epidemian

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by epidemian 1mo ago
> It’s astonishing to me that we have to spell this out, that something as obvious as this needs to be explained to LLM’s at all. Hehe. Yeah, that tendency of LLMs to document "the story" of the code instead of its current purp
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by epidemian 1mo ago
Claude seems to love the word "surface". I'm almost surprised to not find the verb "buy" to mean "get" in this generation.
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by epidemian 7mo ago
Do you think an LLM would be able to generate a solution to a novel problem just like that? That doesn't match my (albeit limited) experience with these things. They are pretty good at other things, but generally squarely in the real o
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by epidemian 9mo ago
Five years ago, we could've read this same comment but with "LLMs" replaced with "blockchain" or "crypto". Yes, it might totally be the case that in 5 years this comment reads as correctly predicting the f
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by epidemian 11mo ago
oh, 100% yes! The job project i joined somewhat recently is a moderately-complex React web app, and none of the navigation elements are actual links. Everything is done by onClick handling, even thought many things are, conceptually, just
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by epidemian 11mo ago
> You need to kneel to the borrow-checker and develop something like a Stockholm syndrome before you find the language delicious. That was not my experience at all. I liked the language from the get-go. And the more i dug into it, the mo
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by epidemian 1y ago
> What inspired you to build this, I'd love to hear the story behind this. Actually, i don't remember! Sorry, it's been a while (a decade, it seems... oh well) This is probably my mind retro-creating a story, but i think
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by epidemian 1y ago
Thanks, that's one of the best compliments i've read :D
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by epidemian 1y ago
Yeah, sorry for that. The game actually used to work decently well on mobile browsers. If you're brave enough to try on a mobile device, there's a way to see the current URL without escaping on the page: clicking on that "?&q
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by epidemian 1y ago
The source code is not minified or anything, ctrl+u is your friend :) IDK about the AI claim tho. The game has been there for like 10 years, so it's probably in the training data of these things. The bots might be able to replicate it,
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by epidemian 1y ago
I've actually thought about rendering DOOM on the favicon. I don't see why it shouldn't be possible. Maybe @Franciscouzo could tackle that challenge! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408825
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by epidemian 1y ago
This is how it used to look in olden days, before browsers plundered our fun in the name of security: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/epidemian/snake/refs/heads...
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by epidemian 1y ago
Yes, i thought of doing that. The problem is that, while it would definitely help on the early game, it would also mess things badly on the late game. As you snake grows, it'll take more and more space on the grid, and you'll star
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by epidemian 1y ago
Oh, this is lovely. The more retina, the less playable it gets :D Update: amazing game-over effect!
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by epidemian 1y ago
Wow! It's such a surprise to see this old project of mine here on HN front page! I must say, if you're experiencing any issues playing this, it's probably because it was designed to be played on the browsers of 10 years ago h
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by epidemian 1y ago
> If you define a hallucination as something that wasn't in the training data, directly or indirectly (indirectly being something like an "obvious" abstract concept), then [...] Ok, sure. But why would you choose to define
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by epidemian 1y ago
> You have to focus on the actual products and services which you provide and do a good job at it, not chase after any and every person with an opinion. But, this story (and the GP comment) is not talking about "any person with an o
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by epidemian 1y ago
> Requiring perfection would either mean guardrails that would make it useless for most cases, or no LLM access until AGI exists What?? What does AGI have to do with this? (If this was some kind of hyperbolic joke, sorry, i didn't g
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by epidemian 1y ago
Small nit: the Some() pattern should go on the left side of the assignment: let Some(value) = param.as_ref() else { // Handle, and continue, return an error etc } // Use `value` as normal.
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by epidemian 1y ago
This a thread about imagining a world without ads. If we're trying to envision that, it surely is not too hard to imagine how such a useful service for society as a search engine could be funded by other means, right? There are many ma
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by epidemian 1y ago
And, just to expand a bit on this, what i find puzzling about the stance of "how will you find out about stuff without ads" is that it goes totally contrary to my contemporary experience. Nowadays, when i want to find out about so
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by epidemian 1y ago
Those are indeed very useful things. It's true that people often spend their money on frivolous or unnecessary things. But sometimes people pay for useful things too!
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by epidemian 1y ago
Yes, i remember. I remember Google the search engine being a thing before it became an ad-ridden space. Search engines are useful things. They can still exist on a world without ads.
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by epidemian 1y ago
I really can't believe that someone who frequents Hacker News can ask this question. If by any chance this is a legit question, i feel the answer would be too obvious: asking people, googling, going to a store you think could sell the
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by epidemian 1y ago
Not really, or at least i don't see how. Advertising can at most tell me which companies are spending a significant portion of their budget in ads instead of in making a good product or service. To put it another way: where i live, ads
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by epidemian 2y ago
> Also, I highly recommend getting into the habit of running `cargo clippy` regularly. You can also have that hooked up to the editor, just like `cargo check` errors. I find this to be quite useful, because i hace a hard time getting int
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by epidemian 2y ago
I didn't get that impression at all. The first paragraph includes the sentence: > I want to use this post to explore these differences, to identify the benefits and limitations of both models, and to present my thinking on the futur
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by epidemian 2y ago
Location: Bariloche, Argentina (GMT-3) Remote: Yes (English, native Spanish) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, React, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, Rest API, GraphQL, Docke
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by epidemian 2y ago
> If Rust was actually better, it would flow into the ground organically. Isn't that basically what's already happened with Asahi Linux?
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by epidemian 2y ago
It's equal (as in, comparing them with == is true), but they are not the same value. At least in IEEE 754 floats, which is what most languages with floating point numbers use. E.g., in JS: > 1 / 0 Infinity > 1 /

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