StableAlkyne

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by StableAlkyne 6d ago
> One minute page loads on mobile (looking at you, CNN) lite.cnn.com is their text only subdomain. Probably meant for accessibility, but since it's only text it loads quickly and is very pleasant to use.
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by StableAlkyne 20d ago
"Good" or "bad" writing cannot be decided in vacuum: it is decided by the culture examining it. One example strongly tied to culture is cliched writing. Things become cliche as they are get overused; no amount of clevern
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by StableAlkyne 20d ago
> Then every setup plays against every other one and earns an honest score. ...as opposed to a dishonest score?
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by StableAlkyne 21d ago
The grip isn't part of the hammer, but it's reasonable to replace it if it's uncomfortable to hold and use.
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by StableAlkyne 21d ago
They train Claude on its own output and conversations with users, so tics like this are going to get amplified by virtue of being more common in the training set. That, and my conspiracy hat says it's a way of watermarking the output.
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by StableAlkyne 22d ago
For real, the "Claudish" has become so painful to read that it just takes me out of whatever task I was working on. When prompted to use simple English without jargon, it's still filled with load bearing honest caveats in eve
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by StableAlkyne 23d ago
OP wants his property to behave in a specific way, clearly knowing the risks. I'm not seeing how a hypothetical bad review about a $200B company is at all relevant here. The manufacturer's reputation is not in any way OP's pr
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by StableAlkyne 29d ago
This is such a cool idea, I can't believe it hasn't been done before! > It currently supports around 1.4k problems and multiple languages, including Python, C++, Rust, Java, Go, TypeScript, Swift, and others. It would be intere
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by StableAlkyne 29d ago
I mean, my original post is just asking why it's in there. Maybe I'm missing something, so I asked. That isn't "shaming" their work. > otherwise you risk passing as someone just seeking attention and upvotes Th
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by StableAlkyne 29d ago
I'm assuming it's vibe coded, but it's a code smell I've noticed is specific to vibe coded projects. AIs tend to have a debilitating phobia of any kind of exception. Claude especially will throw try/except and wei
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by StableAlkyne 29d ago
I've never seen this idiom before: try: AVOUCH_VERSION = importlib.metadata.version("avouch") except importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: AVOUCH_VERSION = "0.3.2" What's the intended pu
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
> bootlickers Mate, it's just a cookie on a site.
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
"Damn, I'm being asked to put a cookie into this site that will maybe result in some guy seeing an ad about a toothpaste he might buy at some point in the future. I'm going to risk months of unemployment and explain to my fam
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
> before that there was no non-old web to compare to. BBS / FidoNet, Usenet, IRC, and MUCKs would like a word!
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
Let's hope we get MULTIVAC and not SHODAN
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
This engineer would not do anything without asking the AI first. This includes extremely basic activities type hinting a function that takes a string and returns a string, which I know he knew how to do. Sorry mate, but if that isn't
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
There is a world of difference between using it as a "peer architect" and outsourcing your entire thought process to it.
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
> This has traditionally been offloaded by having seniors do the hard thinking then distill it into a jira ticket which could be handed off to an engineer that'd actually write the code I wish this were the extent of it nowadays.
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
Yeah, it's pretty awful that Facebook has made it such a demanding task.
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
If the computational requirement is within the realm of another normal day to day task, and if it cannot generally achieved with another cheaper approach, it would be contradictory to say it is staggering. I would agree if this was an easil
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
Local models are not the same as the giant ones in data centers. They're in about the about the same ballpark as running a AAA game on max settings. Sure, it's more computationally-expensive than running an HTML selection, but it&
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
It was already on fire, AI just pointed a leafblower at the coals. Before slop farms started using ChatGPT, they were using outsourced writers who had a tenuous (at best) grasp on the language and subject. If you searched anything on the
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
> LLM prose is annoyingly dense, and the useful information gets lost in a bunch of noise This is my biggest gripe with reading AI-generated text as well (ignoring the meta issue of whether it's worth taking the time to read somethi
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
> This feels like the early days of SEO over again There was a brief moment in the early Internet before it was all hyper-optimized... Until the parasites in the advertising industry started attaching themselves to every page. The year b
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
> Over the last year, every Cursor/Claude/Codex project I've worked on devolves into shitty, grafted-on, duct-tape and bandaid'ed architecture I've noticed this pattern as well when people decide to vibe code a
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by StableAlkyne 1mo ago
There's a reason games like Factorio or Exapunks are so popular among engineers! Especially if you get a little burned out and can't bring yourself to contribute to a side project, but still want to do programming-ish things that
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by StableAlkyne 2mo ago
IMO, I don't think this will raise the bar for PhDs. In every field of science, PhD student research is largely incremental. Very rarely is a thesis groundbreaking. The point of it is all is to function as an apprenticeship for that Ph
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by StableAlkyne 2mo ago
> minimize the amount of wait times between picking up people and taking them to their destination I wish elevators accounted for load. I've been to a couple of larger conferences where on the Monday morning after, the hotel elevato
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by StableAlkyne 2mo ago
Nah, people will just come up with different (probably broader) heuristics when reviewing. We have a past example of this in the US, too. Certain countries have historically had a huge problem with paper mills. Because of this, most people
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by StableAlkyne 2mo ago
> If you add a score/metric this incentivizes the wrong thing, Don't we already have all of these things because academia decided to use H-index as a metric for career impact?

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