dkersten

9 ms·

1.
by dkersten 5d ago
Well, yes. Amusing might have been a better word than funny.
2.
by dkersten 6d ago
> if minor data or chat sessions are mishandled without explicit parental consent I know this isn't what you meant, but I can't help but laugh at the thought of a parent consenting: "I consent to the mishandling of my chi
3.
by dkersten 15d ago
Interestingly, for me on iOS, all of the examples worked except the textarea one, which didn’t allow me to interact at all.
4.
by dkersten 15d ago
It’s also glitchy and flickery for me on iOS.
5.
by dkersten 18d ago
I enjoyed this talk. It’s long, but it’s interesting and goes into a lot of “lost” history.
6.
by dkersten 23d ago
Exactly, not all tasks require smarts, they just need to be good enough. I’ve found that if prompts are really focused, the tiny models do alright.
7.
by dkersten 24d ago
I stopped using Claude because of this BS. If I pay for a service, I want to know what I’m paying for, I want it to be predictable. Anthropic have been anything but. Flip flopping on model availability, model access behind an opaque filter,
8.
by dkersten 25d ago
> LLMs can now write perfect code in low-level languages, that is frankly _safer_ and _exponentially_ faster than implementations in high-level languages. Your experience does not match mine. It writes ok code, it does not write good cod
9.
by dkersten 26d ago
> Completely agree with your closing point. Dynamic custom software, fitted to a particular workload rather than a class of workloads, seems like a very likely outcome. I disagree with the premise that this is the desired outcome. If e
10.
by dkersten 26d ago
Pretty cool! rust-analyzer takes such a huge amount of memory. Usually it’s not a problem but occasionally I’ve run into issues. Having an alternative, even with tradeoffs, is great.
11.
by dkersten 27d ago
I resisted Rust for a long time too. I’ve been using C++ since 2002 and always liked it especially with the modern additions. I liked the idea of Rust early on and even tried it in little amounts and it seemed nice enough, but then over tim
12.
by dkersten 1mo ago
If you can’t be bothered to write it, then I can’t be bothered reading it.
13.
by dkersten 1mo ago
At what cost though? “Beating” isn’t enough if it costs 100x or even 10x the amount.
14.
by dkersten 2mo ago
You still have to remember what sizes or whatever to use for what to make it consistent, it’s just they get packed into the “class” attribute. It’s not uncommon to see very long class attribute lines with tailwind with all kinds of p-this a
15.
by dkersten 2mo ago
Yep, it’s also availability on Together.ai for your sale price. Fireworks and Together were the first places I checked!
16.
by dkersten 2mo ago
Oh, absolutely.
17.
by dkersten 2mo ago
Because it lets you constrain the parts that the compiler can’t check and has to trust you on. The alternative is either a langue that can’t do necessary things, or a language that can’t check what could be checked. With unsafe, you’re tell
18.
by dkersten 2mo ago
Finally, we can replace daylight saving time by just making more daylight instead
19.
by dkersten 2mo ago
I love Mantine. It’s easy to use, full featured with lots of components and helpers, and yet if you need to, you can use it headless and customise it too (I’ve never bothered though; I did add my own additional spacing/sizing options v
20.
by dkersten 3mo ago
Many vendors and service providers have SLA’s and contracts, at least for the critical services.
21.
by dkersten 3mo ago
Sure but that adds a lot of complexity and cost to your business. It’s much simpler and safer to just work with more reliable vendors to begin with. Why build on quicksand when there’s rock available?
22.
by dkersten 3mo ago
altmanaltman is correct, I was talking about vendors. If you rely on a vendors service for your own business, you want it to be consistent. How can you plan around and rely on something that is inconsistent? Your vendors plans to grow fast
23.
by dkersten 3mo ago
I honestly find it crazy how many people trust them for their business needs. For a business, you want consistency and no surprises. With them you get exactly the opposite.
24.
by dkersten 3mo ago
I like to start out by creating the overall structure of my application: the module structure, high level components, feature boundaries. That way these decisions are already made for the LLM, and it can focus on filling in logic within the
25.
by dkersten 3mo ago
And AI tried telling me that Uber for Dogs (dogs are the drivers) was a terrible idea…
26.
by dkersten 3mo ago
Its on other providers, like Together.ai
27.
by dkersten 3mo ago
> This is not scientific at all, just vibes, YMMV. This is the problem. I would love to have a product sheet showing what each models strengths an weaknesses are, so that I can have a clear decision tree of "if this kind of work, u
28.
by dkersten 3mo ago
Is that true though? From Cherno’s videos it sounded like it was basically the hazel engine, repurposed. So unless he rewrote hazel, purposely for robotics, it’s still not actually the case?
29.
by dkersten 3mo ago
Haven’t Unreal engine and Unity been used for robotics for over a decade? Hasn’t the Bullet physics engine been used for robotics for over a decade? I don’t understand this “first game engine for robotics” messaging. As an aside, this websi
30.
by dkersten 3mo ago
They did, I had something like $50 in FTX and I got it back. I don’t remember when, I think it was about a year ago.

More ›