augusteo

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by augusteo 8mo ago
The "learning through making" approach is really good. When I've explained LLMs to non-technical people, the breakthrough moment is usually when they see temperature in action. High temperature = creative but chaotic, low tem
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Growing up in Indonesia, we had "Kuku kaki kakekku kayak kuku kaki kakakku" (my grandfather's toenails look like my older sibling's toenails). The repetitive k-sounds are brutal. What's interesting is how tongue twi
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by augusteo 8mo ago
> "So DuckDB was developed to allow queries for bigish data finally without the need for a cluster to simplify data analysis... and we now put it to a cluster?" This is a fair point, but I think there's a middle ground. Du
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The Unicode approach seems backwards in hindsight, but I wonder if it was the only practical path forward at the time. Getting Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft to agree on exact pixel-level designs would've been a nightmare. Code
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The trajectory export feature is smart. Evaluation and training data collection in the same tool. I'm curious how the benchmarks handle non-determinism. Real GUIs have loading states, animations, popups that appear sometimes but not al
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The shift from "click and hope" to explicit post-conditions is the right framing. We've been building agent-based automation and the reliability problem is brutal. An agent can be 95% accurate on each step, but chain ten step
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by augusteo 8mo ago
I love projects like this. Taking something trivially simple and asking "but what if we really optimized it?" The material science discussion in these comments is fascinating. Never thought about how the contact point geometry mat
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The Chrome Extensions support is the interesting part here. That's often the dealbreaker for using mobile devices as computer replacements. Google's had this weird situation where Android and ChromeOS overlap more every year. At s
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Nice work on getting this running in the browser. The fact that it works at all with WebGL/camera APIs is impressive. I always expect browser-based video stuff to be janky, but the demos look smooth. Really wanna use this for GMeet or
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by augusteo 8mo ago
simonw replied to me! Achievement unlocked! Big fan! And yes there's definitely still a lot to do. Security is def a big one. Very exciting time to be alive.
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by augusteo 8mo ago
I work in AI and wrote code with AI everyday. The robots haven't replaced me yet, but I'll let you know :)
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Nice writeup. The Exists subquery approach is definitely the cleanest. One thing worth mentioning: if you're hitting this problem frequently, it might be worth reconsidering the query patterns themselves. We had a similar issue at work
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The timing is interesting. TikTok settles right as jury selection begins, Snap settled last week. Meta and YouTube are the ones staying in. I wonder if the settlement amounts will ever become public. The Big Tobacco comparison keeps coming
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by augusteo 8mo ago
> I don't see the point of JSX, seems to decrease type safety JSX compiles to typed function calls. The type safety is in the component definitions, not the syntax. The real question is whether video composition is actually hierarch
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by augusteo 8mo ago
I used to think this. Then I noticed how often "preparation" became its own infinite loop. At work we built something from a 2-page spec in 4 months. The competing team spent 8 months on architecture docs before writing code. We s
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Spent a few minutes just watching worlds unfold. There's something meditative about it. Curious about the performance issues Meegul mentioned. These simulations can be surprisingly compute-intensive once you add physics interactions be
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The limiting factor at work isn't writing code anymore. It's deciding what to build and catching when things go sideways. We've been running agent workflows for a while now. The pattern that works: treat agents like junior te
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The irony of a site about AI opt-outs getting hammered by AI scrapers is almost too on the nose. trollbridge's point about scrapers using residential IPs and targeting authentication endpoints matches what we've seen. The scrapers
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The mobility discussion is interesting to me as someone who navigated US immigration. Moving countries is hard. Not just paperwork hard, but restarting-your-life hard. Credit history, professional networks, understanding how things actually
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Technical blogs from infrastructure companies used to serve two purposes: demonstrate expertise and build trust. When the posts start overpromising, you lose both. I don't know enough about this specific implementation to say whether &
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The "1000 people in India watching cameras" reveal was the moment the magic died. Once you know the wizard is just a guy behind a curtain, you can't unsee it. The interesting question isn't whether the tech was ready. It
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by augusteo 8mo ago
bm3719's observation about Stoicism as a defense mechanism resonates with me. I've found it genuinely useful, not as self-help packaged for tech bros, but as practical mental infrastructure. The core idea is simple. You separate w
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The Star Wars ASCII animation was how I learned telnet existed. Felt like discovering a secret passage in the internet. There's something pure about text-based interfaces. No loading spinners, no JavaScript frameworks, no cookie banner
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by augusteo 8mo ago
This maps to what we've seen building AI at work. When we started building a voice agent for inbound calls, the models were close but not quite there. We spent months compensating for gaps: latency, barge-in handling, understanding mes
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Wow I didn't know that. That's impressive.
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Curious about the failure modes here. What specifically causes the silent data loss? The "serialize to localStorage on blur" approach onion2k mentions seems like it would catch most cases. But I've definitely lost form data i
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by augusteo 8mo ago
One of those topics I know almost nothing about but find fascinating. Ancient engineers building a 100+ meter tower that lasted 1,500 years.
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by augusteo 8mo ago
yeah exactly. even OpenAI/Gemini are really cheap too
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by augusteo 8mo ago
I don't work in hardware, but projects like this are inspiring. Taking something expensive and specialized and making it accessible with open designs. The WHO recognition for low-resource settings is the kind of impact that matters.
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Bookmarking this. Clear explanations of graphics algorithms are surprisingly rare.

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