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by farhanhubble 10d ago
Both pure vegan and pure meat camps claim to have scientific evidence that it works, which make me question if change is what the body responds to. From personal experience, eating less often and fasting does seem to improve things like bra
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by farhanhubble 13d ago
Just a few days ago I was pondering why an Emacs like environment that provides such powerful tools to examine and manipulate texts is not being used more prominently than say VSCode where you need to be build many features or use plugins o
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by farhanhubble 20d ago
I made the same point to an academician who was dejected about the prospects of future PhDs and Postdocs. My personal belief is that AI opens the gate for more unconventional and interdisciplinary research.
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by farhanhubble 27d ago
I'm reading all these accounts of people who were considered "smart but lazy", who were bright but not disciplined or driven to participate in things that gets grades. As a kid I had a near perfect memory and limitless curios
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by farhanhubble 28d ago
I've not used Open Router but I'm wondering what are the reasons to route LLM queries at large scale? Isn't the trend increasingly to let an orshestrator agent decide which model to use in terms of problem difficulty vs. size
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by farhanhubble 1mo ago
Does this type of atomic engineering have the potential for creating new types of materials, like polymers?
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by farhanhubble 1mo ago
Regulation is necessary but it won't be sufficient. In India they have the do not call registry but despite that I get twenty odd spam calls a day whenever my number is active. Personally I've benefited 100x more by using Truecall
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by farhanhubble 2mo ago
Hardware is hard and I applaud every effort to make it easier for tinkerers to build atop a platform. I've been away from it for a long time but how does the RPi system stack up in comparison? With all the hats available and the variet
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by farhanhubble 3mo ago
If anyone wants to take a peek into the Unicode codepoint, here's an indispensable tool: https://r12a.github.io/app-conversion/index.html
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by farhanhubble 3mo ago
I started my software career maintaining and forking Unicode parsers. Arabic, Hindi, Chinese and Thai among many other complex languages. It was great fun and it helped me get a deep understanding of how complex writing was and appreciate t
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by farhanhubble 3mo ago
Absolutely cool demo. I used to love this feature in SwiftKey. It still works but after their acquisition by Microsoft they've gone downhill. I've since switched to iOS but would love to try Futo out when it's available for i
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by farhanhubble 4mo ago
Easily 99 percent on most tasks. As an example, for a Python project with a dozen modules and ~50 files,a simple instruction like "Design a config file backed by Pydantic to store the project's settings. Keep the models modular&qu
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by farhanhubble 4mo ago
That's indeed a good example. However I find their claim "I've lead teams of really competent engineers and I can leave them without supervision for months and come back and not feel like throwing away the entire code base.&q
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by farhanhubble 4mo ago
That's fair. In all honesty I'm already feeling challenged but given how much time I save I can set aside some time to keep myself sharp. I can learn more languages. Additionally, as pointed out by others, I'm trading coding
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by farhanhubble 4mo ago
I'm in the "haven't written any code in a while" boat ATM. I'd love to see examples of issues that are so big that they warrant reverting to manual coding. My main issue has been the inconsistent quality across betw
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by farhanhubble 4mo ago
If you look at Australian IT companies they're management and consultant heavy. Roles like architects, review boards, program managers etc., exceed actual engineering roles. In such a set up it takes forever to get any real work done.
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Electric Clojure: Differential Dataflow for UI [video](youtube.com)
25 points by farhanhubble 4mo ago|0 comments
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by farhanhubble 5mo ago
> Kiselev’s child reader is being treated as a participant in mathematics, not as a recipient of facts. Not sure how the other makes this claim when the passage he himself cites is just another clever proof in the list of clever things t
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by farhanhubble 5mo ago
Letov should name it Motepad++, clearly mention that it's a fork and move on.
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by farhanhubble 6mo ago
I wish someone had told me how common this was back when I worked myself to death fixing every UI abnormality that no one except some misincentivized testers used to report at my first job. At the time I thought it was dishonest to say some
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Is Time Ripe to Throw Your Engineers Under the Trolley?(medium.com)
2 points by farhanhubble 6mo ago|2 comments
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by farhanhubble 7mo ago
The cost has always been the sum of: 1. The time spent to think and iteratively understand what you want to build 2. The time spent to spell out how you want to build it The cost for #2 is nearly zero now. The cost for #1 too is slashed sub
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by farhanhubble 7mo ago
There could be many plausible explanations. 1. The model's default world model and priors diverge from ours. It may assume that you have another car at the wash and that's why you ask the question to begin with. 2. Language models
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by farhanhubble 7mo ago
I haven't used it in a while but RedHat used to feel quite a bit like Windows.
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by farhanhubble 7mo ago
Similar questions trick humans all the time. The information is incomplete (where is the car?) and the question seems mundane, so we're tempted to answer it without a second thought. On the other hand, this could be the "no real w
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by farhanhubble 7mo ago
I use Obsidian to record decisions, plan every day and take detailed notes. Very handy for recalling the nitty gritty for future reference be it performance reviews, writing blogs or updating my resume.
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by farhanhubble 7mo ago
I used to interview mentors for a big EdTech company and met some of the smartest and most humble engineers who were all from Kenya.
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by farhanhubble 7mo ago
If the two are indeed "Linked", I see a case for users-first browsers to show system metrics right along the page.
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by farhanhubble 8mo ago
So the root cause was the model's indisposition to calling the skills. That seems contrary to what we see with function calling. Models call functions quite reliably most of the time. This is more likely because of the instructions not
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by farhanhubble 8mo ago
> Before writing code, first explore the project structure, then invoke the nextjs-doc skill for documentation. Does the model even understand what this line even means?

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