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by feintruled 9d ago
The article ends to a link to a video that shows off the technique and it blows my mind the Spectrum beeper could produce this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cOu32m3wvQ
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by feintruled 24d ago
I have identical twin boys - when signing up for a bank account app and while completing all the associated hoops for ID, the second to do it got the rather dystopian error message 'an account has already been registered with this face
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by feintruled 27d ago
And worse yet, you'll find the code peppered with comments relating to 'phase 3' and 'section 11', ephemeral stuff that had meaning in the moment but now enshrined forever. And what happens when the LLM stumbles on
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by feintruled 29d ago
So the critique from the other story holds true - it really is just running the Linux driver inside docker, and (perhaps) dressing it up as something more - though I note the claim on this page is walked back from the original 'writing
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by feintruled 1mo ago
Nice, I will give this a go. This is what /resume should be but because sessions are tied to directories it's very easy to lose track of where you started what. Until now I've been asking Claude 'what was the conversatio
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by feintruled 5mo ago
> The Aga chipset of the 1200/4000 stupidly only added 2 more bitplanes. The CD32 chip actually had byte-per-pixel (chunky) graphics modes but the omission from the 1200 was fatal. The intention was good, but the Akiko chip was func
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by feintruled 7mo ago
I was impressed to see Irish was included, but it soon became clear it's all LLM generated. That's not enough to write it off on its own (ChatGPT can be surprisingly good when explaining Irish sentences) but I spotted so many mist
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by feintruled 8mo ago
Interesting article, though is there really much new there? Also it discounts the alternative hypothesis of some bright spark acquiring wolf pups and doing it purposefully because that would take 'weeks'. Weeks, you say? Surely so
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by feintruled 10mo ago
Reminds me of Werner Herzog's autobiography. In the introduction, he muses on a life being cut short by a snipers bullet, and when he sees a bird flying past his window as he is writing his book makes him imagine it is a bullet and he
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by feintruled 10mo ago
I dunno, man. You get to work for months to completion on a deeply fulfilling project, get well compensated, and then the plug gets pulled before it goes to production? That's living the software engineering dream! Jokes aside, the art
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by feintruled 11mo ago
Some missing context (pun intended) is that Augment code has recently switched to a per-token instead of per-message pricing model. This hasn't gone down particularly well, but that's another story. But it may well be that users d
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by feintruled 1y ago
I was wondering if it was a way to 'flaunt' his avoidance of LLMs. Could be in future genuine human conversation will be so rare that we will seize upon mistakes and typos like finding a shiny jewel in mud. (But then I saw he used
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by feintruled 1y ago
Interesting. Though it seems they are themselves building Agentic AI tooling. It's vibe coding all the way down - when's something real going to pop out the bottom?
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by feintruled 1y ago
Inspired by the recent post to describe relativity in words of 4 letters or less, I asked ChatGPT to do it for other things like Gravity. It couldn't help but throw in a couple 5 letter words (usually plurals). Same with Claude. So thi
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by feintruled 2y ago
I think any software engineer can identify with the feeling you get at the moment you do the first run of the solution you have implemented that you are 100% sure has to fix it only to find nothing has changed.
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by feintruled 2y ago
My father grew up in a somewhat rural Irish village and there was one farmer who would take his horse and cart to the pub (fairly anachronistic even in his day) in the knowledge that no matter how passed-out drunk he got the other patrons w
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by feintruled 2y ago
I read that as him trying to move his money to another bank that would allow him to make the transfer. His current bank suspected this and wouldn't let him even close his account. So they confiscated his money to prevent someone else s
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by feintruled 2y ago
Memorably lampooned by Monty Python : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=666OKm08fRA
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by feintruled 2y ago
Again we are in the realms of speculation upon speculation, but Neanderthals didn't have sclera (whites of the eyes) which according to the co-operative eye hypothesis as regards to domesticated hunting dogs allows them to follow our g
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by feintruled 2y ago
It's a bit of a fringe theory but there's a suggestion that the human 'alliance' with wolves gave us the edge over Neanderthals and other predators and ensured that it was us who ultimately survived as a species. It&#x27
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by feintruled 2y ago
Brave new world, where our machines are sometimes wrong but by gum they are quick about it.
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by feintruled 3y ago
I had an idea like this for helping introverts with icebreaking small talk. Flash style cards for each person, with info on what you spoke about last time, and a pre-prepared opener for the next time you bump into them. With the card info b
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Top result on a Google search for Delta Airlines help is a Scammer(old.reddit.com)
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by feintruled 3y ago
Thanks for the tip on ReadWise, that looks interesting!
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by feintruled 3y ago
Very cool. I've no idea if this is possible without rooting the Kindle, but I wonder would it be possible to highlight sections of text in a book and send it to something like this with a request to summarise/explain?
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by feintruled 3y ago
You are absolutely right of course, most day to day bugs we don't have either the inclination, time or knowledge to root cause much less fix, but I feel it's a comfort to know that you (or someone) could.
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by feintruled 3y ago
I wonder how we might design for such a system. I'd say as a starting point any action should be undo-able. Then you give it a go to see if it works, and if it didn't you can always get back. I've read this is good practice i
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by feintruled 3y ago
This is very cool. I wonder if we are going to have to get used to a new paradigm in software, where you have tools that are incredibly powerful and that you just accept that sometimes it 'gets it wrong'. There's no debugging
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by feintruled 3y ago
Heat pumps are culture wars now, believe it or not. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/net-zero/why-heat-pumps-wi... DT article to illustrate, not necessarily to inform. The idea I believe being that heat pumps are
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by feintruled 3y ago
Had to search for that video, I love things like this. I was not disappointed, so thanks for that. Really tickled me. Doesn't displace my favourite though: https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/6922546.bull

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