SteveJS

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by SteveJS 7mo ago
I have several techniques queued up that attempt to counter it. The distinction in Agents.md is definitely part of it. Not sure if they will work yet.
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by SteveJS 7mo ago
I am using lean as part of the prd.md description handed to a coding agent. The definitions in lean compile and mean exactly what I want them to say. The implementation i want to build is in rust. HOWEVER … I hit something i now call a McL
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by SteveJS 8mo ago
Amusing this downgraded when it points directly to the word used for the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights I seem to recall an intel i960 was used to drive leds on at least one model.
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by SteveJS 8mo ago
Ada Palmer has a great blog post on why Stocism is so appealing to rich folks. Her writing is always excellent. https://www.exurbe.com/stoicisms-appeal-to-the-rich-and-powe...
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by SteveJS 8mo ago
Wife’s comment: “Cherries? It needs to be an apple.”
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by SteveJS 9mo ago
This gets those cases right. https://github.com/KnowSeams/KnowSeams (On a beefy machine) It gets 1 TB/s throughput including all IO and position mapping back to original text location. I used it to split project
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by SteveJS 10mo ago
My grandmother loved clippy. Melinda French Gates back when she was Melinda French had a part in Clippy. “Melinda French (then the fiancée of Bill Gates) was the project manager of Microsoft Bob” Microsoft Bob is where Clippy was born. Refe
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by SteveJS 10mo ago
The larger project is to allow analyzing stories for developmental editing. Back in June and August i wrote some llm assisted blog posts about a few of the experiments. They are here: sjsteiner.substack.com
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by SteveJS 10mo ago
Also matryoshka and the ability to guide matches by using prefix instructions on the query. I have ~50 million sentences from english project gutenberg novels embedded with this.
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by SteveJS 10mo ago
The summer before i took 6.001 i read “The little LISPer”. It is a good intro. This is the version i read: https://www.abebooks.com/9780023397639/Little-LISPer-Third-E...
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by SteveJS 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
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by SteveJS 11mo ago
Here is a (3 month old) repo where i did something like that and all the tasks are checked into the linear git history — https://github.com/KnowSeams/KnowSeams
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by SteveJS 11mo ago
Having the llm write the spec/workunit from a conversation works well. Exploring a problem space with a (good) coding agent is fantastic. However for complex projects IMO one must read what was written by the llm … every actual word. W
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by SteveJS 1y ago
I do like the oddish (half cli / half tui) form factor of these ‘CLI’ coding agents. But i pretty much always pair with vscode for diff viewing.
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by SteveJS 1y ago
It is not llm specific. A large swathe of it isn’t that much Microsoft specific either. And it is a developer feature hidden from end users. e.g. - In your ollama example, does the developer ask end users to install ollama? Does the dev red
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by SteveJS 1y ago
The content is good. I’m glad i ignored a similar negative reaction to the reverse engineering framing.
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by SteveJS 1y ago
Those are Jaz’s daily unique action counts (flows) from the Bluesky firehose; they’re anchored to the Nov ’24 spike, so the ‘decline’ is post-surge reversion. Meanwhile the user stock kept rising (~39M). A presidential election spike is the
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by SteveJS 1y ago
I zoomed out. It looks like this: "Usage has absolutely declined from peak switching periods where inevitibly some users won't stick around, but that's to be expected" That just isn't a "sharp decline" no
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by SteveJS 1y ago
Personas are a great tool. IMO - By the time you arrived these had transformed into bad shorthand. (I say this having been in Devdiv through those years.) Elvis is not a persona - it is an inside baseball argument to management. It suffere
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by SteveJS 1y ago
Was trying to remember a counter example on good hires and wasted money. Alex St. John Microsoft Windows 95 era, created directX annnnd also built an alien spaceship. I dimly recalled it as a friend in the games division telling me about so
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by SteveJS 1y ago
AFAICT, the RTX 4090 I bought in 2023 has actually appreciated rather than depreciated.
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by SteveJS 1y ago
Nah it was a hobby project because I was laid off for a bit. Rust's RegEx was perfect because it doesn't allow anything that isn't a DFA. Yes-ish, the LLM facilitated designing the state machine, because it was part of the d
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by SteveJS 1y ago
I think this is true -- especially for new code. I did this not knowing any rust: https://github.com/KnowSeams/KnowSeams and rust felt like a very easy to use a scripting language.
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Fast dialog aware sentence splitter(github.com)
2 points by SteveJS 1y ago|1 comments
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by SteveJS 1y ago
I made this to try out Claude code. I have the $17/mo thing, and i don’t know rust. (I do know plenty of other languages.) Rust felt like a scripting language when used this way. I used a task system to force getting to a git commit
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by SteveJS 1y ago
I used it for 2 weeks with the cheap $17/mo sub. It is equal parts amazing, and frustrating. I ended up with 8k lines of rust and 12k lines of markdown. I think those markdown designs and explicit tasks were required the same way uni
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by SteveJS 1y ago
I loved discovering that rust has O(n) guardrails on regex! The so-called features that break that constraint are anti-features. Over the last two weeks I wrote a dialog aware english sentence splitter using Claude code to write rust. The
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by SteveJS 2y ago
Is there firmware to turn the Bose Alexa into just a Bluetooth speaker? I see there is a bose-dfu utility on github, but its list of supported devices is short (because the person who made it didn’t have other devices). The bose speaker i
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by SteveJS 2y ago
I really did like that kitchen timer. This seems like it would have been pretty good. However. My wife is super pissed at Bezos. She unplugged all our echos. She has me researching to try decide between a Roku or Apple tv to replace the fir
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by SteveJS 2y ago
Pointed a friend toward this. He thought it was cool, but said he’d never wear a Cray wristwatch because he heard they run fast.

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