elcritch

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by elcritch 5d ago
vtebench is just what I've been wanting! Rune looks pretty cool too. Awesome to see people working on polishing things. I've been building my own editor and gui toolkit, but modeled on Cocoa/OpenStep and similarly found tunin
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by elcritch 6d ago
Best explanation I’ve heard is that “coding is solved but software engineering hasn’t”.
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Ask HN: How would you re-design SwiftUI?
1 points by elcritch 6d ago|2 comments
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by elcritch 7d ago
Theres a reason American capital markets and tech go hand in hand after all. Just read the recent Mistral thread about the lack of capital in Europe and why Mistral seems largely third rate in the AI frontiers.
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by elcritch 7d ago
One thing I generally trust with Apple is that if they finally released a foldable screen that they've overcome those issues. Apple tends to let others release new tech while they tend to be more conservative until they've polishe
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by elcritch 7d ago
Be careful of blind partnership. Both parties have been increasingly guilty of this in recent decades. The republican party internal dynamics are just the most recent. Even then Trump has been loosing his grip on the republicans in congress
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by elcritch 10d ago
The UX of DNS would need to be swapped with the gTLD going first. Perhaps more practical would be browsers noting the gTLD as an important piece of information. Perhaps a “Bank” tag for .bank urls.
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by elcritch 10d ago
We’d just end up in the same situation email has where only the big email providers can reliably send email. The better solution is smarter LLM filters. Most of these scams are incredibly obvious and rely on human frailty. Essentially the e
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by elcritch 10d ago
Interesting, well too bad. Personally I find Nim more useful and productive than ever with LLMs. Nitter uses Jester which seems dead for sure, but doing static binaries is easy. Personally I just forked Mummy to continue as MummyNG since I
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by elcritch 10d ago
Cool to see such a notable Nim based project continue! It's unfortunate that X tries to block Nitter so often, but zedeus always seems to find a path around technical or now legal issues. The code looks surprisingly easy to hack on: h
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by elcritch 11d ago
Congress is supposed to be the forum wherein this happens. It's intentionally a broader forum of people's representatives from the entire nation. If congress can't agree to a law then the federal government probably shouldn&#
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by elcritch 11d ago
Thanks for filling in how the metcal's work! The 13.56 mghz signal made me figure an impedance measurement. Though as you say that explains why metcals are so bulletproof. Side note: I found Thermaltronics stations to not be much cheap
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by elcritch 11d ago
> SMD disks were first using 11" platters, later 8"; and with a nominal speed of 3600 rpm, thus 60 rotations per second (although Fujitsu later deviated from the norm and had a few drives spinning even faster, at 3961rpm), it t
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by elcritch 11d ago
Metcal’s are amazing! They use a high mghz signal to measure the tip temperature using impedance measurements IIRC. Then they control the tip temperature using a feedback control loop. Humans suck in comparison for heat control. Trying to u
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by elcritch 11d ago
They’re really not too expensive on Amazon either. Even for soldering larger 0.1” headers a microscope lets you inspect the joints for cold joints or micro cracks. Those will happen, especially when starting out!
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by elcritch 19d ago
If solar+battery were cheaper wouldn't the new AI data centers be opting to pay to build that rather than nuclear or LPG options?
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by elcritch 20d ago
Those old school systems are often much more stable than any newer systems. Autozone looks to use something like that and I’ve never seen them have issues as a customer.
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by elcritch 20d ago
Was raised in middle TN myself. Dollywood was amazing rivaling Disney World/Land. It had parts you could go to watch blacksmiths, glass blowers, and others.
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by elcritch 23d ago
> If every American with a sub-8-figure net worth held back their property payments for 6 months, they could collectively have anything they asked for. Anything. That'd not affect the federal government. It would however hurt school
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by elcritch 23d ago
> The one thing the billionaires want to avoid is a unified public coming for their wealth and influence. Personally I prefer to avoid "Reign of Terror" (1) or similar situations where a "unified public" wantonly dest
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by elcritch 24d ago
Military coups don’t often get led by generals or top brass. It’s usually colonels or mid ranked officers who lead coups. Similarly the concern over billionaires are overplayed. They’ve got too much skin in the current game to destroy the c
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by elcritch 29d ago
I already know SQL which is why I like the above. It's SQL with some tweaks to match Nim syntax and to have less ambiguous table/column identification. Meanwhile embedding SQL in a string with `?` everywhere, manually converting t
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by elcritch 1mo ago
There's a lot of benefit in these systems, though there's rough edges and I agree about the basics like PK's and uniqueness. I've been using Ormin [1] in Nim which works by parsing the SQL tables and uses it to compile t
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by elcritch 1mo ago
No basic English is one of the simplest languages to learn as an adult. Perhaps it’s difficult to master. English has simple conjugations. That makes it much easier to learn to speak intelligibly even for adults. Old English dropped many of
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by elcritch 1mo ago
Reminds me of Maria Abramovic Rythym 0 performance art. 1: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/3/30/maria-abramovic...
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by elcritch 1mo ago
This is nonsensical. This PAC influence being putatively for buying advertising, to you know influence individual voters to their point of view? They can’t literally buy votes. So votes only matter if they’re not influenced by PACs? Perhaps
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by elcritch 1mo ago
> Tell me who funded ISIS. Oil funds predominantly along with theft and ransoms according to the EU near ISIS's peak [1]. This was while the US was still directly fighting ISIS in Afghanistan and Iraq. 1: https://www.euro
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by elcritch 1mo ago
Not just Saudi Arabia but the UAE, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt, and Gaza. Iran has funded terrorism and religious extremism in the region leading to massive death tolls in many of them. Not to mention Iranians themselves.
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by elcritch 1mo ago
Jackson Hole HS alum here. It's been like that since at least the early 2000's. I commuted to school every morning from Alpine WY. I still have part dream part nightmares about it.
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by elcritch 2mo ago
Thanks! Many of your issues sound more agent / LLM specific than LLMs in general. At least compared to my experiences. It also aligns with what I saw from Claude & Claude Code when I used it last year for a while. Now I use Codex a

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