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by dgreensp 5d ago
The declaration literally opens by writing that AI companies (or really anybody) saying, “Hey, let’s see if this powerful reasoning engine can solve an open problem in mathematics” is “detrimental” to the “science” of mathematics. Full sto
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by dgreensp 1mo ago
This looks really interesting. I feel like there is a lot of room to build great voice-based agents that don't exist right now. I have found that ChatGPT voice mode is unusable (e.g. hallucinates me saying things); Claude voice mode is
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by dgreensp 4mo ago
Where do you see information about the efficiency gains over AV1?
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by dgreensp 5mo ago
This reveals a staggering level of incompetence, if that’s really all it is, and lack of transparency. They don’t have ANY product-level quality tests that picked this up? Many users did their own tests and published them. It’s not hard.
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by dgreensp 6mo ago
I agree with all this. I came to Deno because I needed a break from Node/NPM. I don’t agree with all of Node’s decisions (particularly the ES module debacle), but Node/NPM have improved over the years. A big problem with JSR was
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by dgreensp 6mo ago
I find the irreverent tone refreshing, personally. As a founder who built all my prototypes and side projects on Deno for two years, I personally think Deno’s execution was just horrible, and avoidably so. Head-scratchingly, bafflingly bad
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by dgreensp 8mo ago
This piece starts off making it sound like the computer is pretty much doing all the work, while the human maybe weighs in on a matter of taste once in a while, if they like, but by the end, the list of what the LLM can actually do is reall
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by dgreensp 8mo ago
I always interpreted cathedral vs bazaar as being about the architecture of large things. Do you build to a master plan? Or does everyone do whatever they want? (Within some kind of framework, of course.) Like the cathedral of the Java
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by dgreensp 8mo ago
By that logic, Microsoft’s brand means nothing when OpenOffice is free.
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by dgreensp 9mo ago
A curly brace is multiple tokens? Even in models trained to read and write code? Even if true, I’m not sure how much that matters, but if it does, it can be fixed. Imagine saying existing human languages like English are “inefficient” for
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by dgreensp 9mo ago
I ran into this, and there was a bizarre fix—I think having Adobe apps open in the background caused it, or something.
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by dgreensp 9mo ago
Upvoted because educational, despite the AI-ness and clickbait. I’ve worked at orgs that used Postgres in production, but I’ve never been the one responsible for tuning/maintenance. I never knew that Postgres doesn’t merge pages or ha
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by dgreensp 10mo ago
This is some of the best writing I've read in a while, and truly fascinating.
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by dgreensp 1y ago
Radix sort is not a comparison-based sort and is not O(n log n).
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by dgreensp 1y ago
No, because radix sort is not a comparison-based sort and is not O(n log n).
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by dgreensp 1y ago
This semi-explains why I have started to notice (sadly) serious bugs in TextEdit, not just scrolling but editing/corruption.
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by dgreensp 1y ago
> Never place rich UI elements within a table, list, or other markdown element. > Place rich UI elements within tables, lists, or other markdown elements when appropriate.
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by dgreensp 1y ago
I think people are missing the fact that Wired has been about “vibes” since the beginning. Wired vs. tired is literally about what’s “cool.” That’s it. It has never been rigorous about anything.
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by dgreensp 1y ago
Googlebot respects robots.txt. And Google doesn't use the fetched data from users of Chrome to supplement their search index (as a2128 is speculating that Perplexity might do when they fetch pages on the user's behalf).
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by dgreensp 1y ago
I met someone with SDAM who described it in a more striking way. He said he doesn’t have any “first-person” memories. Most people, even if they forget most things they do day-to-day, and don’t have great “indices” of their memories, can th
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by dgreensp 1y ago
I don’t think the parent was saying that everyone’s intentions were pure until recently, but rather that naked greed wasn’t cool before, but now it is. The Internet has changed a lot over the decades, and it did used to be different, with t
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by dgreensp 1y ago
Exactly. Trump is practically illiterate and is being handed things to sign. His original ideas that were pushed back on by his advisors in his first term were a different sort of idea, things like, "Why can't we just force that
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by dgreensp 1y ago
Yeah, it's a funny argument because while Apple has certainly put a lot of money into WebKit and JavaScriptCore over the years in absolute terms, they already don't prioritize Safari or treat web technologies as an alternative to
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by dgreensp 1y ago
I don’t think it’s anything we get to use. All it says is if you are interested in the font, you can contact the company that made it. It’s weird. Sometimes these announcements are more like, “We commissioned this cool thing and made it
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by dgreensp 2y ago
That’s my understanding as well. Duplicating the bytes of a file when you don’t have the rights to the content is technically infringement and grounds for an infringement claim, and then you have to explain in court why it’s “fair use.”
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by dgreensp 2y ago
When casually-inflicted trauma and indifference to using you effectively, let alone your needs as a human being, are a constant, while other responsibilities come and go and are taken less seriously, it feels like the core of the job.
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by dgreensp 2y ago
You’re absolutely right. If there are corrections, it’s only because people have gone a little crazy. People sometimes get enamored with the idea of one country or company dominating in a winner-takes-all situation. OpenAI has been tryin
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by dgreensp 2y ago
I had to use Docker at a job or two, I think around 2018. I hated it. One class of issue: It made interacting with the file system slower, sometimes by orders of magnitude. Stuff like watching files, or statting a large number files, didn
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by dgreensp 2y ago
Thanks for posting it! Remotion does look really cool for in-browser video editing. People should note that you can’t make free-to-use software with Remotion. It is a paid product, and you can download and run the code for free in very li
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by dgreensp 2y ago
While it’s just one small section of the article, I notice there is the sort of industry-standard erasure of the entire concept of good vs bad UI or engineering, in the “Web apps are bad” section. A “good” app, in this article, is one that

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