boredtofears

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by boredtofears 6d ago
I'm very interested in this but I am confused on what Pi provides you if you are building the harness? What does Pi get you that writing from scratch doesn't? Any good starting points or tutorials you recommend?
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by boredtofears 11d ago
I never said I believed it was going to save us.
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by boredtofears 11d ago
Yes they are, in the form of lobbying to remove subsidies and adding tax penalties to EV/solar purchases.
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by boredtofears 11d ago
We’re so far past this, technology is 100% the only hope and always was. Getting stuck in the mentality that we can shame our way out of this for a decade was (and continues to be) a colossal waste of time.
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by boredtofears 22d ago
Weird, I'm still using my M1 Pro and it feels just as fast as it always has. MacOS feels almost identical to me as it did 5 years ago, too, except the ugly icon change.
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by boredtofears 22d ago
Disagree, I want to go to the party hosted by $10 rag guy
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by boredtofears 2mo ago
I'm curious how that works - are you actually hand writing specs with RFC level detail yourself completely or is it more of an LLM assisted effort? It seems like writing a comprehensive spec manually would almost be as much (if not mor
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by boredtofears 2mo ago
I have tried prompting it out and providing strong guidelines in my AGENTS.md against it, but I still get _way_ too many useless "explain the code" style comments no matter how much I try. I usually have to do something like &quot
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by boredtofears 3mo ago
I find well described but concise acceptance criteria does a good job of anchoring the llm to the correct output. Also have them take screenshots of any UI work and respond to the ticket with them as proof.
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by boredtofears 4mo ago
I wonder if slight grammar incorrectness (like not capitalizing your sentences or using abbreviations) is going to start becoming a signal of authenticity for people subconsciously. Maybe it already has.
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by boredtofears 4mo ago
That was the exception, the norm was definitely just a page that said, "Your browser does not support flash"
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by boredtofears 4mo ago
Artist radios almost inevitably become a mix of songs I’ve listened to the most that have even the faintest crossover with the artist genre. It’s very, very frustrating and my biggest peeve about Spotify. I now ask an LLM for an artist radi
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by boredtofears 4mo ago
The rest of the world, presumably
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by boredtofears 4mo ago
I find the "self loathing american on the internet" act to be about as performative as putting a pink ribbon on your social media avatar after a shooting. It's not introspective in any meaningful way.
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by boredtofears 5mo ago
I know there’s a ton of resources out there for this sort of thing but is there any particular sites/books that stood out to you while learning?
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by boredtofears 5mo ago
Only on HN will your customers not only tolerate your product once you’ve reached market saturation and started enshittifying it, they’ll write you a whole guide on how to do it!
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by boredtofears 6mo ago
Do LLM's not benefit from the abstractions higher level languages like Javascript/node offer? Perhaps I'm speaking out of depth because I haven't done a lot of Golang, but I've always thought of it as a systems lang
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by boredtofears 6mo ago
All of those things are smells imo, you should be very weary of any code output from a task that causes that much thrashing to occur. In most cases it’s better to rewind or reset and adapt your prompt to avoid the looping (which usually mea
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by boredtofears 6mo ago
Its a lot less odd when you remember that he's running an AI company himself.
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by boredtofears 7mo ago
Are you telling me that my home assistant enabled humidity sensors in my garden that trigger the arduino hose valve could just be replaced by a watering can??
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by boredtofears 7mo ago
It’s not X it’s Y is one of the most obvious LLM writing patterns. Especially the heavily punctuated sentence structure.
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by boredtofears 7mo ago
I'm on FB primarily because my local buy-nothing group is on it, so I am logging in multiple times a day. I'm so used to this slop it's pretty funny at this point, but as is the case with all social media, you tune your algor
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by boredtofears 7mo ago
I guess you're right - getting your podcast big enough that it becomes a necessary checkbox for book/media tours is a skill. You're correct that he brings absolutely nothing to the podcast, but he interrupts plenty - usually
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by boredtofears 7mo ago
I can't think of an interviewer who interjects their viewpoint more and tries to get his guest to acknowledge/agree to his typically shallow level analysis than Lex. The only redeeming quality about his podcast are the guests he g
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by boredtofears 7mo ago
Helping out with a freelance project I built 15 years ago. It didn’t end on the best of terms, but the relationship has since been repaired (and I’m much better at managing my time now) It’s been fun to come back to, most of the code I wrot
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by boredtofears 7mo ago
What problem is it even solving? Keeping my car straight so I can be less attentive on the road? I get it in the context of driverless but find it nothing but annoying as a driver.
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by boredtofears 7mo ago
Of course I use code generation. Why would that be mutually exclusive from AI usage? Claude will take full advantage of it with proper instruction.
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by boredtofears 7mo ago
As most are
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by boredtofears 8mo ago
In my experience AI is pretty good at performance optimizations as long as you know what to ask for. Can't speak to firmware code or complex cryptography but my hunch is if it's in it's training dataset and you know enough to
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by boredtofears 8mo ago
I dunno, when you've made about 10,000 clay pots its kinda nice to skip to the end result, you're probably not going to learn a ton with clay pot #10,001. You can probably come up with some pretty interesting ideas for what you wa

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