efficax

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by efficax 5d ago
you'd think that but at least one CEO has turned being an annoying diva into being the richest man in the world
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by efficax 5d ago
HN/YC should be called "News Venture Capital Cares About". VC cares about AI, so AI is what you're gonna get
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by efficax 5d ago
I never have long sessions. I ask claude to do one thing, then I clear the context, validate that change, and iterate it. What are these long sessions?
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by efficax 7d ago
the US is also a surveillance state except about 80% of the surveillance is private companies (that are closely tied to the state)
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by efficax 11d ago
the models have gotten very good at doing what you ask. if you ask for changes that will accrue tech debt, you'll get it. if you ask for changes that pay down that debt, you'll get it.
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by efficax 12d ago
i don't necessarily disagree but others have been jailed for this activity (or like aaron swarz, driven to suicide)
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by efficax 13d ago
> I always come back to see shit that I have opinions about and need to polish But isn't this the case with all code?
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by efficax 13d ago
amigas were way ahead of their time. We had an Amiga 500 and then got a 386 and it was such a downgrade, but the Amiga was clearly a dying system.
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by efficax 14d ago
facebook ad targeting is also garbage. They have my entire history since 2004 and they still sometimes: think I'm a woman, think I need things for a newborn, think I'm in the market for "short men clothing" (I'm 6&#
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by efficax 15d ago
dentists made up the 6 month rule. There's no evidence that it improves outcomes, for most people with healthy teeth, 24 months is fine: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7701991/
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by efficax 15d ago
I am using Fable 5.1 right now on Max
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by efficax 15d ago
the budget for allowing a single engineer to deep dive on a bug that is annoying but also not bad enough that you can live with it for years is pretty big. $10k a month or more. My budget for Claude is $200/mo.
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by efficax 16d ago
I dunno you could definitely do a "wine but for macos" kind of implementation, e.g., https://www.darlinghq.org/ without breaking IP laws
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by efficax 16d ago
iphone 16 and i gave up after about 30 seconds, it was maybe a quarter done
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by efficax 19d ago
I've been playing video games for decades and this made me sick to my stomach almost immediately, but neat otherwise
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by efficax 21d ago
you don't have to hand them your data, the models are available so you can run them on bedrock yourself (or use another US housed inference service). and for what it's worth in my job i have access to data that gives a picture of
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by efficax 22d ago
Reuters should know better. While $30T is probably absurd, Anthropic is claiming that's the total addressable market for AI services, not that they will capture 100% of that market
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by efficax 22d ago
yeah my m1 mac studio shows no signs of stopping and i can't justify another upgrade until doing so really unlocks something new at a reasonable price (like running local llms that are competitive with the cloud services at a decent sp
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by efficax 22d ago
they've done a bunch to make macs a better gaming platform, including the very nice game porting toolkit ( https://developer.apple.com/games/game-porting-toolkit/ ) which you can use yourself to run pc games on
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by efficax 23d ago
And so what? How do you think people are going to be working on software in 10 years. They're going to use coding agents and harnesses that work much better than the current ones (although I don't think we're getting anything
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by efficax 26d ago
you hear things like this about every model. they're probabilistic and you can't trust them, although i doubt that kind of odd behavior would happen on low or medium effort levels. i find all of the models today pretty good at fol
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by efficax 26d ago
fwiw the clock reads 8:09:25 not 8:10:25 although it would be passable to read it as 8:10 if there were no second hand
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by efficax 27d ago
Does this apply to software?
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by efficax 1mo ago
I think AI is going to change this. Once you've built around github you feel locked in, since moving all your CI and other actions out of there, and your workflows out of there, is labor intensive. Now you could migrate from github to
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by efficax 1mo ago
Interesting idea, not at all clear to me what it has to do with coding agents
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by efficax 1mo ago
they explicitly say this is qwen3.8 max in the hugging face page
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by efficax 1mo ago
staying for less than a year usually means you don't take any equity with you, it must've been an incredible offer in that case, since those openai shares are a golden ticket right now
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by efficax 1mo ago
i think the main idea is that by using MLIR[1] instead of the usual LLVM path it can target gpus directly 1. https://mlir.llvm.org/
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by efficax 1mo ago
Do what you want, sure. But people complain a lot about "open source maintenance". But you could just release the source and call it a day. Put up a web page with a tarball of the code, updated whenever you consider it a new relea
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by efficax 1mo ago
is it lossy though? That didn't make sense to me. You can tell it to use Simplified Technical Language and also still have it give you all the detail. it's just another piece of the prompt that produces the output. it's not l

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