distalx

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Has the Bitcoin Moved?(hasthebitcoinmoved.com)
9 points by distalx 1mo ago|2 comments
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by distalx 2mo ago
Hey! The game is awesome. Instead of just revealing letters when completely stuck, it would be cool to get a hint showing where or how the word is used. Also, on completion or failure, instead of immediately loading the next challenge, it w
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by distalx 2mo ago
It's the new scraping tax. The delicate balance of the open web is completely broken right now because platforms are getting hammered by bots. Sometimes i wonder how long before the entire internet ends up behind a mandatory login or a
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by distalx 3mo ago
I think we only notice this 'sameness' because we're swimming in it all day. I recently helped a non-tech friend with a vibe-coded site for his cafe. He had the pure enthusiasm of a kid showing off a drawing. He didn't c
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Tech doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them faster (2023)(asomo.co)
1 points by distalx 4mo ago|0 comments
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by distalx 5mo ago
In 2024, a Chevy dealership deployed an AI chatbot that confidently agreed to sell a customer a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1. It executed a catastrophic business failure simply because it didn't know the logic was wrong. Sure, you can patch
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by distalx 5mo ago
A transmission error has a strictly contained, predictable blast radius. If a packet drops, the system knows exactly how to handle it: it throws a timeout, drops a connection, or asks for a retry. The worst-case scenario is known. A reasoni
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by distalx 5mo ago
We put a supercomputer in a laptop just so the OS could struggle to draw a grid of icons. Peak modern engineering.
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by distalx 5mo ago
The idea of their automated rollback infrastructure sounds good on paper, but at the end of the day, this still reads like a highly sophisticated machine for generating technical debt at lightspeed, mitigated only by an aggressive rollback
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by distalx 5mo ago
This article is spot on. I'm feeling the exact same way watching the industry aggressively promote the idea that it's safe to deploy unverified code just because an AI wrote the tests. We are playing with fire. If we keep treating
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Amazon Opens Its Ad Stack to AI Agents with MCP Rollout(adweek.com)
1 points by distalx 8mo ago|0 comments
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by distalx 8mo ago
This is either going to save hours… or create very educational outages.
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by distalx 9mo ago
Friendly reminder: There is no ghost in the machine. It is a system executing code, not a being having thoughts. Let’s admire the tool without projecting a personality onto it.
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by distalx 10mo ago
What tools or process do you use to optimize your prompts?
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by distalx 11mo ago
This looks great! I'm not a guitar enthusiast myself, but the design and color tone look very slick. Congratulations on the launch after a year of work, and I wish you all the best with it! Just out of curiosity, how much time did it t
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by distalx 11mo ago
It does feel like planned obsolescence when companies like Apple limit software support for older hardware, Ubuntu run smoothly on much older devices. They could certainly do better by extending support and focusing on sustainability.
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by distalx 11mo ago
Exactly, token per dollar rates are useful, but without knowing the typical input output token distribution for each model on this specific task, the numbers alone don’t give a full picture of cost.
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The Imitation Game: Defending Against AI's Dark Side(aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)
2 points by distalx 1y ago|0 comments
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by distalx 1y ago
I bought into that idea a month or two ago, that more control and detailed instructions would deliver a clean result. That just led me down a rabbit hole of endless prompt re-runs and optimization loops. Many time I thought I had the final,
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by distalx 1y ago
Vibe Coding is accelerating the death of documentation and architectural clarity. Companies are measuring success by tokens generated and time-to-prototype, ignoring the massive, hidden cost of cleanup/maintenance. The real skill is n
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by distalx 1y ago
If you don't mind, could you share the link to your Reddit post? I'd love to read more about your findings.
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by distalx 1y ago
I feel like this post might be a bit clickbaity. It presents a strong statement without much context, analysis or evidence.
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by distalx 1y ago
Probably valid sunk cost fallacy, but it makes me wonder what will happen to the applications and systems being built on top of LLMs? If we face limitations or setbacks, will these innovations survive, or could we see a backlash against all
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by distalx 1y ago
Spot on. The burden and complexity of that cryptographic signing on the client is exactly what OAuth2 was created to avoid. Thanks for making that connection.
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by distalx 1y ago
This is fantastic, the leaderboard is really nice! It reminds me of Paper Planes. https://paperplanes.world/
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by distalx 1y ago
On the B2B2C section, my mind immediately went to OAuth. For a developer like Bob giving his end users access to a service, wouldn't a standard OAuth flow where his users grant permission to his app would be the more conventional and s
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by distalx 1y ago
On their Reddit post [0], the creator mentioned that it took them '600 prompts'!! I’d love to see how they managed to organize their prompts! This is actually impressively well done. I think what is holding it together is a good m
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by distalx 1y ago
Could you share more about your process and how they specifically help you with your internal frontends? Any details would be great! Thanks!
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ML Conferences Should Establish a "Refutations and Critiques" Track(arxiv.org)
3 points by distalx 1y ago|0 comments
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by distalx 1y ago
Any hints on what kind of tools you're creating for the inevitable mess?

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