bckr

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by bckr 5d ago
I’ve had poor luck working with freelancers. Some good luck for the occasional drawing. But good help is hard to find.
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by bckr 17d ago
Who is also a working engineer (and programmer of the highest caliber) who is in touch with the zeitgeist of engineering.
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by bckr 26d ago
My great grandmother taught me that “nothing doing” meant something similar to “there’s nothing for it”.
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by bckr 28d ago
This is just very cool. Thanks for sharing.
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by bckr 29d ago
How far are we from speaking a GameCube-era game into existence as a pastime?
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by bckr 1mo ago
This is how I feel too! If you want to get excited… think about all the things that ever got you excited about the future. Then think about how you basically had to defer the possibility of them happening in your lifetime. Readjust your tim
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by bckr 1mo ago
The basics are always so basic yet so necessary. Thanks for the recommendation.
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by bckr 1mo ago
I like the ideas a lot. The Readme needs some polish (I think it’s great that it reads as hand-written; an LLM could make suggestions that make it just 10% easier to read). Is choreographic programming the same as session types?
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by bckr 2mo ago
What are the specs of your laptop and what tokens per second do you get?
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by bckr 2mo ago
Right but what keeps the second line clean? You’re going to get spam there too.
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by bckr 2mo ago
I think we have to do something this extreme. We have to give the system a total makeover. Somehow we also have to keep it from being fully centralized and have the big brother problem on the other side. Unfortunately these two goals are di
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by bckr 2mo ago
Can 3100 links be legendary? I feel like there can be at most 310 legendary links
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by bckr 2mo ago
Yes, agentic coding is machine learning. Not because of the underlying language models, but because it is gradient descent, where the test harness provides a gradient for the agent to traverse.
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by bckr 2mo ago
Most people don’t know about that because they live in an information bubble handcrafted by the oligarchs.
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by bckr 2mo ago
Yes and Pythonic is the Pythonic word for idiomatic
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by bckr 3mo ago
Engineer? Wow, that’s high falutin. Sanitation Technician is as high as I got.
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by bckr 3mo ago
I suggest you encoding your invariants in the harness. Architectural invariants that can be mechanically checked, including which modules are approved, which dependencies, etc.
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by bckr 3mo ago
VC startup world is not about intelligence. It’s about impressing investors.
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by bckr 3mo ago
What models have you tried? Gemini 3.1 pro has vision capable of reading my sloppy diaries from 10 years ago, down to small glyphs and doodles.
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by bckr 3mo ago
Wow. That sure is something.
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by bckr 3mo ago
Yes. It’s astonishing how I see individuals with these enormous egos centered on their intellectual, technical achievements, who have such egregious blindspots surrounding their own unethical attitudes and behavior. Sirs, please turn the ap
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by bckr 3mo ago
Where I made up my mind is during “dance party” where the boys have faces and the girl has a dancing woman for a head. Overall the idea is creative, but also not at all what I hoped. Was hoping for diagrams of actors in the systems sense.
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by bckr 3mo ago
> Cursor is declining Yep. I switched to Zed over the weekend and I’m very happy so far. It’s snappy.
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by bckr 3mo ago
“Listen” is being used in a non-literal way here, with the meaning “to accept as true”.
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by bckr 3mo ago
We could all chip in
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by bckr 3mo ago
We set up something with a registry of AgentCards and a messaging system with SSE streaming—then we realized we didn’t need an agent on the other side so now we have this weird hybrid pattern. So, no.
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by bckr 3mo ago
I’m in the first weeks of designing nub: Not Unix, Basically. The motto is “general-purpose, provably correct software, for everyone”. The idea is to build, on top of seL4, a software stack that builds compile time capability guarantees and
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by bckr 4mo ago
Still haven’t succeeded! I’m on my 8th business since being a teenager. I have lost quite a bit of money. I’ve earned some through consulting. I think for those of use for whom it doesn’t come easy or natural (and maybe, for everyone) you h
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by bckr 4mo ago
Oh yeah, he’s the one who said glue people are useless
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by bckr 4mo ago
When you have everything but can’t even keep your hands to yourself. Shameful.

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