cronelius

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by cronelius 2mo ago
glad I wasn't the only one. every other sentence had antithesis, it was exhausting to read even if accurate
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by cronelius 3mo ago
So does this mean no Lodash 5?
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by cronelius 4mo ago
Cool branding, but I'm not sure how it's different from the products offered by big lab providers aside from being private — and if the compute runs in their cloud, then it's always a "just trust me" promise
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by cronelius 6mo ago
false equivalence
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by cronelius 7mo ago
Sure but my father isn't asking his fellow humans unanswerable questions about God and the universe. People don't treat other people as omnipotent, but they sure as hell treat LLMs as though they are.
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by cronelius 7mo ago
well actually since 1 == 0.999999… and 98.82 is 98.91999999… there are an infinite number of 9s
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by cronelius 7mo ago
This is cool, just don't let Rob Pike see this, he will have a conniption. Glad you called out that it shouldn't be used because this is about the most magical thing I have ever seen in Go
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by cronelius 8mo ago
There is a popular postgres client for Go called pgx. This naming will likely sow confusion
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by cronelius 9mo ago
Now, do one about neurodivergent brains and confirmation bias
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by cronelius 9mo ago
psa, "is comprised of" is almost never correct. "comprises" means "is composed of". so when people say X is comprised of Y they really mean "X comprises Y" or "X is composed of Y"
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by cronelius 11mo ago
This is exactly why BYD is and should continue to be banned in the US. It’s not that they are doing this, but that they have done it and they have the capability
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by cronelius 1y ago
their chatkit demo (chatkit.world) doesn't even work in safari. also "react bindings" and "vanilla js" isn't exactly "framework-agnostic". I don't like the idea of embedding someone else's U
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by cronelius 1y ago
LLM improvement is a sigmoid, not a parabola. The sooner we understand this, the less money we will lose to deceptive marketing
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by cronelius 1y ago
Isn't this what Unwrap() is for? errors.Is calls Unwrap if it's available and then compares _that_ error.
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by cronelius 1y ago
I mean you could just Venmo him
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by cronelius 1y ago
if frameworks are specifications, then a new framework is definitionally a new standard. it’s not an ISO or ANSI standard. but the point of the comic is, there are 10 web frameworks, we need one to be the best of all of them! there are 11 f
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by cronelius 1y ago
bryan johnson has entered the chat
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by cronelius 1y ago
but they're not doing here it at home, of course. that would be silly
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by cronelius 1y ago
August 23nd
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by cronelius 1y ago
i’m gonna anthropomorphize it
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by cronelius 1y ago
ben thompson and ryan kernighan and bob pike would be proud
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by cronelius 1y ago
racism is bad business. the market deals with it in the following ways: - the competent people who are being discriminated against leave and go to places where they aren’t discriminated - people in protected classes sue for discrimination -
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by cronelius 1y ago
might have to put a green dot on a hat or tshirt and try this irl
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by cronelius 1y ago
6 year customer cycles are not recurring revenue. they want your money monthly and annually
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by cronelius 1y ago
HN is not a feed of pharmaceutical ads. HN is a place where industry experts in many industries exchange projects and news in _their_ language. HN is going to be a difficult place to live if you are unwilling to google or chatgpt for things
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by cronelius 1y ago
lodash is extremely common knowledge in the js/web world. you’re asking a chemist to explain atoms before sharing their big discovery
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by cronelius 1y ago
I made twitter post 3 or 4 years ago making fun of Lodash team for _still_ not shipping loadash 5 and they didn't like it very much. They started working on Lodash 5 in like 2015 and it still hasn't shipped. Guess we make our own