dathanb82

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by dathanb82 2mo ago
I mean, he left Palantir over a decade ago and now he’s supposedly retired (again) - I bet he’s pretty chill about it these days.
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by dathanb82 3mo ago
If "inference is cheap," why is OpenAI spending a ton getting Broadcom to design custom AI chips that make inference cheaper? Reports suggest their custom silicon isn't all that good for training, it's all to make infere
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by dathanb82 4mo ago
Two other similarities: they both rely on burning huge amounts of electricity, and have driven up costs of GPUs around the world.
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by dathanb82 4mo ago
This is a good take. The most effective combination of AI and skilled practitioner is using AI to amplify the abilities of the skilled practitioner. And in particular, max benefit comes from exploiting comparative advantage. AIs are really
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by dathanb82 4mo ago
I’ve also heard it being called “comprehension debt,” which I like a little more because I think it’s more precise: the specific debt being accrued is exactly a lack of comprehension of the code.
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by dathanb82 5mo ago
Vimwiki?
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by dathanb82 5mo ago
Unless you have a “every commit must build” rule, why would you review commits independently? The entire PR is the change set - what’s problematic about reviewing it as such?
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by dathanb82 6mo ago
Skills are part of the repo, and CLIs are installed locally. In both cases it's up to you to keep them updated. MCP servers can be exposed and consumed over HTTPS, which means the MCP server owner can keep them updated for you. Better
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by dathanb82 6mo ago
Oh man, Turbo Pascal was my first "real" programming language -- it was all various flavors of BASIC before, and mostly toy projects. The developer experience with Turbo Pascal (by which I guess I mostly mean Turbo Vision) was hon
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by dathanb82 7mo ago
The use of XML as a data serialization format was always a bad choice. It was designed as a document _markup_ language (it’s in the name), which is exactly the way it’s being used for Claude, and is actually a good use case.
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by dathanb82 7mo ago
And do what? Leave the ducting, pipes, and electrical lines exposed for the one time in 20 years you need to do something with them? In addition to being much more attractive than exposed infrastructure, drywall and the insulation that gets
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by dathanb82 7mo ago
As you might expect from the description -- largely passed on via contaminated water -- the guinea worm is mostly present in areas of extreme poverty. Even if such a treatment were feasible, it would be inaccessible to most of the relevant
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by dathanb82 8mo ago
It’s probably even more pronounced, since it’s unlikely that someone is going to _average_ 180bpm for their entire workout, especially as they get older.
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by dathanb82 9mo ago
The auto-attach flag isn’t a huge deal, since it’s a one-liner that can be statically documented and the fix works in all cases. The bigger issue is the JDK / runtime team’s stance that libraries should not be able to dynamically attac
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by dathanb82 4y ago
Just shy of $600K in 2022, based on data from IRS and BLS: https://smartasset.com/data-studies/what-it-takes-to-be-in-t...
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by dathanb82 4y ago
It's available (usually as an optional feature) in lots of languages where dependencies are linked statically. The most standard terminology I'm aware of for it is "dead code elimination" In Javascript, webpack (as well
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by dathanb82 4y ago
Lets you define queries over some data set declaratively, and instead of recomputing the query over the entire data set every time you want an updated answer, it uses Differential Dataflow < https://github.com/frankmcsherr
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by dathanb82 4y ago
Every time I see a "X: a [new/better/best/modern/postmodern/blazingly fast] Y" post on HN, I just know it's going to be written in Rust
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by dathanb82 4y ago
"I wouldn't use a gun that sounded like that" - me to my wife just about every time we watch an action movie
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by dathanb82 4y ago
Unless the purpose of the game is educational, I don't think it's incumbent on them to educate their players about anything. Just like I don't expect everyone who sells something at the Renaissance Faire to use medieval furna
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by dathanb82 4y ago
At a basic level, yeah. It gets hairy when you dive into timeout handling and dealing with errors in reconciliation, across multiple gateways. tl;dr: there is no easy part
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by dathanb82 4y ago
> They also moved all of my recurring charges to my new card (somehow.) If you're curious about how this works, read up on "Visa Account Updater".
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by dathanb82 4y ago
The most impressive part to me is how much snappier it is than Photoshop running locally on my machine.
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by dathanb82 4y ago
But also > You can paste source code directly into your Markdown document without any changes, and it will appear as expected in the rendered HTML. That’s my doing. In that sentence, it kinda does sound like they're trying to take c
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by dathanb82 4y ago
I can't remember the last time the speed at which I could physically produce code was the bottleneck in a project. It's all about design and thinking through and documenting the edge cases, and coming up with new edge cases and go
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by dathanb82 4y ago
I was prepared to be upset that this article is an almost word-for-word copy of the "overview" page on the arc42 website ( https://arc42.org/overview ). But then I saw that the author is one of the arc42 maintainers
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by dathanb82 4y ago
But RNA / DNA isn't sufficient for life, right? How are proteins synthesized from that string of nucleotides without ribosomes? And nucelotides randomly reshuffling certainly doesn't explain how ribosomes would be created. It
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by dathanb82 4y ago
No surprise here: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=how%20to...
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by dathanb82 4y ago
I'm a dedicated Obsidian user at this point, but totally agree that discovery could be improved significantly. Maybe a context-sensitive search, like how when you're entering a new question in StackOverflow it gives you suggestion
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by dathanb82 4y ago
One of the applications is as an alternative electrode for ECG's. You'd attach a line from that sensor to an ECG machine (sorry, not an expert, so apologies for the imprecise terminology) and get similar results to using commercia

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