cosmicriver

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by cosmicriver 2mo ago
Cat smiling and cat smirking are two separate emoji. Why the article depicted them as before-and-after is a mystery.
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by cosmicriver 2mo ago
Maps.me was sold and the acquiring company moved to a new proprietary code base. The quality dropped considerably. That's what motivated the original Maps.me founders to start Organic Maps.
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by cosmicriver 3mo ago
Racket is s-expression based, so it has a lot of parentheses. Racket can claim to have slightly fewer parentheses than most other Lisps because it uses brackets in some places rather than parentheses.[1] Rhombus is a novel notation (that is
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by cosmicriver 3mo ago
I'm also surprised that they considered it reasonable to turn so many features off. Seems like some of it could be configurable, like allowed external connections. I also think some secrets should be handled by a proxy, which would giv
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by cosmicriver 3mo ago
I think that was a natural outcome of cheaper merges/conflict resolution in distributed version control. It became easier so there were more situations where it made sense. Now LLM spam has made it harder, so now there are fewer situat
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by cosmicriver 3mo ago
I noticed this while programming with LLM assistance. It's easy to put effort in for the LLM because there is immediate positive feedback: improving the context gets better results. Folks have mentioned other reasons LLMs get better su
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by cosmicriver 4mo ago
I am also surprised that capabilities weren't more widely implemented after mobile OSes demonstrated they are practical. I know Windows made a move in that direction with UAC but had to soften it due to user alert fatigue. So I guess h