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by bfung 12d ago
Hard disagree on “not worth the read”. It doesn’t sound too AI generated, and the stories flow well without much text that mean nothing. (Also, she’s a consultant, so writing this content is meant to signal some professional skill. There’s
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by bfung 13d ago
Like how AWS has global datacenters, but everyone uses us-east-1.
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by bfung 18d ago
1/2 troll side-galley comment: use AI and translate to Rust. If the outcome or outputs / test cases are known, AI is great at language translations.
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by bfung 2mo ago
I don’t know what datasets are available to these LLMs, but I’d imagine if there was training on CAD code, text, and images, a prompt steered towards that probably could get it pretty good. I am not a mechanical engineer, so even prompting
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by bfung 2mo ago
It’s not really feasible, in my opinion. US Gov could make US companies comply, like have Huggingface take down models out of compliance. But most likely, a foreign-to-US Huggingface replacement would be made and everyone would go there ins
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by bfung 2mo ago
“It’s a Unix system. … I know this” XD Back in the days when it was an MS-DOS world…
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by bfung 2mo ago
Anyone see how Opus did? lol Also, eerily accurate timeline!
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by bfung 2mo ago
Correction: facts are facts. How a person perceives facts categorizes them into a political bias bucket.
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by bfung 2mo ago
Congrats! > Group projects were also a common complaint. You were randomly assigned a group, but it was often unclear if the participants were even doing the course - many people were in completely ghost groups. I see that nothing has ch
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by bfung 3mo ago
Totally agree, misleading. The syntax looks like rust, but esp w/the memory management model (reference counting), it’s going to have more overhead than rust when it’s running, more like Swift or at worse, Python.
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by bfung 3mo ago
Oh we’ve been ready and it’s been known. We’re just too stupid to do anything else.
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by bfung 3mo ago
> waiting for an animation to complete before the app will start acknowledging my keystrokes. Or you find out you can input as the animation happens, but when the animation finishes, you’ve lost where your input ended up and don’t know i
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by bfung 3mo ago
Meta: so many words to say - save local first & sync in background. Feels like AI slop. Doesn’t address the concurrent update problem except for “optimistic”. At least provide some data why that’s ok.
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by bfung 3mo ago
How does one choose what sequence of bytes constitutes a token?
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by bfung 4mo ago
And you know what the tokenizer is made of? Weights.
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by bfung 4mo ago
Test Driven Development. There's more than several /tdd skills that are popular.
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by bfung 4mo ago
Really? Putting quotes around strings is called escaping now? One workaround is to escape the string, like this: countries: - DE - FR - "NO" - PL - RO Comon, it’s 2026, yeah yaml’s d
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by bfung 4mo ago
Just follow the man, not the brand. He’s still doing his thing: https://www.natesilver.net/
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by bfung 4mo ago
Just reporting what I’ve experienced. No need to go with the ad hominem attack. I happen to lead a team with a major Rust infra project and I stand by the experience with usage across all the LLM models.
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by bfung 4mo ago
1. Amount of Rust training data isn’t as much as Go. 2. Golang syntax and style is very verbose yet simple. There’s not as many options nor programming language to domain mapping needed as in Rust. Leads to needing less sophisticated LLM to
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by bfung 5mo ago
One simply does not [“provision” more hardware|(reboot systems)|(redeploy software)] in space.
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by bfung 5mo ago
As a Costco member and customer, I’d actually trust the leadership more than most companies. Use the tariff money and keep that $1.50 hotdog ~ enough avg Americans can use that break for lunch, even if not the healthiest.
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by bfung 6mo ago
Not purely an advertisement, it’s a real app! https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/updog-ai/ But it does help with marketing and showing off our tech.
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by bfung 7mo ago
I don’t feel that old, but I guess being 45 is ancient in tech. The Silicon Valley tech jobs we have now has a history rooted in World War 2 and funding of it by the US gov. https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo?si=gGza5eIv485xEKLS
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by bfung 7mo ago
I’d argue it’s come full circle and it hasn’t changed a bit. There wouldn’t be a Silicon Valley without World War 2 and US gov. funding of Stanford to develop radar basically. The initial investment from then gave critical capital mass for
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by bfung 7mo ago
When humans write the software, who verifies it? half sarcasm, half real-talk. TDD is nice, but human coders barely do it. At least AI can do it more!
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by bfung 7mo ago
Hot take (?): The random sizing today is great: * If you want a better fit, go physically to a store instead of shopping online and try them on. * the vanity part is also fine, no need to cause outrage at raising the number and making peopl
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by bfung 7mo ago
In the spirit of Winter Olympics, I vote “Lion on a bobsled” next bench . :)
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by bfung 7mo ago
`/init` is good enough. Model improvements will take care of the rest.
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by bfung 7mo ago
Or the opposite, that humans are somehow super special and not as simple as a prediction feedback loop with randomizations.

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