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by devbent 2y ago
It has recently become harder to order novamin versions of sensadyne in the US through Amazon, so I'm hoping something gets onto the shelves soon.
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by devbent 2y ago
Find harder problems to solve. I can easily make Claude freak out and run into limits. Claude is amazing but it only works at the abstraction level you ask of it, so if you ask it to write code to solve a problem it'll only solve that
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by devbent 2y ago
I'm building a simulated fantasy town backed by an LLM. Visitors to the website can vote on what the hero does next, and everyone in the town will react naturally to all of the heroes actions. Unlike previous efforts in this space, the
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by devbent 2y ago
UTF-8 wasn't a thing when the decision to go with UTF-16 was made. UTF-8 became a thing shortly thereafter and everyone started laughing at MS for having followed the best industry standard that was available to them when they had to m
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by devbent 2y ago
Windows has had multi-user support for ages. That is how user switching in XP works, and how RDP works. You can have an arbitrary number of sessions of logged in users at once, only limited by the license for what version of Windows you hav
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Taking Mobility to the Limit – Cellular Business (1988)(microship.com)
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by devbent 2y ago
What the unholy fucking hell. Where none of the people running these schools ever kids? Did they just magically appear from some portal from another, sad, apathetic, dimension? Or where they spawned out of eggs laid by depressed lizard peop
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by devbent 2y ago
I'm already enabling @ts-check so they the jsdocs actually do something!
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by devbent 2y ago
I am going build less for a recent project. The main difference for me is jsdoc vs typescript. There was a large initial learning curve, and the syntax is ugly, and having to duplicate all my TS types from the backend as JS doc types on the
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by devbent 2y ago
2005 was definitely either ftp or ssh/scp mounts if working from Linux!
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by devbent 2y ago
The other major difference is that table top gaming is a constrained environment where one is allowed to act socially different than normal, and mistakes at the table are left at the table. Players are allowed to play someone with a complet
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by devbent 2y ago
That top logo is horrible and childish looking. The new logo will look dated soon, but at least it looks professional. And 80k for a logo is incredibly cheap.
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by devbent 2y ago
I'd kill for a way to apply CRT's filters to my vscode editor...
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by devbent 2y ago
IMHO the problem is the majority of new multifamily construction is rentals only. Rentals ran by international firms suck the life out of communities, as people cannot be part of a local community when rent hikes can force them to move ever
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by devbent 2y ago
> I don’t get how one imagines being an animal and… it just exists as an automaton? And for some reason exactly humans are all conscious/intelligent, So far evidence points to the simpler solution that all living creatures are autom
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by devbent 2y ago
On one hand, eating another intelligent being seems to be an obvious moral wrong. On the other hand, many of the creatures we eat will happily eat us if given a chance.
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by devbent 2y ago
Last time this topic came up on HN an engineer whose job it is to do these calculations and then re-engineer products not last as long popped into the thread
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by devbent 2y ago
I'm working on something similar but instead of basing my efforts on the generator agents paper I'm basing it on a technique I call narrative generation. It requires far less context and fewer prompts, and focuses on generating na
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by devbent 2y ago
I had an XML file format from one app I needed converted to a json file format for another app. I threw both schemas at Claude and asked for it to write converter code. Writing mocks, Claude saves an hour+ when mocking out complex classes.
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by devbent 2y ago
They can do surprisingly things if prompted correctly. But their ability to do complex logic falls apart, and their limits are pretty much a hard wall when reached.
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by devbent 2y ago
> Genuinely curious if people think this is a product, solving a real problem? For people with memory issues, products like this can be life changing. On a second note, imagine a world where everyone has perfect memory recall. The concep
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by devbent 2y ago
One problem that I run into with LLM code generation on large projects is that at some point the LLM runs into a problem it just cannot fix no matter how it is prompted. This manifest in a number of ways. Sometimes it is by bouncing back an
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by devbent 2y ago
TS rocks so hard for doing pure functional stuff, and its support for type algebra can be an absolute blast. I try to avoid OO now days, and TS is my go-to language for modeling problems in the functional domain!
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by devbent 2y ago
> couldn’t find “features” (like strong typing) they claimed were critical for writing good software How about reasonable scoping rules? Pre-es6 JavaScript was a nightmare of ugly hacks needed to make the language usable. that = this and
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by devbent 2y ago
> without all the BS that comes with TypeScript, etc. JavaScript is so powerful and amazing, it’s a bummer to hamstring your app by using TypeScript and classic OO inheritance models Typescript is no more OO than JS is. Typescript is sim
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by devbent 2y ago
Auto adjusting other parts of the car based on what is happening, e.g. my car reduces fan speed when a call comes in. Typically cars come with their own complete voice control system. Customers expect much of the car to be accessible remote
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by devbent 2y ago
The odds of society staying stable and current social trends continuing over 25 generations is pretty much 0. 25 generations is over 600 years!
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by devbent 2y ago
A few misbehaving CSS filters can make my discreet GPU turn on and at that point my battery life is a goner. Not sure who to blame in that scenario. There was an old bug in FF around 2018 where a tab using a GPU would prevent a Windows lapt
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by devbent 2y ago
Possibly dumb question: How large is the company supplying the existing software? Can you just buy them, or even just that one team supporting the product line you need?
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by devbent 2y ago
> epicenv set KEY VALUE -e myenv -p I would have flipped this logic, default is local only and an extra param is needed to make them shared. variables as private should be the default, an extra switch should be needed to make them shared

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