of natural gas is actually
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by OneOffAsk 4mo ago
That sounds legitimately hard and I don’t envy you. Hopefully (to carry your analogy) you can find punctual sports fans who freely share their holiday plans. > Whenever you try to vent how you don't fit into the culture people point
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by OneOffAsk 4mo ago
There’s a natural desire for people to want to make things. Most of the time it’s physical: homes, crafts, woodworking. But for a few of us it’s ok for it to be non physical. Actually, that’s part of the allure of programming: you don’t nee
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by OneOffAsk 4mo ago
This is pretty textbook antisocial behavior. Also, every one of those points is a normal way to deal with someone you don’t like or want to distance yourself from.
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by OneOffAsk 4mo ago
I don’t think UI’s natural interface is visual. I think the natural interface is a state machine. The most reliable and performant UI code I’ve written usually tackles this head on by thinking through all the possibilities of different stat
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by OneOffAsk 4mo ago
That sounds like something you fight harder on instead of being defeatist.
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by OneOffAsk 5mo ago
Zero shielding may actually help. Shielding acts as an antenna when not properly grounded and continuous, which is more common than not.
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by OneOffAsk 5mo ago
> Fonts look fat or washed out Disable font smoothing and restart/relogin. defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0
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by OneOffAsk 7mo ago
I bought one for coding. I no longer can read text for an extended period with lower DPI monitors. There’s a few reasons why. 1. Non integer scaling sucks on Linux. It sucks on all OSs, but it’s just unusable on Linux IMO. 2. Text antialias
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by OneOffAsk 7mo ago
> this generated function is not understood completely I think this kind of stuff is OK for the most part. I think it's a thrilling part of computer science: building systems so complex they're just on the brink of what can be
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by OneOffAsk 7mo ago
Lube the road.
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by OneOffAsk 7mo ago
Aim to make the road laminar. Every time you hard brake, you're causing the milk jug to glug, making a ripple of entropy as momentum turns to heat from your brakes and those behind you, sometimes in perpetuity. I learned this while doi
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by OneOffAsk 11mo ago
I recently installed a mini split heat pump in a detached accessory building. The installer upsold me on a more expensive unit because I’d get federal refunds due to its higher SEER rating. Ok, sure: higher efficiency, same price. In fact,
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by OneOffAsk 11mo ago
Yeah, ChatGPT is a tool not a therapist with robot mode on and all memory options disabled. It’s awesome.
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by OneOffAsk 1y ago
Someone did, but they're still slightly more expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
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by OneOffAsk 1y ago
Yes, exactly. The demo of Gemini's Diffusion model [0] was really eye-opening to me in this regard. Since then, I've been convinced the future of lots of software engineering is basically UX and SQA: describe the desired states, h
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by OneOffAsk 1y ago
ParaView [0] and VTK [1] are big projects from the same shop that does CMake. [0] https://github.com/Kitware/ParaView [1] https://github.com/Kitware/VTK
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by OneOffAsk 2y ago
America’s entire research and academic industry is rooted in military.
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by OneOffAsk 2y ago
> In fact, we didn’t found Tailscale to be a networking company. Networking didn’t come into it much at all at first. I always just assumed they were building some kind of logging software (“tail”scale), used Wireguard to connect hosts,
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by OneOffAsk 2y ago
Nginx is a state machine that efficiently handles lots of L4-L7 protocols. Seems weird to feel any emotions about it.
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by OneOffAsk 3y ago
Is this similar to what iOS 17 uses for its new autocomplete?
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by OneOffAsk 3y ago
I just listened to a podcast, Huberman, that discussed how to improve your ability to task switch. Apparently, there’s some connection to how your mind perceives time. He mentioned an exercise to improve your ability to task switch that man
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by OneOffAsk 3y ago
Creative works are incompatible with capitalism. We’ve create a thin finicky interface between them with copyright laws, but it hardly works. I’m not saying artists and creators shouldn’t have financial security in this system, quite the op
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Ask HN: Reading material on how to be a better software engineer?
388 points by OneOffAsk 4y ago|127 comments